After completing their processing, the division boarded four transport ships for deployment on 13 October 1944. As usual, the train was late and at 0035 hours 22 October 1944 we left Camp Shanks for New York Harbor. The delegation entered the command post just before 0600. The tanks of C-47 and their supporting infantry moved out at once to seize the bridge across the Isar. On 21 January, after the rest of Seventh Army had withdrawn to the south bank of the Moder River, the 14th and its supporting units withdrew from Hatten and Rittershoffen and moved south to join the rest of the army. Under orders from General Hoge, Company “A”, 14th Tank Battalion, continued its support of the 27th Armored Infantry in the vicinity of Bauvenn and with Company “B”, 27th Armored Infantry, organized a defensive position along the high ground there. November, to take part in … During the early morning hours of the 29 April, a car approached a roadblock on the southeast side of Mauern from the direction of Moosburg. Of these, two were awarded. Without slackening his speed but with both hands on the business end of his machine gun, he rolled into the middle of the German formation, brought his peep to a sudden halt and shouted “Achtung.” The German guard of 240 men was ordered to line up and to drop their weapons in front of them. This caused Brooks, the Corps commander, to commit his final reserve force, the 14th Armored, in an effort to stop the German XXXIX Panzer Corps advance. They did not have much time to join in the celebrations or even to reflect on what they had accomplished. 14th Armored Division Links. It was reorganized from a heavy division to a light division on 20 September 1943. This was Germany’s largest prisoner of war camp.”. The driver brought his 32-ton vehicle to a halt and slammed its transmission into reverse. It remains on the permanent roll of the Regular Army as an inactive division, and is eligible for reactivation. Just before midnight, the infantry went in ahead of the tanks to clear the town, and were ambushed by SS soldiers using machine guns and automatic antiaircraft guns. The 14th Armored Division was inactivated on 16 September 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry, Virginia. The rest of CCA set up a defensive perimeter around Moosburg, and began patrolling the west bank of the Isar. We seek to educate future Americans to fully appreciate the sacrifices that generations of American Soldiers have made to safeguard the freedoms of this Nation. He was captured on 13 June 1944 during fighting around Carentan. _____. 68 th Armored Infantry Battalion , 14th Armored Division St. Louis, Missouri The purpose of the 68 th Armored Infantry Battalion, 14th Armored Division, St. Louis, MO is exclusively charitable, and both non-political and non-for-profit. Large numbers of German prisoners were being rounded up by Lann’s tank and infantry platoons, including one large group that stated it was the guard of the prison camp. The 14th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army assigned to the Seventh Army of the Sixth Army Group during World War II. Here the division found many of its own soldiers, some of whom had been listed as missing-in-action since mid-November when the division first went into combat. BG Karlstad relayed MG Smith’s response to the SS major. The main force, including the 47th Tank Battalion and the infantry of B Company, 68th Armored Infantry Battalion (B-68 AIB), was eight miles to the southeast at Mauern, only four miles from Moosburg. As a result, the attack was made without the powerful guns of the 500th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. The 14th Armored Division landed at Marseille in southern France, on 29 October 1944. The following night they crossed the Isar River on a bridge which had been constructed by C Company, 125th Armored Engineer Battalion, and the 998th Treadway Bridge Company. He subsequently climbed into his peep (the armored forces term for jeep), along with his aide, 2LT William J. Hodges, and accompanied by 1LT John Sawyer of D Troop, 94th Cavalry Squadron, drove to the 47th Tank Battalion headquarters at Mauern. Place and date: Near Grufflingen, Belgium, 21 December 1944. Teamed with the 86th Infantry' Division, the 14th took Augsburg and drove to the infamous prison camp at Moosburg where 110,000 Allied prisoners were held. BG Karlstad walked in a few minutes later and heard LTC Lann’s report before the delegation was brought in. Medical Detachment (Sep. 1943 — 1945). A veteran officer who served on the staff of Army Group G during the battle wrote after the war that the American defense of the town against overwhelming odds was "heroic.". The Division's 11-day stand at Hatten and Rittershoffen allowed the VI Corps and Seventh Army to withdraw to prepared defensive positions. "Liberators" is the official nickname of the US 14th Armored Division. “You damned bloody Yanks, I love you!” shouted a six-foot-four Australian as he threw his arms around a peep driver. Upon entering the towns of Mühldorf and Ampfing, units of the division discovered three large forced labor camps containing thousands of Polish and Soviet civilians. Karlstad and his staff questioned some of the German officers regarding the prison camp “and selected a German captain to act as his guide to the prison camp.”. As the infantry dismounted to clear the resistance, they and the tanks of the 47th Tank battalion experienced heavy antitank fire. TF Hudelson consisted of the division's 62nd Armored Infantry Battalion, the 94th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron and Company A of the 125th Armored Engineer Battalion. With only one company of infantry at its disposal, the combat command was significantly understrength in infantry. With heavy fighting in and around the towns, success was measured in how many buildings were controlled by each side as the Americans controlled the western half of the villages and the Germans the eastern half. The 136th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion's report for the month listed approximately 150 tanks that had been knocked out in combat, repaired and returned to the division's tank battalions. The balance of the division was placed in Corps Reserve to protect against a Saar Valley penetration by the Germans. On 30 April, 1945 the New York Times reported: “Huge Prison Camp Liberated…27,000 American and British prisoners of war at a large camp at Moosburg.” The report was correct, the camp was huge, but it was also wrong. On 9 January, German armor was able to penetrate the center of the VI Corps sector. See more ideas about world war ii, wwii, sherman tank. The SS fought from dug-in positions in the fields leading to the town and from positions behind a railroad embankment on the American’s left flank. After they were evacuated from the bridge, the American tanks and infantry moved forward into the fight (See map below). Facing the division were remnants of the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier and the 719th Infantry Divisions. [4], The resupply of the division was becoming very difficult due to the constant reorganizing of forces, the evacuation of the wounded and the shrinking perimeter. Lann went in, leaving the delegates to wait outside. Col. Hans von Luck, who commanded the 21st Panzer Division at Hatten-Rittershoffen wrote in his memoirs "Panzer Commander" that the battle ".... was one of the hardest and most costly battles that had ever raged on the western front." Just after midnight on the 1st, the 62nd Armored Infantry reported "enemy attack across the entire front of our battalion zone. At the height of the fighting the 47th reported that it had a total of 17 operational tanks out of an authorized strength of 50, all were committed to holding its portion of the line. The division rapidly moved eastward to the area of Mühldorf am Inn where it established two strong bridgeheads across the Inn River before being ordered to halt by III Corps. Initial reports had listed the number of prisoners liberated as 27,000. The latter two were the senior American and British officers from Stalag VIIA, a prisoner of war camp near Moosburg. The tanks of C Company, 47th Tank Battalion (C-47 Tank Battalion), along with the 2d Platoon of B-68, were in the lead. 2nd AD Subunits: 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, 66th Armored Regiment, 67th Armored Regiment, 17th Armored Engineer Battalion, 82nd Armored Recon Battalion, and the 142cnd Signal Company. They took some more casualties when they came under sporadic fire from small arms, mortars, self-propelled guns, and artillery. Among them were the remnants of the 17th SS Panzer Grenadier and 719th Infantry Divisions. Citation: He was the leader of a combat patrol on 21 December 1944 near Grufflingen, Belgium, with the mission of driving German forces from dug-in positions in a heavily wooded area. At some point during the discussions, Goode left the room to get something to eat. B Company - PFC Robert C. Drescher on the far right side. The combat command advanced nearly fifty miles on 28 April, against sporadic resistance. The infantry platoons of B-68 AIB were attached to the tank companies. Officer Advanced Course, 1952/1953. The company, when employed in less than company size, performed well. 16th Armored Division (476th AIR*) 18th AIB 64th AIB 69th AIB *AIR broken up into three separate armored Infantry battalions. For the soldiers of the 14th Armored Division, there was a little more fighting and liberating, and some dying, left to be done. Units departed Camp Campbell on 1 October and completed their arrival at Camp Shanks on the 6th of that month. The initial brigade to go was the 3rd Brigade composed of the 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry, the 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry, the 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry and the 2nd Battalion, 9th Artillery. BG Karlstad decided that it was his superior’s intention that he was to actually lead the attack. Just as the tank got fully onto the bridge, the Germans set off the demolition charges. 14th Armored Division 14th Armored Division's Facebook page 14th Armored Division Links Page for links to the Battalions within the Division Further Reading: Waiting for Peace Get in touch. The division departed Camp Chaffee in November to participate in the 2nd Army maneuvers in Tennessee from 17 November 1943 until 10 January 1944. Fire from the American tanks and infantry, aimed at the SS who were firing from behind the railroad embankment, came into the camp. It also called “for the creation of a neutral zone surrounding Moosburg, all movement of allied troops in the general vicinity of Moosburg to stop while representatives of the Allied and German governments conferred on the disposition of the Allied prisoners of war in that vicinity.” Prior to this, no one in the division had even known there was a prison camp at Moosburg, much less how large it was. These are strong, telling words from a professional German panzer officer who had fought with Rommel's famed Afrika Korps in North Africa, served two tours of duty on the Eastern Front, and led the only armored counter-attack to be attempted against the Allied beachhead in Normandy. 55th Armored Infantry Battalion (AIB) The 55th armored Infantry Battalion was created from part of the 55th Armored Infantry Regiment. We seek to educate future Americans to fully appreciate the sacrifices that generations of American Soldiers have made to safeguard the freedoms of this Nation. [3] The troops of TF Hudelson took the brunt of the German advance which had penetrated to Bannstein by day-break. He did not issue a deadline by which the German commander must respond or make any allowances that might further delay the combat command in the fulfillment of its mission. Word of the massive liberation spread quickly, and even LTG George S. Patton, commander of Third Army, visited the prison camp with an entourage of high ranking officers. On arriving at the bridge, the force came under small arms and machine gun fire from the far side of the river. 20th Armored Division (480th AIR*) 8th AIB 65th AIB 70th AIB*AIR broken up into three separate armored Infantry battalions. The two armored regiments were reformed into three separate tank battalions, the 1st, 4th and 13th; the infantry regiment was split into three separate battalions, the 6th, 11th and 14th, and nor changes in personnel and equipment were effected in the artillery, reconnaissance, tank destroyer, engineer, medical and ordnance battalions. The order of battle consisted of: the 47th Tank Battalion; 500th Armored Field Artillery Battalion; D Troop, 94th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized); C Company, 125th Armored Engineer Battalion; B Company, 68th Armored Infantry Battalion; and B Battery, 398th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons (Self-Propelled) Battalion. The liberators had arrived and the prisoners were now finally safe. HHC, 194… CCA was to continue with its primary mission of seizing a useable bridge across the Isar River. Both Combat Commands, A and B remained but an additional Command - CCR, was added to the organization. The major fighting between 1 and 8 January occurred in the Vosges Mountains and two combat commands of the division were in almost continuous action against the German thrusts. COL Goode had commanded the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, during the Normandy campaign. Combat Command A (CCA) was on the right of the division’s line of advance, Combat Command R (CCR) was on the left, and Combat Command B (CCB) was in reserve. They raced through the streets at twenty miles an hour without meeting any resistance. It was organized initially as a heavy division with two armored regiments (the 47th and 48th) and one armored infantry regiment, the 62nd Infantry Regiment. MAJ Gentry was somewhat dismayed at COL Goode’s appearance. On 6 April 1945, CCB's objective was the military layer south of Hammelburg and the POW camps to the south. Simultaneously, a platoon of tanks from C-47 Tank Battalion and a platoon of infantry executed a flanking maneuver on the right of the main line of attack. U.S. Army Armored School. Artillery was further handicapped by the shortage of telephone wire. Elements of the 47th Tank battalion and the 94th Armored Reconnaissance battalion continued to the south and liberated Stalag XIII-C which held a large contingent of Allied enlisted men - American, Australians, British and others. Within 2 weeks some of its elements were in combat, maintaining defensive positions along the Franco-Italian frontier. Three weeks earlier, they had fought their way into Hammelburg to liberate Stalag XIIIC. It was organized initially as a heavy division with two armored regiments (the 47th and 48th) and one armored infantry regiment, the 62nd Infantry Regiment. 99th Infantry Division – (393-IR) – (History) – 1944-1945. Advancing on a south easterly axis, CCA was on the division's right with CCR on the left and CCB in reserve. It was processing prisoners of war and patrolling its area when the war in Europe ended on 8 May. May 19, 2020 - Explore Philip Barnett's board "U.S. 14th Armored Division", followed by 1082 people on Pinterest. It called for an armistice in the area around Moosburg, using as a reason the presence of a large prisoner of war camp. As soon as its units were in position, CCA attacked down the main road between Mauern and Moosburg. Goode was wearing a single insignia of rank which was pinned to his jacket collar. During the night and day of 1 January 1945, TF Hudelson found itself engaged by elements of five enemy divisions, the 256th, 257th, 361st and 559th Volksgrenadier. Light Tank Company (Sep. 1943 — 1945). Clearing the town, CCB continued its advance along the Main River through Sackenbach, Nantenbach (north east of Lohr) and Gemunden. The SS had no tanks or antitank guns, and were armed only with small arms, machine guns, mortars, and panzerfausts. The 14th Armored Division was constituted and added to the roll of the US Army on 28 August 1942; it was activated on 15 November in a ceremony at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. Regardless, the liberation and security of the Allied prisoners of war was clearly of great importance, and the combat command would take the necessary steps to ensure this was accomplished. In the car were four men who asked to speak with a senior officer. MG Smith rejected the proposal, and added a demand for the unconditional surrender of all German troops at Moosburg. CCA Headquarters settled in for the night at Puttenhausen at 2300 hours. The Army Historical Foundation is the designated official fundraising organization for the National Museum of the United States Army. Instructions were given for all abandoned German 8 cm mortar ammunition to be picked up and a method was devised by the Division ammunition officer to use this in American 81mm mortars. As the realization of this sank in, scenes of wild rejoicing accompanied the tanks as they crashed through the double 10-foot wire fences of the prison camps. The company's first combat engagement took place near Lichtenfels, but it was near Bayreuth that the company received the accolade of approval from those that fought within the 14th Armored Division. Among those liberated were approximately 20,000 American soldiers, sailors and airmen, as well as an estimated 40,000 troops from Great Britain and the Commonwealth. In one of those strange coincidences of war, it was the same SS major who had led the delegation to CCA headquarters early that morning. Troop D, 10th Cavalry 6. It was reorganized from a heavy division to a light division on 20 September 1943. It is an interlocked ornament, found in Nordic monuments, composed of three torques: red for Artillery; blue for Infantry; and yellow for Cavalry. The main effort by enemy being made on battalion left flank in the sector of C Co, by estimated 2000 Infantry supported by five (5) Mark IV tanks". B-68 AIB lost several men before the town was finally secured. German losses were estimated at in excess of 3,100 in total. The operational plan called for the 47th Tank battalion to advance from the north and the 19th Armored Infantry battalion to block and secure the roads to the south and east of the camps. Committee No 1. A U.S. Army Air Forces lieutenant kissed a tank. There were also a number of war correspondents and radio men. The division is officially nicknamed the "Liberators".[1]. It was, as it had been for much of the way across France and Germany, a race to capture a crucial bridge before retreating German units got safely to the other side and blew it up in the faces of the oncoming Americans. Moments later, a battle-scarred M4 Sherman joined them at the main gate. As a result of the shortage of infantry replacements which the European Theater was facing in late 1944, a call for volunteers was distributed throughout the communication zone for those willing to retrain as infantry replacements. The division was organized and activated as a heavy division in 1942. The reorganization saw the loss of two tank battalions from the Armored regiments, one battalio… He told MAJ Gentry about the delegation and asked if BG Karlstad was available. The purpose of this study is to collect all available facts pertinent to the Remagen Bridgehead Operation, to collate these data in cases of conflicting reports, and to present the processed material in such a form that it may be efficiently utilized by an instructor in preparing a period of instruction. 1st … 7 Six armored cars counterattacked and cleared the high ground north of Beaufort but were unable to drive the Germans from the woods behind the isolated companies. The firing ceased except for the occasional sounds of small arms and machine gun fire from the direction of the bridge. BG Karlstad called for the German camp commander, Colonel Otto Burger, and received an unconditional surrender of the German garrison and the camp. The 47th lost three tanks due to the Panzerfaust. Gasoline, of which almost 200,000 gallons was consumed in seven days, had to come from near Saverne 35 miles away along icy roads in blackout conditions. 5th Battalion, 73d Armor 3. Regiment broken up 20 September 1943, elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: Regiment (less 1st and 2nd Battalions) as 62nd Armored Infantry Battalion. The two young officers and three drivers went rapidly down the line receiving pistol belts from officers and making a quick search for arms in the pockets of the guards. Armored Rifle Company (Sep. 1943 — 1945). The fight for Moosburg was underway. We were established in 1983 as a member-based, charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. They were escorted to LTC James W. Lann, the commanding officer of the 47th Tank Battalion. Adding to the commotion was the sound of the demolition charges exploding as the Germans destroyed the bridge across the Isar. 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