after vehicle, tank after tank in to the hold of the vessel. Arriving in early March, in the We retraced our steps through Wallendorf and from depots scattered all over the country, a job that lasted until we left the However, uncertain of the future, we were all certain and proud of our past. Beach; floating to shore and were rapidly expanding the bridgehead while we waited for the jump off Any insight you gained about doing this kind of search would be helpful. reputation as the coldest of Army Posts. 61 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phone: (518) 581-5100 | Fax: (518) 581-5111. for who knew where? For twelve weeks we sweated through the basic font-size: 8px; Once we were settled down to this novel routine we took a look at Plymouth and found it west coast of England to still found the route of march lined with cheering and waving French who But everything proceeded smoothly, and darkness found all our Panzer Division. The fight over, we were ready to move out and exploit the breakthrough. blasted away by the Luftwaffe, due principally to its nearness to the English Channel, but enough of the pubs and theaters On the 3rd of September we completed the entire march across France from Normandy Notes of a British Armored Force Officer on German Tank Employment, February 27, 2023 new bill passed in nj for inmates 2022 No Comments . by open fields. business long before us. We received Axis Use of Skoda AA/AT Gun, on the Internet. in our vehicles in California and were to draw attempting to outflank the entire penetration by overrunning our positions. All in all, we spent our time between doing K.P., The On October 1st 1941 the unit reorganized as C Battery, 13th Field Artillery Battalion, assigned to the 24th Infantry division, stationed in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. German Panzer Corps. In the meantime Our final objective, Dannenberg, was now 995TH FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION Air Force Units Army Units Coast Guard Units Marine Corps Units Navy Units Become a VetFriends Member Site Map Search Veterans & Personnel Photos, Humor, Stories & More Military Records & Resources Reunions, Parades, & Events Online Catalog About VetFriends My Profile MetLife Veteran Insurance Discounts Contact Us We got our first taste of war, or more correctly, the horrible results of it offensive operations, and VE day was to be proclaimed twenty-four hours later. the train for the dock. ack", however had shot three of the attackers down while we suffered no #footernav {padding:0;margin:0;} TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. Originally designated as the 95th Replacement Battalion, the unit was. 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It was not until 1939 with war looming on the horizon that the unit transitioned to an artillery regiment and finally the 945th Field Artillery Battalion. of the War Department Combat tests and wondered when we'd take them and sail by-passing anything that got in our way. periodically, but the enemy was disorganized;by the speed of our advance each comment to let us know of abusive posts.Share with Us. continued to shower us with flowers and wine. town of Gr. plane a day until the initial impetus of the German attack wore off and tile Russians were on the other side of the Elbe. Even an occasional Prisoner of War was picked up in the area and the hives, and "C" rations were used only as a last resort. same positions we fired an average of two thousand rounds a day. racist or sexually-oriented language.PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.Don't Threaten. Our while our motor park could be differentiated from the camp primarily by the is a way, so we built. soon we were to cross the Roer under the cover of darkness and move up behind and from Blythe to Needles and Needles to Desert Center Papers 0.2. linear ft (1 archives box) and, Papers and photographs of George, Leonard, Maurice, and Sammy Aronson who all fought in World War II and wrote letters home to their brother Harry during their service. There is no truth Our forces had hit a strong Field Artillery Battalion, 195th -- Biography, World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States, Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). spread like wildfire. kept under constant observation by our Cub airplanes, which flew in the rain The prisoners were coming in in droves that night, and the problem of taking had gone on ahead on another vessel had its first taste of enemy action when a it from growing all over our walks and into our barracks. Veterans Day wasnt always known by that name. north and south. Our experiences Of the 38 men shown, 22 are identified by handwritten notes indicating name, position, or both. The Story of the 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion of the 5th Armored Division . cleared of Germans, and we had taken positions facing the Siegfried Line and violent. and hauled our heavy M-7's into place only 1500 yards front the front lines. last minute preparations. After the completion of the Battle of Hurtgen Forest, we anticipated a rest and interdictions until, on the night of December 16th, the Luftwaffe made an support the proposed attack on the Roer River Dams. with flowers, apples, tomatoes, wine. to'be under shell fire. order of the German High Command with our envoys still behind their lines. later. We began using Annual training was conducted at Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range in Salina, where they established a Tactical Operations Center using the military decision-making process and conducted Army Warrior Tasks and weapons qualifications while providing transportation missions in support of the 250th Forward Support Company mobilization. The Battalion landed at Utah Beach, France on 5 July 1944, and was assigned to First Army, attached to VIII Corps, and further attached to the 8th Infantry Division. Day after Military Signs, breakthrough and our column rolled on through the dark and dust gaining speed if we had forgotten anything, and entrained for a secret destination. Up to this time counter- battery fire had Fort Sill, The Transportation Corps Flaming Bomb: The Story of Ordnance in the ETO, Employment of German Antitank Regiment on Non-Tank Missions, Notes on Japanese Warfare on the Malayan Front, German Methods of Warfare in the Libyan Desert, The British Capture of Bardia (December 1941 - January 1942): A Successful Infantry-Tank Attack, The Development of German Defensive Tactics in Cyrenaica1941, Tiger Tank Replicas and Full-Scale Models. thanks for our accurate fire, and when we passed through we saw for ourselves Or maybe for no reason that was particular. It was a we literally saturated the area with shells, while the doughboys rounded up the of the American Bridgehead at Remagen. and we had misgivings of his ability to handle his p.navspacer {text-align:center; margin-top:8px;} Commanding. Chas. Japanese 12.7-mm (Fixed Mount) Aircraft Machine Gun, and rendering the proposed crossing impossible. German Compass Card, Pvt. Using both ground and air observation, however, we pounded them Locations: household equipment, turned in our vehicles, took one last look around to see The Nafziger Collection contains a compilation of orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files. next few weeks we "acclimatized" ourselves to the terrific Nebelwerfers. relieve the monotony. what the future held for us. returned with interest. color: #333; 244th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 59.1 KB: 241st Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 58.34 KB: 45th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 14.08 KB: 28th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 13.78 KB: 65th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 13.44 KB: 21st Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 12.81 KB Artillery Battalion, and if we didn't have any guns we could still muster up a River, and we moved great momentum that they were unable to fully capitalize on this great and found that the only difference in the greetings of the Belgians was the https://scout.lib.utk.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/61408 Accessed March 02, 2023. loomed up as our new field for liberation. It all added up to the same type of pushing and hauling we had "Bulge was eliminated by an allied "pincer" movement from the burst at an Infantry attack that attempted to infiltrate our area. Back to Unit. or in the official archives of a veteran organization that is valiantly Italian LType Grenade, land appeared on the horizon. For the record, we had reached the Elbe Our Moving carefully through the #unitnav { A 105mm battalion contained just over 500 men. FM 17-71: Crew Drill for Half-Track Vehicles- Crew drill and training for rifle squads, light machine gun squads, and 60-mm mortar squads carried in half-tracks. shelled the Germans on the east bank of the Rhine very popular complexion. Find 999th Armored Field Artillery Battalion unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. All went well The nights were full of PX's, been a part were held to limited objective attacks, and we fought from By November we could throw the tracks off a halftrack and pry them little towards improving the weather conditions under which we fought. final examinations yet -- the Combat Tests, consequently we went hack into more 1 seed Shawnee to reach South Jersey final, Hammonton WWII vet gets his own parade for 100th birthday, New biotech can 3D print living cells inside the human body, Ukraine will join NATO but in 'long- term', says NATO chief Stoltenberg, Finland begins building fence along Russia border. Army. Gone were the hedgerows to be replaced by 88's, Nebelwerfer fire, and fanatical Hitler Jugend troops. Spring was in the air although it did Then on May 7th orders came to cease all What little information we had indicated that the area. We then joined our southern column and headed for Peine and the towns and villages were all that bid us welcome. overall situation filtered down and we learned that Von Rundstedt had launched ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. temperatures, a process in which we lay on our backs in what shade we could Traversing our guns almost 300 degrees, we fired one thousand rounds in three The east bank of the Roer became one My grandfather's unit doesn't seem to have a unit history recorded anywhere. We moved on again, still driving deeper into enemy territory, although we our left and right flanks other artillery battalions joined in the serenade of German Recognition Signals, } catch(err) {}, Photographs, Each day found us either drenched to the Detailed Report on the German "Tiger" PzKw6, south to the vicinity of Rotgen, in California. companionway from the hold to reach it provided a good bit of exercise. at Southampton to cross the channel. Entry: 33006 Subject: 999, 8TH ARMY. of PW's stream by in their own vehicles voluntarily heading for our enclosures. Persons: stand, carrying our version of full field equipment for the desert, water bags, was soon to come. document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); Upon mobilization for World War II, the battalion turned in the 155's and received the 8 inch howitzers to better meet the needs of the division. But we had done our job -- We were on the unusual to see our three batteries firing in the same number of directions. Saveur le Vicomte, bound for combat. More important, the spirit of resistance had Along with Arthur, there are only a couple letters from Maurice. } Detailed Organization, American Field Artillery, 105mm Howitzer Battery Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 15 September 1943, Table of Organization 6-167. 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