B Company they swarm around you, crouching low. For the first time in more than a month, they faced heavy artillery fire. C Co, 709th Tank Battalion, from August 12th to 16th, 1944 It was initially formed from the garrison infantry regiments of Fortress Posen (Festung Posen). Whilst he was a prisoner of war, he was tried by the Reich War Court in Nazi Germany, in his absence, and condemned to death. man); Pfc. -- We fired 158,958 rounds of They consisted of the various occupation forces from along the Atlantic coast and down to the Pyrenees. 1 platoon from 513th Engr Light Pon Co, from August 6th to 15th, 1944 On June 18, 1944, less than two weeks after the Allied D-Dayinvasion of western Europe, the "Thunderbolt" division landed on Omaha Beach and began advancing into France. The 83rd Division then assembled near Feugeres, and on 3 through 5 August they moved out of the Cotentin Peninsula and turned west into Brittany. They advanced toward the Taute River while rain soaked the earth and drenched their already muddy fatigues. The 83rd Infantry Division ( 83. We have recently added a photo of A Company/331st. telephone wire. Anything will help. Basic training of the new recruits was conducted at Camp Sherman, northwest of Chillicothe, OH. 216.368.2000 While the 2nd Battalion of the 331st was attacking south, the 2nd Battalion of the 329th Infantry was attacking west to an "island" in the swamp. 202nd FA Group, from August 7th to 16th, 1944 2nd Platoon The 83rd Division crossed the Rhine south of Wesel, 29 March, and advanced across the Munster Plain to the Weser, crossing it at Bodenwerder. In the 331st, the 2nd and 3rd battalions jumped off abreast at 0445 hours from the vicinity of Meautis. E Company Sgt. Every enemy unit or town that surrendered or was captured subscribed its quota of rolling stock for the division, usually at gunpoint. Nazi propaganda letters were a "Christmas present. The unit reported that the prisoners had been forced to work 16 hours a day in nearby mines and that the SS had murdered those prisoners who became too weak to work. the official history of the 331st Infantry, 83rd Division. After high school graduation he attended the Washburn University School of Law and was admitted to the Bar as a practicing attorney. My worst nightmares are still in those rows.". For three days the Nazis continued to pour reinforcements into the town. -- Our artillery battalions, D-Day and Battle of Normandy Encyclopedia, Commander: Major General Robert C. Macon This overlay obviously has more to do with the 331st IR than the 330th IR. Contents 1 Operational history 1.1 Formation 1.2 1942 1.3 1943 1.4 1944 1.5 Dissolution 2 Organizational history 3 Noteworthy individuals They did not know it then, but they would remain in Luxembourg longer than they had in England. The division was disbanded in . Their patrols advance beyond the line searching out the foe. There were no welcoming home parades for the Thunderbolt Division, but the GIs of the 83rd would carry its memory home with them. They fought their way through swamps that the Germans created by flooding the fields. The two squads were ambushed and pinned down on the ground. I Company Cleveland, Kerr; Pvt. On the coast near Mont St. Michel, Pontorson, and Dol-de-Bretagne they received orders to capture the port towns of St. Malo and Dinard. Gilles Billion, an 83rd Division Re-enactor, has provided photos for many of these monuments. 121st Inf (8th Div), from August 6th to 15th, 1944 The post-war operations reports contains information on the activities of the unit such as movements, tasks and training. Courtesy of The . Corporal Oldham of the 83rd Infantry Division of the US Army in Cancale France during World War II August 1944, Presenting the 83rd Infantry Division nicknamed the "Ragtag Circus". Albany: J. See more ideas about infantry, wwii, world war ii. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. After training in Wales, the Division landed at Omaha Beach, 18 June 1944, and entered the hedgerow struggle south of Carentan, 27 June. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Historic Jamaica, by Frank Cundall This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost an The division went overseas in June 1918, and was designated as the 2nd Depot Division. -- We fired 6,974,050 rounds of The insignia was selected during World War I because the division contained mostly Ohio draftees.[3]. The 22nd Division's artillery regiment was positioned to the east of Le Quesnoy with security provided by a battalion of Infantry Regiment 82. July 28, 1944: Feugres The 83rd Division reported the death rate at the camp had been 500 per month. Zu den Opfern des Russisch-Ukrainischen Krieges gehren sechs Tote whrend der Annexion der Krim durch die Russische Fderation im Jahr 2014 und Tausende von Toten unter der Zivilbevlkerung und den verschiedenen Streitkrften whrend des folgenden von Russland angeschobenen Krieges im Donbas.Mit dem russischen berfall auf die Ukraine 2022 vervielfachten sich die Todesopfer. The regimental after action reports for the 331th Infantry Regiment in PDF format can be found in the following table. Fays was finally secured, along with Ferme de Menil, on January 15. Days of house-to-house fighting under thick smoke, artillery fire, and fighter-bomber attacks could not convince the Germans to give up. December 2"These shoes we wear are quite the thing--sometimes I think my feet would be warmer without shoes. Overall, the division had 170.2 percent replacements. The men of the 83rd finally had some breathing space, and they began to forget about the formidable Siegfried Line waiting for them across the Moselle. B. Lyon Company, 1912. It can be seen by clicking here. 83rd Infantry Regiment Nickname: Ninth Militia; City Guard; Ninth Infantry National Guard Mustered in: June 8, 1861. Across the marsh (and the river Taute) were two causeways; one from Le Moulin to La Varde, and one from Le Port to Tribehou. Deaths, the division's report continued, reached 500 per month. 2nd Battalion of the 329th Infantry was attacking west to an "island" in the swamp, finally on the 10th, the 331st captured Sainteny, Nazi propaganda letters were a "Christmas present.". It can be seen by clicking here. 2/329 : Lieutenant Colonel Claude L. Bowen, Jr. *The quote near the top of this page is from a letter written by Pfc. What I think Ill do is go ahead from here and prepare and put up the overlays I have and then go back and figure outhow to best incorporate the information from the reports. email _ | _ 83rd Division "Thunderbolt" Message Board _. June 13, 1812, it was designated the 9th Regiment of Artillery. Second row, left to right are: Willard Strauss (B.A.R. On the 7th, the 329th took the city of Echternach on the Sauer River. Promotion of Leinbach to the 83rd Field Artillery October 10, 1920. My dad became part of F Company/331st Infantry Regiment on 17 July 1944. Div Lamb, Emanuel (H) Lt. Col. Leniel MacDonald Richmond, Floyd J. OH Photo from "We Saw It Through," St. Malo was the main port on the northern coast of Brittany. K Company Mobley is almost certainly the same person that Sarge walked out of Gey, Germany with in December 1944. I should be asking you. Deeply hostile to the extension of the franchise, he composed one of his better efforts"The Female of the Species"as a sort of teasing satire. But for a number of U.S Army trucks interspersed among its columns, it might easily have been mistaken for a German convoy.[12]. These documents are provided for by Dave Curry, historian of the 83rd Infantry Division Association. Melvin V. Park, K Company, 329th Infantry, 83rd Division, Liberation of Langenstein Concentration Camp by 83rd Division, Everett W. Singleton, Sr., G Company, 331st Infantry, 83rd Infantry, 329th Reenactment Group, Reading, PA, Indiana Military Organization (Camp Atterbury) Website, AWON (American World War II Orphans Network). The drive carried them eight miles beyond their starting point. They also estimated that, due to severe physical debilitation, prisoners continued to die at a rate of 25 to 30 persons per day. The chances that the six-foot tall, slim medic from Alabama, known as "Mob" or "Moe," was someone other than Charles P. Mobley are almost too remote to consider. August 20, 1944: Cesson-Svign "TDC, November 19"I just got my ballot the other day, so threw it away. Near Cherbourg. Headquarters Company; Looking for reliable information or news facts about WW2? Click here to see a photo of the 2nd platoon taken in September 44, when it was at full strength. The 330th took Strass and the 331st took Gey, one of the most strategic points in the network of German defenses protecting the vital approaches to Duren. When the war ended, Terhanko had four Purple Hearts and Silver and Bronze Stars. I served with the 83rd. He was moved to the front lines, 2 and 3/4 miles south of the town of Sainteny, along with 45 other GIs from the 41st Replacement Battalion that was stationed at Treviers, south of Omaha Beach. In the 331st, the 2nd and 3rd battalions jumped off abreast at 0445 hours from the vicinity of Meautis. You can read it by clicking here, or on the Combat Medic's Badge. It was a trip of "two weeks that seemed like two months . Of the 68 divisions deployed by the U.S. Army in the European Theater, the 83rd was ninth in the number of combat deaths. They landed across Omaha Beach and from there, they fought all across Europe. Stephen Ambrose, in his book "Band Of Brothers," quotes one of the men of the 101st Airborne about the arrival of the 83rd. The 329th IR is shown being just about 1000 m south of where its 2 Bn. The odds were that if you were on the front line, you probably wouldn't make it home in one piece, if at all. 83rd Division Reenactment Website Others were returned to the U.S. for burial. To date, 36 divisions, including the 83rd Infantry Division, have been recognized as liberating units. Clarence W. Brown; Pvt. The photo below is the original Company F before they shipped out. annotated for each man: Staff Sergeant Edward J. Devlin, 31188341, 542 (communications chief) It was reformed in March 1944 as part of the 24th Welle (wave) from Schatten-Division Wahn. In one of your letters you wanted to know how things were over here. Most of them were in tears. 29th Infantry Division: June 6: Omaha: You will notice, maybe, there are more points than labels; for this map I wanted to only identify what related to the end-of-day situation since that was what bothoverlays were all about The unidentified points refer to either earlier in the day, or have no time information, though I did include a few of these latter if there was room. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW They were billeted in an old chateau that was, according to Hershell McIntosh, complete with a kitchen full of dishes and silverware. Foreign-born Soldiers in WWI; American Indians ; American Music in WWI ; Army Nurse Corps ; . Indiana Military Organization (Camp Atterbury) Website Frank Monan, A Company, 331st Infantry Several months later, it crossed the Rhine and subsequently captured the German city of Halle on April 6, 1945. B Co, 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, from July 19th to 29th, 1944 Adding data points to combined 83 ID & 330 IR for 5 July 1944, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 83rd ID Page. Task Force A (15th Cav Gp), from August 3rd to 5th, 1944, Infantry They pushed the Germans back through savage counterattacks and finally held the west bank of the Roer River just south of Duren five days after the initial attack from the Hurtgen Forest. By the end of September, the division had moved into Luxembourg. Taking Remich on the 28th and patrolling defensively along the Moselle, the 83d resisted counterattacks and advanced to the Siegfried Line defenses across the Sauer after capturing Grevenmacher and Echternach, 7 October. 1/331 After liberation, the death rate continued at approximately 2550 people per day, due to the severe physical debilitation of the prisoners. Every house was an arsenal with ammunition supplies stacked at each window, and every basement was reinforced with double walls of cement and steel. By 29 November the First Army had just about cleared the Hurtgen Forest and was overlooking the Roer Valley. 56th FA Battalion (8th Div) (105 How), from August 6th to 15th, 1944 November 14"It looks like we not only will have to lick these supermen, but will have to go in and knock their heads off. Nicknames: Thunderbolt Division, The Rag-Tag-Circus and the Ohio Division. The camp was created in April 1944 to provide concentration camp labor for the German war effort. Later groups of enlisted men assigned to the division to replace men transferred to other units came from Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. A Co, 709th Tank Battalion, from August 6th to 16th, 1944 Regimental histories for 1943 and 1944. The 83rd Division would be called on again to answer the call to defend freedom in 1942 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. Find topics of interest and explore encyclopedia content related to those topics, Find articles, photos, maps, films, and more listed alphabetically, Recommended resources and topics if you have limited time to teach about the Holocaust, Explore the ID Cards to learn more about personal experiences during the Holocaust. The only Germans encountered were patrols. It shows a bit of all three 83rd ID regiments. These eyes have seen the bloody hedgerows in the rain. The Drive To the Elbe B Co, 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, from August 13th to 16th, 1944, April 19, 1944: Newcastle-under-Lyme, England And as patrols ventured toward Remich, the 331st occupied the towns of Remerschen, Assel, and Bous. Henry Irving Tannenbaum--Company F, 331st Infantry Regiment 473rd AAA AW Battalion (SP), from August 22nd to September 17th, 1944, Field artillery 453rd AAA AW Battalion (Mbl), from July 1st, 1944 to July 9th, 1945 Then, more than 380 medium bombers dropped 650 tons of high-explosive and fragmentation bombs, while 550 fighter-bombers dropped more than 200 tons of high-explosive and napalm. June 26, 1944: Bricqueville Over 1,500 heavy bombers dropped 3,300 tons of bombs to saturate the entire target area. Currently, the 330th Regiment consists of three Battalions that fall under the command of the 4th Brigade, 95th Training Division. Cafes were opened where the GIs could enjoy good Luxembourg beer, music, and dancing. This richly illustrated book chronologically describes the course of Operation Overlord through 357 specific events. To see it through again. They moved out of the Loire Valley in France, and traveled two days and nights through cities and towns, many of which brought memories of their fathers and WWI. Engineers picked their way through mine fields and booby traps to clear the way. Many of them are buried in U. S. Military Cemeteries, and can be found by searching the 1/329 : Major George A. Wishart In April 1944, the men of the 331 st Regiment boarded a troop ship bound for England. The shield is red for artillery and the black pile represents part of the 83rd Infantry Division insignia. We will see once we get to the various reports. He fits the description that Sarge gives of the medic, and he is also from Alabama--as Sarge recalled. C Co, 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, from August 1st to 16th, 1944 The 83d Infantry Division arrived in England on 16 April 1944. Sergeant Clarence Magariea of the 83rd Division, holds two captured Waffen-SS soldiers at bay against a wall in Sart. Headquarters Company. In 1985, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the US Army's Center of Military History began a program to honor US Army divisions that took part in the liberation of Nazi camps. var sc_project=709359; Written in May 1945, six months after my father was killed in action in Gey, Germany, the letter has a simple honesty that touches the heart. Operation COBRA began the morning of 25 July. The sound of all those bombs exploding at the same time was the most terrible sound that he had ever heard. The amount of ground covered by the 83rd Division from Normandy in June 1944 to Central Germany in April 1945 is difficult to comprehend--over 1,400 miles. assigned Squad Leader, Later I was advanced to the rank of S/Sgt. Though the positioning of these HQs seem strange to me. We honor them in loving memory. from the right, first row. We focus on gathering information and documents on the World War 2 history of the United States 83rd. See It Through! Someone will have to fix them, so they won't start another war in a few more years, and I think he is the man that can do it. While elements moved south to protect the north bank of the Loire River, the main body of the division concentrated south of Rennes for patrolling and reconnaissance activities. L Company, 83rd Artillery Division Smith; S/Sgt. These are his wartime memoirs, which he started working on when he retired in his sixties and was still . Click here to read more of his story. 11201 Euclid Ave. My dad and Sherman Curry (no relation, but both were killed on 10 December) pitched in to help prepare the birds for the Thanksgiving feast. 331st Infantry Regiment Since there are no map overlays for 4 July, that Ive seen anyway, I would just take advantage of this map to point out that is the location of the Island where the 2 Bn, 329 IR, got very roughly handledon 4 July. William T. Oliver is one of the GIs in the photo at the top of this page. Grave ,Name,Rank,Co,Unit/Branch,D.O.D.,Removed ,Location,Civil War Soldier,1867 Dedication List,"Roll of Honor, 1868" 301,"A., Ira J. The men of the 83rd Division weren't just on the front line. The call to victory beckons. My dad's Individual Deceased Personnel File indicates cause of death as "Shrap. -- We laid 22,306 miles of C Co, 709th Tk Bn, from August 12th to 16th, 1944, Tank Destroyer units The 3rd Battalion captured the high ground northwest of Ehnen, but had to fight through heavy machine gun and mortar fire to do it. Then there are those who are quitting their jobs and going to better-paying ones. As the 2nd Battalion advanced further toward Remich, they knocked out machine guns that the enemy had emplaced in concrete. The division was formed in November 1914 as the "Division Posen 1", part of the Posen Corps ( Korps Posen ), and became the 83rd Infantry Division in June 1915. They raced across the German countryside until they were ordered to stop less than 60 miles from Berlin. This is the Facebook outlet of 83rdinfdivdocs.org and the people behind the research and data. $5 Million + Founding Sponsor . In addition, the "Thunderbolt" division recovered the camp's documents for use by war crimes investigators. They had limited supplies of ammunition and rations, and no radio contact with Germany. Composed almost entirely of Clevelanders ages 21-31 who had been drafted into the army, the regiment included companies A, B, C, D, H, and L and a supply company. [5][a] The movement into Luxembourg was completed on 25 September. I see a time-based spread sheet being necessary. Mapping the Overlays: 83rd Division maps for Normandy Campaign Infantry Regiment 83 provided some support to the south. These newspapers are the courtesy of Frank DeCarolis, 2nd Platoon, Co. E, 331st Infantry and Tom DePiano and where photographed and not scanned due to fragility. Most, if not all of them, before leaving for the ETO It shows my fathers company, F, and we are approaching the day he was seriously wounded and shipped the the States. Infantrymen of the 83rd Division walk past Sherman tanks that have momentarily halted on a dirt road in Germany. That city was taken on 13 April. They cut the St. Lo-Periers road, and forced their way into Le Mesnil Vigot. The 331ST INFANTRY REGIMENT served during WORLD WAR I as part of the U.S. Army 83d Infantry Division. I'd hate to think of our son having to grow up to fight."TDC. Hq. 331 Infantry Regiment 83rd Infantry Division. From one point of high ground to another, with the support of tanks, artillery, and engineers, they moved forward through enemy anti-personnel mine fields in rain, ankle-deep mud, and snow. They landed across Omaha Beach and took over defensive positions near Carentan, where they relieved the 101st Airborne around the end of the month. 1 pton 709th Tank Battalion, from August 13th to 16th, 1944 We hardly ever hear anything except rumors, and some of these are fantastic. Co., 2nd Bn., 331st Inf., 83rd div. The literal truth of what Clarence Brown wrote was that GIs slept huddled together in foxholes, at times with their arms wrapped around each other to keep from freezing to death, or stood sleeping in groups of three like human tripods when the ground was too frozen to dig into. The next day the rest of the 329th entered the line, smashed through almost a mile to capture Coulot, and eased the pressure against the left of the line where the 330th had repelled repeated enemy counterattacks. 1st Platoon: 1st Lieutenant George W. Stahley, killed on July 4, 1944 Casualties were heavy. UNITED PRESS LjEASED WIRE SERVICE THE EVENING G ESTABLISHED 1S81 XENIA, OHIO, SATURDAY, JU^E 29, PRICE THREE CENTS SUPPLY Y 08 July 1944 83 ID Approaching Sainteny. It would take two weeks of street fighting to raze St. Malo. The 331st sped along not far behind on the flank. I, personally, cant make much sense of what is written in the lower left corner, try as I might. Richard E. Chipps was also a First Sergeant--of L Company. On 9 August, the enemy defenders were forced back to the Citadel at St. Servan and to Dinard on the west bank of the river just opposite St. Malo. K Company When Sgt. The 331ST INFANTRY REGIMENT served during WORLD WAR I as part of the U.S. Army 83d Infantry Division. 121st CT (8th Div),from August 6th to 15th, 1944 Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 335th Infantry and assigned to the 84th Division. The 83rd had three infantry regiments, the 329th, the 330th, and the 331st. It's funny how good the news sounds, but anyway, I hope it ends soon--the sooner the better. The number of 83rd Division GIs killed in combat totaled 3,620. His body was not recovered. August 10, 1944: Dinan 331st Infantry Regiment Welcome to the 331st Infantry Regiment documents section On this page documents related to the 331st Infantry Regiment can be downloaded in the PDF format. These reports are courtesy of Myra Miller, PhD, of Footsteps Researchers. Oliver and view many of the photos by clicking here. 802nd Tank Destroyer Battalion (T), from July 1st to December 7th, 1944 And the lifeless forms half buried in the snow March 27, 1805, the designation of this, the 6th Regiment of Infantry, was changed to 2d Regiment of Artillery in New York city. From the 1st through the 5th of October, the 83rd advanced in heavy combat to the West Wall across the Sauer as the 329th fought the battle for Grevenmacher. Time after time they only gained an advantage for a few hours before being completely cut up themselves, accumulating losses they could not afford. 1st Bn 66th Armd Regt (2nd Armd Div), from June 28th to July 5th, 1944 [7][8][9] 1/330 Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. Share a testimony from a relative or a friend, veteran or civilian, resistance member, ally or German, actor or witness of History. The unit included men from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, New York, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Maryland, North Carolina, Kansas, Connecticut, Kentucky, Washington, D.C., Tennessee, and even included T/Sgt. June 28, 1944: Carentan They are in our hearts and minds--always. Later, a German counterattack, supported by machine guns and mortars struck from high ground southeast of Greveldange, but the men of the 331st quickly turned back the attempted disruption of their lines. S/Sgt Joseph Arnaldo, 331st Infantry They continued the mission, and took Remich on 28 September. The barn and the house are all built together and the front yard is the stable yard. October 8"There isn't a lot to write about over here. Once in France with the AEF and soon after the 332nd Infantry had been chosen for duty in Italy, Private Young was one of the men selected by and transferred to the 332nd Infantry's Company "L" from the 331st Infantry (the transfers between the two regiments were made in order to have the fittest and most qualified men in the ranks of the . On 26 July, the 83rd entered the pursuit, and in heavy combat crossed the Taute River the next day. J Company 1918: 83rd Division HQ, Maj G. Details Last Updated: 06 May 2018 Address : Val-de-Meuse. From Normandy To the Bulge. From my reading on the German side, that is what the Germans would look for, and then send a counter attack in through the gap. The 83rd Infantry Division was first activated in the fall of 1917, several months after the United States entered World War I.

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