They fought their way through swamps that the Germans created by flooding the fields. The headquarters was organized on 27 September 1921. On 4 July, the 83rd Division left Carentan and moved south toward Sainteny, a short march of about four miles that quickly turned into a six-day battle claiming over 1,400 casualties in the first 24 hours. 331st Infantry Regiment The 3.5 by 1.5 mile target area was only 1,500 yards in front of the American line. For there are only angels here in olive-drab, Those who passed through the city were greeted by banners stretched across the streets, proclaiming "Welcome to our Liberators." -- Our artillery battalions, Notice thatthe 22nd IR, 4th ID is a good 1000 yards out in front of the 83rd ID. Richard E. Chipps. The 83rd Division then assembled near Feugeres, and on 3 through 5 August they moved out of the Cotentin Peninsula and turned west into Brittany. Commanding Officers Artillery: Brig. The 330th Infantry Across Europe I guess the people must be used to voting for F.D.R. The 83d Infantry Division arrived in England on 16 April 1944. On April 11, 1945, the 83rd encountered Langenstein, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Taking the offensive, the 83rd reached the St. Lo-Periers Road, 25 July, and advanced 8 miles (13km) against strong opposition as the Normandy Campaign ended. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. against the enemy. The December 8, 1944 Headquarters Company, 330th Infantry Regiment morning report listed the men from Communications Platoon who were killed during the previous day's incident, adopted below with Military Occupational Specialty (M.O.S.) Click here to see a photo of the 2nd platoon taken in September 44, when it was at full strength. British infantry the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment aboard Sherman tanks near Argentan, 21 August 1944. 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 wounded and defenseless GIs were then shot and killed, one by one. K Company Haute-Marne. guns destroyed much of the enemy artillery and machine gun emplacements and forced them to surrender. I still can't see why they can't be held to their jobs like we are. Robert A. Turner, A Company, 331st Infantry Regiment lost his right arm to enemy tank fire and became a prisoner of war on 16 July 1944. E Company: Captain Raymond E. Poore, wounded on July 4, 1944 at Mautis They landed across Omaha Beach and took over defensive positions near Carentan, where they relieved the 101st Airborne around the end of the month. The journey took them through the thick forests of the highland country east of Verdun. 331st Infantry Regiment; 83rd Infantry Division "Thunderbolt" U.S. Army; B; Sort by: name . After training in Wales, the division landed at Omaha Beach, 18 June 1944, and entered the hedgerow struggle south of Carentan, 27 June. Henry Irving Tannenbaum--Company F, 331st Infantry Regiment We believe that Pfc. I, personally, cant make much sense of what is written in the lower left corner, try as I might. The 83rd Infantry Division ( 83. B Company I sure wouldn't want to live the way they do. The literal truth of what Clarence Brown wrote was that GIs slept huddled together in foxholes, at times with their arms wrapped around each other to keep from freezing to death, or stood sleeping in groups of three like human tripods when the ground was too frozen to dig into. J Company Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. History World War I Formation. (Incredibly, both Charles Mobley and Sarge were born on Cotton Avenue in Birmingham.) Mapping the Overlays: 83rd Division maps for Normandy Campaign Still on 12 July, I assume end of day, we have a regimental plan for outposts on the 83rdsside of the Taute River and marsh. That city was taken on 13 April. The prisoners were detailed to build underground factory installations and to carry out forced labor for Organization Todt. On the right of the 9th Division, the men of the 83rd felt like standing in their foxholes and cheering when they saw all those bombers. Demobilized 18 February 1919 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. 331 Infantry Regiment 83rd Infantry Division. August 7, 1944: Chteauneuf Casualties were heavy. November 22"Here it is, another Thanksgiving Day that I won't be home. annotated for each man: Staff Sergeant Edward J. Devlin, 31188341, 542 (communications chief) Another photo taken at Camp Breckenridge, showing M Company/331st, can be seen by clicking here. Others in this group that went to F Company were William T. Oliver, Hubert L. Smith, James Stansell Jr., Archie Swindle, John M. Tarnowksi, Earl Tillman, Augustine Toya, Paul Tweed, James Vanden, Lee R. Weeks, John W. Phillips, Albert Popik, Raymond H. Heiber, Donald Palmatier, David W. Parrish, Angelo Patricola, Jospeph Pavek, Joseph T. Pawlowski, Benjamin B. Peluso, Norman Perez, Charles Petritis, John J. Petrizzo, Donald P. Smith, Perry D. Johnston, Walter P. Kowal, Ralph R. McDowell, Thomas K. McKee, Henry L. McManus, Raymond J. Miller, Dominick Salierno, Willard H. Strauss, James F. Varley, George H. Harrell, Michael Harris, Alfred L. Hinchey, Albert K. Jeffries, Earnest C. Goates, Joseph A. Gonzales, Raphael E. Duvall, Alois Dzieweczynski, Clifford E. Olson, Raymond J. Travers, Ovid K. Seville, Francis Soucie, and Max A. Rubin. Div Lamb, Emanuel (H) Lt. Col. Leniel MacDonald Richmond, Floyd J. My dad and Sherman Curry (no relation, but both were killed on 10 December) pitched in to help prepare the birds for the Thanksgiving feast. 331st infantry 83rd division ourgrowingpaynes New Member Joined: Oct 6, 2016 Messages: 3 Likes Received: 0 I am researching my grandfather's military history. Task Force A (15th Cav Gp), from August 3rd to 5th, 1944, Infantry 196th FA Group, from August 7th to 16th, 1944 For three days the Nazis continued to pour reinforcements into the town. "TDC, On 6 December, the 83rd gave positions along the Moselle Valley to the 22nd Infantry of the 4th Division. He was moved to the front lines, 2 and 3/4 miles south of the town of Sainteny, along with 45 other GIs from the 41st Replacement Battalion that was stationed at Treviers, south of Omaha Beach. G Company: Captain Granville A. Then, German attempts to organize tank-supported counterattacks were shattered by the 83rd's field artillery battalions. Click here to see the trail of the 83rd. View the list of all donors. [13] The division even seized and flew a German Bf 109. F Company 83rd Division Reenactment Website They spent 244 days in combat and suffered 23,980 casualties, 15,248 of which were combat casualties. On 7 December, the 83rd Division relieved the 4th Infantry Division and attacked to clear the west bank of the Roer on 10 December. My father, Thomas Dickson Curry, was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Division. There are numerous entries for each day's events showing the time of occurrence for each. 121st Inf (8th Div), from August 6th to 15th, 1944 It was deployed to France in 1918. 83rd Infantry, 329th Reenactment Group, Reading, PA They fought through the Ardennes in the bitter cold and snow to beat back the German Bulge. Its commanders were Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn (25 August 1917), Brig. E Company After the boy's death Kipling forced himself to write the official history of the regiment, as a form of atonement. 44106-7107. Later, a German counterattack, supported by machine guns and mortars struck from high ground southeast of Greveldange, but the men of the 331st quickly turned back the attempted disruption of their lines. The barn and the house are all built together and the front yard is the stable yard. A Co, 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, from August 1st to 16th, 1944 I hope it is the last one this way. The division crossed the Leine, 8 April, and attacked to the east, pushing over the Harz Mountain region and advancing to the Elbe at Barby. When the 83rd Infantry arrived in Langenstein, its troops found some 1,100 inmates in very poor physical condition. 1/331 -- We consumed 25,006,000 gallons $5 Million + Founding Sponsor . Pvt. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 121st CT (8th Div),from August 6th to 15th, 1944 323rd Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) Infantrymen of the 83rd Infantry Division warm themselves around a fire near Fays, Belgium, on January 3, 1945. Frank Reichmann in the 1st Battalion of the 331st said that a platoon of captured Germans started singing farewell to their commander. Please visit the Brothers-In-Arms Memorial Page honoring the more than 1,000 men of the 331st Infantry who were killed or missing in action. The 330th took Strass and the 331st took Gey, one of the most strategic points in the network of German defenses protecting the vital approaches to Duren. Liberation of Langenstein Concentration Camp by 83rd Division We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. In one of your letters you wanted to know how things were over here. 335th Regiment Lineage. var sc_project=709359; Samuel J. Bifano--B Battery, 324th Field Artillery Zu den Opfern des Russisch-Ukrainischen Krieges gehren sechs Tote whrend der Annexion der Krim durch die Russische Fderation im Jahr 2014 und Tausende von Toten unter der Zivilbevlkerung und den verschiedenen Streitkrften whrend des folgenden von Russland angeschobenen Krieges im Donbas.Mit dem russischen berfall auf die Ukraine 2022 vervielfachten sich die Todesopfer. See It Through! At a height of 5 ft. 7.5 in., he probably didn't have an ounce of fat on his body. including Cannon Co., fired 103,379 rounds of 105 mm shells and 51,680 rifle and rocket grenades. You can see them by clicking here. What I think Ill do is go ahead from here and prepare and put up the overlays I have and then go back and figure outhow to best incorporate the information from the reports. Do you have 331ST INFANTRY REGIMENT, 83RD INFANTRY DIVISION Reunion information you'd like to share. Cafes were opened where the GIs could enjoy good Luxembourg beer, music, and dancing. The history of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska, and the Grand Masters elected by the brethren to lead it, encompasses many interesting challenges and successes from the mid-1800s to t The Germans knew the routes that the 83rd would have to take, and from concealed positions dug beneath the hedgerows, they ranged in on the advancing GIs with mortars and artillery. I am assuming A Co, B Co, and C Co are from the 331st because there is a flag for the 1st Bn, 331 IR, on the map and the regiment number close to the area of the companies looks more like it would be 331 than 330 (I cant really decipher the last number, but it does not seem to be a zero). 44106, 10900 Euclid Ave. Near Cherbourg. The 83rd Division has special ties to Luxembourg. A Company Original Item: Only One Available. Do they think we are over here for our health? Supplies could only trickle through as the Germans continuously pounded the town's approaches with artillery fire. I became intrigued with the combined 83 ID / 330 IR overlays and decided to add the data points from the After Action Reports, Unit Journals and Morning Reports. These reports are courtesy of Myra Miller, PhD, of Footsteps Researchers. August 25, 1944: Chteaubriant. G Company The inmates were malnourished and in extremely poor physical condition. We specialize in Army patches. When the war ended, Terhanko had four Purple Hearts and Silver and Bronze Stars. Even the paint on their helmets looked as if they had just been unpacked." 83rd Infantry Division shoulder sleeve insignia, U.S. Army Reserve Readiness Training Center. It was demobilized in October 1919. E Company Executive Officer: 1st Lieutenant Milton J. Bialeck, killed on July 4, 1944 at Sainteny Chapter Twenty-Six of the author's The Great Boer War, which Smith, Elder, & Co. published in 1900.This web version is based on the Internet Archive version digitized from an unidentified library in 2010 with funding from the Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation.. Elements reduced the garrison at Ile de Czembre, which surrendered, 2 September. C Co, 709th Tank Battalion, from August 12th to 16th, 1944 It supplied over 195,000 officers and enlisted men as replacements to other units in France without seeing action as a complete formation. To help orient yourself: Tribehou is still in the lower right corner, but Sainteny is now in the middle of the map. C Company Kerr; Pvt. There isn't much that I can send, except the same love that I have had ever since I've known you. But for a number of U.S Army trucks interspersed among its columns, it might easily have been mistaken for a German convoy.[12]. Doesn't seem to be very sanitary but most of the people seem to be healthy as hell, in fact they seem to thrive on it. This would seem to indicate a pretty good advance on the 12th then. Organized 26 August 1917 at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. Sgt. B Co, 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion, from August 13th to 16th, 1944, April 19, 1944: Newcastle-under-Lyme, England Hq. At the end, the 83rd Division, born in war, was disbanded and all its men reassigned to other units. Gen. Frederick Perkins (13 January 1918), Brig. Taking the offensive, the 83rd reached the St. Lo-Periers Road and advanced 8 miles against strong opposition as the Normandy campaign ended. Troupes de la 83rd Division traquant les derniers snipers allemands dans les rues de Saint-Malo. The 83rd's position placed them in just the right spot for a front-row view of what was, according to Michael Doubler in his book "Closing With the Enemy," the largest air-ground operation ever attempted by American forces. 14 July 1944, 330 IR, 83 ID near Sainteny. Again, it will be clearer once I start integrating information from the various reports (I hope). A Company The number of 83rd Division GIs killed in combat totaled 3,620. ",Pvt,C,New York,no date . the official history of the 331st Infantry, 83rd Division. This was the main line of defence for the Germans. John Helms said that my dad was taken out by an 88-mm artillery shell. Moving to the Hurtgen Forest, the 83rd Division thrust forward from Gressenich to the west bank of the Roer. A Lieutenant of a supply company of the 329th Infantry Regiment/83rd Infantry-Division (Thunderbolt Division) with the company's mascot, goat Willie at Schevenhutte near Aachen/Germany. J Company On 8 July, they fought through hedgerows to the village of Auxais, and finally on the 10th, the 331st captured Sainteny after an attack supported by fire from 19 artillery battalions. To avoid needless loss of life, Elster negotiated a surrender. 83rd Infantry Division Situation 12:00 12 July 1944 less the 330th Infantry Regiment. Mobley wrote after the war to tell his wife where he had been and what he had done all those long months away from home. To slow the spread of sickness and death, the 83rd Division ordered the local German mayor to supply the camp with food and water. Fays was finally secured, along with Ferme de Menil, on January 15. The Drive To the Elbe It can be seen by clicking here. The 9th Army had also been slowly advancing north of Aachen towards the Roer. August 20, 1944: Cesson-Svign UNITED PRESS LjEASED WIRE SERVICE THE EVENING G ESTABLISHED 1S81 XENIA, OHIO, SATURDAY, JU^E 29, PRICE THREE CENTS SUPPLY Y I Company "Thank You Eddie Hart" Documentary Website (Company G, 329th Infantry) The 3rd Battalion captured the high ground northwest of Ehnen, but had to fight through heavy machine gun and mortar fire to do it. Operation COBRA began the morning of 25 July. Joe [Ordanez] Ordonez, Texas, Pvt 331 Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division dies 8 Aug 1944, Soldiers of the 331st Regiment, 2nd battalion, are ready to depart Passau for Cherbourg and a boat home, September, 1945. December 2"These shoes we wear are quite the thing--sometimes I think my feet would be warmer without shoes. Infanterie-Division was formed at Truppenbungsplatz Kningsbrck in December 1941 as a "Walkre"-Division (1) and was disbanded in December 1943. Taking Remich on the 28th and patrolling defensively along the Moselle, the 83d resisted counterattacks and advanced to the Siegfried Line defenses across the Sauer after capturing Grevenmacher and Echternach, 7 October. SOCIAL . This is the Facebook outlet of 83rdinfdivdocs.org and the people behind the research and data. At the camp, the troops found approximately 1,100 inmates. The insignia was selected during World War I because the division contained mostly Ohio draftees.[3]. Others were returned to the U.S. for burial. in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Austria. The 83d Infantry Division arrived in England on 16 April 1944. According to this paper, the war was practically over and the people were just waiting to celebrate. S/Sgt. Infantrymen of the 83rd Division walk past Sherman tanks that have momentarily halted on a dirt road in Germany. 3/330 5 July 1944 is very confused; a lot was going on,and I have realized there area lot of discrepancies amongthe reportsespecially the Morning Reportsand I really need to incorporate all the information from the After Action Reports and Unit Journals and collate it with what information can be gleanedfrom the morning reports. Most, if not all of them, Home | 83rd Thunderbolt Division Family Bringing together veterans, relatives and friends from all over the world Research Helping you learn more about your veteran Family Bringing together veterans, relatives and friends from all over the world Research Helping you learn more about your veteran Legacy Remembering those who served Family The division moved back to Belgium and the Netherlands for rehabilitation and training, 22 January 1945. The 83rd Division would be called on again to answer the call to defend freedom in 1942 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. Thanks, David. [7][8][9] Harry C. Gravelyn was Captain of Company D, 331st Infantry, 83rd "Thunderbolt" Infantry Division, United States Army, during World War II. Even so, his ETO Enlisted Man's Identification Card lists his weight at 139 pounds. OH SirJames 139 Sergeant Major August 10, 1944: Dinan A last note. Headquarters Company. To halt the spread of sickness and death, the 83rd ordered the local German mayor to supply the camp with food and water. Store windows were full of photos of the 5th Armored Regiment which had liberated the city just nine days before. Share a testimony from a relative or a friend, veteran or civilian, resistance member, ally or German, actor or witness of History. They've seen the tree bursts in the Hurtgen, 12 July 1944, 330 IR , I Co; 331 IR, A Co, B Co, C Co. After training in Wales, the division landed at Omaha Beach. Click here to read more of his story. The 331ST INFANTRY REGIMENT served during WORLD WAR I as part of the U.S. Army 83d Infantry Division. The regimental after action reports for the 331th Infantry Regiment in PDF format can be found in the following table. Stephen Ambrose, in his book "Band Of Brothers," quotes one of the men of the 101st Airborne about the arrival of the 83rd. 2nd Platoon: 2nd Lieutenant Donald L. Richardson, killed on July 4, 1944 12th FA Obsn Battalion (-Btrie A), from August 7th to 16th, 1944 We have recently added a photo of A Company/331st. The 83rd Division reported the death rate at the camp had been 500 per month. Click here to see a photo of the 2nd platoon taken in September 44, when it was at full strength.
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