DET QM CORPS QMD FT RENO-QM AT LARGE DET CAMP NORMOYLE TX, QMC DET CP NORMOYLE TX-PROV GUARD CO CP CUSTER MICH. PROVOST GUARD CO DEVENS MASS-OFFICE CO B 3D BN US GUARD CP DEVENS MASS. The 132nd French Division was to be on the left and the 41st French on our right. Contact was reported with the 35th Division that afternoon, but the troops proved to be a combat liaison group, the main body of the 35th Division being farther south. Officers and men alike submitted to these examinations and any man found unfit was compelled to remain behind. When the success of the drive from the south was determined, the Division was moved by truck train during the night to the Vavincourt area, west of St. Mihiel, passing to command of Major General Hirschauer, Second French Army. On January 27 the Commander-in-Chief inspected and reviewed the Division in a field near the village of Belleme. 29TH CO CAC LOS ANGELES CALF -1ST CO CAC MANILA BAY, DET 86TH CO CAC REDES -8TH CO CAC FT MILLS, 10TH CO CAC MILITARY SURVEY OF LUZON-12TH CO CAC RCT DEPOT FT MILLS, 12TH CO CAC QUARTEL OF MANILA-111TH CO CAC, 111TH CO CAC REDES 15-20TH CO CAC MANILA BAY, 20TH CO CAC MANILA BAY-1ST CO CAC NARRAGANSETT BAY, 1ST CO CAC NARRAGANSETT BAY-5TH CO CAC NARRAGANSETT BAY, 5TH CO CAC NARRAGANSETT BAY-3RD CO CAC FT GREBLE, 117TH CO CAC FT DU PONT-52ND CAC FT RODMAN, 52ND CO CAC FT MONROE-4TH CAC JACKSON BKS, 75TH CO CAC FT McDOWELL-5TH CO CAC OAHU FT KAMEHAM, 6TH CO CAC FT KAMEHAMETHA-55TH CO CAC FT RUGER, 55TH CO CAC FT RUGER-159TH MOTOR CO CAC FT RUGER, 159TH CO CAC FT THOMAS-163RD CO CAC FT SHERIDAN, 22ND CO CAC -3RD CO CAC PORTLAND ME FT WILLIAMS, 3RD CO CAC PORTLAND ME CAC FT WILLIAMS-51ST CO CAC, 51ST CO CAC-21ST CO PORTLAND CA TRP FT PREBLE ME. The march was necessarily to be conducted at night, leaving Ravin de la Fuon by 19 oclock. As the 181st Brigade had fought its way to open ground and could see the German positions near Epinonville, about 2,000 yards north, the Brigade Commander attacked, although the battalion of artillery which was ready to support him was diverted and thus did not fire. This line was begun in October, 1917, and, while it was not entirely finished at the time of our attack, it had been thoroughly wired; and like all German rear positions, possessed very great natural advantages. This liaison force was to neutralize the German machine gun positions on the north slope of Vauquois Hill, covering the left flank of the 182nd Brigade, subsequently advancing in the direction of that brigade. At any rate, a formidable center of resistance was encountered on Hill 288, running over the crest of this hill in a general east and west line, a horseshoe-shaped defensive position chiefly organized from a sunken road with sheer walls between twenty and thirty feet high; perfectly concealed machine gun positions, tunneled from the south slope to the road to the south slope of the crest, enabled hostile machine gun fire not only to sweep the line of the 181st Brigade, but to enfilade the lines of the 1st and 32nd Divisions on its flanks. The Division on the 29th, however, showed how little the soldiers of the 91st were affected by the conditions. The French Army of Belgium, read the field orders of the 30th of October, will attack the enemy and drive him east of the Scheldt River.. Throughout the march of ten to twenty miles for the various units there were no buildings standing; locations of former towns were marked by sign-boards placed by the British, the English signs being very welcome to our troops. It was checked at the road Tronsol Farm-Grange aux Bois Farm by fire from the latter place. By reducing the number assigned to each car to about thirty-five it was possible to pack them in. Each French corps consisted of three French divisions. The 91st Division, from September 20 to 25, occupied not only the sector from which it was to attack, but also half of the sector from which the 37th Division, after arrival, was to attack on the right of the 91st. This may be ascribed to the greater strength of the American divisions, as well as to the fact that they fought boldly in the open and advanced much more rapidly than the French. 3. The following are the approximate quantities of hostile material taken by the 91st Division during the Meuse-Argonne: ON arrival at the Nettancourt area (Division Headquarters at Contrisson) 7 officers and about 4,000 men from the 85th Division joined as replacements. The Commanding General of the 58th Field Artillery Brigade was ordered to designate two regiments of 75s as accompanying batteries and supports for infantry regiments, one battalion being designated to support each regiment. History of the 363rd Infantry: One Regiment of the 91st Division in From Montiguy-le-Roi and vicinity the Division moved to the vicinity of Gondrecourt; Post of Command, known in the Army as P. C., being established at the latter place. This resulted in orders from the Division Commander to the 181st Brigade to take Grange aux Bois Farm, as mentioned above. As brigade and regimental commanders had not yet reached the vicinity of Ypres, as they were moving by automobiles, the only method of assembling the Division was to direct every battalion and company to march to the vicinity of Roulers, as General de Goutte had given the Division Commander permission to occupy all available billets in the area just west of Roulers, within a very few miles of where the French were fighting. DET ENL MEN OFF CHIEF OF FA-ARMY SERV DET QM DET, USMA DET CAV WEST POINT-USMA DET OF ENGRS WEST POINT. Both farms were to be held. Such were the nests that confronted our men as they reached the ravine of Lai Fuon and the open country to the north of Cheppy Wood. During the morning the elements which had not been relieved remained at their posts until relieved, notwithstanding they knew they should have been relieved at midnight. Orders from the First Army and Fifth Army Corps forbade more than one vehicle. A concentration of heavy artillery was put down for fifty minutes, 13 oclock to 13:50 oclock. This officially closed the Division in North Africa, and General Livesay wired the Commanding General of the North African Theater of Operations: "last elements of the 91st Division closed in Theater 10 May 1944, End." The great nation which holds us as a beloved sister came to help us throw back the German invasion. Meanwhile the 91st Division received orders attaching it to the Thirty-fourth French Corps while marching through the area of that corps in Belgium toward Dunkerque, France. It ran from the middle of the Bois de Cierges southwest through Les Bouleaux Bois. Uniformed as French, the Division Commander and Brigade and Regimental Commanders studied the ground over which they were to attack from these observation posts for two or three days before the attack was made. The 91st was directed to attack at H hour, October 31, on the front Waereghem (inclusive) to Steenbrugge (exclusive). Whenever it became necessary to send officers and men of the 91st into the line to acquaint them with the terrain over which they were shortly to battle, the Americans were garbed in the helmets and overcoats of the French. For example, by the end of January, 1945, the 47 th Infantry Regiment (which fought in France and Germany) had lost well over 100% of their strength to battle casualties, where men were either killed, wounded, missing, or taken as prisoner of war. The defenses of both hills flanked the approaches to each other and were protected by well-directed artillery barrage from the north. AIR SEC FLYING SCH-DET MED DEPT, ARMY VET. Prizes worth about $500 were purchased in Paris from the Division athletic fund. First Army Corps was to swing as a gate, pivoting in the Foret dArgonne toward the west, thus assisting the Fifth Army Corps in its assault through the center. At 23 oclock (11 P. M.), September 28, the Corps Commander directed renewal of the attack at 7 A. M. the next day, adding: 2. (Signed) G. W. Read Major General, U.S.A. One further point must be noted, namely, that the Germans did not expect the attack to pass trough the dense Bois de Cheppy and had therefore concentrated their attention on the defense of the open country of the Aire Valley and the northeastwardly running Ruisseau de Chambronne. 23RD BOMB SQ 5TH COMPOSITE LUKE FLD- 28TH BOMB SQ NICHOLAS FLD R.I. 28TH BOMB SQ AC NICHOLS FLD P.I- 22ND BOMB SQ 119TH BOMP GP LUKE FLD T.H, 72ND BOMB SQ AC LUKE FLD T.H- 10 CADET SQ CP DICK TEXAS, 11TH CADET SQ CP DICK TEXAS- 2ND OBSERVATION SQ AC, 2ND OBSERVATION SQ AC FT MILLS P.I. : 193rd regiment ohio volunteer infantry. That of the 91st Division, managed by Lieut. An attack directly east of the Meuse was foreseen and planned for, but no efforts were spared by the commanders between the Meuse and the Aisne to feel dut the Allied line and attempt to gain information as to what was going on along their particular front. In spite of these things, our leading elements crossed the woods and arrived at the German positions at La Neuve Grange Farm and along the Ravin de Lai Fuon. By the first day of August the Division was settled in its training area in the Department of Haute Marne. DET FIN DEPT FT MONMOUTH-ROTC DET COLETHORPE. His Majesty expressed appreciation of the method by which the Division had cleaned the streets and moved the debris of the bombardment and assisted in re-establishing civil government in Audenarde. The Division fell back to the billets assigned, remaining in those billets from the afternoon of the 4th until the 8th, renewing ammunition and rations, giving the men baths in certain delousing establishments formerly used by the Germans and preparing for further attack. The advance will be pushed by all divisions with the greatest vigor. The same order announced that the Fourth French Army covered the left of the American Army and that the Second French Army held the Verdun sector, covering the right flank of the American Army. Lieut. The Division detrained at four detraining points and was bivouacked the 18th and 19th of October in the devastated district about Ypres. The 364th Infantry, on the left of and following the 363rd, advanced beyond Very, digging in for the night southwest of, but near, the 363rd. It contains about 400 books. The 181st Brigade was directed to occupy Audenarde with a strong detachment, making demonstration of purpose to cross machine gun fire at all the broken bridges, and be ready to cross to support the attack of the 364th from the northeast. During the original German drive in August, 1914, the French were obliged to fall back down the Meuse and the Aire, Montf aucon was bombarded and taken, the enemy passed by Verdun and struck south. As Division Surgeon, Colonel Peter C. Field directed the formation of the Division sanitary units. On October 25 the Division was moved to an area south of Roulers with Headquarters at Chateau-Rumbeke. During these struggles, lasting centuries, imposed by the Germans upon the French, they finally destroyed the Celtic, Gaelic and French population which inhabited the left bank of the Rhine. The 91st Division, as far back as Seneux Farm, was exposed to attack from the west, and as far back as the southern edge of Bois Emont, to attack from the east. ORD ARMAMENT SCH-PHOTOGRAPHIC DET TECH SCH. The remainder of the Regiment went direct to Le Croci di Calenzano, the training area 14 miles Northwest of Florence. guns of each front-line regiment and one platoon of field artillery were ordered to accompany each leading battalion. The Commanding General of the 181st Brigade at 15:30 oclock reported that the 74th Brigade (37th Division) had retired at 14:10 oclock south and east of Bois Emont. Colonel T. A. Driscoll, Assistant Chief of Staff (G-2), was held at Nogent le Rotron in the afternoon of March 1. It is no reflection upon our air service that such a raid was possible. Hostile shelling became very severe, both upon the assaulting troops and also upon the town, but being driven back again and again. 354p. Due to the emergency, it was necessary to crowd soldiers into every available foot of, space on the transports. ORGN PARK QMC BASE SEC #1 RECP PARK AEF APO, DET MED DEPT BS #2 CP INF CP ST SULPIEC FR. 14TH FIELD ARTILLERY REGT BTRY C-HQ &HQ BTRY 15TH FA REGT. 1st Division - Major General Charles P. Summerall, commanding; Lieutenant Colonel Campbell King, Chief of Staff, Major H. K. Loughry, Adjutant General. According to the records of the Division, however, twelve men known to have been captured were returned after the armistice. Colonel M. E. Saville was given command of the 316th Trains and Military Police. 819TH CO TRANS CORPS-858TH CO TRANS CORPS. On November 7 Major General Massent to the Division Commander a special order commending the service of the Division, which was published to the command, expressed as follows: Transported from the Argonne to Flanders, the 91st American Division has again been thrown into the battle, a few hours after its arrival. The national anthems of America and France were played by a French band. Divisional Headquarters was established at Montigny-le-Roi. Considerable equipment, including machine gun carts and additional draft animals, was issued to the Division in Foret de Hesse. During the fighting of October 31 and November 1, prisoners were taken from all these units, as well as from the following artillery regiments: On November 1 (night) the 207th Division and the 49th Reserve Division were withdrawn, and the line of the Scheldt, opposite our front, was held (north to south) by the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division (20th Bavarian Regiment) and the 15th Reserve Division (25th Regiment). 77TH FIELD ARTILLERY BTRY E-80TH FA HQ REGT. The Civil War Archive section, 63rd Regiment Infantry, (accessed 19 September 2012). United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, Enlisted The 63rd Infantry Division ("Blood and Fire" [1]) was an infantry division of the United States Army that fought in Europe during World War II. RENSSELAER POLY TECNIC INST, S.A.T.C SEC A UNIV OF OKLA - S.A.T.C. For more than a thousand years this cathedral had formed the tomb of the Emperor Charlemagne. They were very glad to join any division and lose their casual status. The 96th Infantry Division is a unit of the United States Army that served in World War II . Although application was made to the Adjutant General of the Army for the names of men in excess of twelve reported alleged to have been captured, the Division Commander was informed that no general compilation had been made at the War Department, and the records of the American Expeditionary Forces, then en route to the United States, had not been recalled. Major Endicott was Division Machine Gun Officer. The Foret de Hesse, in which the 91st took up its position for the attack, and the Bois de Cheppy, through which it passed on the first day, are easterly extensions of the Foret dArgonne and like it, are thick, heavily underbrushed and cut by numerous ravines. On the 19th, P.C. The 361st Infantry and the 347th Machine Gun Battalion advanced at 9:40 oclock, October 9, the right assault battalion reaching the base of Hill 255 under heavy artillery and machine gun fire from the two crests north of them. 314th AMM TR, 4th MTR-316th AMM TR, Co E . From the number of prisoners captured and from the fact that it was soonest reinforced, it would appear that our blow fell most heavily upon the 1st Guard Regiment, for by the late afternoon of the 26th our left, south of Eclisfontaine, was encountering elements of two new regiments (20th Infantry and 3rd Grenadier) of the 5th Guard Division. On December 9 the 91st Division was assigned to the Second American Corps, Major General G. W. Read, whose headquarters were then at Boonetable in Le Mans area. They had been caught in the jammed Avocourt-Very road behind artillery, trucks, etc. Machine guns of the 346th Machine Gun Battalion from the orchard near Epinonville frequently fired upon hostile planes. The Hill of Montfaucon, topped by the town of the same name, is the highest point in the region and commands views over the entire district. The dispositions taken up at this time for the morns advance were as follows: Both brigades were to attack towards the Eclisfontaine-Epinonville line. U.S.A.T WRIGHT. Although they were assigned on paper to various units, they were not permitted to join, excepting those for the 182nd Infantry Brigade. Colonel Brees was shortly afterward detailed as Chief of Staff, Seventh Army Corps. Orders were received permitting certain men to go to leave areas. When the leading waves of the 363rd Infantry passed over La Cigalerie Butte, they entered the valley of the Buanthe into a cloud and mist which completely concealed them on Vauquois Hill less than a half-mile to the west. The smoke and fog were so thick that the deployed troops had great trouble in keeping their alignment and intervals.
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