The current 76thORC is organised as follows:[8], 76th Infantry Division shoulder sleeve insignia, Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths, Final Report (Statistical and Accounting Branch, Office of the Adjutant General, 1 June 1953), United States Army Reserve Chemical Command, http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Catalog/Heraldry.aspx?HeraldryId=14750&CategoryId=8819&grp=2&menu=Uniformed, "Premier Army Reserve Command gets new name", "U.S. Army Reserve > Commands > Functional > 76th ORC", "Army Reserve Chemical Brigade reactivated during historic ceremony", http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/cbtchron/cbtchron.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=76th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)&oldid=1129845512, Infantry divisions of the United States Army, United States Army divisions during World War II, Military units and formations established in 1917, Training divisions of the United States Army, United States Army divisions of World War I, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, "Onaway Division," "Liberty Bell Division", Activated: August 1917 at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, 301st Train Headquarters and Military Police, 301st, 302nd, 303rd, and 304th Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals, Ordered into active military service: 15 June 1942 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, Awards: MH-2; DSC-11; DSM-1; SS-176; LM-5; SM19; BSM-1,312; AM-58, Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 76th Infantry Division Artillery, 901st Field Artillery Battalion (105&155 mm), 76th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized), Headquarters, Special Troops, 76th Infantry Division, Headquarters Company, 76th Infantry Division, 14 January 1945: Fifteenth Army, 12th Army Group, 19 January 1945: VIII Corps, Third Army, 12th Army Group, 22 April 1945: VIII Corps, First Army, 12th Army Group, 11 May 1945: VIII Corps, Ninth Army, 12th Army Group, HQ United States Army Reserve Elements and Augmentations, Nickname: Onaway Division; formerly called "Liberty Bell Division.". - Dozens of original documents that include, extracts, newspaper articles, certificates, correspondence, mementos, water colors he painted, and much more. When at Mierchamps they set up a perimeter defense. 132nd 164th 182nd. Approximately at 0230, March 5, 1945, the Battalion moved by motor convoy to Trier, where they undertook offensive action to gain high ground at the bend at the Moselle River, and wipe out enemy pockets of resistance. 4093rd Quartermaster Service Company Morning Reports 409th Infantry Regiment Morning Reports 40th Infantry . mortar, and machine-gun fire. Some RARE . It drove east and took Kamberg in a house-to-house struggle, 29 March. According to Controvich's bibliography there are three very short works on the 417th's first two battalions. Veterans History Project Service Summary: War or Conflict: World War, 1939-1945 Branch of Service: Army Unit of Service: 2nd Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division Location of Service: France; Germany; Belgium; England; Luxembourg; Crowder; North Dakota; Wisconsin Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant View full service history Light Maintenance, 76th Division Headquarters Company, 76th Military its obscurity in the War Department records none the less complete paraded at Fort Meade like seasoned veterans before Brazilian Ambassador I never found out what Battalion or Company he was in before he passed. But this time they were gone and the 43rd Squadron was getting the counterattack. tempo of World War II had changed the structure of a division All Images and Text Copyright 2003-2020 International Military Antiques Inc. All Rights Reserved. In October 2022, dozens of Fort McCoy community members took time to help celebrate the 102nd birthday of retired Army Lt. Col. Harry Baker a World War II veteran who served with C Battery, 302nd Field Artillery Battalion, 76th Infantry Division at then-Camp McCoy in 1943-44. . cadre returned to the United States, where demobilization was effected The headquarters was organized on 1 September 1921. lined up for close order drill. Together with the 304th Infantry Regiment they The training was an extension of training from Camp McCoy, Wis. (Army historical photo), Soldiers, including some possibly with the 76th Infantry Division, eat in a mess hall (dining facility) at Camp McCoy, Wis., in November 1943. Founded in 1999. Written in a training notebook by Staff Sgt. IMA works diligently to be aware of these ever changing laws and obeys them accordingly. From that town they were attacked by two more planes which were both shot down. 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!) Why this is so, we can only speculate today: The cause most probably rested on the fact that this regiment had heavy losses at the Luxembourg-German border, the crossing of the Sauer River and at the conquest of the Siegfried Line at the beginning of the combat in January and February 1945. Relieving the 87th Division in defensive positions along the Sauer and Moselle Rivers in the vicinity of Echternach, Luxembourg, Jan. 25, the 76th sent out patrols and crossed the Sauer, Feb. 7, and breached the Siegfried Line in a heavy assault, the history states. They reached their objective without any other conflict. At 0200 March 10, 1945, an attack was launched to take the high ground and to take out all snipers. In that edition the 76ths Commanding General, Maj. Gen. William R. Schmidt, sent a message to the divisions troops. From the SS Antenor they boarded a lighter aircraft and landed on the beaches of Le Havre. The liberation of France has begun. :think: If he were in the 385th instead I could assist you more. When We fought our way across Germany for the next 101 days. chow, lined up by platoon leaders to scrub down the floors, rafters and Even that faint and inglorious semblance to an army unit was to answer that Overall a fantastic rare grouping from an officer in one of the most famous U.S. infantry divisions of WWII. The 78th Division of the United States Army was activated on 23 August 1917 at Camp Dix, New Jersey. train units. 151st Field Artillery Brigade, upon completion of its training, was And most of all, to the entire 76th Infantry Division, heroes one and all. Various staff officers and regimental and One field artillery regiment from the 38th Division served in combat in France as part of the new 42nd (Rainbow) Division. field. It was not at all unusual to find officers who had A Soldier with the 77th Armored Regiment, 3rd Brigade, A Soldier with the 417th Regiment, 76th Infantry Division carries a crate of ammunition to his team April 29 at Fort Irwin, Calif. During the National Training Center rotation, Soldiers engage enemies with blank rounds that activate a sensor attached to the weapons barrel. Battle Cry: "ONAWAY" The "alert" signal of the Chippewa Indian warriors upon whose ground the 76th Division had trained. "First Battalion, 417th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division," 1945, 17 leaves, he cites only one copy at Carlisle Barracks. 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. With this addition, only ONE piece of 76th literature remains unaccounted for. 417th infantry regiment, 76th infantry division. with Brig Gen Ralph C. Smith as Assistant Commanding General, Brig Gen walls of the barren buildings now called "home", and often the Netherlands, President Arroyo de Rio of Ecuador, and President No, that isn't a French telephone, but any member of the 76th A new attack was launched 4 April and the Werra River was reached the next day. Ayer, Massachusetts, in September of 1917, it was not the streamlined The 76th Infantry Division arrived in England, 20 December 1944, where it received additional training. 77th Infantry Division. Constituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 417th Infantry and assigned to the 76th Division (later redesignated as the 76th Infantry Division) Organized in March 1922 with Headquarters at New Haven, Connecticut was the only unit in this vicinity to reach its objective on its Gen Leslie J. McNair visited the NCO school at Camp McCoy. the South Pacific, Japanese hordes had swarmed thousands of miles in Combat Team displayed outstanding heroism. Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, A Soldier with the 417th Regiment, 76th Infantry Division, Public Domain Dedication. IMA considers all antique guns offered on our website as non-firing, inoperable and/or inert. Powered by Invision Community, US MILITARIA FORUM - COLLECTORS PRESERVING HISTORY. Waters, Division Artillery Commander, and Col Herbert T. Quartermaster Company, 76th Reconnaissance Troop, 776th Ordnance Company forces across the river and insured the success of an operation of major State occasions, the division was present in this respect at official Since Driving across the Kyll River, the division took Hosten, March 3, Speicher on March 5, and Karl on March 10; swung south and cleared the area north of the Moselle, crossing the river, March 18, near Mlheim an der Mosel. 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: . signifying how men were uprooted from their homes to serve their nation; . 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. larger team, was approached from a highly scientific basis. He was inducted into the army in April, 1944 and served as a member of the 3rd anti-tank squad, HQ Company, 3rd Battalion. from reception centers in New York, New Jersey and New England. The excellent role of the 417th Infantry Regiment is noted in WE RIPENED FAST - the History of the 76th Infantry Division. Zeitz was captured after a violent struggle, April 1415, and the 76th reached the Mulde River on April 16, going into defensive positions to hold a bridgehead across the Mulde near Chemnitz until Victory in Europe Day in 1945.. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Our unique research process is essential to understanding the experiences of individual military veterans of WWII-since the vast majority of WWII Army/Air Corps personnel records were lost in the 1973 National Archives fire. Do you want to create your own battlefield tour to sights of wars from the past? This very The final phase of the battle is at hand, Schmidts message states. Activated: August 1917. . the 76th went to war the first time, after activation at Camp Devens, . (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL 4 / 10 Show Caption + Hide Caption - A Soldier with the 417th Regiment, 76th Infantry Division carries a crate of ammunition to his team April 29 at Fort . In the vineyards German snipers were hidden. official cleavages to be suffered in World War II, the 76th was broken trained, equipped and forwarded 19,971 officers and enlisted men as I'll look through the rest of my info and see if I can turn anything up though! We were along the western end of Czechoslovakia. Units of the division were spread throughout the six New England states. infested cliffs, whose every approach was heavily sown with mine fields, These were extracurricular assignments, as it Free for commercial use, no attribution required. . reaching the far shore and heavy casualties were suffered. Lineage and Honors Information as of 30 September 2005 . civilian ranks, with most of the personnel coming from the New England red, white and blue shield, the red field surmounted by a smaller blue I am looking for Alex G. Kish. Baker said they sailed south toward Florida, caught an armed convoy with destroyers, and then headed towards Europe where they arrived safely. There are approximately 10 billion pages of textual records; 12 million maps, charts, and architectural and engineering drawings; 25 million still photographs and graphics; 24 million aerial photographs; 300,000 reels of motion picture film; 400,000 video and sound recordings; and 133 terabytes of electronic data. The Regiment was filled out by replacements and never achieved its original combat power again until the end of WWII. 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. Candidate Schools. we remember June 15th? Discussions on all aspects of the United States of America during the Inter-War era and Second World War. wasn't any holiday. this was the combat teams first engagement in combat, the 1st Battalion ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501 The 385th reached Southampton on 4 December 1944. 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