The Allies are driving hard up the Italian boot. In September 1992, more than 600 people associated with the 76th held a reunion at Fort McCoy to recall their time at the post 50 years later as well. urgency and seriousness of the pending training program, and were being Just over two years later, the division was inactivated on 15 November 1996 at West Hartford, Connecticut. They laid in the trucks about two hours before the convoys started to move. That's Not developed or endorsed by NARA or DVIDS. 32nd Infantry Division: 33rd Infantry Division : 34th Infantry Division : 35th Infantry Division : . Casualties were quite heavy and their battalion medics could not be praised too highly for their magnificent performance of duty under the most trying conditions. The 76th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I, World War II and the Cold War. part in the gigantic struggle against perpetrators of the foulest crimes Our expertise enables us to reconstruct the service history of your individual WWII veteran and to give you a glimpse of . the foe. 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. https://www.picryl.com. Highly experienced, they attended 76th Infantry Division "Onaway" 77th Infantry Division : 78th Infantry Division : . The wait was worth it for this one! After arrival in France in July 1918, the division, less its 302nd Infantry Regiment and 151st Field Artillery Brigade, was designated as the 3rd Depot Division on 3 August 1918. added to the 76th. by 291shadow@gmail.com 24 Mar 2019, 23:09, Post Activated: August 1917 Overseas: August 1918 Commanders: Maj. Gen. H. F. Hodges (5 August 1917), Brig. and still be an understatement of our service record.". When wasn't any holiday. Had The History shows the division began training for war at Camp McCoy in September 1943 where the unit focused on winter training. Activated 1 November 1946 with headquarters at Hartford, Connecticut. "First Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division," 1945, 17 leaves, he cites only one copy at Carlisle Barracks. Gun magazine laws, concealed weapons laws, laws governing new made display guns, airsoft guns, blank fire guns, and other items vary greatly by nation, state and locality. - Dozens of original documents that include, extracts, newspaper articles, certificates, correspondence, mementos, water colors he painted, and much more. The assault started at 0200 hrs on the morning of 7 February, and continued until the river was bridged by engineers on 11 February. . Staff calculations by pins on a map or flags waved by an umpire in the by Dwight Pruitt 17 Nov 2002, 18:27, Post . The organization was designated as the 3d September 14, 2010 in MEDALS & DECORATIONS. chow, lined up by platoon leaders to scrub down the floors, rafters and 28mm high. He proudly wore his Combat Infantryman's Badge which he was awarded in February of 1945 after the Sauer River crossing assault. states of the Union; and an unfinished wagon wheel, denoting tasks yet Russia, and driven with the Italians across North Africa into Egypt. Do you have any idea if he was an enlisted man or an officer? . were; strenuous training went on daily. Melvin Wagner with Company B, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division, while training at Camp McCoy for that winter training, he made an . "Operations of the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Division, in the Hurtgen Forest, September-October 1944" (Rhineland Campaign) The 76th Infantry Division arrived in England, 20 December 1944, where it received additional training. The division was inactivated in 1996 and has been reconstituted as the 76th US Army Reserve Operational Response Command in 2013. . Clyde H. Horning. Two strong infantry counterattacks, supported by armor, were launched by Regiment, succeeded in making the crossing on the first night. - Original dog tags that read Wilder, William W. 02017159. Against this grim background of world events the 76th Infantry Division The Siegfried Line at the point of their entrance was perhaps the most heavily fortified and deepest of defensive installations encountered by any of the Allied Forces. Meuse-Argonne offensive from 5 November to 11 November 1918. It landed at Le Havre, France, on Jan. 12, 1945, and proceeded to the Limesy concentration area. Most of its troops were used as replacements for front line units which reduced the division to 7,000 troops. (Courtesy photo), Soldiers with the 76th Infantry Division board a train at Camp McCoy, Wis., in November 1944 after months of training at McCoy. Written in a training notebook by Staff Sgt. Brandon Russell, security force team, Senior Airman Moises Gonzalez, 56th Civil Engineer. In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain. The 76th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I, World War II and the Cold War. On teh 24th of March they entrenched and got on a motor convoy that took them to the Rhine River where they crossed by pontoon bridges. by Dwight Pruitt 17 Nov 2002, 08:16, Post 76th Division of World War I quickly rounded into shape and moved All of us were awarded the Combat Infantry Badge for that. ); 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. 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). A new attack was launched 4 April and the Werra River was reached the next day. This is the 1st Battalion 417th unit book. Time to start over again.The 76th division was part of the 3rd army under General Patton and had never been in battle before so we were all beginners. The Division moved to Beine east of Reims and then to Champlon, Belgium, 23 January, to prepare for combat. They spent the night there and the next morning, they went by truck to Mierchamps, Belgium, where they were placed in secretive strategic reserve for the 3rd Army. The history states the 76th Infantry Division arrived in England on Dec. 20, 1944, where it received additional training. I had fallen asleep when the ship left, and I didnt get to see my country as we went to leave. According to Controvich's bibliography there are three very short works on the 417th's first two battalions. phrase rang with assertion and finality, and it seemed that nothing Or are you interested in war medals and their recipients? The 385th Infantry crossed the Atlantic on the SS Sea Owl. with a training cadre of several hundred non-commissioned officers and His message had a familiar ring . when the 76th became a ghost division. The The lists are alphabetical. "According to our [U. S. National Archives] records, in 1951 the Department of the Army destroyed all passenger lists, manifests, logs of vessels, and troop movement files of United States Army Transports for World . the first, the division's proximity to the nation's capitol marked it as Clermont-Ferrand. 417th Regiment. In that edition the 76ths Commanding General, Maj. Gen. William R. Schmidt, sent a message to the divisions troops. Briefly replaced Written in a training notebook by Staff Sgt. reconstruction program, however, brought the 76th out of its obscurity. This was the sector of the dupest German penetration in what is known as the Battle of the Bulge. Enamel Distinctive Unit Insignias for the 471th Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant bars, infantry lapel pins and 4 overseas service bars on left sleeve. 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!) 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. If all Regiments in the war had a unit book this complete, veteran research would be nonexistent. You might try the used book websites, but good luck. Additional winter training began at Ottawa National Forest near Watersmeet, Michigan on 19 February 1944. The division was inactivated in 1996 and has been reconstituted as the 76th US Army Reserve Operational Response Command in 2013. The records of ships used to carry troops to their theaters of operations were destroyed intentionally in 1951. Intensive training began on 12 April 1943. July to December. of the 69th Division, first West Front unit to achieve contact with 141st NY Infantry Regiment: 13th NY Infantry Regiment: 76th NY Infantry Regiment: 142nd NY Infantry Regiment: 14th NY Infantry Regiment: 77th NY Infantry Regiment: 143rd NY Infantry Regiment: 16th NY Infantry Regiment: 78th NY Infantry Regiment: 144th NY Infantry Regiment: 17th NY Infantry Regiment: 79th NY Infantry Regiment: 145th NY Infantry . When the train turned east from the camp the men were all happy because that meant they wouldn't be going to the Pacific Theatre of Operations. Comunicacin Social From November 2017 to June 2018, Major General A.C. Roper served as commanding general of the 76th Operational Response Command. With the new concept of the "triangular infantry division" the 385th and 417th Infantry Regiments were added to the 76th. The men will never forget that boat ride. forces of the United States.". 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. . men from the famed 1st Infantry Division. Post Screw back, hallmarked ROBBINS, Attleboro, Mass. 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While near Watersmeet, winter training experts from the Mountaining Training Center at Camp Hale, Colo., gave a special training program, and the additional winter training began in the Ottawa National Forest near Watersmeet. Concrete forts, offering mutual firing support were so thick that on a mathematical basis, one might be found in each 40 square yards of ground they traveled. . They reached their objective without any other conflict. The blue is more of a medium, rather than light blue. The next day Companies A and B cleared Wolsfeld and Badenborn. The 304th Infantry plus a Division Headquarters party sailed on the SS Brazil. howitzers. The weather was cold and snowing. The Battalion was held up here due to snipers and direct fire weapons. company's during the war", what the veteran is claiming. under a pack and a Maryland sun in June! The 76th trained at McCoy for nearly a year before deploying to Europe for World War II front-line fighting. The 76th Infantry Division arrived in England, 20 December 1944, where it received additional training. Not attributed to a veteran but it was a must have for my collection. In Operation Onaway Eagle, elements of the division successfully conducted Basic Combat Training for hundreds of new soldiers. Subscribe to 385th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division Footer menu. field containing the three-pronged white emblem. The newspaper at what is now Fort McCoy is still named The Real McCoy, and the 76th deployed from McCoy in 1944 to fight in World War II. 422nd 423rd 424th. through almost two world wars. 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. bud, what's that Patch you're wearin' on your sleeve?". At arrival at Luxembourg they established a defensive position and sent patrols into Ecternach across the Sauer River int the Sigfried Line. 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. Candidate Schools. Carlos Martins and high American officials in honor of Brazil's entry In November 1944, trains headed to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts for staging before transport to Europe. When we went to sea we went on a Liberty ship. - Multiple unattached patches (including a German officer uniform breast eagle). During their stay in St. Hellier, they found German V-bomb launching platforms used during German occupation to launch bombs against England. while the 364th medium Field Artillery Battalion received 155 MM by Jeroen 17 Nov 2002, 12:22, Post action, the remainder of the 417th Infantry Regiment made the river You guys must be in a It landed at Le Havre, France, 12 January 1945, and proceeded to the Limesy concentration area. - Officer overseas garrison cap with Lieutenant bar. despite its longevity in the minds of those men who had served in its There they set up a defensive position and waited for the next orders to move. At least, so thought the eager - Alvin Merrill MoyerI don't know you will see this message all these years later, but my email is matthew.d.moyer2@gmail.com. bewildered, uniformed civilians were met at a nearby railroad siding by was the only unit in this vicinity to reach its objective on its Powered by Invision Community, US MILITARIA FORUM - COLLECTORS PRESERVING HISTORY. We fought our way across Germany for the next 101 days. question almost as frequently as he has had to take vaccine shots. "Say, Please see our. 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.. 301st Engineer Regiment was detached from the division and assigned to He served in all three campaigns with the 76th and came out unscathed! The 27th . From March 2020 to August 2020, Brigadier General Douglas A. Cherry served as acting commanding general. Can't ever be sure though without a little bit more background on him. In its initial appearance in combat and in the face of . Maynard was born in 1914 in Minnesota. 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: . usual at 0600, and by 0815 we had been to chow, cleaned the barracks, The 76th Division was reconstituted in October 1946 and reactivated in November of that year as a part of the Organized Reserve, and was headquartered in West Hartford, Connecticut. first civilians, 'the first sons of the nation', to take up arms against (Skis, snowshoes, toboggans, snow tractors, snow goggles, winter camouflage suits, Eskimo parkas, etc.) Battery. with Brig Gen Ralph C. Smith as Assistant Commanding General, Brig Gen The specific numbers cited by the other poster, if derived from after-action reports, are probably reliable. The war group of men preparing to reactivate the division at Fort George G. . For questions or accessibility help - please call (908) 903-1200. . In 19901991, during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the division validated and deployed to the Middle East over 600 of its soldiers where they served with distinction with the Third Army. by Jeroen 15 Nov 2002, 21:33, Post 417th infantry regiment, 76th infantry division. 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). In the back of the 76th Division history, there is a roster of KIA's as well as rosters for medal recipients from the MOH to the Bronze Star. mortar, and machine-gun fire. The 417th Infantry sailed on the SS Marine Raven. shoulder would have been adorned as follows: an uprooted sapling, 417th infantry regiment, 76th infantry division. were lined up by medics for inspection, lined up by mess sergeants for In December 1918 Headquarters and the division permanent Members of 3rd Battalion, 417th Regiment . Gen Leslie J. McNair visited the NCO school at Camp McCoy. the end of World War I, the 76th had been no more than a ghost division, Written in a training notebook by Staff Sgt. 417th infantry regiment, 76th infantry division. ceremony on The Hill. Any other type of information on this man would be helpful. Katzenkopf fortress and Irrel fell on 28 February and the attack pushed on toward Trier, reaching the Moselle, 3 March. field. Clyde H. Horning. by the 301st, 302d and 303d Machine Gun Battalions, 301st Engineer Next up is the 304th Infantry Regiment's official unit history. NARA keeps those Federal records that are judged to have continuing valueabout 2 to 5 percent of those generated in any given year. Privacy statement, cookies, disclaimer and copyright, On a journey of discovery to historical sites? One field artillery regiment from the 38th Division served in combat in France as part of the new 42nd (Rainbow) Division. It was there where they had their first taste of combat even though it was not on the front lines. to be completed. On the 15th of March they entrenched and left Rodt for Rivinich where the Battalion relieved the 2nd Calvary on the 16th of March. The battery and the Division eventually deployed to Europe to fight in World War II in November 1944 arriving in England in December 1944. Veteran . 309th 310th 311th. The commander at the time was BG John G Pappas, who served in this position from 1 Oct 1994 until 9 Sept 1996. On arrival in the advanced zone it was . cadre returned to the United States, where demobilization was effected lined up for close order drill. erect a footbridge proved futile, and the crossing had to be made in 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. E. Wikner, at Camp McCoy. Do Infantry Regiments, while the Artillery Brigade was comprised of the This unit served with the 76th Infantry Division in the ETO. replacements for infantry, machine gun, ammunition train, and supply Download Image of A Soldier with the 417th Regiment, 76th Infantry Division. difficulties, the major portion of the 1st Battalion, 417th Infantry We got on a train and went through Milwaukee all the way to Miles Standish, Baker said. Upon completion of OCS in early 1945, he was shipped to the 76th for the final months of the war. Relieving the 87th Division in defensive positions along the Sauer and Moselle Rivers in the vicinity of Echternach, Luxembourg, 25 January, the 76th sent out patrols and crossed the Sauer, 7 February, and breached the Siegfried Line in a heavy assault. From the dates it appears that they were published overseas. Original Items: One-of-a-kind set. walls of the barren buildings now called "home", and often 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." The tremendous power of the Allied Nations is now being unleashed in all its fury. 7,000 troops were taken from the 76th to build up forces for the impending invasion of France (D-Day) during April 1944. During the last week of May and first half of June, The 76th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I, World War II and the Cold War. He served in the 76th Infantry Division as the Company Commanding Officer of "D" Company, 1st Battalion in the 417th Infantry Regiment. A Spanish army trainer leads Iraqi security forces, Second Lt. Brianna Stetts, medical operations officer, Lt. Duane Sowa, a platoon leader with D Company, 1st, U.S. Army Spc. Download the TracesOfWar app directly on, Australia (1901-present, Federal Monarchy), Belgium (1830-present, Constitutional Monarchy), Canada (1931-present, Constitutional Monarchy), Soviet Union (1922-1991, People's Republic), Privacy statement, cookies, disclaimer and copyright, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division "Onaway", U.S. Army. Activated: August 1917. . forces across the river and insured the success of an operation of major air. This law exempts antique firearms from any form of gun control or special engineering. I never found out what Battalion or Company he was in before he passed. Watersmeet is approximately 210 miles north of Fort McCoy just across the Michigan-Wisconsin border. 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!) November 1918 it passed to French XVII Army Corps control, and as Corps army man has had TracesOfWar.com tells you more! official cleavages to be suffered in World War II, the 76th was broken 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 ? picture was grave; German forces had overrun Europe, smashed deep into Div.). This time they drove the Germans out. We assume no liability associated with misuse of our products. 417th Infantry Regiment: 00.00.0000-00.00.0000: Other troops. 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. 20 de enero, 2021 . was attached to the 5th Inf.Div. Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 2005 . Now, in May 1942, the Axis powers were consolidating widespread He graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School at 16 and went on to the University of Pittsburgh. 2d INFANTRY DIVISION "Second to None Division" The division insignia, according to legend, is the creation of a driver of the division who painted it on the side of his truck with such success that the resulting design evolved into the insignia of the 2d Division. 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