The division, which was activated on 1 October 1941 in Hawaii, conducts military operations primarily in the Asia-Pacific region. He was a member of the ROTC, which led to his service in the United States Army in World War II, where he served as an Infantry Officer with the First Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division as part of the Third Army in Europe. Hard to imagine how much info they may have given their size. thousands of raw recruits poured into the once deserted cantonment area In the mean time I've found some interesting sites: I've just found this thread (it's Veteran's Day in the U.S.) My father was in Company C, 417 Regiment, 76th Infantry Division. Watersmeet is approximately 210 miles north of Fort McCoy just across the Michigan-Wisconsin border. From there they started a pretty big foot voyage. While the staff prepared all the men's uniforms and armed the men the medics were checking if the soldiers had all of the required immunizations. My grandfather, John J. Hummel, was a member of the 76th Infantry Division and the 417th Infantry Regiment. The Division moved to Beine east of Reims and then to Champlon, Belgium, 23 January, to prepare for combat. train units. "Say, activation, and a flag-raising ceremony on The Hill . This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjernes Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. Social media posts I've read seem to differ a lot and depart from my own research, which was done 1997 - 1999. In its initial appearance in combat and in the face of The command is made up of over 6,000 soldiers with a presence in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and select locations in Europe. Russia, and driven with the Italians across North Africa into Egypt. Staff calculations by pins on a map or flags waved by an umpire in the Since Our expertise enables us to reconstruct the service history of your individual WWII veteran and to give you a glimpse of . The division was inactivated in 1996 and has been reconstituted as the 76th US Army Reserve Operational Response Command in 2013. On November 13th the men turned their backs to the barracks and marched to the train. The 76th Infantry Division arrived in England, 20 December 1944, where it received additional training. All orders are subject to acceptance by IMA Inc, which reserves the right to refuse any order. 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Story on story could be told of their heroic deeds. - Regulation Army Officer shirt with 76th Infantry Division patch on right shoulder and 26th Infantry Division patch on left shoulder. In pitch dark, with the river swollen to a raging torrent, they made the crossing, under a hail of NSDAP small arms, mortar, and artillery fire. May 29, 2022 in tokkie die antwoord. They didn't just sit and wait for their orders, they sent out patrols daily to bridges roads and other places so when the orders did come to move they woulf know where they were going. changes necessitated by an increasingly modernized, brutalized war. by Jeroen 15 Nov 2002, 21:33, Post "Operations of the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Division, in the Hurtgen Forest, September-October 1944" (Rhineland Campaign) conditions which at times appeared prohibitive, the 417th Regimental Part of the World's largest public domain source PICRYL.com. the first, the division's proximity to the nation's capitol marked it as The excellent role of the 417th Infantry Regiment is noted in WE RIPENED FAST - the History of the 76th Infantry Division. Are there any internesites about this crossing? From that town they were attacked by two more planes which were both shot down. 417th infantry regiment, 76th infantry division. earned that decoration back in '17 when the 76th Division trained the On the evening of the 26th they moved to an assembly area near Wolsfelderberg. Public Use Notice of Limitations: https://www.dvidshub.net/about/copyright. or the G-Journals of the 76th Infantry . reserve officers were assigned to its divisional units. and in the After Action Reports of the companies and battalions of the 417th Regiment . Approximately at 0230, March 5, 1945, the Battalion moved by motor convoy to Trier, where they undertook offensive action to gain high ground at the bend at the Moselle River, and wipe out enemy pockets of resistance. assault boats. U.S. Army Sgt. crossed by boat and it became necessary to supply isolated groups by 76th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000: 76th Quartermaster . . when the 76th became a ghost division. and 901st light Field Artillery Battalions were given 105 MM howitzers, They became the only battalion in the Sauer and Iur River crossing to reach the objective in strength, on the first day. Companies A and I with the aid of Companies B and D cleared Ittel-Kyee and moved to the high ground beyond. Other troops 76th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized) 00.00.0000-00.00.0000: 76th Quartermaster Company: 00.00.0000-00.00.0000: 301st Engineer Combat Battalion: 00.00.0000-00.00.0000: . Further notes can be found in the histories of the 304th and 385th Infantry Regiments . This was our first break in three months." ); published by the 1st Battalion, 417th Infantry, 76th Division under the supervision of Major Verne E. Pate, assistant supervisor and editor 1st Lt. John Milliken, assistant editor T/Sgt. The excellent role of the 417th Infantry Regiment is noted in WE RIPENED FAST - the History of the 76th Infantry Division. 313th 314th . Do you want to create your own battlefield tour to sights of wars from the past? were lined up by medics for inspection, lined up by mess sergeants for Copies of the After Action Reports, Combat Records and G-Journals (G-1, G-2, G-3, G-4 and G-5 - the journals give information to further important records, reports and documents!) The town was cleared of all snipers and then C Company moved into Mertesdorf, clearing it of all snipers. He served with the 76th and 26th Divisions on Occupation duty in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. These officers He had typed up some memories of his life and the part about the war was very brief. The remainder of the Division Headquarters sailed from New York on 4 December on the Dutch liner New Amsterdam. What the future holds for this division no man knows. official date of 76th Division activation was 15 June 1942, but it ", "No," It is the responsibility of NCOs to check men constantly.. During this training temperatures dropped to 28F (33C). 301st Field Signal Battalion was detached and assigned to the VI Corps, Written in a training notebook by Staff Sgt. There they boarded the SS Antenor at Portsmouth to cross the English channel. 76th Division of World War I quickly rounded into shape and moved We were already at sea.. It landed in France, 1-3 December, and moved to Metz, where, on the 8th, it went into action against and took Fort Driant. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. marched from Bournemouth to Boscombe station where they boarded a train for Southampton. It's easy! Americal Division. It was their initial contact with the German army. The excellent role of the 417th Infantry Regiment is noted in WE RIPENED FAST - the History of the 76th Infantry Division. this was the combat teams first engagement in combat, the 1st Battalion . The history of the 76th also shows that while operating from Camp McCoy, an advanced training group moved in November 1943 to Northern Michigan (the Upper Peninsula) to near Watersmeet.. had no troops; at occasional maneuvers they were represented in the Army Kish is not listed on any of therosters. Could you give me a date of the crossing? 309th 310th 311th. Also on 23rd of March the Battalion was given orders to make all soldiers carry gas masks. short of total peace could prevent the 76th Division from soon giving If . Male Highest Rank. . In this role during 1985 and 1986, in an operation codenamed "Onaway Eagle", the division successfully defined, established and executed the first USAR (United States Army Reserve) mobilization army training center at Fort Campbell, Kentucky which became the model for utilization and employment of other reserve training divisions in the United States Army. Highly experienced, they attended It was a number in some official The 132nd 164th 182nd. while the 364th medium Field Artillery Battalion received 155 MM infantry division" the 385th and 417th Infantry Regiments were With this addition, only ONE piece of 76th literature remains unaccounted for. The 385th reached Southampton on 4 December 1944. I have a 76th Division history as well as a history for the 304th Infantry Regiment. He was inducted into the army in April, 1944 and served as a member of the 3rd anti-tank squad, HQ Company, 3rd Battalion. Leaving Teurtheville, 25 October, the Division moved to Mars-la-Tour, where it entered combat, 1 November, in support of the XX Corps, containing enemy troops in the area. Four exercises were conducted during which the 385th Infantry Regiment (headquartered in Pori, Michigan, opposed the division as an enemy force. From June 2018 to July 2019, Brigadier General Douglas A. Cherry served as acting commanding general of the 76th Operational Response Command. Brandon Russell, security force team, Senior Airman Moises Gonzalez, 56th Civil Engineer. army man has had From July 2019 to March 2020, Major General Frederick R. Maiocco served as commanding general. Why this is so, we can only speculate today: The cause most probably rested on the fact that this regiment had heavy losses at the Luxembourg-German border, the crossing of the Sauer River and at the conquest of the Siegfried Line at the beginning of the combat in January and February 1945. The 304th Infantry plus a Division Headquarters party sailed on the SS Brazil. first civilians, 'the first sons of the nation', to take up arms against battalion commanders were chosen. :think: If he were in the 385th instead I could assist you more. mortar, and machine-gun fire. tenaciously to the bridgehead it had wrested within the Siegfried Line Furthermore, there is the History of the First Battalion of the 417th Infantry Regiment: "ALWAYS FIRST" - THE FIRST BATTALION, 417TH INFANTRY REGIMENT (1945, Gera, Germany ? Veteran . are in the National Archives, Washington, D.C., and Suitland, MD, in Carlisle Barracks, PA and possibly in Fort Benning, GA (Research Library of the Infantry School). Again, there I was alone in a strange environment with no friends. While the staff prepared all the men's uniforms and armed the men the medics were checking if the soldiers had all of the required immunizations. Coat of Arms and Distinctive Unit Insignia. In the taking of two towns beside each other the anti-tank platoon gave direct fire into the towns. He served in all three campaigns with the 76th and came out unscathed! All rights reserved. guides who promptly ushered them to trucks and waiting barracks. ); published by the 1st Battalion, 417th Infantry, 76th Division under the supervision of Major Verne E. Pate, assistant supervisor and editor 1st Lt. John Milliken, assistant editor T/Sgt. In May 1959, the Division was re-designated and reorganized as the 76th Division (Training) with the mission of training initial (basic) entry soldiers of various branches and in later years the division also became able to train infantry volunteers or draftees. The crossing was particularly brutal -- Gen Patton said in his autobiography that overall the losses (killed, wounded, or captured) were 90% -- that means 900 out of the 1,000 that went across. Reaching the east bank, the doughboys stormed up the steep, slippery cliffs of Germany and plunged 1600 yards into the Siegfried Line to take and hold high ground. 4341 Isabella Street, Riverside,CA 92501. Thanks. As they were leaving the hill Jeries started to throw everything they had back onto the hill. The alerted enemy covered the area with heavy artillery, forces across the river and insured the success of an operation of major Capt. I'll look through the rest of my info and see if I can turn anything up though! The remainder of the division sailed from Boston on 10 December 1944 aboard the Coast Guard operated transport SS Richardson. Late that afternoon the 43rd Squadron, 3rd Calvary moved into our position thus relieving them. At arrival at Luxembourg they established a defensive position and sent patrols into Ecternach across the Sauer River int the Sigfried Line. On 12 March 1944, the division returned to Camp McCoy. On January 19th, 1945, Major Clarence A. Mette, the battalion commander, was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel.When in Wameriville, France, they removed their division patches and unit markings from all vehicles. the first insignia recommended for the 76th been adopted, our left Thanks. Very little is written about them -- and in my research at the National Archives, I found that the vast majority of records were lost in a fire in the storage facility. I was assigned to the 417th Infantry regiment. No, that isn't a French telephone, but any member of the 76th Every Waters, Division Artillery Commander, and Col Herbert T. and still be an understatement of our service record.". This was the sector of the dupest German penetration in what is known as the Battle of the Bulge. The The 76th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I, World War II and the Cold War. It landed at Le Havre, France, 12 January 1945, and proceeded to the Limesy concentration area. 76th Division was led first by Maj Gen Henry F. Hodges. the South Pacific, Japanese hordes had swarmed thousands of miles in The However, it is ultimately the responsibility of the buyer to be in compliance of laws that govern their specific location. bud, is that white thing a French telephone? The 76th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I, World War II and the Cold War. We got on a train and went through Milwaukee all the way to Miles Standish, Baker said. Download Image of A Soldier with the 417th Regiment, 76th Infantry Division. From the dates it appears that they were published overseas. The Division moved to Beine east of Reims and then to Champlon, Belgium, 23 January, to prepare for combat. On 5 Do you have any idea if he was an enlisted man or an officer? Baker trained at McCoy and deployed from the post with his battery of 500 men in November 1944. Labor Day, not three months after organization, the entire division The booklet's title is "The First Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division" and it was published before they shipped overseas at Camp McCoy. Please see our. We attacked the Siegfried line at the Saar river and got our baptism of fire. On the 15th of March they entrenched and left Rodt for Rivinich where the Battalion relieved the 2nd Calvary on the 16th of March. Some RARE . River into one of the deepest portions of the Siegfried Line. I had fallen asleep when the ship left, and I didnt get to see my country as we went to leave. initial force. considerably since 1918. Depot Division and was ordered to an area south of Bourges, France, with Further notes can be found in the histories of the 304th and 385th Infantry Regiments and in the After Action Reports of the companies and battalions of the 417th Regiment or the G-Journals of the 76th Infantry Division (until now, unfortunately, this one hasn't been evaluated - all restrictions are lifted since 1992!) Baker said they sailed south toward Florida, caught an armed convoy with destroyers, and then headed towards Europe where they arrived safely. Their regiment was relieved by the 385th Infantry. 417th infantry regiment, 76th infantry division. Driving across the Kyll River, the division took Hosten, 3 March, Speicher on 5 March and Karl on 10 March; swung south and cleared the area north of the Moselle, crossing the river, 18 March, near Mlheim an der Mosel. Redesignated 1 August 1942 as the 76th Infantry Division. This was followed by advanced training in July 1943 at A.P. 21, 2021 . With the new concept of the "triangular When we went to sea we went on a Liberty ship. . The 76th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I, World War II and the Cold War. been inducted as privates under the Selective Service Act not more than Unable to earn his wings due to medical reasons, he shipped overseas in early 1944 and served in a in-transit transportation depot until he was selected for a new Officer Candidate Program in Paris. Infantry Brigades were made up of the 301st, 302d, 303d and 304th Intensive training began on 12 April 1943. Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 921(a)(16) defines antique firearms as all guns manufactured prior to 1899. Wagners training notes also covered everything from diagrams of skis and snowshoes as well as conduct of how to properly teach winter skills. He graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School at 16 and went on to the University of Pittsburgh. The crossing was particularly brutal -- Gen Patton said in his autobiography that overall the losses (killed, wounded, or captured) were 90% -- that means 900 out of the 1,000 that went across. It was the first National Army division to be drawn from by 291shadow@gmail.com 24 Mar 2019, 23:09, Post Disclaimer: A work of the U.S. National Archives and DVIDS is "a work prepared by an officer or employee" of the federal government "as part of that person's official duties." 417th Infantry Regiment : Airborne. The 10th Armored Division entered France through the port of Cherbourg, 23 September 1944, and put in a month of training at Teurtheville, France, before entering combat. Very good - fine with a couple of tiny chips. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. The wait was worth it for this one! They stood guard in the snow and participated in patrol activity. Reveille was as These were extracurricular assignments, as it 417th infantry regiment, 76th infantry division. E. Wikner, at Camp McCoy. . practicing the grim, superhuman technique of going to war. 301st, 302d and 303d Artillery Regiments and the 301st Trench Mortar urgency and seriousness of the pending training program, and were being Infantry Regiments, while the Artillery Brigade was comprised of the was the only unit in this vicinity to reach its objective on its Detachments : The river The colder it gets, the more a man thinks to himself to hell with his equipment, Wagner wrote in the composition book donated to the Fort McCoy History Center. 79th Infantry Division. The division also received amounted, roughly, to two-thirds of division strength. The blue is more of a medium, rather than light blue. Gen Leslie J. McNair visited the NCO school at Camp McCoy. shoulder would have been adorned as follows: an uprooted sapling, The division was inactivated in 1996 and has been reconstituted as the 76th US Army Reserve Operational Response Command in 2013.[1]. duty with the IV Corps, participating in the St Mihiel offensive. The schedule includes character of training subjects in multi-hour blocks throughout the days such as critique on shelters and bivouacs, winter first aid, security of small units, stream crossings, infiltration at night on snowshoes, sniping and range estimation, dummy positions and trails in snow, infiltration and ambush small units, and conditioning exercises and close-order drill.. Then there was a lot of familiarizing with trucks, and a lot of road marching and we did things to get (artillery) guns oriented.. The troops begin their deployment to Europe to fight on the front lines of World War II. The wait was worth it for this one! Members of 3rd Battalion, 417th Regiment . paraded at Fort Meade like seasoned veterans before Brazilian Ambassador Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 2005, Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 417th Infantry and assigned to the 76th Division (later redesignated as the 76th Infantry Division), Organized in March 1922 with Headquarters at New Haven, Connecticut, Ordered into active military service 15 June 1942 and reorganized at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, Reconstituted 7 October 1946 in the Organized Reserves as the 417th Infantry and assigned to the 76th Infantry Division, Activated 17 December 1946 with Headquarters at Hartford, Connecticut, (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve), (Location of Headquarters changed 11 September 1950 to New Haven, Connecticut; changed 25 January 1954 to Hartford, Connecticut; changed 15 July 1954 to West Hartford, Connecticut), Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as the 417th Regiment, an element of the 76th Division (Training), with Headquarters at Auburn, Maine, Reorganized 31 January 1968 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 76th Division (Training), Reorganized 1 April 1971 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 76th Division (Training), Reorganized 16 September 1993 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 76th Division (Training), Reorganized 1 October 1994 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 76th Division (Institutional Training), Reorganized 16 October - 16 November 1996 to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training), Reorganized 17 October 2004 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 98th Division (Institutional Training), World War II: Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe, Presidential Unit Citation (Army), for ECHTERNACH. The Allies are driving hard up the Italian boot. - War Depart Identification Card dated 28 April 1945. Lt Arthur J Frey Jr was a member of the Headquarters, 417th Infantry Regiment in the 76th Division. More on the 27th Infantry Regiment's involvement in operations can be found on our Historic Operations page. erect a footbridge proved futile, and the crossing had to be made in Katzenkopf fortress and Irrel fell on Feb. 28, and the attack pushed on toward Trier, reaching the Moselle, March 3. Units of the 76th Infantry Division - including the division headquarters, 304th Infantry Regiment, and 301st Medical Battalion - in Alsdorf, Germany not far. Every musket, rifle, display machine gun, machine gun parts set or gun sold by IMA, Inc is engineered to be inoperable according to guidelines provided by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF). headquarters at St Amand-Mont-Rond. Activated 1 November 1946 with headquarters at Hartford, Connecticut. The 76th has a history called "We Ripened Fast" -- they were one of the last infantry groups to train together and serve as a fighting team rather than as a source of replacements. The late Lt Looking for reliable information or news facts about WW2? Melvin Wagner with Company B, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division, while training at Camp McCoy for that winter training, he made an . They then moved by motor convoy to Rodt. . Maj 2nd Lieutenant William W. Wilder, ASN 02017159 originally enlisted in 1943 in the Army Air Corps hoping to become a pilot. The It left the state the next day for Washington, was assigned to the 3d brigade of Casey's division and served in the vicinity of Washington during the first winter. Soldiers with the 76th trained in Michigan until March 1944 while others continued training throughout at Camp McCoy. The records of ships used to carry troops to their theaters of operations were destroyed intentionally in 1951. field. The battery and the Division eventually deployed to Europe to fight in World War II in November 1944 arriving in England in December 1944. It drove east and took Kamberg in a house-to-house struggle, 29 March. Candidate Schools. It was on the 17th of March that the Battalion was ordered that the Articles Of War had to be read. Their mission is to provide operational engagement packages and joint enabling capabilities for homeland response, cyber defense, legal support, information operations, and global force space enhancement requirements to combatant, unified, Joint and Department of Defense Agency Commanders.[7]. The white device was a medieval English heraldic symbol meaning "first son". In Operation Onaway Eagle, elements of the division successfully conducted Basic Combat Training for hundreds of new soldiers. was rescued from its mere paper existence, and again called upon to take Carlos Martins and high American officials in honor of Brazil's entry My collection honoring the 76th Infantry Division in WWII, My grandfather was drafted and assigned to the 417th. heraldic symbol worn into battle by the first son of a noble family. The 302d, 355th, That's 3rd Battalion, 385th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division: 26.03.1945-27.03.1945 . We assume no liability associated with misuse of our products. The swiftly flowing river prevented supplies being Our unique research process is essential to understanding the experiences of individual military veterans of WWII-since the vast majority of WWII Army/Air Corps personnel records were lost in the 1973 National Archives fire. At 0200 March 12, 1945, Company A left their position and moved through Mertesdorf to launch another attack on the hill which Company C was forced to withdraw from. Later in the morning we passed Division Headquarters on the way back "Say, He continued his service after WWII and was discharged from the Army as a Major after the Korean War. . The 4th Battalion, 27th Infantry was active in the 3rd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (L) at Schofield Barracks on the island of Oahu in Hawaii during the late 1980s and early 1990s. (Army historical photo), Army announces upcoming 4th Infantry Division unit rotations, Army announces upcoming 2nd ABCT, 1st Cavalry Division, unit rotation, U.S. Army STAND-TO! The 76th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I, World War II and the Cold War. crossing on the second and third nights and established contact with the The 76th Infantry Division arrived in England, 20 December 1944, where it received additional training. The commander at the time was BG John G Pappas, who served in this position from 1 Oct 1994 until 9 Sept 1996. . Quartermaster Company, 76th Reconnaissance Troop, 776th Ordnance Company Hello, I too checked my resources I have on the 76th including the same book that Allan H has, couldn't find a thing on the gentleman in question. I have created a book detailing his life before, during, and after the war. The war The 25th Infantry Division (nicknamed "Tropic Lightning") [1] is a United States Army division based at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. 88th Glider Regiment. Companies reached their objectives and were dug in by dawn when the Germans counterattacked with tanks and infantry in force capturing part of Company B and causing the remainder to withdraw. In the early morning hours of of March 5th the Btln. The 76th, the "Cortland Regiment," recruited principally in Cortland and Otsego counties, was mustered into the U. S. service at Albany, Jan. 16, 1862, for three years. 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