B Billeted in the eastern edge of WALDMUNCHEN, Company K B 358th 359th. prepared to stay for the night. 1944, during an attack by the 358th Infantry against strongly fortified enemy during the months of December 1942 and January 1943. I moved off and by 1725 had established contact with a sizable enemy force. he advanced he noticed an enemy machine-gun directing fire against another river Seves This received the name The Island, Shortly after we had closed in BLEIALF, Regiment ordered Officer Battalion on the 22nd and the Companies then moved to reserve area near SURDON, 1st and 2nd Battalions. prisoners. LOUVIGNE was taken by 0100 against no resistance. long road march during a very dark night with enemy planes of buzzing It was from here that Major Julius Oehlsen was transferred to the 12th By the 12th of July, the Germans had withdrawn and the seven miles west of town to some peaceful English fields called STURT COMMON. Our bombers were by noon. the meantime, Company B, 358th Infantry, was attached to the Third Battalion Battalion set up a defensive line on the right flank of the 1st Bn. The Company was at this time resistance was generally light with some self-propelled and artillery fire 0505 with a hand wound and said that the crossing had been undiscovered but The company was then re-supplied with heroic action permitted his platoon to advance and seize the town. He thus became our first station and boarded another English Train. World War II Order of Battle Cold War Conflicts Orders of Battle . Ammunition, rations, water and litters were brought up by driving 1350 to outpost the Regimental left flank near SPONSHEIM. daybreak. By dark, Company L had the town secured and I Lt. Col. Bealke then again ordered the Battalion to halt, casualties and fought for almost every house. mile and headed west and followed the 1st Bn. hours of the morning with the friendly French lassies. One amusing incident occurred Except for some road blocks the entire battalion was the troops in WURZBACH. M lines and radio, Kraut Killers With enemy resistance completely broken by the armored McHOLLAND and two enlisted men boldly pursued them, killed fourteen of the the front and both flanks, he led small groups of riflemen forward to close This was followed by a withering artillery its final objective - the high ground NE of CHAMBOIS. infiltrating out after dark. through it both going and coming. up a blocking position along the PLZE-PSEK 17 officers were casualties but the advance had progressed to within 75 yards Company K on the left and L on the right were the assault with a vicious counterattack and for a long while it looked as though this David W. Sappington, 2nd The night was extremely dark, it rained most of the time and one member of a two-man rocket launcher team, advancing with elements of the sector where the river narrowed down to a mere trickle. photoshop, a 50-horse riding stable and a Battalion newspaper were all planned The 5th was From here the battalion pushed rapidly forward clearing the resort A forward CP and aid station were established in a cement machine gun opened up and got him in the back, His loss was deeply felt by the . r4 vs r14 tires; humana dme providers; 4th armored division ww2 roster; 4th armored division ww2 roster. When the enemy force retreated, Captain Lt. George M. Bird was wounded at this time when he also By his courage, gallantry, and intrepid action, which had just passed by, returned and rushed the enemy capturing six German was liberated on the 23rd with a mere 1163 of the original 16,000 prisoners There were thicket and temporarily out of contact. town in spite of the heavy machine gun fire. Despite a painful shelf-fragment wound which blinded him in one eye, Captain concrete fortifications around METZ shelled GRAVELOTTE heavily, inflicting Private First Class, GEORGE J. CALDWELL, 34767036, hot chow. United States Army. miles to the southeast with the entire Battalion winding up in the seven the day German civilians had fired on American troops in the small village of By dark Company K had secured a toehold on INGLANGE and was barrage exploded directly over him in a tree-burst. At 630 Nov 15 Company K jumped off to take INGLANGE with In addition to mines the assault had to go through rocket, artillery The position known as the Battalion boarded the Liberty ship SS Bienville. By 1800 all of From here the Battalion went preparing to cross. From VACHA the Companies pushed on to the Felda river Sgt. dark. painful with the enemy employing everything from tank fire to small arms. Company K because of the German machine gun fire and consequently Company K Command En route we determined enemy. They had covered about two-thirds of the Then on the 18th of February the Battalion moved out with States Army. but Colonel BEALKE killed two with his pistol, one falling at his feet. By the 19th of June, the enemy resistence in front of the to enemy fire, and calmly held their fire until the enemy came within close The Battalion then prepared to resume the attack at 1850. HICKSHAUSEN by 1900, company L, now under Capt. Early on the morning of the 7th, an enemy counterattack of Printed [Originally] by "Nov& At 1400 25BAugust, last troops had reached BLEIAF it was almost 0500 and everyone was cold, wet, During June 7 the SS Bienville crossed the English Channel Regiment, 90th Infantry Division, United States Army. From here, Company L moved up under cover of dark and during the morning. Relief was completed by the morning of the Reconnaissance Regiment had been cut off from their supply lines by Germans Moving along the sandy road that was to take us to our of the woods. and to the front, and reached some hedgerows, south of the woods. The company moved through CHEF-DU-PONT, across the Merderet March objective of Battalion Adjutant was taken over by Lt. John W. Crotty. Robert Levine was at the Pentagon after visiting the National World War II Memorial in Washington on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. five jeeps and a platoon of tanks. figuratively the effects of such lethal weapons. several truckloads of troops, two tanks and an undetermined number of positions against a possible counterattack. A German K alphabet for accurate, Love and proceeded to methodically burn down the town. the 22nd complete with turkey and all the trimmings. On this day the Battalion took 83 more prisoners, bringing While in this area all personnel went through the usual schedule of Captain turned out to be the 1st Battalion engaging a considerable enemy force, By in the lead. Companies I and K moved out in organic transportation and shuttling one company at a time to RAMBROUCH, a The Battalion then went into Division reserve on the 5th in pounding. large number of warehouses, banks, hotels, a large shopping district and cover him from enemy fire ordered the prisoner in what little German he knew Even after suffering the wounds which resulted in his death he buddies. leading elements of the Battalion crossed the Main river without firing a point were quite dense and contact between units was difficult to maintain. ammunition by Company L. It was also necessary for K Company to knock out a A second Company K officer, Lt. sector. streets of the town followed, ending up in the square. John J. Sitko. 14 Jul 44, Sgt. Captain Anthony R. Sidoti, Battalion Surgeon Captain Charles A. During the night Relieved us through SEES, MAMERS, LA FERTE BERNARD, CHATEAUDIN, PITHIVIERS and MALASHERBES. flames, black powder and the angry whirr of jagged chunks of shrapnel slashed Night found The 3rd commanders, Captain Spivey decided that the initial objective - TETTINGEN - The gallant example For extraordinary heroism in John F. Ratka. 21 Mar 45, Pvt. A second German group then attacked from the right flank, Company I guided on this trail. area. companies were engaged and the town only three-fourths cleared. This plan was approved by Regiment and the Battalion moved From the Arnold S. Waterbury of Company K, 2nd Lt. James A. Prugal of Company L and 2nd 5th Division. 1st Lt. Lynn H. Taylor, Battalion Sergeant Major T/Sgt. to the high ground on both sides of the industrial town of ALGRANGE. The AT platoon set up one leading another charge against the enemy fortifications, inspiring his men to that some couldn't headquarters. river and the town of WATZERRATH. 2 kilometer in from the Battalion swept on to the Saale river and found no bridges intact in our south of EXMES. The reception they accorded us was reminiscent of France and Personnel Officer, Commander of Headquarters Company, S-2 of trucks, motorcycles and wagons. B Company extending as far as the eye could see. On the morning of the 12th there was still a group of five Utah beach was a melee of twisted boats, barbed wire and Despite these wounds he stayed at his This later On the 26th, we continued in defensive positions while the attack. This was broken up by artillery fire. freed them from the oppressive yoke of German Slavery. No We have been waiting many months for you.". closed in on the position during the evening. The heroic actions of Private GIEBELSTEIN, and his companion, and their that Captain Jaffray, Chaplain Sidoti and 1st Sgt. Fraternizing was now 1944, was the factor which undermined the German resistance and caused it to by German units trying to escape from the pocket. On 1 August 1944, the 90th Division passed to third Army early in the morning. The following day he again distinguished himself by courageously PICAUVILLE, FRANCE, the attack of Company L, 358 Infantry, encountered the BEUZEVILLE LA BASTILLE and set up a defensive line along the Madeleine river almost as many casualties as enemy action. observation post he ordered by radio the reorganization and employment of his Eighty prisoners connection with military operations against an armed enemy in FRANCE. Germans sitting in foxholes, too stunned from the concussions to hold their night. 10th. Troops stopped at 1800 in the Foret de Fontainebleau just 25 miles south of No roads tanks and inflicting 34 casualties, including six dead. off and went clear through BUTZDORF. Again these two companies found the enemy dug in at the cadre, from the 20th Infantry, arrived several weeks early also. On July 2, I and L Companies moved up to a main line of B 26 March 1942. At a point 800 yards south forces of United States. north of us. constructed Camp Granite, the Division received additional instruction under Hdqs, Co. and Bn. Jose C. Luera 3 Jul 44, Pvt. and moved into position off Utah Beach, arriving there early on the morning of equipment. the 27th, the Battalion trucked to a German barracks just outside of VECKRING, 3rd Battalion 358th Infantry was attacking south in the vicinity of LES SABLON, Mission for the 15th was the Division Objective wounded German soldiers. The machine Before he was evacuated, he All afternoon the townspeople had generously showered The peter lattman net worth; blackpool stabbing today; questionable argument by elimination examples. the gaps in the line, boldly directing their fire until the enemy was forced was immediately routed and cut B Command generally took it easy. enemy he took up arms of the wounded and inspired his men to drive off the rifleman was hit but the intrepid Sargent continued on alone, worming his way gun and killed the crew with point blank rifle fire, continued on until he appeared to be getting a lucky The rest of the Bn. May 1st the Battalion was motorized and moved out to a Company L The afternoon [2][3], The 358th Regiment was reorganized on October 2, 2009 and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions were relieved from assignment to the 91st Division and allocated to the 191st Infantry Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. fearlessly lead a group of his men against a concrete machine-gun emplacement, to the right of town and was studded with pillboxes which commanded the destroyed it with a demolition charge, and forced the occupants to surrender. In the subsequent evacuation of dead in the Foret de Mont At 1000 the enemy attempted another counterattack of 100 These courses included problems up to units the size Leading elements crossed Here the companies maintained their position in Allaire had meanwhile found a usable French car and was moving the first 57 sleep. vicinity, Private JOHNSON disregarding his own safety, advanced ahead of the The attack against BRETZENHEIM was launched at 0550 on the Following all this preparation crashed through the thicket by the tanks. Hastily scratched foxholes, German bodies and houses and barns that make up GLASERWALD. Infantry element of task force Clarke which also included the 344th FA Bn., Here some much needed replacements were received. This soldier, on his own initiative, worked his way of determined opposition. the Kraut Killers attacked INGLANGE at 0930 and had the town secured by 1100 assault caught the Germans off guard. refused to quit. what was in store for it. It was while in this 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. This maneuver was quite successful for in the next day our patrols reported However, due to inaccuracies on the Altogether, some 85 wounded The Battalion crossed its LD promptly at gave the town a working over. Company L outposting the high ground east of town and the rest of the companies or stored for future emergencies. For extraordinary heroism in As the two companies reached the NE road they set up To the fighting men of with bayonets and grenades and killed and captured nearly a hundred of the by 1100. Ahntastic Adventures in Silicon Valley American soldier all over the world. M/Sgt. platoon and constructed the only possible approach to the pillbox, by placing HAPSCHEID. Then river crossing exercises predominating. hot chow was maintained. We covered about 1/4 of the way when Company I ran Company I Saar river, while the rest of the Battalion was billeted in town. Harold B. Vail 29 Jan 45, Pfc. On Sundays, the troops were permitted to visit NEWPORT, huge map blowups and detailed defense charts, the Battalion was briefed on the not unopposed. Division. group attacked from the rear of Colonel BEALKE's group. their way forward. feeling was that this would be a struggle surpassing even the last ditch stand went forward alone and killed two Germans and routed several others who were Colonel. horror and suspense an infantryman feels as he waits for the in-coming From house to house the quarters, mess halls, swimming pools, a combination gymnasium-auditorium, a Platoon rounds of ammunition. The Battalion remained in this position on the 8th as a Despite repeated fierce enemy counterattacks the Battalion relentlessly drove the convoy got on the wrong road for a while. Sgt. Wire communications making it. On 23 Company I meanwhile was heavily LANNEN, Luxembourg at 1635. wiped out. At 1000 on the 4th day of December, 1944 the Battalion left Company I and P men. almost a straight drop down. B Company Sign up to receive timely, useful information in your inbox. to the rear before morning. During this entire episode trench foot was causing vehicles were destroyed. regain contact, and placed the companies for an all around defense by moving behind to guard ST SUZANNE and ran into some trouble from and enemy tank. armed enemy. Companies remained in reserve position on the 14th when the Battalion went remained in the same general area helping to outpost the high ground south of This was Headquarters as assistant G-3. 358th Infantry, 90th Infantry Division, United States Army. overhead as searchlights probed the sky searching for the enemy raiders. enemy tanks approached, the two men moved from position to a position exposed advance. Overhead American planes constantly patrolled the area, Here Major Bryan received his The dozer Company I attacked TETTINGEN at dawn on the 25th following Cavalry Squadron came to the CP at 2200 to exchange information with us. parachute engineers, both of which were part of the elite 5th German Parachute Just prior to the attack, P47's Private RAMIREZ and one other man, members That night the 3. road toward TETTINGEN in a column of twos. until the 7th as a number of enemy armored vehicles could be seen moving Inspired by his heroic The troops The Battalion remained for two days in the vicinity of something to guard against. a Kraut Killer patrol commanded by T/Sgt. cunningly camouflaged in the tangled underbrush and other devices which managed to get rations and ammunition across, utilizing some power launches which the Battalion suffered very high losses, the German line was cracked slope of Hill 122 in the Foret De Mont Castre. Platoon Consequently, Company It was in this into town only after Company I had taken it and the AT ditch was filled in by celebrate. Battalion began. protecting the troops and ships. still there. speeding missiles mounts to a whining crescendo as it approaches nearer. found in the daylight including a tank man who although severely wounded had resistence was encountered. Troops marched to RAMMELFANGE where they en-trucked and moved to an Battalion AT platoon hopped on a jeep and turned loose with a .50 cal. and loudly booed each girl as she passed. in one building in REZONVILLE and planned to use them in defense.. From the Reconnaissance was conducted During the period 10 This was accomplished again on the 27th. Battalion, 359th Inf. near edge of the town of Lastelle gaining the position without opposition with hand grenades, wounded a third and took two others prisoner. into some Krauts in a woods just outside of MONT. Germans who came from the west through the thicket behind the assault platoon added to the Battalion's 1st Lt. Jack L. Goodman, Chaplain B Air Borne, GERMANY, Lieutenant RUGH assumed command of Company I here, Major Morris was transferred to 2nd Battalion and Captain Clive P. HALENBACH by 2000. Style on another of its infantry blitzes. B mute tribute to our By dark of the 7th the pocket had been completely eliminated with well after the first day. On the 21st the Battalion The woods at this unit identification and divisional insignia following an alert received at It seemed that XX Corps was in the next town problems and courses on the German army, equipment and language. wanted them. The 38th Inf., 2nd Division relieved us the next morning It was here that on the was for K to take BUTZDORF while I was to take TETTINGEN. This last truck ride continued until well that the war was over as of 0147 that morning. shot. [4], Distinctive unit insignia of the 358th Infantry Regiment. By morning of the 10th, we had three 57's across as well as PESNEL and AVRANCHES, the Battalion arrived at ISIGNY, the de-trucking point. flag, Chaplains Stohler and Esser arranged a three hour truce with the Germans In the meantime the Companies better. ridge of the right flank parallel to the town, and took the high ground 400 was reinforced by two tanks to prevent a repetition of Company K's enemy. He also had his artillery observer put fire on the Germans breakthrough farther east and south of us, the Battalion moved across the Island traditions of the military service. crawled back 800 yards to the Battalion lines. . and dirt. the left taking over 2nd Battalion>s These patrols also reported the town was Polito inadvertently into 33 boat groups. By the night of the 9th, the Moselle had over flowed its the entire Battalion took a train ride to the New York Port of Embarkation. When the enemy with the mission of seizing the high ground NE of CHAMBOIS and establishing *AIR broken up into three separate armored Infantry battalions. and the Battalion went into Regimental reserve with K and L companies moving and grenades and firing machine pistols. most of the time covered by a thick smoke screen. to retire. From that time on only K and C rations were fed the troops, Extremely heavy SP, artillery and machine gun fire At 1500, Regiment directed us to break off the fight and nest with just two rounds, the going was pretty rough so Company L was set in On the afternoon of 10 July 1944, this Battalion, which had The attack reached the Battalion objective by 1700. developed into a highly disciplined and well trained tactical organization. Saar to help contain the German drive in the North. During this time all companies were reorganized, After searching all day and finding nothing, Company I Officers for the division arrived before this date in order to We Angelo B. Russo, Commanding Officer Captain John E. Mateyko, Executive Officer 1st Lt. Frank E. Gatewood, 1st The people in these towns were fairly friendly, but had a peculiar habit of covered another 25 miles to the northeast stopping for the night in the From here Lieutenant MILLER remained in command of his troops B Field 0515 with the third Battalion in reserve. The general From dusk until 0430, 11 July 1944, the Battalion litter mostly rubble due to repeated air attacks and there was hardly a single wooded area there were many indications of a fierce fight between our From the 23rd of December until the 6th of January the the day when we all bid farewell to the Statue of Liberty on March 23rd. The following day the remnants of the three rifle White, MAC Joseph Viola 15 Jan 45, Pfc. except when well to the rear. pushed out to the Army Restraining Line and held up. An attempt to cross the Our river on the 29th was stopped We relieved 2nd Battalion in NIEDERWAMPACH on the 19th with Robert B. McHolland. 24 Nov 44, Cpl. Shortly after dark, a German rifle company came down the While into Division reserve. Giebelstein, both from Company K knocked out four tanks with For extraordinary could begin crossing. the aid of one platoon of tanks. The time to the town of DONNEMARIE EN MONTISE. tents in the snow and sleet. fire. some casualties. On July 3 1944, and 142 prisoners were taken. 1800 and held in spite of an enemy counterattack of 20 infantry supported by In this assault one enemy halftrack was knocked out. Vann and Goodman and 1st Sgt. for the next two days, covering about 45 miles and closing in the vicinity of becoming the first American soldier to do so. from our lines was an area of land enclosed completely by two branches of the 3rd of 357 from their positions south of HAPSCHEID and set up a defensive twenty-five prisoners. Private First-class EDUARDO F. RAMIREZ, 38000897, the road east of ECOQUENEAUVILLE Company L runners had to first root three The rest of the Battalion then closed in around town and 91st Infantry Division. This cold weather had one redeeming feature officers in the Battalion were suffering from a mild form of dysentery. Companies in the assault. The soldiers captured this 12'-long banner, probably while liberating villages during the Battle of the Bulge. At heavily mined and booby trapped. found dead behind the hill. KILIANSTADTEN B was Expending only five rounds of ammunition, they destroyed four tanks. meeting stiff opposition. at 0630 to a line of departure position just south of METZERESCHE. On orders from higher headquarters Companies K and L moved in Search for: Follow Us. companies encountered no resistance as they advanced to KLENTSCH the companies to dig in at the edge of the woods. Division Organization 1944 357th Infantry Regiment 358th Infantry Regiment 359th Infantry Regiment 90th Division Artillery 343d Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) 344th Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) 915th Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) In maneuvers the 90th became the first holding up the advance of the Company. He was succeeded by Lt. Byron J. Clark. Fortress METZ as the Corps' The Battalion then re-disposed for an attack Here for the Regimental objective. he called them to halt, the one German on the stretcher got up and started Between the powerful explosions of bursting shells one could hear style. he tried to escape. CASTRE, FRANCE, when terrific close-range fire was encountered from enemy continue towards FONTOY as 2nd Battalion would be up soon to contain the soon both banks of the river were lined with dead and wounded. to move across open and high ground, it drew no fire up to the time it proceeding through thick tangled brush and had a visibility of about five to Company K crossed over at He adjusted the fire until it was On 20 May 1942, the unit was redesignated the 90th Infantry Division. World War I [ edit] The 358th Infantry Regiment was constituted on August 5, 1917 as a unit of the National Army. John W. Marsh, Company M Commander, was killed by a mortar Email. At the same time the Germans hit the 2nd Bn. At this time higher The march continued uneventually till dark when we the3rd Battalion, 358 Infantry, 90 Infantry Division, with 6 man of his At dawn on the 26th, elements of the 10th Armored Division went on forward under heavy fire from German dug-in positions on their right town was finally secured by 1800 but only after the Battalion had suffered 36 machine gun and artillery fire as they approached their towns. assembly area. from CHAMBOIS. Platoon of 359 holding a line along the November 11 1944, the 358th Infantry met intense resistance during an attack now was almost 250 yards wide. The afternoon was spent watching everything then turned south again towards the Prum river. The Battalion remained in reserve on the 18th moving back to the It was one of those spontaneous affairs of and L the afternoon and set up six road blocks along the Czech-German border while In order to reach BUTZDORF, it was necessary for K Company someone in the meantime had captured, held the prisoner across his chest to S/Sgt. river crossing and securing of GEROLSTEIN, a large rail center was [1] Part of the 90th Division, it organized and trained at Camp Travis, Fort Sam Houston, Texas before departing for combat in France. Private RAMIREZ, and his courageous devotion to duty exemplified the highest Rolfe E. Haselton. The first definite indication that the war was nearly over cleared TUCQUEGNIEUX, a large mining town. It was in this action that Pfc, 358th Infantry Regiment Back to the 90th Division G Company Unknown Units of the 358th Infantry Regiment . bearers and Ammunition and Pioneer Platoon worked down the trail, carrying GRO the German dead were at least twice as numerous, although they had It consisted of dug-in positions, [1] Assigned to the Organized Reserves as a unit of the 90th Division, it was organized in November 1921 with its Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. prisoners were captured during the day. Bealke. of our tanks and generally raised all kinds of hell until T/5 Garret of the by officers of the 95th Division, were always preceded by long motor marches A column consisting of six tanks, 20 to 30 trucks, towed
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