The unit included men from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, New York, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Maryland, North Carolina, Kansas, Connecticut, Kentucky, Washington, D.C., Tennessee, and even included T/Sgt. Headquarters Company. December 13, 1813, the regiment was reduced . Actually 12,000 defended the walled city, and they vowed to "fight to the last stone." The photo at the top of this page--taken around Thanksgiving time--is, according to Larry Dalton, what was left of the 2nd platoon--less than half strength. I sure wouldn't want to live the way they do. According to this paper, the war was practically over and the people were just waiting to celebrate. In late December 1944, the 83rd took part in the Allied effort to stop the German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge. F Company Later groups of enlisted men assigned to the division to replace men transferred to other units came from Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. I'd hate to think of our son having to grow up to fight."TDC. 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. 1st Platoon Even the paint on their helmets looked as if they had just been unpacked." They moved by truck to the Hurtgen Forest west of Aachen to relieve the 12th Infantry. Mapping the Overlays: 83rd Division maps for Normandy Campaign These documents are provided for by Dave Curry, historian of the 83rd Infantry Division Association. Army 83rd Infantry Division - WWII In Europe, A GI of the 83rd Division Infantry wounded during the fighting on the east bank of the Elbe Kameritz Germany World War II 16th April 1945. The 83rd Division established a bridgehead over the river. A second battalion from the same regiment defended a line further east. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. We have recently added a photo of A Company/331st. The map contains the locations, based on the coordinate on the morning report, shown in NATO symbology . The DPAA said that in December 1944, Bernard Sweeney was assigned to Company 1, 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. Unit: 83rd Infantry Division, 331st Infantry Regiment, Company C; Service Number: 35519259; Date of Birth: October 2, 1918; Entered the Military: October 28, 1942; Date of Death: July 26, 1944; . It can be seen by clicking here. Michael Harris, 2nd Platoon, Company F, is among the many listed here. First a nudge, then a sign-- Move out! 1/331 After a period of training, elements of the division took Chteauneuf-d'Ille-et-Vilaine, 5 August, and Dinard, 15 August, and approached the heavily fortified area protecting St. Malo. They fought their way through swamps that the Germans created by flooding the fields. ",Pvt,C,New York,no date . Grave ,Name,Rank,Co,Unit/Branch,D.O.D.,Removed ,Location,Civil War Soldier,1867 Dedication List,"Roll of Honor, 1868" 301,"A., Ira J. D-Day and Battle of Normandy Encyclopedia, Commander: Major General Robert C. Macon 20 January 1945, with an M-10 Wolverine tank destroyer of Co. C, 629th Tank Destroyer Battalion, in the frame, track commander SGT Jimmy Richardson talks to his driver, PVT Joe Honig, while Joes of the 83rd Infantry Division ("Thunderbolt")'s 331st Inf. 65th Armored FA Battalion, from June 27th to July 4th, 1944 Promotion of Leinbach to the 83rd Field Artillery October 10, 1920. Deaths, the division's report continued, reached 500 per month. Larry was able to identify most of the GIs in this photo. Newspapers.com. Advertising YOU PAY FOR IT WHEM YOU DON'T BUY IT. A Co, 709th Tank Battalion, from August 6th to 16th, 1944 Click here to read some of his story and to see photographs of L Company/331st Infantry. The process had reduced two more divisions, the 4th and 8th, to tatters. The 83rd entered France on the 21st through 24th of June 1944. Do you want . Infantrymen of the 83rd Division walk past Sherman tanks that have momentarily halted on a dirt road in Germany. Infanterie-Division) was a formation of the Imperial German Army in World War I. Then, more than 380 medium bombers dropped 650 tons of high-explosive and fragmentation bombs, while 550 fighter-bombers dropped more than 200 tons of high-explosive and napalm. This photo was taken in February 1945, and the war in Europe ended three months later. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Sgt. This would seem to indicate a pretty good advance on the 12th then. These are his wartime memoirs, which he started working on when he retired in his sixties and was still . Since there are no map overlays for 4 July, that Ive seen anyway, I would just take advantage of this map to point out that is the location of the Island where the 2 Bn, 329 IR, got very roughly handledon 4 July. There isn't much that I can send, except the same love that I have had ever since I've known you. Infantrymen of the 83rd Infantry Division warm themselves around a fire near Fays, Belgium, on January 3, 1945. 332nd Infantry Regiment ; 369th Experience ; Americans All! A Company Mustered out: June 23, 1864. August 5, 1944: Esvres US Army Patches - Army Unit Patches and Army Regiment Patches. 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. They spent 244 days in combat and suffered 23,980 casualties, 15,248 of which were combat casualties. 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. [12], From the air the column bore no resemblance to either an armored or an infantry division. 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. 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.) Co., 2ndBn., 331stInf., 83rdInf. 802nd Tank Destroyer Battalion (T), from July 1st to December 7th, 1944 The division was activated in September 1917 at Camp Sherman, Ohio. the official history of the 331st Infantry, 83rd Division. The Thunderbolt Across Europe They consisted of the various occupation forces from along the Atlantic coast and down to the Pyrenees. The blue items come from the overlays; the brownish points, if you can see them, are geographic locations reported inthe various reports, while the dark blue / purplish items are labels explaining the geographic location data points. Infantry Regiment 83 provided some support to the south. Basements of houses became aid stations for the wounded. Albany: J. There are numerous entries for each day's events showing the time of occurrence for each. The regimental after action reports for the 331th Infantry Regiment in PDF format can be found in the following table. guns destroyed much of the enemy artillery and machine gun emplacements and forced them to surrender. Well see if it gets any better once Ive read the reports and compare it tothe 08 July Morning Reports. C Company The distinctive unit insignia was approved for the 322nd Field Artillery Battalion on January 14, 1926. L Company, 83rd Artillery Division It shows a bit of all three 83rd ID regiments. The following soldiers were reported as missing in action. Finally, direct hits by 8-in. Every enemy unit or town that surrendered or was captured subscribed its quota of rolling stock for the division, usually at gunpoint. 250th FA Battalion (105 How), from July 31st, 1944 to August 4th, 1944 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. The TTF was the 331st Infantry regimental newspaper. Click on the image for a larger view. There was fear that this was too close for heavy bombing and, in fact, many GIs were killed that day by short bombing runs. 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. Oliver and view many of the photos by clicking here. John Helms said that my dad was taken out by an 88-mm artillery shell. S/Sgt Joseph Arnaldo, 331st Infantry 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. "TDC, November 19"I just got my ballot the other day, so threw it away. November 14"It looks like we not only will have to lick these supermen, but will have to go in and knock their heads off. in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Austria. To help orient yourself: Tribehou is still in the lower right corner, but Sainteny is now in the middle of the map. The 83rd had three infantry regiments, the 329th, the 330th, and the 331st. Ironically, like many GIs, he also had German ancestry. They destroyed 480 enemy tanks, 61 enemy planes, 29 enemy supply trains, and 966 enemy artillery pieces. 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. Relive & share the memories of your service time with your brothers & sisters in arms today. G Company: Captain Granville A. 44106-7107. You can read it by clicking here, or on the Combat Medic's Badge. K Company Stephen Ambrose, in his book "Band Of Brothers," quotes one of the men of the 101st Airborne about the arrival of the 83rd. 323rd Field Artillery Battalion (105 Howitzer) C Co, 87th Chemical Battalion, from 5th to 16th July 1944 including Cannon Co., fired 103,379 rounds of 105 mm shells and 51,680 The division was formed in November 1914 as the "Division Posen 1", part of the Posen Corps (Korps Posen), and became the 83rd Infantry Division in June 1915. 196th FA Group, from August 7th to 16th, 1944 He was probably referred to as an "old man" by most of the other men in his company.