Osweiler now had a garrison of one tank company and four understrength rifle companies. the battalions was severed. Colonel Chance took Company C, the last troops of the 12th Infantry, and sent them to the 3d Battalion command post for use on the morrow. The tank-infantry counterattack by Task Forces Standish and Riley in the Berdorf and Echternach areas also resumed. The armored infantry and the two rifle battalions of the 318th marched through the snow, fighting in those woods and hamlets where the German grenadiers and paratroopers-now with virtually no. His two divisions generally had reached the line designated as the LXXX Corps objective. Lacking tanks and self-propelled artillery, the 212th Volks Grenadier Division had to rely on the infantry. But the first word that the Germans were across the river reached the 12th Infantry command post in Junglinster at 1015, with a report from Company F, in Berdorf, that a 15-man patrol had been seen approaching the village a half-hour earlier. rear of the column and drove an ammunition truck, its canvas smoldering from German bullets, up to the gun crews. He told Barton that if he could find the engineers he could use them. $20.00 + $3.90 shipping. By nightfall the situation seemed much improved-despite the increased pressure on the 4th Division companies closely invested in the north. Although the 212th was at full strength it shared the endemic weaknesses of the volks grenadier division: insufficient communications and fewer assault guns than provided by regulation (only four were with the division on 16 December). Apparently some troops went at once into the line, but the actual counterattack was postponed until the next morning. General Sensfuss told his superiors that the 212th had made little progress beyond completing the encirclement of Echternach. their motors cut and caught the enemy on the slopes while the engineers moved in with marching fire. By some chance the two platoons on the right missed the German hive. The burden of this advance was carried by battalions of the 320th Regiment (which explains the relaxing of pressure in the Osweiler-Dickweiler area), and the advance guard of the 316th Regiment which General Sensfuss had pried from the Seventh Army reserve by reporting the arrival of the 10th Armored Division. By 1130 the remainder of Company G, armed with rifles and one BAR, was surrounded but still fighting at a mill just north of the village, while a platoon of the 2d Battalion weapons company held on in a few buildings at the west edge of Lauterborn. $8.98. American troops atop the ridge known as the Schnee Eifel weren't expecting much action that morning. In the fire fight which followed the 2d Battalion companies became separated, but the early winter darkness soon ended the skirmish. Finally the enemy had control of most of the northern section of the road net between the Sauer River and Luxembourg-but it was too late. The center task force (Lt. Col. At daylight on 20 December the 1st Battalion, 423d Regiment, which had been brought in from the Lauterborn area, initiated a counterattack against the team from Task Force Standish at the edge of Berdorf and recovered all the ground lost during the previous two days. TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. The 4th Infantry Division was reactivated at Fort Benning, Georgia as part of the U.S. Army buildup prior to the country's entry into World War II. The tanks opened fire on the German flank and rear, while all the infantry weapons in the village blazed away. The team from Task Force Standish had made little progress in its house-to-house battle in Berdorf. Here the company was found to be in good spirits, supplied with plenty of food and wine, and holding its own to the tune of over a hundred of the enemy killed. American shellfire finally drove the enemy away from the bank, necessitating a new effort in broad daylight farther to the north. Troops of the 2d Battalion, 8th Infantry (Lt. Col. George Mabry), with tanks and armored field artillery firing in support, first attacked east from Waldbillig to take the wooded nose around which looped the Waldbillig-Mllerthal road. The five medium tanks drove through to the northeastern edge and just before noon began shelling the Parc Hotel in the mistaken belief that it was held by the enemy. General Middleton regarded the German advance against the southern shoulder of his corps as potentially dangerous, both to the corps and to the command and communications center at Luxembourg City. After three years of campaigning on the Eastern Front the division had been so badly shattered during withdrawals in the Lithuanian sector that it was taken from the line and sent to Poland, in September 1944, for overhauling. The 8th Armored Division was recognized as a liberating unit by the US Army's Center of Military History and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995. Company C, 70th Tank Battalion, now had eight tanks in running condition and these were hurried to Breitweiler to reinforce the cavalry and engineers. The net day's operations amounted to a stand-off. The American counterattack on the 19th, then, first would be opposed by infantry and infantry weapons, but would meet heavier metal and some armor as the day ended. Troops of the Third Army were already on the move north, there to form the cutting edge of a powerful thrust into the southern flank of the German advance. Two platoons from Company A, 19th Tank Battalion, which had just. (When one blast threw a commode and sink from a second story down on the rear deck of a tank the crew simply complained that no bathing facilities had been provided.) Meanwhile the 7th Company, 423d Regiment, pushed forward to cut the Echternach-Luxembourg road, the one first-class highway in the 12th Infantry sector. judgmental sampling is also known as . L and I completely surrounded." The division served in World War I, World War II, and Operation Desert Storm. Two later attacks on New Year's Day 1945 attempted to create second fronts in Holland (Operation Schneeman) and in northern France (Operation Nordwind ). $8.99. The morning situation in the sector held by the 3d Battalion (Maj. Herman R. Rice, Jr.) had not seemed too pressing. These villages, at which the crucial engagements would be fought, were Berdorf, Echternach, Lauterborn, Osweiler, and Dickweiler. 10th, 51st, and 53rd Armored Infantry Battalions 8th, 35th, and 37th Tank Battalions 22nd, 66th, and 94th Armored FA Battalions . At Lauterborn, however, they were told that the tanks could not be risked in Echternach after dark. Osweiler, west of Dickweiler, thus far had seen no enemy. A white-clad soldier from the 8th Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, with young German prisoners captured during fighting in the Sauer River sector. The force available was insufficient to continue the attack. be remembered, four rifle battalions still were retained on guard along the twenty miles of the division front south of the battle area. The 82nd Airborne Division began its illustrious military career as an infantry division during World War I. And the division reserve, the 4th Engineer Combat Battalion and 4th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, concentrated behind the 12th Infantry lines. In like manner the enemy had failed in the quick accomplishment of one of his major tasks, that is, overrunning the American artillery positions or at the least forcing the guns to withdraw to positions from which they could no longer interdict the German bridge sites. Leake's force had only one .50-caliber machine gun and a BAR to reinforce the rifles in the hands of the defenders, but the Germans were so discouraged by the reception given their initial sorties that their succeeding attempts to take the building were markedly halfhearted. The prospect must have brightened considerably at the 4th Division headquarters when the promise of this reinforcement arrived. Throughout this first day the 12th Infantry would fight with very poor communication. 18th Infantry Regiment; 36th Infantry Regiment; 37th Armored Infantry Battalion; 48th Infantry Regiment; . American intelligence officers estimated on 17 December that the enemy had a superiority in numbers of three to one; by the end of 18 December the balance was somewhat restored. In February 1945, the division advanced into Germany, crossing the . The elements of Task Force Riley, which had waited outside of Lauterborn through the night of l9-20 December in vain expectation that Company E would attempt to break out of Echternach, received a radio message at 0823 that Company E was surrounded by tanks and could not get out. On 20 December there was savage fighting in the 4th Infantry Division zone despite the fact that both of the combatants were in the process of going over to the defensive. The Germans had excellent intelligence of the 4th Infantry Division strength and positions. Losses and stragglers, however, had reduced the American infantry companies, already understrength at the opening of the battle. to widen the avenues of penetration behind the panzers. For the 106th Infantry Division, the Opening of the Bulge was a Death Blow. Rotation in the line allowed. In Dickweiler the troops of the 3d Battalion, 12th Infantry, had been harassed by small forays from the woods above the village. Even so General Barton made careful disposition of his understrength and weary division, even ordering the divisional rest camps, originally back as far as Arlon, to be moved to sites forward of the regimental command posts. The Division arrived on the European Continent on 4 Jul 44 and elements began their World War II combat on 6 July with the entire division engaged on 8 July 1944. Across these rivers lay a heterogeneous collection of German units whose lack of activity in past weeks promised the rest the 4th Division needed so badly. An hour earlier the tank destroyer reconnaissance company had begun a long-range fire fight but the German advance guard, despite heavy shelling from three field artillery battalions and every self-propelled piece which could be brought to bear, drove straight on to Mllerthal. The 8th U.S. Infantry reactivated in 1947, assigned to Ft. Ord, California, remaining assigned to the 4th Infantry Division. Actually, only a few men were stationed with the company command post in each village; the rifle platoons and weapon sections were dispersed in outposts overlooking the Sauer, some of them as far as 2,000 yards from their company headquarters. As in the case of the 276th Volks Grenadier Division, there is no indication that the LXXX Corps expected to send the 212th into Luxembourg City, although the Germans knew that the 12th Army Group Headquarters and the advance command post of the Ninth Air Force were located there. It was too late. Radio communication, poor as it was, had to serve, with the artillery network handling most of the infantry. As before, the maneuver was a flanking movement designed to seize the high ground overlooking Mllerthal. And in and around Eisenborn, CCA, 10th Armored Division, was assembling to counter any German attack. This time the tanks deployed on the roads and trails south of Berdorf and moved in with five riflemen on each tank deck. The 12th Infantry had rigidly obeyed the division commander's order that there should be "no retrograde movement," despite the fact that nine days earlier it had been rated "a badly decimated and weary regiment" and that on 16 December its rifle companies still were much understrength. December 1944. The commander of the 212th Volks Grenadier Division received a slight wound but had the satisfaction of taking the surrender of the troublesome Americans, about 111 officers and men from Company E, plus 21 men belonging to Company H. On this same day the Company F outpost which had held out at Birkelt Farm since 16 December capitulated. This made the 8th the only division in US Army history to be designated Infantry Division (Mechanized) (Airborne). Click on a link to access the respective web site. Miles L. Standish), which had been assigned to help the 2d Battalion, 12th Infantry, clear the enemy from Berdorf, had little better success. No large-scale assault was attempted this day, apparently because the enemy was still waiting for guns to cross the river. On the morning of 17 December the 10th Armored Division (General Morris) had moved out of Thionville for Luxembourg, the first step (although at the time not realized) which General Patton's Third Army would make to intervene in the battle of the Ardennes. In the central sector Companies A and G, with five light tanks, started from Lauterborn along the road to Echternach. But a thick winter fog rolled in before the Americans could occupy the hill. In the face of the German build-up opposite the 12th Infantry and the apparent absence of enemy activity elsewhere on the division front, General Barton began the process of regrouping to meet the attack. By nightfall the Germans had been driven back some distance from Lauterborn (they showed no wish to close with the tanks), but the decision was made to dig in for the night alongside Company G rather than risk a drive toward Echternach in the dark. The 4th Division and 10th Armored sought to disengage their advance elements and regroup along a stronger main line of resistance, and the enemy fought to dislodge the American foothold in Berdorf and Echternach. When the fire lifted the attack was resumed, but the enemy fought stubbornly for each house. The advance of the 423d Regiment across the Berdorf plateau on 16 December had reached the winding defile leading down into the gorge west of Berdorf village, there wiping out a squad of infantry and one 57-mm. This ambulance convoy was en route to Consdorf, in the late afternoon, when a radio message reported that the Germans had cut the road north of Consdorf and bazooka'd two tanks on their way back from Berdorf for ammunition. The 4th Division switched all local. Also included are units of the 8th and 9th Army Air Forces. Unfortunately rain and snow, during the days just past, had turned the countryside to mud, and the tanks were bound to the roads. 1944. The gunners nevertheless began to get on the targets, and the German infantry reported very punishing artillery fire during the afternoon. Unit commanders and noncommissioned officers were good and experienced; morale was high. a few houses, but were in the process of being reinforced by Nebelwerfers and armored vehicles. General support was provided by the division's own 155-mm. Late in the morning two enemy companies attacked Dickweiler, defended by Company I, but were beaten off by mortar fire, small arms, and a .50-caliber machine gun taken from a half-track. The infantry to the front were alerted for their role in the combined attack and half-tracks with radios were moved close to the line of departure as relay stations in the tank-infantry communications net. Three battalions of 155's and two batteries of 105-mm. Five tanks and two companies of the 159th Engineer Combat Battalion, which Barton had located on the road job as promised by Middleton, then launched a surprise attack against the Germans on Hill 313, overlooking the road to Lauterborn. Attempts by the 320th Infantry to make a predawn crossing at Echternach had been frustrated by the swift current, and finally all the assault companies were put over the Sauer at Edingen, more than three miles downstream. American infantrymen jumped on top of the enormous Panthers and Jagdpanthers, as they rolled through the streets and killed the crews, with thermite grenades thrown into the turrets. Two tanks and two squads of riflemen continued along the main road to the hat factory at the southwestern edge of Echternach where Company E, 12th Infantry, had established itself. 1) The 1st Abn BG, 504th Inf and 1st Abn BG, 505th Inf joined the division as part of the 1st Brigade. At Bech, behind the American center, General Barton now had the 3d Battalion, 22d Infantry, in reserve, having further stripped the 4th Division right. Thus both Osweiler and Dickweiler remained tight in American hands. There was, of course, no means by which the VIII Corps commander could know that the Seventh Army scheme of maneuver was limited to a swing only as far as Mersch, eight miles north of the city. But Colonel Chance sent out all of the usable tanks in Company B, 70th Tank Battalion-a total of three-to pick up a rifle squad at the 3d Battalion command post (located at Herborn) and clear the road to Osweiler. antitank gun which had been placed here to block the gorge road. In time of peace the gorge of the Schwarz Erntz offered a picturesque "promenade" for holiday visitors in the resort hotels at Berdorf and Beaufort, with "bancs de repos" at convenient intervals. It is probable that the Americans in Echternach were forced to surrender late on 20 December. The southern shoulder of the German counteroffensive had jammed. 1 Jun-. At the day's end only the regimental antitank company, numbering some sixty men, stood between the enemy and the 2d Battalion command post at Consdorf. The 87th Infantry Division ("Golden Acorn" [1]) was a unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II . It was imperative that the line be held. Despite its losses Company E drove on, clearing the Germans from the lower slopes before the recall order was given. At 0936 American observers reported a very large force moving along the bottom of the gorge, and at 1044, "5 companies counted and still coming." Despite the complete surprise won by the 212th on 16 December, it had been unable to effect either a really deep penetration or extensive disorganization in the 12th Infantry zone. While General Morris made plans to hold the ground needed as a springboard for the projected counterattack, General Beyer, commanding the German LXXX Corps, prepared to meet an American riposte. In the first week of December the 4th Infantry Division (Maj. Gen. Raymond 0. Since most of Task Force Riley by this time had reverted to the reserve, Lauterborn, the base for operations against Echternach, was abandoned. Here the 2d Platoon (with twenty-one men and two artillery observers) held out in the stone farm buildings for four days and from this position harassed the Germans moving up the ravine road to Berdorf. New. General Morris left Bastogne and met the 4th Infantry Division commander in Luxembourg. The first German assault here did not strike until about 1100, although Echternach lay on low ground directly at the edge of the river. Company E, which had about seventy men and was the strongest in the battalion, led off. These units vary in size from a small number of people up to and including an Army Group. The division fusilier battalion was committed against the 12th Infantry center in an attempt to drive a wedge through at Scheidgen while a part of the 23d Festung Battalion crossed the Sauer near Girst to extend the left flank of the German attack. His outfit would launch a gas filled balloon tethered to a ground-based winch. This was unfurled on the shattered roof. Then, so the plan read, CCA would advance in three task forces: one through the Schwarz Erntz gorge; one on the Consdorf-Berdorf road; and the third through Scheidgen to Echternach. This team fought through some scattered opposition southwest of Lauterborn, dropped off a rifle platoon to hold Hill 313 (which commanded the southern approach), and moved through the village to the Company G command post, freeing twenty-five men who had been taken prisoner in the morning. howitzer battalions in direct support. Contact thus established, an assault was launched to clear Berdorf. At the break of day on 17 December Company C, the 12th Infantry reserve, moved out of Herborn en route. First a ten-pound pole charge would be exploded against a wall or house; then a tank would clank up to the gap and blast away; finally the infantry would go to work with grenades and their shoulder weapons. At the same time he gave Colonel Chance eight medium tanks and ten light tanks, leaving the 70th Tank Battalion (Lt. Col. Henry E. Davidson, Jr.) with only three mediums and a platoon of light tanks in running order. Go to https://www.militaryvideo.com/ to purchase the entire video, or to see movie trailers of over 700 other military videos.This 9. Accordingly, the 316th Infantry began to cross the Sauer, moving up behind the center of the parent division. The plans to utilize these positions were briefed by General Barton to his commanders on the 13th. The enemy resisted wherever encountered, but spent most of the daylight hours regrouping in wooded draws and hollows and bringing reinforcements across the river, stepping up his artillery fire the while. They went overseas on 5 December 1943 where they trained in Ireland for the Invasion of Europe. The 1st Battalion, 423d Regiment, overran three of the outpost positions, captured the company mortars, machine guns, and antitank guns sited in support of the forward detachments, and moved in on Berdorf. Company A, mounted on a platoon of light tanks, was ordered to open the main road to Lauterborn and Echternach which supplied the 2d Battalion (Maj. John W. Gorn). The cemeteries are in Belgium and Luxembourg. Lieutenant Leake refused permission to sample this cache, a decision he would regret when, after withdrawal from Berdorf, he and twenty-one of his men were returned to the foxhole line with neither their coats nor blankets. On the opposite flank things were temporarily under control, with Task Force Luckett not yet seriously engaged and the enemy advance thus far checked at Mllerthal. Until the night of 14 December this estimate was correct. 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