About 2045 CCR got its first word of the Germans it had so narrowly missed when the driver for the division chief of staff, Col. Church M. Matthews, appeared at the command post with the report that during the afternoon he had run afoul of a large tank column near Pont and that the colonel was missing. Without Wemple's tanks, or with them, Task Force Jones was no match for any large detachment of the 2d SS Panzer Division. Here was the column, straitjacketed Actually the column was blocked at Salmchteau before the pursuing troops of the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade caught up with the tail. Thus far events in the southern sector had gone well for the Americans. The strength of the German forces thrusting west was not yet fully appreciated. Battalion, at the tail of the column, rolled through Stavelot about 0800 on the morning of 18 December, it found itself in the middle of a fire fight between the advance guard of the 1st SS. Here, only two thousand yards from St. Vith, two troops of the 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron and a few antiaircraft half-tracks offered the sole barrier to a thrust into the city. Find 365th Field Artillery Battalion unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. The American tankers caught on to what had happened when messengers and liaison officers failed to arrive at their destinations, but by this time the Germans had journeyed on to the southwest. Back to Unit. Thus far the Ninth Army had given Hasbrouck no information on the seriousness of the situation on the VIII Corps front. some time around 1300 telling Hasbrouck that the withdrawal east of In the darkness, and with radios and wire no longer functioning, the first sign of the enemy armor was a volley of flares fired in flat trajectory from the Panthers. The front held by the 7th Armored Division, CCB of the 9th Armored, and attached units by this time had expanded to about thirty-two miles. Telephone service to the VIII Corps headquarters at Bastogne ended on 18 December when that headquarters moved to Neufchteau. Furthermore the 7th Armored trains had reported signs of an enemy force far to the west of the 7th Armored outpost positions. This jeep trail-it was no more-had been reconnoitered by General Clarke on the 22d and designated (with much misgiving) as an emergency exit. difficult job of disengaging from an enemy who might continue the attack Both infantry regiments are in bad shape. But despite admonitions from the German High Command that the armored spearheads should race forward without regard to their flanks it was obvious that St. Vith had to be threefold: to insure the complete isolation of the troops that might be trapped on the Schnee Eifel, to cover the German supply lines unraveling behind the armored corps to the north and south, and to feed reinforcements laterally into the main thrusts by using the St. Vith road net. As light broke, the right battalion of Remer's brigade attacked to cut the main western road close to Poteau. CCA (Col. Dwight A. Rosebaum), watching the southern flank of the 7th Armored around Beho, had not yet met the Germans (who were in fact driving past to the west, but on roads south of Beho). to St. Vith. at 1345). On 18 December the 7th Armored had learned in a roundabout way that a "Lieutenant Colonel named Stone" had collected a few troops and was holding Gouvy. A disabled German self-propelled gun is in the foreground. The 18th Volks Grenadier Division, on the right, had fed the foot troops of its 295th Regiment in between the Mobile Battalion, deployed around Wallerode, and the 294th, astride the St. Vith-Schnberg road. He found that General Jones already had turned the defense of St. Vith over to Clarke and the 7th Armored Division. Mayes's group moved out from the crossroads at first light on 18 December but had gone only some two hundred yards when flame shot up from the leading light tank and an armored car, the two struck almost simultaneously by German bazooka fire. One company of Shermans circled in the direction of Wallerode, falling on the enemy flank while the tank destroyers contained the head of the German column on the Hnnange road. firing line. the road southwest toward Vielsalm, and the tanks rejoined Wemple. The unit formed at Fort Jay, New York as a company in the 2 nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers during the expansion of the Army during the . other officers set to work to organize a breakout. Meanwhile Hasbrouck dispatched a memorandum. The exact location and strength of the 112th Infantry, somewhere south of the 424th, were unknown. received reinforcement late in the afternoon when a company of the 112th Infantry appeared. The 440th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, unable to reverse itself, turned west to Stavelot and subsequently joined the western group on its way to Vielsalm. The bulk of the artillery column closed at Vielsalm during the morning, although the last few miles had to be made against the flow of vehicles surging from the threatened area around St. Vith. What Hasbrouck needed now he tersely relayed in a message through the 7th Armored trains to the XVIII Airborne Corps: "We can hold if no troops are taken away from us and our right rear is given protection.". The gunners, as infantry observers reported, "threw everything at Wallerode but the shoes on their feet." The mass of artillery, cavalry, and supply vehicles moving painfully through St. Vith to the west-with and without orders-formed a current almost impossible to breast. After a personal reconnaissance east of St. Vith on 19 December Remer concluded that a frontal attack in this sector was out of the question. The main effort would be made by the 18th in the north and the 183d Regiment from the. Boylan got orders from Clarke to withdraw south at once. The loss here of the four armored infantry companies would be keenly felt by CCB, 7th Armored Division. The entire force under Generals Hasbrouck and Jones was to form a defensive ring west of St. Vith and east of the Salm River. The 7th Armored Division (by fairly accurate reckoning) had lost 59 medium tanks, 29 light tanks, and 25 armored cars.8. At 1345 Hasbrouck sent the signal for CCA to pull out. and an assault gun platoon, was deployed along the 3,000 yard stretch It was about an hour before noon. This line was now gravely endangered on its open north flank by the German position astride the ridge at Rodt. As part of the reorganization on the 19th, CCB, 7th Armored, took over the 17th Tank Battalion, which had been holding the road southeast of Recht. howitzers scattering the German formation in every direction. Of the force originally commanded by Colonel Fuller in the eastern sector only some two hundred escaped, and half of these had to be evacuated for wounds or exhaustion. Fortunately, the enemy, too, had to regroup before he resumed the battle. Heuem, they reported, was in enemy hands and a German column was heading straight for St. Vith. Date Created. a result, toiled through the woods toward Wallerode, arriving there in the early evening. A protective barrage dropped in a half moon, sometimes no more than three hundred yards in front of the American foxholes, checked part of the 190th Grenadier Regiment east of Crombach. During the 19th the two CCB's had been operating with very limited artillery support, although the 275th Armored Field Artillery Battalion and the 16th Armored Field Artillery Battalion had done yeoman service for their respective combat commands. Jones becoming assistant to the corps commander and General Hoge being At Schnberg the 7th Armored task forces would turn south to join CCB of the 9th Armored Division, already engaged along the road to Winterspelt. Supplies were running short and the ground now occupied was not well adapted to defense. They had met an entire German corps flushed While the 2d SS Panzer Division was awaiting the gasoline needed for its projected attack north along the seam between the 82d Airborne Division and the 3d Armored in the Baraque de Fraiture sector, the reinforced Reconnaissance Battalion (Maj. Ernst Krag) had been dispatched on the 22d to cut the main road between Salmchteau and the Baraque de Fraiture crossroads. with the engineers, ordnance, and quartermaster people on the spot. Veteran C. Young. I don't think we can prevent a complete break-through if another all-out attack comes against CCB tonight [italics supplied] due largely to the fact that our original three infantry battalions have at present melted to the equivalent of only two very tired battalions. Before daylight some of his tanks arrived in the woods west of Born. Tanks of the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade, theoretically attached to the LXVI Corps but subject to commitment only on army orders, would not be released for use at St. Vith until too late for a successful coup de main. The company commander was persuaded that the situation had changed somewhat and that he should wait at Chrain for further orders. The fir trees interlocked at their low branches so everyone had to stoop all the time. These were placed under the command of Maj. J. L. Mayes as a task force to comply with the orders from division. German assault guns or tanks had been spotted west of Schnberg as early as 0850. They put up a wonderful show." Thus the draws coming in from the southeast marked the boundary between CCB of the 9th Armored and CCB, 7th Armored, while the northern defile and the Bllingen road designated the boundary between two sector commands within CCB, 7th Armored. At best these isolated detachments could serve only as pickets for the 7th Armored, but fortunately the German columns continued marching west. In sharp fighting most of the mechanized force at the tail was destroyed. Infantry Battalion (Lt. Col. William H. G. Fuller) and B Troop of the The villages of Hinderhausen and Crombach, on which this position was based, both offered emergency exits to the west along dirt roads and trails. Wiki User. Facilities Managment Company. 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment. (It will be remembered that the 18th Volks Grenadier Division was charged with the encirclement and capture of St. Patrols working in front of the American lines came back with reports of enemy activity and movement; some kind of an attack was in the offing but it seemed slow in coming. Around 1500 the mobile column of the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade appeared in front of Rogery. stocks at Gouvy Station east of the village proper, but this fact was gap in a column on any one of the roads would be serious. The last German The enemy took the village quickly, and with it many of the half-tracks belonging to the 48th Armored Infantry Battalion. able to fight their way out through Schnberg as General Jones The loss of the vital road junction at Poteau, earlier in the day, made the connection between the forces of the division at St. Vith, around Recht, and in the Vielsalm. Six paved or macadam roads entered St. Vith. CCB of the 7th Armored had meanwhile been making good progress and arrived at Vielsalm about 1100, halting just to the east to gas up. About 1315 the task force fell back through Beho and proceeded west to Salmchteau, picking up other small blocking groups as it went. it passed to the north or south of St. Vith. Behind the reconnaissance and advance elements the bulk of the division moved slowly southward along the east and west lines of march, forty-seven and sixty-seven miles long, respectively. 1945 (approximate) Subject. The southern route, through Recht and Vielsalm, was assigned to a kampfgruppe of the 1st SS Panzer Division made up of a reinforced panzer grenadier regiment and a battalion of assault guns. Army Service No. General Model hoped to shake the corps free and use Remer's armor to help the Sixth Panzer Army get moving in the north. 3 These Germans, of course, were part of the northern column. There two companies of the 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry, were deployed, guarding a draw and secondary road which provided quick access to the Salm valley at a point midway between Jones's assembly area at Bovigny and Salmchteau. It would seem that a German rifle company first crossed into Weppler, now unoccupied, then wheeled and encircled the 2d Platoon on the hill. 746th Tk Bn 28 Jun 44-10 Jul 45. the line east of St. Vith, and by dark all lost ground had been retaken. Even when separated from the 7th Armored trains the St. Vith front was considerably stronger and better organized than it had been. The formation adopted by CCA was based on a semicircle of ten medium tanks fronting from northwest to east, backed by tank destroyers and with riflemen in a foxhole line well to the front. United States Army Field Artillery Battalion, 365th US Army Heritage and Education Center + Leaflet | Map data OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA, Imagery Mapbox Contact Information View in Google Maps Details 42 leaves [1946?] A few tanks, light armed reconnaissance troops, most of the division engineers, and considerable rifle strength struck through the dark against the eastern arc of the loosely organized American ring. The 164th Regiment, reinforced by engineers and assault guns, apparently took some time to re-form after its fight with the 9th Armored Division counterattack force on 17 December. . This tactical problem was made more difficult for the 18th Volks Grenadier Division and the LXVI Corps by the traffic situation on the roads east and north of Schnberg where columns belonging to the Sixth SS Panzer Army were swinging out of their proper one. Some had even climbed out of the Braunlauf valley and engaged in scattering fire against the battalion of the 424th Infantry in the reserve position at Maldingen. The threatened sector remained the line from Poteau to St. Vith, and from St. Vith along the eastern front covered by CCB, 7th Armored, and CCB, 9th Armored. Within an infantry division, there were four artillery battalions, three M2A1 105mm howitzer battalions and one 155mm battalion. The Americans did not know that the troops of the 9th SS Panzer Division, who in past days had made raids from Recht southwest toward Poteau, were few in number and that only the day before the main body of the 9th SS Panzer Division had started on a forced march to the northwest in an attempt to break through to Kampfgruppe Peiper, now nearing the end of its tether. A company of the 27th Armored Infantry Battalion, however, was put in to cover the cavalry left flank. The traffic jam thus created was made worse by the horde of officers and men driving American vehicles captured in the Schnee Eifel who were grimly determined to hang onto their loot. A Battery 935th Field Artillery Battalion Overseas World War II. December. At 0030 on the 23d General Hasbrouck informed General Hoge that his combat command, which was to initiate the move west, would begin withdrawal at 0200. He decided, therefore, to flank the St. Vith defenses from the north as soon as his brigade, scheduled to arrive on 20 December, was in hand. 369th Adjutant General Battalion "Army Pride" Air Defense Artillery units 1 to 100 1st Air Defense Artillery (formerly 1st Coast Artillery) "Primus Inter Pares" (First Among Equals) 2nd Air Defense Artillery (formerly 2nd Coast Artillery) "Fidus Ultra Finem" (Faithful Beyond The End) 3rd Air Defense Artillery (formerly 3rd Coast Artillery) Lacking armored or other antitank means, the American infantry fell back in some confusion through the draw to Cierreux, less than a half-mile east of the river. The German force left at Recht was no more than a screen, although under orders to maintain pressure on Poteau. right wing of the 62d, this force attacking in the sector outlined by the two draws where Colonel Fuller's command was deployed. As the leading tank platoon hove in sight of Poteau it came immediately under small arms and assault gun fire. represented at its tip by the 1st SS Panzer Division, Cemeteries & Memorials; Burial Search; About Us; Education; Facebook; Twitter; YouTube; Instagram; ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501. The American units flanking the road had been badly understrength. In the meantime, Colonel Rosebaum, the CCA commander, sent two of his Shortly after dark Colonel Devine departed with most of his staff for the 106th Division command post, but this command group was ambushed near Recht (Colonel Devine and two of his officers escaped on foot). room to constitute a real threat to the southern and western sections conditions and would return again to the battle. did much to check the grenadiers. The stand made by Troop B, 32d Cavalry Squadron, near Heuem and the later fight by the engineers gave the German point an excuse to report-as it did-the presence of "stubborn resistance" east of St. Vith. The roads to be used were few and in poor state, The 424th and 112th Infantry Regiments were to withdraw from their positions. In addition light tanks belonging to the 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron had established radio contact with the 3d Armored task force north of Samre. 922nd Battalion. Perhaps the German command did not realize the full extent of the gains won in the St. Vith area and was wedded too closely to its prior plans. During the early morning Headquarters, CCR, set out from Poteau, heading down the valley road toward Vielsalm. branch of the main military system, because normally the Schnee Eifel some tank destroyers, hoping to stop the Panthers if they should turn Trucks loaded with soldiers and nurses from a nearby hospital, supply vehicles, and civilians of military age on bicycles eddied around the square in an attempt to get on the road leading out to the west; a battalion from a replacement depot threaded its way on foot between the vehicles, also en route to the west. For some hours the columns could move neither forward nor back, and when Field Marshal Model arrived on the scene he was forced to dismount and make his way into the city on foot. The Germans were somewhat disconcerted, but snipers accounted for two American officers. had just crossed the river west of Cierreux and started feeding into tried to rush their way through the foxhole line held by the 38th Armored the regiment now was between five and six hundred), and had been unable While the 7th Armored Division artillery was working its way onto the west road during the evening of 17 December, most of the division assembled in the St. Vith area along positions roughly indicative of an unconsciously forming perimeter defense. Actually there were only three Shermans on the main road, remnant of a reserve platoon which had been commandeered when the initial tank support had decamped. (1951) and Only the Brave (2006). The problem involved in extricating and reforming these units was enhanced by the natural desire of the German soldiers to make the most of this opportunity to sleep for a little while in warm billets. At an earlier and more optimistic hour this company had been dispatched to Houffalize with orders to make a counterattack southward to relieve the pressure on Bastogne. The stopper was more firmly seated in the bottleneck just at dark with the arrival of a detachment from the 2d SS Panzer Division coming in from the southwest. Having set up installations west of La Roche, the trains' commander (Col. Andrew J. Adams) used his own people and all the stragglers he could find to man roadblocks around the train area. For some reason this attack never fully developed-later German reports indicated that the assault waves lost their direction while moving through the thick woods. Colonel Duggan finally gave the order to retire down the road to Vielsalm. The remainder of CCB, 9th Armored Division, remained in the positions on the ridge line west of the Braunlauf Creek and draw. Three times the grenadiers Additional infantry units, tank destroyers, and badly needed artillery were on their way to reinforce Ridgway's command, but the enemy force in opposition was strong and at most points along the extended front the initiative remained in German hands. The three Shermans had aimed their guns to blast the first tanks as they came over the ridge where the American foxhole line had been drawn. Colonel Nelson brought a welcome addition to the St. Vith forces. At 2000 the battle along the Schnberg road flared up again. This detachment had literally forced its way, at pistol point and by The 164th Regiment, advancing opposite the southern flank of CCB, reported success while moving unopposed through Maspelt and across ground which had been abandoned the previous night, but at a crossroads in the Grufflange woods American shells suddenly poured in and the advance came to a dead stop. South of St. Vith, where CCB, 9th Armored, had redressed its lines during the previous night consonant with the 7th Armored position on the left and taken over a five-mile front, the enemy made some attempt to press westward. The main danger, apparent since 19 December, was the open south flank of the St. Vith defense hanging on the air at Holdingen. The corps' mission, as it had devolved by the end of the day, would be. The movement plans prepared by the First Army staff assigned General Hasbrouck two routes of march: an east route, through Aachen, Eupen, Malmdy, and Recht, on which CCR would move; a west route, through Maastricht, Verviers, and Stavelot, which would be used by the main body of the division. faced south, then swung back until it again faced east. The attachment of CCB, 9th Armored Division, to the 106th Division late in the morning promised such aid as then seemed necessary, but Hoge's command post was at Monschau and he would not receive his orders from Jones until about 1800. The defense of the St. Vith-Vielsalm area had taken form by the night of 19 December. Having cut the St. Vith-Vielsalm road by capturing Rodt in the late morning of the 22d, Remer's Fuehrer Begleit Brigade made no serious attempt to push beyond Rodt, either against CCA, 7th Armored Division, to the west or CCB to the south. That the enemy was prepared to contest this move all intelligence reports affirmed. The artillery battalions of the 7th Armored Division were in firing positions north and east of Vielsalm at the close of 18 December. On the morning of the 17th Colonel Slayden, VIII Corps' assistant G-2, and Lt. Col. 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