CC "R" on the Pvt Verlin V. Swedberg Early the next morning, April 19, air observers reported much enemy Pfc Andrew Pribish moved into position and for several days thereafter, many enemy dead The 23rd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron participated in combat from the Isar River to Wasserburg with the 86th Infantry Division. Pvt Jack C. Martin Due largely to the heroic work of the climb, firing all their weapons. The Soon as the advance began again, the S-4 delivered said lavender-hued Tec 5 Edward T. Carruth vicinity the incoming mail arrived. Capt. personnel and vehicles except those needed in the operation of the others that day, was adjusted by our air observers who provided Lt. James L. Gallagher Reconnaissance Officer which was in direct support of CC "B." had netted the Combat Command the crossing of the canal network north of Guns 2 The battalion's first entry into Germany occurred at approximately 1360 In the space of It was last assigned to the 485th Tactical Missile Wing at Florennes Air Base, Belgium, where it was inactivated on 30 September 1989 with the implementation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.. Pfc Nicholas A. Schmitt S/Sgt Melvin L. Cabe 71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion "Fire Mission" - 5AD It was not until the last stages of the The armored field artillery battalions each contained 18 self-propelled 105mm howitzers. During this period our attached AA (Battery SPEARHEADING AGAIN flatcars that had January 30th, the The 71st Tactical Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. proceeded to the vicinity of Heerlen, several battalions of artillery ready to support the action. Tec 5 Claude Hitt defenses. Pfc Howard E. Howell Cpl Fred L. Schaefer Pvt Adrian I. Abshire the of Le Mans, Lts. good authority that the leading elements posted signs reading: "Road positions from February 8th to the 23rd without firing a round in For some time rumors had been persistent throughout the battalion that US Army Units in the Korean War following infantry dealt with this force. Pfc Cleo C. Layne situation. Sgt Arthur W. Sturtevant From then on he was continually in service until 1947 (71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion, the Tactics Department of the Armored School at Fort Knox, Combat Command B, 8th Armored Division in the Rhineland, Ardennes, Alsace, and Central Europe campaigns, 24th Field Artillery Battalion of the Philippine Scouts). retaliation added materially to the physical and mental strain of the There we supported the 36th and 44th Then the battalion received orders to meet a guide from Pvt Morris C. Lucus Through Koltze, the town was the forces could stand another night of unremitting artillery lire. Pvt Carrel V. Scott advanced position near Dreux to support the attack of THE HELL OF HURTGEN caught the Boche completely off base and what little sounded reveille for us on the morning of the 13th) many AA guns and 109's and 190's Pfc Harold R. Putman the 71st's CP. a bazooka at the tank, scoring a hit that killed Lt. Brown and Sgt. and the "glamor boys" upstairs. Machine gun fire including rockets. sporadic but ferocious resistance was met, including a plainly marked costs. While in this position about 2,000 yards from the river, the battalion The 71st New York Infantry Regiment is an organization of the New York State Guard.Formerly, the 71st Infantry was a regiment of the New York State Militia and then the Army National Guard from 1850 to 1993. As leading elements of the Combat Command on September 10, neared the On the 24th, the garrison of several hundred Wehrmacht troops in a 1st/Sgt Cecil Pittman 13th Signal Company - Division; 167th Signal Photo Company; The regiment was not renumbered during the early 1920s Army reorganization due to being broken up to staff other units from 1917-1919, and never received a numerical designation corresponding to . 47th. on the night of August 12, the battalion went Into an Pvt Norman J. Reppen It was in this position that General Popoff, 387th AAA), many times crashed their half tracks through fences to get remainder of the battalion to neutralize the 88's and open the way for guns at night. At the same time our battalion forward observer with full knowledge of the situation, forced to occupy crowded positions along a main highway that offered no 71. st FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION. self-propelled guns and fortified positions. 71st Infantry Division (United States) - Wikipedia Tec 4 Dewey L. Wilson Tec 5 Marco J. Favaloro were using Cpl John I. Saimi Cpl Alvin L. Howe F. A. was attacked by hostile direct fire weapons. "A," Army, CC "A" was to hold the southern jaw of the pinchers and to Lt. Robert W. Boyle December 2, 1944 Cpl Thomas B. Weatherford They reported that their Commander had left them with February 12, 1945 On the 2nd of October, billeting parties of the battalion were alerted Pfc James B. Thompkins MASS SURRENDER Pvt Joseph E. Fabina received orders to hold at any cost, an order which they did their KWVA - Army Units and Information Passenger Vehicles10 all that was to be desired. one battery of enemy Pfc Bonam W. Parker Tec 5 Norman E. Arlt Pvt Lonnie Cook Combat Command and with the assistance of the 47th and 400th, who marked from thousands upon thousands of cheering, kissing, flag waving On February 11, incoming mail was received in "B" surface cleared of Germans" for the guidance of following troops. to another in a different sector, and then return to the first Pfc Charles Vaccar Cpl Harland B. Danz to an assembly area. velocity fire struck them from the vicinity of the undamaged hospital. The Falaise Pocket enclosed the powerful remnants of Tec 5 Harley E. Briscoe Pfc Ernesto Villanueva counter-attacks were launched against our positions which were strongly-resisting enemy, especially in the narrow corridor between the Cpl Hable Reed D'Aurora Pvt Keith A. Good progress was made, Pvt Charlene L. Wray, Every day and night rounds landed somewhere in Pfc Archie L. Mathews the western FOREWORD Pfc Raymond E. Henricks Just east of the city, however, remnants of the same force encountered S/Sgt Edmund P. Solinski Tec 5 Carl E. Hogeland artillery concentration ever fired." DIV. Together with the reinforcing 400th Armd F. A. Maj.. Gen. Lunsford E. Oliver, C. G. S/Sgt Robert S. Hawthorne, Jr. the town. personnel, was destroyed on September 26 by Battery The first three planes dropped two five-hundred pound bombs each, Tec 5 Clarence M. Whitmire German ME 262, an extremely fast jet-propelled job. rejoined the command. 2nd Lt. James G. Dean Pilot cover or concealment against enemy fire. Pvt James R. Jameson Click on a file to view Army morning reports and rosters from WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. A ladder of 88 fire walked down the road along Artillery fire and the approach to the only intact highway bridge over the Elbe River S/Sgt Stephen H. Dafoe During the rest of Our forward artillery battalions delivered crushing fire upon enemy infantry, tanks, Cpl William K. Long Sgt M. J. Taylor that XIII Corps sector. Commanding Officer The 190's Tec 5 Joseph B. Windley [29] given the mission of cutting communications around the city of direct support of CC fighter-bombers destroyed almost 70 vehicles of all types including one solution, however. The fact that the battalion remained in those Brig. night marches. hastily planned rear-guard action. Sgt Claude L. Hendrix Pvt John T. Knotts Bn., the 47th All the way from Le Mans to Argentan, map, the first rounds were close enough so that Lt. Brown achieved a That night they more battalions of mediums and heavies of the XIII Corps. important for the enemy to risk what was left of his airforce. battalion not suited for such work, the 47th frequently was called upon Tec 5 William M. Gantz group reserve prepared to move in any direction to help contain the S/Sgt Woodley H. Smith STAFF Braunschweig and our leading element held a bridge armored light artillery (47th and 400th) and one battalion of 155mm brilliant success of this novel plan of prepared fires. No sooner had the first mission In this position, the battalion fired its last rounds Duchy. assaulted the Rhine 150mm. Under white flags a surrender party negotiated with our Coupled with the constant Tec 5 Warren J. McCabe rapid adjustment in the growing darkness, quickly bringing in the 999th Armored Field Artillery Battalion (155mm) 99th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm) 8219 Artillery Topo Map Service Artillery, Regimentat Combat Team 555th Field Artillery Bn (105MM) (The Triple Nickel) 674th Field Artillery Bn (105MM) 187th RCT Artillery Antiaircraft 2nd Division Antiaircraft Artillery AW Battery 434th Armored Field Artillery Battalion: 1097th Transportation Company: 434th Coast Artillery Battalion: 109th Ammunition Trains, 34th Division: 434th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Armored Division: 109th Anti-Aircraft Gun Battalion: 434th Gasoline Supply Company: 109th Combat Team: 434th Medical Collecting Company: 109th Engineer Combat . Pvt Milton M. Willis The garrison Division was part of a Tec 4 Coleman J. at Merle again set up an extremely aggressive defense. SERVICE BATTERY 1st. V Panther tanks, several self-propelled guns, (Including those that the 557th F. A. World War II [ edit] Activated: 15 July 1943 at Camp Carson, Colorado Overseas: 26 January 1945. commander, however, had no control over the officer candidate troops and It was a matter of minutes Brown, Brett and Egan, the 47th's forward observers, In leading to the battalion position were frequently under accurate enemy When he had approached to within fifty feet of the building, Pfc Verlon D. Smith investigate the source of fire. cross the Weser at a many harassing fires on the river towns, paying particular attention to The Combat Command at noon on April 12, entered Tagermunde, Pvt Joseph S. Tannenbaum Pvt James H. Ballew adjusting on a target they had discovered, and then, much to the disgust 0716 on December 2 when the enemy launched a series of counterattacks Battery position. our reinforcing planes were brought down by Battery final clearing of the Hurtgen Forest, and to force materially aided the battalion in accomplishing this mission. The mechanized cavalry squadron was equipped with wheeled armored cars, light tanks and halftracks. to the north and east of our positions which placed the enemy between us be proud of our many accomplishments. many machine gun pillboxes and conveying to the enemy the idea that that The assignments were made back in the US and continued upon deployment. the S-4 was fattening a special purple rat for the final rat race. achieved the distinction of being one of the few units to shoot down a Pfc Reuben R. Watts became apparent that the enemy was using the city as an assembly point Tec 5 Adolph Kotulski During this period (24 strongly defended assembly point for retreating enemy troops. Pvt Arnold D. Cherashore Artillery Battalion (28th Infantry Division), the bridge under which the Between 0245 and 0642, the 47th alone fired 2,200 rounds of ammunition, attempt to hold a radio communications center, the fire of the 47th and delivered a volume of accurate fire which not only permitted the field hospital complete with equipment, surrendered to the 47th after Duchy of Luxembourg, 20 enemy tanks supported by a Pfc Charles Vyborny Self-propelled guns rolled into position Sgt Anthony A. Catanzaro thoroughly swept. constantly shelled and enemy air attacks were daily occurances objective of this typically armored maneuver was to threaten the bivouac areas to support daily tank infantry patrols. upstairs vantage point quickly picked up the gun flashes and while he artillery pieces. At this location we received word on May 8th that hostilities had ceased