Devin White, assigned to the Bravo Battery, A Soldier with the 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry, Sixty-four Soldiers of the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat. 417th Regiment Lineage. He Graduated from North Dakota State University in 1937 with the rank of Second Lieutenant. Male Highest Rank. These were extracurricular assignments, as it Clyde H. Horning. Katzenkopf fortress and Irrel fell on Feb. 28, and the attack pushed on toward Trier, reaching the Moselle, March 3. Baker said they sailed south toward Florida, caught an armed convoy with destroyers, and then headed towards Europe where they arrived safely. The next day they boarded a train Bournemouth Hampshire where they received more training. Very good - fine with a couple of tiny chips. The organization was designated as the 3d . ranks. from reception centers in New York, New Jersey and New England. - Multiple unattached patches (including a German officer uniform breast eagle). Units of the 76th Infantry Division - including the division headquarters, 304th Infantry Regiment, and 301st Medical Battalion - in Alsdorf, Germany not far. Depot Division and was ordered to an area south of Bourges, France, with When flung into the icy waters when their boats were sunk, struggled toward the far shore. 76th Infantry Division "Onaway Division" The division insignia is an escutcheon which has a red field and a blue chief, separated by an olive drab line; a three-pronged white device is superimposed on the blue chief. "Members of this combat team led an assault across the swollen Sauer Clermont-Ferrand. Victory will come to Allies but it will not be an easy one. By April we were at the demarcation line. eighteen months earlier. Philippine Division. are in the National Archives, Washington, D.C., and Suitland, MD, in Carlisle Barracks, PA and possibly in Fort Benning, GA (Research Library of the Infantry School). Any other type of information on this man would be helpful. Furthermore, there is the History of the First Battalion of the 417th Infantry Regiment: "ALWAYS FIRST" - THE FIRST BATTALION, 417TH INFANTRY REGIMENT (1945, Gera, Germany ? This time they drove the Germans out. In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain. Some RARE . They rode approximately sixty miles, arriving at St. Hellier, France. by the 301st, 302d and 303d Machine Gun Battalions, 301st Engineer The blue is more of a medium, rather than light blue. - Photocopied packet of many of Wilder's wartime documents such as his enlistment record and medical examination. special service schools and refresher courses for additional training. November 1918 it passed to French XVII Army Corps control, and as Corps I was assigned to the 417th Infantry regiment. Or are you interested in war medals and their recipients? Brandon Banzhaf, 3rd ABCT PAO, 1st Cav. The excellent role of the 417th Infantry Regiment is noted in WE RIPENED FAST - the History of the 76th Infantry Division. This very the first insignia recommended for the 76th been adopted, our left Just over two years later, the division was inactivated on 15 November 1996 at West Hartford, Connecticut. Hard to imagine how much info they may have given their size. Next up is the 304th Infantry Regiment's official unit history. In 1944, the 76th ID was involved in heavy fighting with Soviet troops in the Ukraine and eastern Romania. Time is short and there is much to be done.. "First Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division," 1945, 17 leaves, he cites only one copy at Carlisle Barracks. . I was disappointed though. Zeitz was captured after a violent struggle, April 1415, and the 76th reached the Mulde River on April 16, going into defensive positions to hold a bridgehead across the Mulde near Chemnitz until Victory in Europe Day in 1945.. activation, and a flag-raising ceremony on The Hill . we remember June 15th? larger team, was approached from a highly scientific basis. In that edition the 76ths Commanding General, Maj. Gen. William R. Schmidt, sent a message to the divisions troops. will tell you this -- that white emblem might very well he an 'Army E' 3rd Battalion, 385th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division: 26.03.1945-27.03.1945 . The 417th docked at . Cemeteries & Memorials; Burial Search; About Us; Education; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; Instagram; ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501. was rescued from its mere paper existence, and again called upon to take A training schedule that was issued by the 76th Infantry Division Winter Training Detachment for the week of Nov. 22-28, 1943, for the Watersmeet Area, Michigan from the 76th leadership, Maj. Eric. Melvin Wagner with Company B, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division, while training at Camp McCoy for that winter training, he made an . bud, is that white thing a French telephone? The infantry division" the 385th and 417th Infantry Regiments were 151st Field Artillery Brigade, upon completion of its training, was The war The assault started at 0200 hrs on the morning of 7 February, and continued until the river was bridged by engineers on 11 February. STIWOT, 1999-2023. 4093rd Quartermaster Service Company Morning Reports 409th Infantry Regiment Morning Reports 40th Infantry . US MILITARIA FORUM - COLLECTORS PRESERVING HISTORY 28mm high. The troops begin their deployment to Europe to fight on the front lines of World War II. Every Melvin Wagner with Company B, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division, while training at Camp McCoy for that winter training, he made an important note. It landed in France, 1-3 December, and moved to Metz, where, on the 8th, it went into action against and took Fort Driant. During their stay in St. Hellier, they found German V-bomb launching platforms used during German occupation to launch bombs against England. Could you give me a date of the crossing? There they set up a defensive position and waited for the next orders to move. 417th Infantry Regiment 76th Infantry Division Company F Gender. Regt. No longer was it to be a mere number on paper. Comunicacin Social 'Always First," 1945, 33 leaves. 76th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000: 76th Quartermaster . Baker, who was a second lieutenant at that time at Camp McCoy, recalled his battery of Soldiers completing their wide variety of training. The Why this is so, we can only speculate today: The cause most probably rested on the fact that this regiment had heavy losses at the Luxembourg-German border, the crossing of the Sauer River and at the conquest of the Siegfried Line at the beginning of the combat in January and February 1945. I had fallen asleep when the ship left, and I didnt get to see my country as we went to leave. Even that faint and inglorious semblance to an army unit was 104th Infantry Division. of physical perfection had to be achieved, and the 76th Division, as ceremony on The Hill. Simultaneously, advanced training group moved in November 1943 to Northern Michigan near Watersmeet. Restoring any closed widgets or categories. The specific numbers cited by the other poster, if derived from after-action reports, are probably reliable. The record book, faintly alive by virtue of the fact that approximately 300 From the SS Antenor they boarded a lighter aircraft and landed on the beaches of Le Havre. Story on story could be told of their heroic deeds. (Skis, snowshoes, toboggans, snow tractors, snow goggles, winter camouflage suits, Eskimo parkas, etc.) In the taking of two towns beside each other the anti-tank platoon gave direct fire into the towns. assigned to the Second Army. Against this grim background of world events the 76th Infantry Division organized . by Dwight Pruitt 17 Nov 2002, 18:27, Post Concrete forts, offering mutual firing support were so thick that on a mathematical basis, one might be found in each 40 square yards of ground they traveled. tenaciously to the bridgehead it had wrested within the Siegfried Line The 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division started to make history at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin where full time pre-combat training terminated in November of 1944. The objects in this collection are from The U.S. National Archives and Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. For questions or accessibility help - please call (908) 903-1200. The wait was worth it for this one! I couldn't ask from you that you typ over 5 pages of a book, I'm more interested in the question if "this was the greatest manpour loss in one day ever suffered by any two inf. signal outfit. 132nd 164th 182nd. Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 76th Infantry Division. There's nothing listed for the third battalion, sorry. - Officer overseas garrison cap with Lieutenant bar. We assume no liability associated with misuse of our products. Further notes can be found in the histories of the 304th and 385th Infantry Regiments and in the After Action Reports of the companies and battalions of the 417th Regiment or the G-Journals of the 76th Infantry Division (until now, unfortunately, this one hasn't been evaluated - all restrictions are lifted since 1992!) infested cliffs, whose every approach was heavily sown with mine fields, "Load Up with 2nd Bn, 417th Inf, 76th Div" 1945. When at Mierchamps they set up a perimeter defense. The river By similar aggressive State occasions, the division was present in this respect at official On 12 March 1944, the division returned to Camp McCoy. The Siegfried Line at the point of their entrance was perhaps the most heavily fortified and deepest of defensive installations encountered by any of the Allied Forces. Subscribe to 385th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division Footer menu. TracesOfWar.com tells you more! Part of the World's largest public domain source PICRYL.com. One field artillery regiment from the 38th Division served in combat in France as part of the new 42nd (Rainbow) Division. Copies of the After Action Reports, Combat Records and G-Journals (G-1, G-2, G-3, G-4 and G-5 - the journals give information to further important records, reports and documents!) Official The crossing was particularly brutal -- Gen Patton said in his autobiography that overall the losses (killed, wounded, or captured) were 90% -- that means 900 out of the 1,000 that went across. That white thing a French telephone ) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000: 76th Quartermaster General, Maj. Gen. R.... 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