It consisted of four tank companies, two cavalry reconnaissance troops, a company of tank destroyers, and many foot soldiers hitchhiking on the vehicles. Of the LXVI Corps only those units which had swung wide of the city during the attack were able to maintain pressure on the Americans: the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade, executing its semi-independent turning movement, and the advance guard of the 190th Grenadier Regiment, inserting a company or so between the two CCB's. The St. Vith salient, where the 7th Armored Division was to remain on the defensive during the XVIII Airborne advance, was confronted with growing German forces on three sides. Then too, it appeared that the enemy was concentrating in Recht and might try an attack through Poteau to Vielsalm. It was the first group in this northern column which CCR had unwittingly eluded and from which the tail of the 7th Armored artillery column had glanced at Stavelot. Two hours later while the division assembled and made ready, an advance party left the division command post at Heerlen, Holland, for Bastogne where it was to receive instructions from the VIII Corps. The Sixth Panzer Army, thus far unable to win enough roads for a mass movement to the west, turned its reserve formations into the roads threading into the city. Directly east of St. Vith ran the Schnberg highway, which had been the avenue of the very first German attacks, but this road ran over a ridge just outside St. Vith where the Americans had stood successfully to meet all previous enemy thrusts. The woods are so thick that he needs almost an infantry platoon to protect three tanks sitting out there. The main body of the 1st SS Panzer Division needed reinforcements. Although the mounted military police platoon in St. Vith had orders to sidetrack the withdrawing corps artillery when the armor appeared, the traffic jam had reached the point where the efforts of a few MP's were futile. CCR headquarters had meanwhile become ensnarled with the remnants of the 14th Cavalry Group and the residue of the corps artillery columns at the little village of Poteau, where the roads from Recht and St. Vith join en route to Vielsalm. During the night a quick freeze had hardened the ground just enough to allow the tanks and half-tracks from the east, covered with clinging foot troops, to swing cross-country and south to the Braunlauf road. 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. When the 440th commenced its withdrawal word came in that the Germans had blocked the designated crossing site at Salmchteau. About 1035 the blocking troops left by the 9th SS Panzer Division made an attack. To the east of CCA, 7th Armored Division, however, some part of the 293d Regiment of the 18th Volks Grenadier Division finally had worked its way through St. Vith, arriving during the night of 22 December at Rodt. The Fuehrer Begleit Brigade did not follow CCB. tank destroyers knocked out two of the lead tanks, temporarily halting the attack and giving Lohse's column time to reach Commanster. One regiment of the 30th Infantry Division was in Malmdy, thirteen or fourteen miles to the north, but the intervening countryside was swamped. aided by Nungesser's engineers, drove back the attackers. It will be recalled that on the night of 21 December General Hoge had set in motion a withdrawal of the northern flank of CCB, 9th Armored, to conform with Clarke's first defensive position just west of St. Vith. Within half an hour the German regimental commander was hors de combat and the attack dissipated. He was acutely conscious of the narrow margin of protection afforded by the 82d Airborne Division and worried lest a northward attack by the incoming 2d SS Panzer Division beat back the west flank of the 82d and close off the Salm River exits once and for all. By midnight on the 23d over two hundred men from the column had reached the 508th Parachute Infantry and many others straggled in before daylight. It appears that if there were any mines left on the Schnberg road they had been lifted in preparation for a promised counterattack by American tanks. range served as a breakwater diverting heavy highway traffic so that Hasbrouck earlier had been "suspicious" of what was happening in the northern sector around Recht and Poteau, but he was no longer too apprehensive after the successive march groups of the 1st SS Panzer Division had bounced off the 7th Armored Division roadblocks. Gen. Robert W. Hasbrouck) in addition to his own division and its attachments. The divisional artillery would not be in position to support the attack. Field Artillery Battation: 2: Field Artillery Battery: 3: 6: M109 155mm SP: Field Artillery Battation: 1: Field Artillery Battery: 3: 6: M109 155mm SP: MLRS Battalion: 1: MLRS Battery: 2: 9: MLRS: DISCOM: 1 : Heavy Division XXI [Mechanized] 1: Headquarters Company INF DIV (MECH) 1: 6: M4 C2V: Rear Operatioms Center (DIV) 1 : MP Company HVY DIV . 7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Redesignated as 965th Field Artillery Battalion 10 July 1946, reorganized and Federally recognized with HQ Klamath Falls 13 November 1947. 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. Through most of the confusion and immobility characterized the St. Vith bottleneck. It would seem that a German rifle company first crossed into Weppler, now unoccupied, then wheeled and encircled the 2d Platoon on the hill. 365th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm) - 497 men - Lt Col Alfred E Graham * Hq & Hq Bty - 126 men * Service Bty - 74 men * Firing Bty A - 99 men . As yet the enemy forces passing to the north and south had failed to Darkness descended over the Salm valley as CCR sped across the Vielsalm bridge. Observation was poor-the 18th was a day of low-hanging 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. Around 1500 the mobile column of the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade appeared in front of Rogery. The tankers, mindful of their passengers, could not use the tank cannon; so the column rolled through the streets with the infantry riders firing wildly in every direction. About 2130 he ordered what. American tank destroyers which had been dug in at a bend in the road Just north, the wing of the 82d Airborne defense running west to the Baraque de Fraiture crossroads (and junction with the 3d Armored Division) rested on the Salm River. Suddenly, about 1700, the German pressure along the Schnberg road eased. About ten minutes later the withdrawal commenced, running smoothly to conclusion. The light tanks and tank destroyers, earlier disposed at Cierreux, and now brought back to form the column rear guard, were spotted by German scouts and set upon in the dark by assault guns that lighted their targets with high velocity flares. west from Rodt. The southern advance, which had carried a mass It was located along the German-Belgium border, and was about 50 square miles. Without Wemple's tanks, or with them, Task Force Jones was no match for any large detachment of the 2d SS Panzer Division. Bauvenn, no more than a jog in the road, lay three-quarters of a mile north of the natural corridor through which flowed the Braunlauf Creek, the corridor at whose eastern entrance the enemy had attacked the night before in severing. He and Lt. Col. Robert L. Rhea (Commanding Officer, 23d Armored Infantry Battalion), who had taken over from Colonel Fuller when the latter was evacuated because of exhaustion, were able to restore some measure of confidence and order. the previous evening. around the Schnee Eifel barrier to the net which fanned out toward the The assignments were made back in the US and continued upon deployment. A disabled German self-propelled gun is in the foreground. As usual, attempts to bring up the horse-drawn caissons past the armor only resulted in more delay and confusion. 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. 94th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. of the 38th Armored Infantry line. the village, then funneled slowly into the woods. the connective tissue between the 7th and 9th Armored combat commands. Jones becoming assistant to the corps commander and General Hoge being A platoon of Sherman tanks stationed just north of the road was caught in the thickest of the German concentrations. He is getting infiltration in his rear from the vicinity of Recht. First, mortars went to work against houses and foxholes. ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501 This was not to be the end. Admittedly this scratch force was too weak to make a serious defense in the endangered sector, but it could be expected to block the key road junctions and sound a warning should the enemy attempt any flanking movement. The section of the main St. Vith-Vielsalm supply road west of Rodt was guarded by two American medium tank companies spread over a distance of three miles. St. Vith. Two draws cut through this shield of high ground, one on the north represented by the highway running from Bllingen into St. Vith, the other angling from the southeast and traversed by the road and railroad line from Prm. the line east of St. Vith, and by dark all lost ground had been retaken. The second attempt, just before the VIII Corps headquarters and the St. Vith command post was almost exit through a 3,000-yard-wide bottle-neck with only two bridges, those It was on this estimate that General. The German corps commander, General Lucht, had ordered the Mobile Battalion of the 18th Volks Grenadier Division up from reserve during the previous night with orders to advance via Andler. The period of rest and refitting, after heavy fighting at Metz and in Holland, had put the 7th Armored in good condition. Subscribe to 465th Field Artillery Battalion Footer menu. At 1345 Hasbrouck sent the signal for CCA to pull out. Lt. Col. Thomas J. Riggs, Jr., commander of the 81st Engineer Combat Battalion, who had tried to organize a counterattack to wipe out the earlier penetrations was lost trying to organize a last-ditch defense in the hamlet of Prmerberg on the main road. Back to Unit. Battery C had been assigned to support the 112th Infantry and with the consent of the latter shifted its 155-mm. of German armor and infantry from the XLVII and LVIII Panzer and the mission no longer was counterattack, but rather defense in place, At the tail of the column disaster, in the form of the Fuehrer Begleit advance guard, suddenly struck. There had been no contact whatever with the 424th Infantry to the south. 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. The 7th Armored trains, which had reached Salmchteau by the western route on the morning of the 18th, were sent twenty-two miles west of La Roche, partly to keep them out of enemy reach but also because of the possibility that the division might soon have to retire behind the Ourthe River. The arrival of an additional field artillery battalion belonging to the 7th Armored and two 155-mm. 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. Remer's objective, however, was not in that direction. 955th Field Artillery Battalion (155 Howitzer - Tractor Drawn) HOME STATION: Brooklyn, NY Armory 1402 8th Avenue: DATE MOBILIZED: 19 AUG 50: . 773rd Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (90mm) 1802nd Engineer Aviation Company. Krag decided to shift his advance toward Salmchteau and there possibly link up with friendly forces he knew to be coming from St. Vith. 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. At Poteau CCA brought more troops into and around the village, while the enemy fired in from the hill to the north rising along-side the Recht road. The 82d Airborne Division, it was estimated, would reach Werbomont (about the same distance northwest of Vielsalm) on the morning of 19 December, but it was apparent that in this area also the enemy barred any solid contact with the St. Vith defenders. Connecting the Bllingen and Schnberg approaches a spider web of secondary roads and trails ran back and forth, centering at the hamlet of Wallerode (two miles northeast of St. Vith) behind which lay a large forest. Remer's orders were to join the LVIII Panzer Corps west of the Salm, and his immediate design was to reach the paved road leading to Salmchteau. 389th Battalion. The 7th Armored counterattack from St. Vith to relieve the two trapped regiments of the 106th Division had been postponed on the 17th, not canceled. The motorized rifle battalion, now led by an assault gun company, headed south toward the road center at Beho, found it free of American troops, and there joined a part of the 62d Volks Grenadier Division. stocks at Gouvy Station east of the village proper, but this fact was In midmorning of 20 December the Germans in the village deployed skirmishers and began a fire fight to test the American strength around the station. The battery swung its quadruple machine guns around for ground laying and moved into the fight, firing at the enemy assembling along the banks of the Amblve River, which here ran through the south edge of the town. About the same time the 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, temporarily under the command of Maj. Charles A. Cannon, Jr., reported to General Clarke in St. Vith, the first unit of the 7th Armored to reach the 106th Division. Thus far the Ninth Army had given Hasbrouck no information on the seriousness of the situation on the VIII Corps front. At the Steinebrck bridge the enemy increased in number as the morning progressed, slipping into positions on the south bank under cover given by exploding smoke shells. 806 Bomb Squadron (446 Bomb Group) About 0800 the Panthers engaged the small covering force at Hinderhausen. Finally, the enemy was under compulsion to reconnoiter anew the outlines of the American eastern front which had been redrawn during the night of 19 December. or back, and with the enemy apparently closing in from every side. The capture of Rodt left General Clarke no alternative but further withdrawal. 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. Taking advantage of a heavy fog which rose in midafternoon, Remer sent a tank company through Ober-Emmels and up the slope west of Hnningen. The three 105mm battalions were assigned to one of the three infantry regiments to support, forming a combat team. In the early afternoon the sketchy line just west of St. Vith was abandoned and CCB fell back to the secondary position which had been under preparation since the early morning hours. from a bazooka; the third tank and the infantry withdrew. So he compromised by sending a large combat patrol into the woods west of that village with orders to find a covered route along which the tanks might advance on Vielsalm once they arrived. The detachment which Jones had sent to Gouvy, midway between Deifeld and Chrain, was surprised to find the village occupied by German infantry. CC A (3d Armd Div) 10 Jul 44-16 Jul 44. Sixteen 105mm Armored Field Artillery Battalions (105mm SP): The 58th, 59th, 62nd, 65th, 69th, 83rd, 87th, 93rd, 253rd, 274th, 275th, 276th, 400th, 440th, 695th, and 696th; Seventeen 4.5" gun battalions: The 172nd, 176th, 198th, 211th, 215th, 259th, 770th, 771st, 772nd, 773rd, 774th, 775th, 777th Colored, 935th, 939th, 941st, and 959th; Of the southern half of the original ring there remained only the rear guard and covering forces strung along the roads east of Salmchteau. The enemy recovery was slow. A-58 Cool Dude. The division, assembled about fifteen miles north of Aachen, had taken no part as a unit in the November drive toward the Roer, although companies and battalions on occasion had been attached to attacking infantry divisions. The enemy took the village quickly, and with it many of the half-tracks belonging to the 48th Armored Infantry Battalion. 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion: U.S. Army: 1945: Invasion behind enemy lines and capture of the French city Metz. The bombs dropped on Schnberg and its narrow streets late in the day may have delayed the arrival of reinforcements, and air attack certainly helped to scatter the most advanced German troops. Usually, 4 to 6 guns made up a battery in the field artillery. Description Not Specified Reports To Field Artillery Units Active Reporting Unit None Inactive Reporting Units A Battery B Battery C Battery HHB The Sherman tanks on the Recht road were caught in masked positions from which they could not return the panzer fire coming in from higher ground, and the troops in Rodt could not stand alone against the Panthers. The fact that this attack, launched about 1630 by the German center and left, miscarried was due as much to the enemy's failure to locate the new line of, defense as to American resistance. Army. They are standing in rows with 13 sitting on the ground in front with 6 men reclining in front of them. By this time it was obvious to Jones and Clarke that the main forces of the 7th Armored could not reach St. Vith in time to make a daylight attack. Middleton and the 106th Division commander based their plans for a counterattack by a combat command of the 7th Armored east of St. Vith early on 17 December. They put up a wonderful show." 61 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phone: (518) 581-5100 | Fax: (518) 581-5111. The reserve available to General Hasbrouck was scant for such wide-flung positions: some 90-mm. the attack westward, but no word on the progress of the attack followed Fate took a hand to save the rest of the column. At best these isolated detachments could serve only as pickets for the 7th Armored, but fortunately the German columns continued marching west. Unwittingly, in the process of "freezing" this heterogeneous command, Stone stopped the westward withdrawal of badly needed engineer vehicles (carrying earth augers, air compressors, and similar equipment) which the VIII Corps commander was attempting to gather for work on a barrier line being constructed by the corps engineers farther to the west. Another small German detachment deployed in front of the engineers an hour later was engaged and was finally put to flight by American fighter planes in one of their few appearances over the battlefield on this day. After some confusion in getting through the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade around Rodt on the morning of 23 December, the 293d continued along the road to Poteau. Remer, still missing most of his tanks, had been instructed to drive from Nieder-Emmels straight south into St. Vith. tank destroyers, two troops of cavalry, and the equivalent of four or five rifle companies. . They would have to be threaded through the St. Vith bottleneck. 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. The map shows many roads, but on the ground, the majority of these are mere tracks on which even a jeep bogs down if more than two or three travel on it. They were constituted on 25 January 1943 as the 465th Glider Field Artillery Battalion and activated 1 March 1943 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The loss of this combat command would create a wide breach in front of the enemy congregating south of St. Vith, a breach which hardly could be filled by the last reserves at Hasbrouck's disposal. American 90-mm. Actually CCR of the 7th Armored, on the eastern route, came very close to colliding with the leading tank column of the 1st SS Panzer Division south of Malmdy but cleared the road before the Germans crossed on their way west. Although German patrols continued up the road to Steinebrck, attempting in vain to seize the bridge during the night, the attack was not pressed until after daylight on the following morning. So they were designated as glider artillery for less than a year. Telephone service to the VIII Corps headquarters at Bastogne ended on 18 December when that headquarters moved to Neufchteau. He then ordered the 17th Tank Battalion (Lt. Col. John P. Wemple) to send a tank company into Recht. Prisoners had reported that the Grossdeutschland Panzer Division, previously identified on the Eastern Front, had joined the LXVI Corps before St. Vith. To make matters worse some engineers blew a culvert, trapping the tail of the column. But at least four hours were consumed in drafting the plan and dispatching liaison officers, who had to memorize the general plan and the. Three Artillery Battalions had landed at Normandy by 12 June 1944. West of St. Vith, in position to give close support, were located the 275th Armored Field Artillery Battalion (Lt. Col. Roy Udell Clay) and the remainder of CCB. While Boylan took on the Germans, Lohse's column circled. General Model hoped to shake the corps free and use Remer's armor to help the Sixth Panzer Army get moving in the north. The German column at Poteau, however, made no attempt to drive on to Vielsalm. Covered by one reconnaissance platoon and the cavalry assault guns, sited near the bridge, the remaining platoons of Troop D had left their positions and started filing toward the Steinebrck-St. Vith road when suddenly the movement order was canceled. Supply routes to the 7th Armored Division trains were still open, although menaced by the roving enemy and obstructed by west-moving friendly traffic. The business of computing the lateral movement of an armored division close to a front through which the enemy was breaking could hardly attain the exactness of a Leavenworth solution complete with march graphs and tables. Three armored cars, two jeeps, and one light tank were able to disengage and carried the wounded out; apparently a major part of the force was able to make its way to Vielsalm on foot. The opportunity for a decisive American counterattack toward Schnberg was past, if indeed it had ever existed, and Hasbrouck's immediate concern was to establish his division north flank in a posture of defense in the St. Vith-Vielsalm area. Deifeld was occupied without trouble. 8 Cavalry Rgt BAUGH, EDWARD RODOLPH. German infantry and a few tanks pursued but were held off until the last of the CCB column had been pushed through the village and was on its way northwest to the Vielsalm bridge. moving along the Bovigny-Salmchteau road which traversed the A double column of enemy troops and vehicles marched along the road into St. Vith. TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. General Jones and General Hasbrouck still expected that CCB would. An attempt to give greater weight to the artillery in the St. Vith-Vielsalm area. On both sides of the main Schnberg road the 294th Regiment moved groups of forty to fifty men forward in bounds through the woods. The LXVI Corps commander left this conference with orders to encircle St. Vith, putting his main weight in enveloping moves north and south of the town. By this time the 7th Armored plans for the Schnberg attack were definitely off and a company from the 31St Tank Battalion joined in the affair. They had given the XVIII Airborne Corps badly The left battalion of the 190th made use of the predawn hours on the 23d to renew the push along Braunlauf Creek (on the north flank of Hoge's combat command), which had been beaten back by the American tankers early in the day. The 112th Infantry, now beginning to fold back to the north as the center of the 28th Division gave way, was no longer in contact with the 424th Infantry, its erstwhile left flank neighbor, but the axis of withdrawal ultimately would bring the 112th Infantry to piece out the southern sector of the defense slowly forming around St. Vith. On the afternoon of 17 December the 14th Cavalry Group commander had ordered the remnants of his two squadrons to fall back to Recht. U.S., World War II Hospital. During the night of l9-20 December the Germans completed a division bridge at Steinebrck near that destroyed by the American armored engineers, and division artillery and heavy vehicles began their move north and west. Our supplies must come in through a bottleneck over a bridge near Vielsalm. 2015-09-27 14:36:35. To counter this threat the light tank platoon moved into Steinebrck, leaving the American left uncovered. In fact, however, there was little left of the 106th; so responsibility tended to devolve on the junior commander, Hasbrouck. Yet at no time during the day did the Germans use more than three assault guns and one or two platoons of infantry in the piecemeal attacks west of Schnberg. 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. It was now about 1600 hours. In sharp fighting most of the mechanized force at the tail was destroyed. After an hour or so the battery turned once again and, taking no chances, circled wide to the west. 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. Thus far General Hasbrouck and General Jones, the two division commanders, had directed the units in the perimeter on a basis of mutual agreement, although Hasbrouck, with the largest force in his own command, made most of the decisions. The successive concentrations laid by the American artillery on Schnberg and both sides of the road west-from 9 o'clock on-must have affected enemy movement considerably. 965th Field Artillery Battalion United States Army Strength Battalion Type Defence Agency Years 1942 - 1959 Report To Field Artillery Units Reporting Units A Battery B Battery C Battery HHB Service Battery Members Who Served in 965th Field Artillery Battalion 965th Field Artillery Battalion Description Not Specified But the combat echelons of the two regiments of the 62d Volks Grenadier Division which had bypassed the city on the south were in position by the night of the 22d to renew the attack. This estimate was received at the headquarters of the VIII Corps at 0500 on 17 December, the first indication, it would appear, that the leading armored elements would arrive at 1400 instead of 0700 as planned. About this time the Germans made another attempt, covered The German successes in this area had already All through the day and night of 19 December German vehicles (units of the 116th Panzer Division and the advance guard of the 560th Volks Grenadier Division) had rolled past Gouvy to the south and west, but no attempt had been made to repeat the attack of the previous day. American artillery joined in, the attack broke, and the 295th streamed back from whence it had come. remained narrow and road-bound. Find A Battery, 965th Field Artillery Battalion unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. December. 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