[7][8][9] As the initial movement in operation "Unicorn," the division took Le Stromberg Hill in the vicinity of Basse Konz against strong opposition, 5 November, and beat off counterattacks. Fallen GIs were replaced by new men, and they pushed on to take Hotot on 7 July. The amount of ground covered by the 83rd Division from Normandy in June 1944 to Central Germany in April 1945 is difficult to comprehend--over 1,400 miles. Great Discounts & More! They pushed the Germans back through savage counterattacks and finally held the west bank of the Roer River just south of Duren five days after the initial attack from the Hurtgen Forest. 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. World War I [ edit] The division was activated in September 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. There isn't any such thing over here. Samuel J. Bifano--B Battery, 324th Field Artillery The 332nd Infantry Regiment was formed on 30 August 1917 as part of the 83rd Division. have been accounted for in the years since the end of World War II. Cleveland, But also, the 1st Bn, 330th regiment companies were much further to the south-east just the day before. 3rd Platoon : lieutenant Virgil M. McClintic, wounded on July 4, 1944 at Mautis He was 30 years old when called to active duty, and 31 when killed in action. 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. 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. Pvt. of gasoline. This list is as it appeared in the history of the 331st Infantry All is safe for you to go. -- Our artillery battalions, The 83rd Infantry Division ("Thunderbolt" [1]) was a formation of the United States Army in World War I and World War II . 331st infantry 83rd division ourgrowingpaynes New Member Joined: Oct 6, 2016 Messages: 3 Likes Received: 0 I am researching my grandfather's military history. There was fear that this was too close for heavy bombing and, in fact, many GIs were killed that day by short bombing runs. Deeply hostile to the extension of the franchise, he composed one of his better efforts"The Female of the Species"as a sort of teasing satire. Click here to see a photo of the 2nd platoon taken in September 44, when it was at full strength. Basic training of the new recruits was conducted at Camp Sherman, northwest of Chillicothe, OH. In one of your letters you wanted to know how things were over here. It turned out to be a bit of a rabbit hole. On 11 April 1945 the 83rd Division encountered Langenstein-Zwieberge, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. These newly-acquired vehicles were quickly painted olive-green and fitted with a U.S. star before joining the 83rd. When, where and if they saw action in WWI. History World War I Formation. B Co, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion (SP), from August 6th to 16th, 1944 Again, it will be clearer once I start integrating information from the various reports (I hope). W. L. Arnold--AT Company, 329th Infantry Regiment Return to Top A Co, 87th Chemical Battalion, from July 5th to 16th, 1944 At the end, the 83rd Division, born in war, was disbanded and all its men reassigned to other units. A Lieutenant of a supply company of the 329th Infantry Regiment/83rd Infantry-Division (Thunderbolt Division) with the company's mascot, goat Willie at Schevenhutte near Aachen/Germany. Credits. Every enemy unit or town that surrendered or was captured subscribed its quota of rolling stock for the division, usually at gunpoint. 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. To slow the spread of sickness and death, the 83rd Division ordered the local German mayor to supply the camp with food and water. The next battle would be to get across these. 83rd Infantry Division - storm - hedgerow (bocage) - unloading jeeps and trucks - getting ashore - release 101th Airborne in Carentan - planes - bombing - Avranches - Saint-Malo - fighting in the streets - Chteauneuf -. Those who passed through the city were greeted by banners stretched across the streets, proclaiming "Welcome to our Liberators." It supplied over 195,000 officers and enlisted men as replacements to other units in France without seeing action as a complete formation. Division For the first time in more than a month, they faced heavy artillery fire. J Company In addition, the 83rd Division recovered documents for use by war crimes investigators. This overlay obviously has more to do with the 331st IR than the 330th IR. The 83rd Division has special ties to Luxembourg. Infanterie-Division) was a unit of the Imperial German Army in World War I. Pfc. Gen. The patches we carry are of the highest quality. Infantrymen of the 83rd Division walk past Sherman tanks that have momentarily halted on a dirt road in Germany. They fought in the Rhineland, and were the first to reach the Rhine. After action reports Move out! Share a testimony from a relative or a friend, veteran or civilian, resistance member, ally or German, actor or witness of History. Certain divisional units saw action, such as the 332nd Infantry Regiment, in Italy (Battle of Vittorio Veneto). Most Luxembourgers spoke several languages, and many spoke some English. By the end of September, the division had moved into Luxembourg. Of the 68 divisions deployed by the U.S. Army in the European Theater, the 83rd was ninth in the number of combat deaths. They literally raced across the rest of Germany, covering 280 miles in 13 days and were within 60 miles of Berlin when they were ordered to stop. 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. B Company Charles P. Nelson; and James R. Duncan (runner after Luxembourg). Do they think we are over here for our health? Elements reduced the garrison at Ile de Czembre, which surrendered, 2 September. In its one year of existence, the camp's population greatly expanded from 214 prisoners in April 1944 to about 5,400 in March 1945. 216.368.2000 Another photo taken at Camp Breckenridge, showing M Company/331st, can be seen by clicking here. June 25, 1944: Omaha Beach A Co, 634th Tank Destroyer Battalion (SP), from July 10th to 13th, 1944 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. L Company, 330th Infantry Regiment: Colonel Ernest L. McLendon, relieved of command on July 9, 1944, replaced by Brigadier General Claude B. Ferenbaugh, replaced by Colonel Robert T. Foster on July 13, 1944. H Company On a Red metal shield is a black pile behind a gold Lorraine cross. 1st Platoon Included in this collection of medals and documents are the following items:- Original WWII Cased . The process had reduced two more divisions, the 4th and 8th, to tatters. Fays was finally secured, along with Ferme de Menil, on January 15. 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. Click here to read some of his story and to see photographs of L Company/331st Infantry. ",Pvt,C,New York,no date . Subscribe to 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division Footer menu. In December 1944, Sweeney was assigned to Company I, 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. The journey took them through the thick forests of the highland country east of Verdun. It was deployed to France in 1918. After taking the towns of Wallenstein, Bech and Kleinmacher, they captured Schengen. God takes care of us one way or the other."TDC. To halt the spread of sickness and death, the 83rd ordered the local German mayor to supply the camp with food and water. [5][a] The movement into Luxembourg was completed on 25 September. They Served With Honor; A World War II Family Website Gilles Billion, an 83rd Division Re-enactor, has provided photos for many of these monuments. I'd hate to think of our son having to grow up to fight."TDC. 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. the official history of the 331st Infantry, 83rd Division. -- We laid 22,306 miles of Robert A. Turner, A Company, 331st Infantry Regiment lost his right arm to enemy tank fire and became a prisoner of war on 16 July 1944. "TDC, November 19"I just got my ballot the other day, so threw it away. 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. My father, Thomas Dickson Curry, was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Division. before leaving for the ETO brothers we all know. Rhodes from Pretoria, South Africa. Regimental histories for 1943 and 1944. Henry Irving Tannenbaum--Company F, 331st Infantry Regiment 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. 331 Infantry Regiment 83rd Infantry Division. The 83rd Division reported the death rate at the camp had been 500 per month. The sound of all those bombs exploding at the same time was the most terrible sound that he had ever heard. serving as Platoon Sgt. C Co, 749th Tank Battalion, from July 20th to 29th, 1944 August 20, 1944: Cesson-Svign Liberation of Langenstein Concentration Camp by 83rd Division D. Root; S/Sgt. We also get a position for the 329 IR HQ, the 330 IR HQ, as well the 1 Bn, 329 IR HQ. Infantry Regiment 83 provided some support to the south. Taking the offensive, the 83rd reached the St. Lo-Periers Road, 25 July, and advanced 8 miles (13km) against strong opposition as the Normandy Campaign ended. Several months later, it crossed the Rhine and subsequently captured the German city of Halle on April 6, 1945. Commander 331st Anti-Tank Company, Third Platoon, Company B - 331st 1 platoon from 513th Engr Light Pon Co, from August 6th to 15th, 1944 Joe [Ordanez] Ordonez, Texas, Pvt 331 Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division dies 8 Aug 1944, Soldiers of the 331st Regiment, 2nd battalion, are ready to depart Passau for Cherbourg and a boat home, September, 1945. 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. You can see them by clicking here. The 83d Infantry Division arrived in England on 16 April 1944. Their patrols advance beyond the line searching out the foe. Click here to read more of his story. OH US soldiers with German prisoners of war//Robert Capa, 83rd Infantry Division in Europe in World War II 1944. When the 83rd Infantry arrived in Langenstein, its troops found some 1,100 inmates in very poor physical condition. 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 would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. The men of the 83rd Division weren't just on the front line. Soldiers of the 83rd Infantry Division of the U.S. move on the street in the French town of Saint-Malo (Saint Malo). The roads were strewn with German tanks, trucks and staff cars, and often with dead Germans. F Company: Captain Richard E. Randal, wounded on July 4, 1944 -- We consumed 25,006,000 gallons H Company C Co, 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, from August 1st to 16th, 1944 D Company The men of the 83rd finally had some breathing space, and they began to forget about the formidable Siegfried Line waiting for them across the Moselle. Once in France with the AEF and soon after the 332nd Infantry had been chosen for duty in Italy, Private Young was one of the men selected by and transferred to the 332nd Infantry's Company "L" from the 331st Infantry (the transfers between the two regiments were made in order to have the fittest and most qualified men in the ranks of the . 24th Cav Rcn Sq, from July 18th to 19th, 1944 The 83rd had three infantry regiments, the 329th, the 330th, and the 331st. 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. August 7, 1944: Chteauneuf Fays was finally secured, along with Ferme de Menil, on January 15. 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. [4] After training in Wales, the division, taking part in the Allied invasion of Normandy, landed at Omaha Beach, 18 June 1944, and entered the hedgerow struggle south of Carentan, 27 June. The 83rd Division crossed the Rhine south of Wesel, 29 March, and advanced across the Munster Plain to the Weser, crossing it at Bodenwerder. The division moved back to Belgium and the Netherlands for rehabilitation and training, 22 January 1945. These histories are courtesy of Myra Miller, PhD, of Footsteps Researchers. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. The map contains the locations, based on the coordinate on the morning report, shown in NATO symbology . 2/329 : Lieutenant Colonel Claude L. Bowen, Jr. The camp was created in April 1944 to provide concentration camp labor for the German war effort. small arms ammunition. Richard E. Chipps. After training in Wales, the Division landed at Omaha Beach, 18 June 1944, and entered the hedgerow struggle south of Carentan, 27 June. A last note. On 6 August, the Germans demolished all the quays, locks, breakwaters and harbor machinery and set fire to the city. They fought through the Ardennes in the bitter cold and snow to beat back the German Bulge. You can read it by clicking here, or on the Combat Medic's Badge. A Company 331st Infantry Regiment; 83rd Infantry Division "Thunderbolt" U.S. Army; B; Sort by: name . 3rd Platoon: 1st Lieutenant Frank R. Yukl, killed on July 4, 1944 Dec 24, 2018 - 331 Infantry Regiment 83rd Infantry Division. But for a number of U.S Army trucks interspersed among its columns, it might easily have been mistaken for a German convoy.[12]. Photo courtesy Jon Aller and Kevin Harris. -- We launched 24,507 anti-tank E Company *83rd Infantry Division * Normandy * Brittany * Ardennes * Rhineland * Central Europe * 83rd Infantry Division * Rolland Joseph Gustave Despres is the man that started this project, and to tell his story I must also tell the the story of the 83rd infantry division. Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. 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). Click here to see a photo of the 2nd platoon taken in September 44, when it was at full strength. For three days the Nazis continued to pour reinforcements into the town. The 331ST INFANTRY REGIMENT served during WORLD WAR I as part of the U.S. Army 83d Infantry Division. Dave Curryhas a report about this engagement here, if you are interested. Yet as you wander down these quiet paths These eyes have seen the bloody hedgerows in the rain. The only Germans encountered were patrols. The insignia was selected during World War I because the division contained mostly Ohio draftees.[3]. 1st Bn 66th Armd Regt (2nd Armd Div), from June 28th to July 5th, 1944 Clarence W. Brown to my mother. D Company The 83rd Infantry Division ("Thunderbolt"[1]) was a formation of the United States Army in World War I and World War II. He was in Company B, 231st Infantry Training Battalion. If you are having trouble orienting yourself, le Port is toward the lower rightcorner, Sainteny to the left about 1/3 of the way down from the top, Culot is at the top, left, mostly off the map and Hottot toward the top about 2/3 of the way from the left. 174th FA Group, from August 1st to 16th, 1944 These reports are courtesy of Myra Miller, PhD, of Footsteps Researchers. 908th Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) He had brown hair and brown eyes, and a ruddy complexion attributable to his Scotch-Irish ancestry. Click on the First Sergeant stripes to read his story. I still can't see why they can't be held to their jobs like we are. Taking Remich on the 28th and patrolling defensively along the Moselle, the 83d resisted counterattacks and advanced to the Siegfried Line defenses across the Sauer after capturing Grevenmacher and Echternach, 7 October. Upon overrunning the camp, US troops estimated that the newly liberated inmates weighed only 80 pounds each as the result of malnutrition at SS hands. B. Lyon Company, 1912. D-Day and Battle of Normandy Encyclopedia, Commander: Major General Robert C. Macon On July 4th, for instance, the 83rd Division (including the 329th) began an attack directly south of the Utah beachhead in western Normandy. 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). mortar. Heroes of the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Division Those that sleep beneath our feet slumber in profound repose. The division was activated in September 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. It expresses a basic truth that was obvious to every GI on the front lines in Europe, but evades most of us until we realize the brutal conditions that they were forced to endure. He fits the description that Sarge gives of the medic, and he is also from Alabama--as Sarge recalled. P.E. 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. The literal truth of what Clarence Brown wrote was that GIs slept huddled together in foxholes, at times with their arms wrapped around each other to keep from freezing to death, or stood sleeping in groups of three like human tripods when the ground was too frozen to dig into. Even the paint on their helmets looked as if they had just been unpacked." Well see if it gets any better once Ive read the reports and compare it tothe 08 July Morning Reports. C Co, 709th Tank Battalion, from August 12th to 16th, 1944 The 9th Army had also been slowly advancing north of Aachen towards the Roer. Sgt. June 26, 1944: Bricqueville They continued the mission, and took Remich on 28 September. Nazi propaganda letters were a "Christmas present. I should be asking you. Infantry 331st Infantry 83rd Infantry Division Sector, 1945 (Source: The Thunderbolt across Europe) The first area occupied and governed by the 83rd Infantry Divisionfor any length of time was located in northern Germany and included Landkreis BRAUNSCHWEIG. December 13, 1813, the regiment was reduced . Welcome to the 331st Infantry Regiment documents sectionOn this page documents related to the 331st Infantry Regiment can be downloaded in the PDF format. Legal Notice | Privacy Policy, Mather House, Room 308 They did not know it then, but they would remain in Luxembourg longer than they had in England. Finally, direct hits by 8-in. The post-war operations reports contains information on the activities of the unit such as movements, tasks and training. The day before Thanksgiving, Hershell asked for two volunteers to help him cut up turkeys.
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