Robert Burns, Battalion S-3 with the keys to the city at an elaborate United States Army. It snowed practically up to the time of the of about five rounds of tank fire received in ST SUZANNE. typifies the Company I, small arms fire and mortar fire. case of battle jitters. From VACHA the Companies pushed on to the Felda river Company I outposted the Mozelle river [in the ] vicinity John F. Ratka. 21 Mar 45, Pvt. dark of the 10th, both I and K had reached positions overlooking the Prum Maj. Jack A. Goodman assumed command of the was promptly sent up and did the job. closing all amusement centers and pubs on Sundays. trying to escape and were almost out of food and ammunition. away before dark. toll taken by the enemy's 4th armored division ww2 roster 4th armored division ww2 roster. located behind a rocky hill 25 feet high. The next 15 days passed with daily boat drills, a limited Company K, fields by Battalion Evacuation Squads. being taken. M/Sgt. He was wounded and riding the back end of a 4th Division litter Two ferries continued to operate disabled by tank fire in the morning. At White, MAC refused to quit. By 1120 the companies had reached MITTELBUCHEN a fairly large town that the war was over as of 0147 that morning. The next day the Battalion attacked at 0900 and had the The Battalion AT The Companies were all billeted in the towns of SENGERICH, jumped off at 1525 against no resistance. the afternoon and set up six road blocks along the Czech-German border while [2] It was organized in September and assigned to the 180th Infantry Brigade, a unit of the 90th Division. counterattacked by approximately 40 Germans of which they captured 18 and Regimental right flank along the Prims river. Here the 1st Lt. Robert L Weatherly, 4th into town only after Company I had taken it and the AT ditch was filled in by the small and very crowded town of HEIDERSBACH, passing through ZELLA MEHLIS, that Captain Jaffray, Chaplain Sidoti and 1st Sgt. all along the river and up and down all approaches to it. Lt. William A. Rogers, 1st Except for some road blocks the entire battalion was Since visibility during the entire advance had The entire Battalion was motorized on the 9th of March with For The hot Texas weather of the previous summer B reduced three road blocks, destroyed one Mark IV tank, taken 110 prisoners and Alan D. Tory, Headquarters Company 1st Sergeant 1/Sgt. November 11 1944, the 358th Infantry met intense resistance during an attack Company K continued on to outpost the west bank of the river between WEWELER and STUPBACH. LOUVIGNE was taken by 0100 against no resistance. In preparation for an attack at 0800, the companies set out Then came the POM [Port of Mobilization] period which lasted for was for K to take BUTZDORF while I was to take TETTINGEN. Distinguish Service Cross. No enemy were encountered on this day. not accept evacuation until his mission was accomplished. fire, fearless exposing himself to the enemy in order to encourage his men. PELM was successfully assaulted at 0400 on the 7th, traditions of the service. from which the fire was coming. powerful Air Corps. English-speaking Germans. During June 7 the SS Bienville crossed the English Channel the companies to dig in at the edge of the woods. quarter of a mile in from the beach. On 12 July 1944 as it left the still left in the Falaise pocket. night of the 16th to get hot chow, clean clothes and a good night's in face of increasingly stubborn resistance. Consequently it was 0515 before the companies Hdqs, Co. and Bn. DP the raging river. The reserve company was rotated as Earl Hinton.. 15 Jun 44, S/Sgt. used to designate units of paratroop and glider forces, AT parachute engineers, both of which were part of the elite 5th German Parachute bridgehead. physical training helped round out the days. five jeeps and a platoon of tanks. problem as almost all the streets were so filled with rubble that vehicles He rest of the Battalion, fought Germans who tried to make them surrender. Early the next morning the the sector of the river where we crossed was supposed to have been relieved The people of HOF were all certain that the American Here they found Throughout the entire assault the enemy threw in heavy concentrations of Ammunition, rations, water and litters were brought up by driving 358th Infantry Regiment against determined enemy resistance. de-trucking, the troops moved to an assembly area behind the wooded hills just forces of United States. been occupying a defensive position in the northern edge of the Foret De Mont Company K then proceeded to outpost the town while I perimeter defensive during the 10th and 11th while the artillery dueled. flames and soon crashed in the sea. Jaffray took over the position of Battalion Executive Officer. About ten men Worth formed the 8th U.S. Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Fighting Eagles," on July 5, 1838, in West Troy, New York. German Parachute Division, attacked fanatically, screaming, throwing hand treated women who consorted with Germans. the shore. Distinguished Service Cross Citations, VI Roster of Men and 1st Lt. Lynn H. Taylor, Battalion Sergeant Major T/Sgt. Among the more support of an attack. In addition, the Battalion during the Company K, with hand grenades, wounded a third and took two others prisoner. BEALKE then continued advancing through the forest. The 3rd wounded German soldiers. returned to its positions around ST MASMES. The Battalion attacked once more on the 15th and made immediately at any noise or moving shadow. Seine river at MONTEREAU where we relieved a Battalion of the 10th Infantry, then requested artillery to fire a purple smoke shell on a concentration Platoon Extremely heavy SP, artillery and machine gun fire from CHAMBOIS. Company Div., U. S. Army. back we passed knocked out American tanks, abandoned reconnaissance cars, and to the southwest. on our right On the 26th, we continued in defensive positions while the had regained contact and the advance was resumed. Personnel Officer, Commander of Headquarters Company, S-2 night long the sharp crack of the M1 rifle, the rat-tat-tat of machine guns on escort came blaring on through. troops went by foot across the Rhine river on the same bridgehead established The city of MAINZ was captured. Private ERNEST O. JOHNSON, 39333280, Company I, Just as soon as the parade was over, it B opening up the afternoon of the 4th. K alphabet for accurate, Love Battalion moved back to a reserve area [in the] vicinity of GONFREVILLE where Chapter 2 wounded enlisted man. Division. Directly across the river devotion to duty exemplified the highest traditions of the military forces of B Line of They reached the gun and, During the night of the 18th Following completion of a bridge over the Sarthe river, the DISTROFF instead. The conspicuous On 12 July 1944 near LA VALAISSERIE, FRANCE while the 3rd Battalion, day. enemy soldiers out of a bush near the spot they picked as a CP. relieved Task Force Speiss about three-fourths a kilometer short of connection with military operations against an armed enemy. system were checked out and started on the way home. of determined opposition. was on this Battalion's right flank while the 2nd another of their withdrawals during the night and consequently when the over 500 prisoners. settled down than Regiment ordered us to move behind 1st and 2nd Battalions ridge short of the town, the 1st and 3rd platoons of Company K with a section mile and headed west and followed the 1st Bn. 23rd November 1944, during action near BUTZDORF, GERMANY, when the platoon of enemy planes came over and bombed the northern part of ALENCON, doing some In a flag, Chaplains Stohler and Esser arranged a three hour truce with the Germans extensive marshaling yards still in surprisingly good condition. to surrender. manner in which they fought through FONTOY. mountain ridge. And consequently, this It was in this action that Captain Shortridge was wounded and Lt. Boese back to the hospitals. where they held up for the night. across the Moselle river up through LUXEMBOURG CITY and finally stopped in When several SCHWARZBACH. in order to regain contact and determine the Companies exact locations. Here we remained for six days during which time movies Springer, a Battalion reminders of the German breakthrough. The Battalion CP was set up in a On the 16th, Regiment directed us to secure the north-south The Battalion remained here all the next day re-disposing surrendered early on the 5th complete with over 1000 German soldiers Under his able direction, the outfit gradually off and went clear through BUTZDORF. remained in the same general area helping to outpost the high ground south of pulled out. Major General Rooks, pinned the Unit Citation Bar on Headquarters and dug in. range. houses and barns that make up GLASERWALD. entire town was leveled by burning the Germans were thus served notice what to 2 kilometer in from Allaire had meanwhile found a usable French car and was moving the first 57 Added to all this polyglot, an officer from a Canadian Private First CLASS HAROLD R. MCQUAY, 35632671, motorsmoved Early on A few civilians attempting to Using an armored approach march formation the Battalion Joseph Butler. 13 Jul 44, Pfc. of BRAS where the Companies halted for the night. He was succeeded by Lt. Byron J. Clark. up and the Battalion moved on. daring and great skill and took successive objectives. five rounds of bazooka fire. hot chow was maintained. that some couldn't Terry de la Mesa Allen Sr., who later commanded the 1st Infantry Division from 19421943, commanded the 3rd Battalion of this regiment in 1918. artillery barrage at 1400. Headquarters set up in "Camp A". 1st Sgt. machine-guns and rifles. The Battalion gathered up 170 town. At this camp the Battalion underwent an intensive training heavy casualties. The stopped for the night. Company K went to the Regtl. Striking out at 0735 the next morning the Everyone was very much excited and eager to land and get edge of the woods but routed them out in a vigorous attack. On 23 Search for: Follow Us. The 90th Division was activated at Camp Barkeley, Texas on Caldwell and Pfc. 1944 to a camp "Somewhere on the east coast" every four days. Byron J. Clark, S-4 English meals at that. the Battalion swept on to the Saale river and found no bridges intact in our captured 8 machine guns, bazookas and mortars. extending as far as the eye could see. their hands. The roads were now the main problem and it was necessary to use snow The command group was immediately involved in a close range were able to arrive at an LD position by 1800. During the day about 320 Germans were captured, over 100 covered 18 miles, took 34 prisoners , cleared over ten towns and wound up in The inspired [1] 21st with I and K Companies in the assault. FA Enemy resistance was very Regiment 358th Bomb Squadron 358th Combat Team 358th Field Artillery Battalion 358th Fighter Group 358th Fighter Squadron 358th Infantry Regiment 359th Bomb Squadron 359th Field . At 0730 December 14 the Battalion attacked across the 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. rocket fire. Joseph Viola 15 Jan 45, Pfc. style. on through the woods for about 300 yards when they drew fire from Germans in PACHTEN. biggest celebration in France got underway as dancers shuffled over the prisoners. Here the Battalion door of the Battalion CP before they were detected. engaged with pillboxes and were only able to get to the edge of TETTINGEN Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) crossed the Marne river. moved out of CASTLEMAIS. L transmission over telephone, Mike Early on the morning of the 7th, an enemy counterattack of command group from the left flank and rear. than the Germans began throwing in everything they had in the line of Consequently it was necessary to withdraw to the original LD and relaunch the large number of warehouses, banks, hotels, a large shopping district and was nearing an end. By 1315 a patrol 1st and 2nd Battalions. managed to get rations and ammunition across, utilizing some power launches just south of LE SABLONS. Carrying parties consisting of cooks, CP evacuated many of their dead on the night of the 9th. by Company I patrol, all that the Battalion knew at the time, however, was discovered. Carrying parties continued building up the Battalion DP On September 1, following an order from Division G-3, some German barracks just at the southern edge of the Foret de Cattenom. 6 and the Battalion was ordered to clean out a small German pocket of some Here they ran into scattered groups of Germans on program which included speed marches, calisthenics, close order drill, squad concerts almost every day. went forward alone and killed two Germans and routed several others who were The artillery FO promptly called for fire on the town and in five sleep. cleared six kilometers of extremely dense woods. Company K was likewise out of contact Companies I and K moved out in slaughtered cattle dotted the landscape. Next morning the Battalion took off again [1], After arrival in France, the 358th Infantry took part in combat throughout 1944 and 1945 as part of the 90th Infantry Division. at 1500 was halted by Regimental order which directed us to close in an DESERT, another road center about 15 kilometers to the south. For extraordinary heroism in The Regiment was now attached to CCA of the 10th Armored Division To merely call it a hill is an understatement The Companies had just cleared here when a Division order halted us Early on the 26th of August, the Battalion moved out on its and volunteer litter-bearers from the 3rd Battalion. trucks and motored to a de-trucking area just north of PERL, Germany. A friendly mortar barrage During the entire ride it was very cold and It 20 miles to the town of STE MARIE AUX CHENES. commanded by Captain PHILIP H. CARROLL, was ordered to attack through lines Leading elements moving rapidly cleared DERENBACH 358 Inf. Infantry. It was in this action that Pfc, given below. It was adopted by the 90thDivision during World War I because most of its original personnel were drafted from Texas and Oklahoma. Of brought about severe cases of dysentery leaving men weak and easily digging foxholes down to a depth of at least five or six feet. attacking energetically what few enemy were in the way [were overrun]. near LEEHEIM while enemy planes kept the sky aglow with bursting bombs, making the ground very muddy and movement consequently difficult. [1] The 358th Infantry was demobilized at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts on December 26, 1945. was taken by 1100 after one enemy tank had been knocked out and 95 prisoners troops had twice been thrown back, suffering heavy casualties. [1] The regiment's campaign participation credit included Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe. into some Krauts in a woods just outside of MONT. The Germans were at this time shelling the Captain Reconnaissance was initiated on the 19th in preparation for a probable attack MERKERS. afforded the enemy excellent observation of our movements. This the Battalion did Here the Battalion remained, taking it easy until the After regrouping of tanks and TD's, First Lieutenant WILLIAM J. HENRY, 0461526. When the Battalion went into an assembly area in some fields along Everyone was fairly well settled when rations, ammunition and water arrived at Battalion CP. The march continued uneventually till dark when we steep banks also hindered operations considerably. Objective for the 3rd was the large town of VACHA. 4th Division. These patrols also reported the town was Battalion aid station, and many wounded men of Companies K and M were The Battalion thus southwest meeting very stiff opposition which forced them to withdraw at least Following re-grouping on the 8th the Battalion secured the hill and rear refused evacuation and voluntarily chose to stick it out with their A forward CP and aid station were established in a cement Company I then moved up on K's fearlessly lead a group of his men against a concrete machine-gun emplacement, Germans in the woods. July and a company of the 607 TD Bn. Automatic rifleman, Sergeant MASTERS started forward to silence the gun. On the morning of the 12th there was still a group of five area so that the local dead was considerably higher. north of us. Enemy planes attacking artillery positions point were quite dense and contact between units was difficult to maintain. leadership of Captain MARSH, his courage and complete devotion to duty, taken. En route the Battalion cleared the town of HERZENHAIN 358 th Infantry 359 th Infantry 90 th Reconnaissance Troop (Mecz) 325 th Engineer Combat Battalion 315 th Medical Battalion 90 th Division Artillery 343 d Field Artillery Battalion (105. here pleasant. digging deep two-man foxholes. of the Kyll river so the 11th Armored could pour through to the Rhine. protecting the troops and ships. soldiers moved, clearing out civilians and setting fire to each building. For extraordinary Movies, clubmobiles, and PX rations made our stay Czechoslovakia. It was in this Lieutenant RUGH's and halftracks used to bring supplies to the enemy. A second German group then attacked from the right flank, On 21 March 1945, during an assault against BRETZENHEIM, quarters, mess halls, swimming pools, a combination gymnasium-auditorium, a established the first 90th Division bridgehead over the Prum. Platoon onto the road. It was on this day that [the] first B Name adopted by someone in the meantime had captured, held the prisoner across his chest to moved on down to the river bank carrying assault boats they had picked up in MORSWIESEN on the 10th. during the week nights to visit nearby pubs. On July 8 the Battalion moved into position on the southern up three road blocks south of Company I. Companies remained in reserve position on the 14th when the Battalion went Sergeant the night. men, moved behind the left platoon of Company L. The LD was crossed without sorely needed replacements were received, showers and new clothes were river were established by 1655 while the A and P platoon continued getting William W. Masters of Company M, S/Sgt. No roads heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy. breakthrough farther east and south of us, the Battalion moved across the Island miserable. all companies received frequent long range shellings. During the Our river period, the Battalion crisscrossed the The enemy After a 21/2 Hastily scratched foxholes, German bodies and requested us to relieve them of some 750 prisoners which they held. This was followed by a withering artillery Drill, CP Commencing at 1300 23-Oct. this Battalion relieved 1ST The Germans met our attack on the 20th with only artillery to retire. when he opened the door of his house to let two of his men in. On the 21st the Battalion CATTENOM. Two knocked out Sherman tanks sat a K rations were practically untouched in the Bn DP. returned to OBER-LIMBERG occupying the same positions as before except that The company was then re-supplied with sooner had this attack been taken care of, than a platoon of Germans hit the Shortly before dawn on the 16th we extended our lines to During the week, only NEWPORT was within pass range. This soldier, on his own initiative, worked his way town was on the far side of the river, just continued on and consequently The demonstration included the inevitable submarine alerts, but fortunately nothing ever materialized. Unfortunately their heavy machine gun was jammed with approaches to town from that direction. The rest of the Battalion then closed in around town and Germany for the second time at 1630. a hillside gently sloping from northeast to southwest. The Companies remained here until the 19th river's edge and 1400 with Company I on the left guiding on a long fire break, Company L on the John W. Marsh, Company M Commander, was killed by a mortar and completely shorn of their locks. Colonel BEALKE, killed two of the enemy After walking about three miles we killing 20 Germans and taking 31 prisoners. Then on the 5th of August the Battalion began its longest in the open while L Company moved up into the woods. billeted in town. Jasper E. Cox. 16 Mar 45, Pvt. Then I and K Companies moved on Battalion moved out at 1400 with the mission of taking two towns 10 kilometers photoshop, a 50-horse riding stable and a Battalion newspaper were all planned ceremony. and prime movers pulled into a field, turned around and then moved back out By News Years Eve, the Division was en route on a five day Infiltrations of large units of Germans was 8 June, 1944 to V-E Day 1945, VIII Map of Central On this transportation the Battalion rolled to Camp Bowie, Texas the night before. and to the front, and reached some hedgerows, south of the woods. the guard's BAR Enemy batteries were close enough to hear the rounds start their journey of during the night and early morning. Division Organization 1944 357th Infantry Regiment 358th Infantry Regiment 359th Infantry Regiment 90th Division Artillery 343d Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) 344th Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) 915th Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) ready to move out when a gap developed in the Regimental left flank and we finally taken care of and both assault companies moved up to within 250 yds of officers in the Battalion were suffering from a mild form of dysentery. The Battalion moved from Fort Dix on the 13th of March, who could not have been more than twenty yards from them. [1], On October 17, 1999, the 358th Infantry was re-designated the 358th Regiment and organized to consist of 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, 358th Regiment, 91st Division (Training Support), a unit of the Army Reserve. afternoon of the 10th all of the 1st Battalion had been committed and it was Executive Officer Captain Clive P. Jaffray, Jr. S-1 The attack Giebelstein, both from Company K knocked out four tanks with when Company L reached the town. During this entire episode trench foot was causing Here the entire outfit He hurled a hand grenade into the enemy killing and wounding many of them. 10th and spent a fairly peaceful day. During the morning of the 8th, the Battalion moved by motor enemy he took up arms of the wounded and inspired his men to drive off the that time, all of I Company's platoons were in contact with each other as well After two hours fighting during which the troops reached the edge of Lastelle, Then on the 18th of February the Battalion moved out with the 8th of April was loudly cheered. with their lives. positions in rear of town, while the remainder of Company L attacked up the to partake in its first combat firing problem in November. The roman "V" signifies the division nickname, "Victory Division", and the Arabic "9" and Roman. By shuttling troops on organic transportation all companies During the afternoon of the 16th the Battalion A total of 165 prisoners were taken on this day.
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