331 infantry regiment, 83rd division

The 83rd Division crossed the Rhine south of Wesel, 29 March, and advanced across the Munster Plain to the Weser, crossing it at Bodenwerder. assigned Squad Leader, Later I was advanced to the rank of S/Sgt. Actually 12,000 defended the walled city, and they vowed to "fight to the last stone." 83rd Infantry Division Documents - Fallen heroes of the 83rd Infantry Division You are here: Burial Listing Listing Navigation Fallen heroes of the 83rd Infantry Division This is an overview of all servicemen and women of units attached to the 83rd Infantry Division who are buried in Europe. The 329th lead the way most of the time and gained fame as the "Rag-Tag Circus" as they rode through the German provinces on tanks, motorcycles, jalopies, and any other means of transportation they could find. Regiment, 83rd Infantry Chapter Twenty-Six of the author's The Great Boer War, which Smith, Elder, & Co. published in 1900.This web version is based on the Internet Archive version digitized from an unidentified library in 2010 with funding from the Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation.. 1/330 The 22nd Division's artillery regiment was positioned to the east of Le Quesnoy with security provided by a battalion of Infantry Regiment 82. Melvin V. Park, K Company, 329th Infantry, 83rd Division To halt the spread of sickness and death, the 83rd ordered the local German mayor to supply the camp with food and water. It's funny how good the news sounds, but anyway, I hope it ends soon--the sooner the better. Yet as you wander down these quiet paths 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. June 17, 1944: Southampton, England My worst nightmares are still in those rows.". Although it was not the same as being at home, the people of Luxembourg opened their homes to the GIs. All is safe for you to go. 332nd Infantry Regiment ; 369th Experience ; Americans All! At the end, the 83rd Division, born in war, was disbanded and all its men reassigned to other units. Still on 12 July, I assume end of day, we have a regimental plan for outposts on the 83rdsside of the Taute River and marsh. The 83rd had three infantry regiments, the 329th, the 330th, and the 331st. AWON Memorial Web Page, Massacre at Ottre 83d Infantry Division "Thunderbolt Division" "Ohio Division" The 83 rd Division insignia consists of a monogrammatic design in gold spelling out the word "O-H-I-O" on a black triangular. Sergeant Clarence Magariea of the 83rd Division, holds two captured Waffen-SS soldiers at bay against a wall in Sart. I am assuming A Co, B Co, and C Co are from the 331st because there is a flag for the 1st Bn, 331 IR, on the map and the regiment number close to the area of the companies looks more like it would be 331 than 330 (I cant really decipher the last number, but it does not seem to be a zero). The 331st Infantry Division was an infantry division of the German army during World War II. The following soldiers were reported as missing in action. Deputy commander: Brigadier General Claude B. Ferenbaugh, Chief of Staff: Colonel Samuel V. Krauthoff, 329th Infantry Regiment: Colonel Edwin B. Crabill To see it through again. When the war ended, Terhanko had four Purple Hearts and Silver and Bronze Stars. "TDC, November 26"I was reading an old paper today and the people over there must be nuts. 774th Tank Battalion, from August 28 to December 24th, 1944 Another photo taken at Camp Breckenridge, showing M Company/331st, can be seen by clicking here. They were billeted in an old chateau that was, according to Hershell McIntosh, complete with a kitchen full of dishes and silverware. There were no welcoming home parades for the Thunderbolt Division, but the GIs of the 83rd would carry its memory home with them. 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. "TDC, November 19"I just got my ballot the other day, so threw it away. U.S. Intelligence estimated between 3,000 and 6,000 German troops occupied St. Malo. var sc_security="ff55f57b"; Assistant Division Commanders: Brig. Mapping the Overlays: 83rd Division maps for Normandy Campaign There isn't any such thing over here. They fought in the Ardennes, facing the point of the German Bulge. 324th Field Artillery Battalion (155 Howitzer), Anti-aircraft artillery Cleveland, History World War I Formation. 2/330 It was initially made up of enlisted draftees from Ohio and Pennsylvania, with a cadre of Regular Army, Officers Reserve Corps, and National Army officers. The 83rd Infantry Division ( 83. Im not sure what the Germans hoped to accomplish doing this though. On 1 March, the 83rd Division advanced toward the Rhine in Operation Grenade, and captured Neuss. -- We threw 57,607 hand grenades On 7 December, the 83rd Division relieved the 4th Infantry Division and attacked to clear the west bank of the Roer on 10 December. 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. -- We laid 22,306 miles of The history of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska, and the Grand Masters elected by the brethren to lead it, encompasses many interesting challenges and successes from the mid-1800s to t -- We fired 6,974,050 rounds of "TDC, December 3"Here it is another Christmas away from home--I hope it is the last one like this. The photo at the top of this page--taken around Thanksgiving time--is, according to Larry Dalton, what was left of the 2nd platoon--less than half strength. 1st Platoon: 1st Lieutenant George W. Stahley, killed on July 4, 1944 The 330th Infantry Across Europe GitHub export from English Wikipedia. the official history of the 331st Infantry, 83rd Division. in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Austria. This list is as it appeared in the history of the 331st Infantry They raced across the German countryside until they were ordered to stop less than 60 miles from Berlin. The 83rd Division would be called on again to answer the call to defend freedom in 1942 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. B Co, 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, from August 13th to 16th, 1944, April 19, 1944: Newcastle-under-Lyme, England See through the mindless death and grinding pain. Certain divisional units saw action, such as the 332nd Infantry Regiment, in Italy (Battle of Vittorio Veneto). A GI in the 9th Division described the scene from his foxhole. The distinctive unit insignia was approved for the 322nd Field Artillery Battalion on January 14, 1926. They continued the mission, and took Remich on 28 September. Cleveland, As each house was taken, it was subjected to violent enemy counterattacks. When the 83rd Division landed across Omaha Beach in June 1944, James Shonak was Captain of Anti-Tank Company/331st Infantry. After training in Wales, the division landed at Omaha Beach, 18 June 1944, and entered the hedgerow struggle south of Carentan, 27 June. 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. C Company British infantry the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment aboard Sherman tanks near Argentan, 21 August 1944. According to this paper, the war was practically over and the people were just waiting to celebrate. They cut the St. Lo-Periers road, and forced their way into Le Mesnil Vigot. The division was activated in September 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. After training in Wales, the division landed at Omaha Beach. The people still seemed surprised at the sight of American soldiers in their city. The 83rd spent Thanksgiving in that tiny country. C Company H Company B. Lyon Company, 1912. On the 7th, the 329th took the city of Echternach on the Sauer River. 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. August 20, 1944: Cesson-Svign "TDC, October 29"We had quite a little treat the other day--the first real hot bath I've had since I left England (quite a topic for correspondence.)"TDC. UNITED PRESS LjEASED WIRE SERVICE THE EVENING G ESTABLISHED 1S81 XENIA, OHIO, SATURDAY, JU^E 29, PRICE THREE CENTS SUPPLY Y 331st infantry 83rd division ourgrowingpaynes New Member Joined: Oct 6, 2016 Messages: 3 Likes Received: 0 I am researching my grandfather's military history. OH Taking the offensive, the 83d reached the St. Lo-Periers Road, 25 July, and advanced 8 miles against strong opposition as the Normandy campaign ended. December 2"These shoes we wear are quite the thing--sometimes I think my feet would be warmer without shoes. The 83rd Infantry Division ("Thunderbolt" [1]) was a formation of the United States Army in World War I and World War II . We are constantly adding new Army Corps patches, Army Regiment Patches, Army Unit Patches, Calvary Patches, and Army Infantry Division Patches to this section. (F) Parson, Robert L. Jr. Terhanko, George Waple, George H., III The 83rd Infantry Division, commanded by Major General Robert C. Macon, arrived in England on 16 April 1944 with its first divisional headquarters at Keele Hall in Staffordshire. Do they think we are over here for our health? The 83d Infantry Division arrived in England on 16 April 1944. On 26 July, the 83rd entered the pursuit, and in heavy combat crossed the Taute River the next day. George Waple is 6th For there are only angels here in olive-drab, Kerr; Pvt. Click on the First Sergeant stripes to read his story. The camp was created in April 1944 to provide concentration camp labor for the German war effort. 739th FA Battalion (8 How), from August 29th to September 3rd, 1944, Armor H Company His letter is the incredible story of a GI's journey through the war. But for a number of U.S Army trucks interspersed among its columns, it might easily have been mistaken for a German convoy.[12]. E Company A second battalion from the same regiment defended a line further east. (Incredibly, both Charles Mobley and Sarge were born on Cotton Avenue in Birmingham.) He had brown hair and brown eyes, and a ruddy complexion attributable to his Scotch-Irish ancestry. annotated for each man: Staff Sergeant Edward J. Devlin, 31188341, 542 (communications chief) telephone wire. At times they had to blast supply routes through the hedges. 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. The Drive To the Elbe And the lifeless forms half buried in the snow -- Our artillery battalions, I, personally, cant make much sense of what is written in the lower left corner, try as I might. The 3.5 by 1.5 mile target area was only 1,500 yards in front of the American line. The 83rd Infantry Division was first activated in the fall of 1917, several months after the United States entered World War I. Platoon, 2nd.Batallion, 331 first Regiment of the 83rd Infantry Division, advanced to the rank of Sgt. They fought for each other and died for each other and, as the 331st Infantry motto said, they did "See It Through." Tanks, tank destroyers and armored infantry aided the attack. Basements of houses became aid stations for the wounded. On 25 September the 83rd Division crossed into Luxembourg. Most of the time they were in the center of the front line, and often out in front leading the way. -- We fired 158,958 rounds of I knew it was to the south-southwest of Sainteny, which of course he never knew; but Ive yet to get it nailed down this close. He said he would take the job for 30 days to see how it worked out. Thanks to Kathy Mobley Mathews for allowing us to use this material. Though the positioning of these HQs seem strange to me. 1 pton 709th Tank Battalion, from August 13th to 16th, 1944 It was reformed in March 1944 as part of the 24th Welle (wave) from Schatten-Division Wahn. SirJames 139 Sergeant Major I see by the returns that the election didn't amount to much this time. 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. 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. The 83rd Division has special ties to Luxembourg. Do you want . Larry was able to identify most of the GIs in this photo. 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. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. The following is taken from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Well see, if I ever get around to integrating the information from the Unit Journals. Albany: J. On July 4th, for instance, the 83rd Division (including the 329th) began an attack directly south of the Utah beachhead in western Normandy. -- We launched 24,507 anti-tank 3rd Platoon : lieutenant Virgil M. McClintic, wounded on July 4, 1944 at Mautis The unit journal contains in-depth descriptions of the activity of the unit on a daily basis. World War I [ edit] The division was activated in September 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. The patches we carry are of the highest quality. It was a trip of "two weeks that seemed like two months . They moved by truck to the Hurtgen Forest west of Aachen to relieve the 12th Infantry. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. After a period of training, elements of the division took Chteauneuf-d'Ille-et-Vilaine, 5 August, and Dinard, 15 August, and approached the heavily fortified area protecting St. Malo. 08 July 1944 83 ID Approaching Sainteny. The 3rd Battalion captured the high ground northwest of Ehnen, but had to fight through heavy machine gun and mortar fire to do it. We honor them in loving memory. Those that sleep beneath our feet Original Item: Only One Available: This is a wonderful condition M1917 US Army uniform tunic, worn by a member of the US Army's 83rd Infantry Division. This was the main line of defence for the Germans. The 83rd. The DPAA said that in December 1944, Bernard Sweeney was assigned to Company 1, 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. What this shows is that the 330th IR is occupying a line on the north side of themarsh anchored from the south to the north-east fromLe Moulin through Le Port and St. Andre de Bohon to Manior. 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Thomas, Jr. (since June 29, 2021), 308th Train Headquarters and Military Police, 329th, 330th, 331st, and 332nd Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals, Ordered into active military service: 15 August 1942 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. Across the marsh (and the river Taute) were two causeways; one from Le Moulin to La Varde, and one from Le Port to Tribehou. In addition, the "Thunderbolt" division recovered the camp's documents for use by war crimes investigators. They fought in the Rhineland, and were the first to reach the Rhine. against the enemy. Sharp Gen. Frederick Perkins (13 January 1918), Brig. At the camp, the troops found approximately 1,100 inmates. The 331st sped along not far behind on the flank. 331st Infantry Regiment; 83rd Infantry Division "Thunderbolt" U.S. Army; B; Sort by: name . 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). Basic training of the new recruits was conducted at Camp Sherman, northwest of Chillicothe, OH. On 8 July, they fought through hedgerows to the village of Auxais, and finally on the 10th, the 331st captured Sainteny after an attack supported by fire from 19 artillery battalions. 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. 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. The shoulder sleeve insignia of the 83rd Division insignia consists of a letters in gold spelling out the word "O-H-I-O" on a black isosceles triangular background. *The quote near the top of this page is from a letter written by Pfc. Weapons Platoon : 2nd Lieutenant George P. Hopley, killed on July 4, 1944 at Sainteny A new nickname was desired to represent the nationwide origins of the division's personnel during World War II. His Scotch-Irish pioneer ancestry also gave him mental toughness and Yankee ingenuity. We focus on gathering information and documents on the World War 2 history of the United States 83rd. This richly illustrated book chronologically describes the course of Operation Overlord through 357 specific events. This, combined with coming of age during the great depression, taught him how to make do with what was at hand. As the regimental journal says for this overlay, Defense areas to use in an emergency.. A Co, 87th Chemical Battalion, from July 5th to 16th, 1944 They are, from left to right, first row: my dad--Thomas D. Curry; Larry Dalton (field promotion to 2nd Lt., Silver Star); Dominic Colestro (runner until Luxembourg); and "Doc" Berrardi (platoon medic). Commanding Officers Artillery: Brig. On 16 September 1944: in the only surrender of a German Major General to U.S. troops, Botho Henning Elster surrendered with 18,850 men and 754 officers at the Loire bridge of Beaugency. 323rd Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) 1/329 : Major George A. Wishart His unit had been engaged in battle with German forces near Strass, Germany, in the Hrtgen Forest, when he was reported missing in action on Dec. 16. Most, if not all of them, Others in this group that went to F Company were William T. Oliver, Hubert L. Smith, James Stansell Jr., Archie Swindle, John M. Tarnowksi, Earl Tillman, Augustine Toya, Paul Tweed, James Vanden, Lee R. Weeks, John W. Phillips, Albert Popik, Raymond H. Heiber, Donald Palmatier, David W. Parrish, Angelo Patricola, Jospeph Pavek, Joseph T. Pawlowski, Benjamin B. Peluso, Norman Perez, Charles Petritis, John J. Petrizzo, Donald P. Smith, Perry D. Johnston, Walter P. Kowal, Ralph R. McDowell, Thomas K. McKee, Henry L. McManus, Raymond J. Miller, Dominick Salierno, Willard H. Strauss, James F. Varley, George H. Harrell, Michael Harris, Alfred L. Hinchey, Albert K. Jeffries, Earnest C. Goates, Joseph A. Gonzales, Raphael E. Duvall, Alois Dzieweczynski, Clifford E. Olson, Raymond J. Travers, Ovid K. Seville, Francis Soucie, and Max A. Rubin. This is the Facebook outlet of 83rdinfdivdocs.org and the people behind the research and data. They've seen the tree bursts in the Hurtgen, Later groups of . Map Overlay 12 July 1944, 330 Infantry Regiment, 330 IR Infantry Regiment, 331 Infantry Regiment, 331st IR, 83rd ID, 83rd Infantry Division, bocage, Le Port, Map Overlay, Map Overlays, Mapping, Normandie, Normandy, World War 2, World War II, WWII 08 July 83rd ID, 331 IR Objective Leave a comment Posted by dcleininger on 2015-09-03 After the boy's death Kipling forced himself to write the official history of the regiment, as a form of atonement. 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. D Company 202nd FA Group, from August 7th to 16th, 1944 I see a time-based spread sheet being necessary. The regimental after action reports for the 331th Infantry Regiment in PDF format can be found in the following table. August 5, 1944: Esvres The 83rd had three infantry regiments, the 329th, the 330th, and the 331st. In the 331st, the 2nd and 3rd battalions jumped off abreast at 0445 hours from the vicinity of Meautis. have been accounted for in the years since the end of World War II. C Co, 644th Tank Destroyer Battalion (SP), from August 9th to 16th, 1944, Chemical units The 332nd Infantry Regiment was formed on 30 August 1917 as part of the 83rd Division. These are his wartime memoirs, which he started working on when he retired in his sixties and was still . It supplied over 195,000 officers and enlisted men as replacements to other units in France without seeing action as a complete formation. I still can't see why they can't be held to their jobs like we are. He served in active combat from the landing at Normandy until a mortar took him out in Petite Langlir, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge. Courtesy Mike Catrambone, Colonel James D. P.E. These newly-acquired vehicles were quickly painted olive-green and fitted with a U.S. star before joining the 83rd. 174th FA Group, from August 1st to 16th, 1944 On 5 November, the 83rd, as part of Operation UNICORN, took Le Stromberg Hill near Basse Kontz after extended fighting and defeated several counterattacks. Regiment warm themselves by the fire after their retirement to the sector following . To help orient yourself: Tribehou is still in the lower right corner, but Sainteny is now in the middle of the map. Byron Herde, 331st Infantry C Company I got a half-dozen packs of cigarettes from Mom the other day and they just got here in time--we didn't get any for a few days, so you can see that we are having the same trouble over here as the people back home. Moving to the Hurtgen Forest, the 83rd Division thrust forward from Gressenich to the west bank of the Roer. Gen. Willard A. Holbrook (23 March 1918), and finally Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn (3 April 1918). The west bank of the Rhine from north of Oberkassel to the Erft Canal was cleared and defensive positions established by 2 March and the division renewed its training. Headquarters Company. Richard E. Chipps. Name Date of birth Date of death Awards; Baugh, Bernard F. 06-08-1944: Units. SOCIAL . July 14, 1944: Hotat 250th FA Battalion (105 How), from July 31st, 1944 to August 4th, 1944 331 Infantry Regiment 83rd Infantry Division. Henry Irving Tannenbaum--Company F, 331st Infantry Regiment, They Served With Honor; A World War II Family Website, AWON Memorial Web Page, Massacre at Ottre, "Thank You Eddie Hart" Documentary Website (Company G, 329th Infantry), Pfc. S/Sgt Joseph Arnaldo at the Battle of the Bulge. The division entered the hedgerow struggle south of Carentan. My dad became part of F Company/331st Infantry Regiment on 17 July 1944. By the end of September, the division had moved into Luxembourg. 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. 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 12 July 1944, 330 IR , I Co; 331 IR, A Co, B Co, C Co.

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