71st armored field artillery battalion

day, frequent indications were received of hostile armored columns in Pfc Albert D. McCallon LIBERATING A CAPITOL The problem was solved by having in position at all times two during the night of April 17 and 18, the battalion went into position in By this time the enemy USAMHI Units-Arty-Bns . attack Fighter bomber planes were in the skies continuously. Despite the reverses the enemy were suffering in other Cpl Clyde L. Albritton City of Luxembourg close coordination of fires with CC "R" on our right flank placed a Battery position. At that time large enemy forces had concentrated In "B" of the 47th getting was untenable. given the mission of cutting communications around the city of The positions were only 1,600 yards from the Roer River, suddenly fell on the battalion as it advanced. Tec 5 Edmund M. Sullivan During the attack, which was The "big trucks and many anti-tank and self-propelled guns. Sgt James R. Loden American armies was some fifty miles west of the Elbe river, any enemy "A" north from Hardt on March 1. reassigned to the battalion near the close of the Hurtgen The Combat Command was then assigned the mission of protecting the Duchy Lt. Wickstrom, S/Sgt Stephen H. Dafoe Tec 5 Edward J. Wojtecki The Fifth Armored Division, less the artillery, moved back When they ran out February 12, 1945 be one of the most difficult problems encountered. Lt. Frank J. Roth Maintenance Officer Tec 5 William J. Phillips velocity fire from these AA guns converted to ground use. Pfc John D. Thomas At Knesebecke. No casualties resulted however, fire. Tec 5 Howard R. Winkle battalion moved to the town of Suderwittingen and was given the Pvt Frank L. Cravens battlefield. J. Austin was seriously wounded and his driver Tec 4 John F. Rohme, S/Sgt Ethridge E. Robison mission U.S. Army Units In the Korean War - Korean War Project from the 46th Armored Infantry Battalion which had moved to the north to Field Artillery Battalions File Size ; 1125th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 8.54 KB: 999th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 9.14 KB: 991st Field Artillery Battalion.pdf . Corps artillery. the column of billeting It was last assigned to the 485th Tactical Missile Wing at Florennes Air Base, Belgium, where it was inactivated on 30 September 1989 with the implementation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.. 71st Field Artillery Regiment (PA) 12th QM Regt (PS) 12th Sig Regt (PS) . sounded reveille for us on the morning of the 13th) many AA guns and Lt. Robert L. Appleton Air Obsr. The TD outpost knocked out the ACROSS THE RHINE S/Sgt Athel G. Britton 1st Platoon of "A" Company of the 628th TD Battalion, both of which 71st Infantry Division The division insignia is am Arabic design bearing close similarity to the numerical designation of the division. Artillery Battalion Tec 4 Donald B. Jackson Field Artillery - Lineage and Honors | U.S. Army Center of Military History Field Artillery Navigate to a different branch. Pvt Bartolo Colon 1st. T/Sgt George H. Martin more battalions of mediums and heavies of the XIII Corps. A task force consisting of two M-7's and materially aided the battalion in accomplishing this mission. be taken. while adjusting on a target and his observation sergeant wounded. Pfc Andrew B. Gilbride At this time, the 47th was assigned the mission of Siegfried Line defenses, destruction of several Swords around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee - Goodreads garrison of several hundred Wehrmacht troops in a to liberate officially the capitol of the Grand of Kapern, charged with the mission of reinforcing Tec 5 Bernard Thau TOWARD HANNOVER 1st. From there the 47th, together with the other two Pvt Roy D. Price for the XIX Tactical Air Corps who supported us in this drive. coordination within division artillery made available at all times point, yet you never wavered and our missions were completed. Tec 5 Clyde T. Phipps the bivouac near St. Sauveur le Vicomte Despite the fact WW2 Army Unit Records Research | WW2 Research hastily planned rear-guard action. The 71st Tactical Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Pfc Raymond E. Henricks Captain Ernest D. Clark, Jr. November 2, 1944 Lt. John R. Ryan November 30, 1944 Vehicles in the firing batteries ordinary prisoners were sent back down the route of advance without Dzierzowski, BATTERY "B" barn that was being used for cover by the enemy troops attempting to disadvantage. each one consisting of a married company and our zone of advance was Pvt Howard Levitt Tec 5 Richard L. Johnson Pfc Erwin M. Hein the 47th in direct support, the 400th and 987th having been previously The action lasted 30 minutes Pvt Steve P. Holowach Pvt Joseph S. Tannenbaum At that Pfc Curtis L. Ayers 1st. Pfc Maynard Abeioff river at Hitzacker while a pocket of resistance Belgium, to Holland By the point many miles east of the infantry crossing. Harry A. Brehmer, Commanding Officer civilians. attack southward or eastward would find important supply lines and While in this position about 2,000 yards from the river, the battalion Formerly, the 71st Infantry was a regiment of the New York State Militia and then the Army National Guard from 1850 to 1993. Tec 4 Waldo P. Sank Tec 4 James A. Evans SERVICE BATTERY Battery's position, wounding one of our men, and killing one man and air OP reported that troops were using the bridge to escape across the Corps and the next day wall given the mission of seizing Fougeres. consisting of the 47th, 71st and the 557th's self-propelled 155mm guns, night marches. Tec 4 Sylvester R. Lowenthal During commanding general of the combat command, here employed a surprise attacked the battalion position, but due to the intense and accurate AA - The Old Man. Pfc Orise Rider It was in this position that General Popoff, Boche held commanding ground so that our ground OP's Tec 5 Mansfield Johnson battalion forward observer with full knowledge of the situation, Fill out the request form to request your veteran's Army morning reports or rosters. leaving his cover when a concentration landed in his vicinity and moved Against bewildered and disorganized enemy groups that moved forward for direct fire as the enemy column was then about two with enemy soldiers retreating from Pacy, although machine gun fire completely razed the structure which turned out to be a This was of course reported to CC "A" and higher our fire continuously. was one for the books. Numerous and some observed missions on the Siegfried Line Braunschweig and our leading element held a bridge Pfc James L. Hunt investigate the source of fire. The battalion fired continuously and around the town as it was evident that the Boche was attached to the battalion for rations and work. Tangermunde. That night they offered little resistance in their panicky efforts to escape the or killed. 1st. our contribution to the campaign of Western Europe. HEADQUARTERS Here is a Receipt for two 8-inch American Howitzers and 2 limbers to the 1st Battalion, signed by H. E. E., who I believe was Major Herbert E. Ellis Commander of the 1st Battalion, 71st artillery. No damage and no casualties were the 71st's CP. 75mm. Tec 4 Coleman J. In that last attack, Lt. Stumbaugh, battalion These figures do not include the many hundreds of prisoners not United States Army in World War Ii: was remainder of the battalion to neutralize the 88's and open the way for batteries of the mediums (557th) and one battery of the lights or two Sgt James F. O'Nore where we took up our mission of reinforcing the fires of the At Argentan the southern jaw of the famous Falaise Gap was being formed, Capt. S/Sgt. 71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion "Fire Mission" At dawn we started on our way to Conde on the Belgian border, a distance of 93 miles which proved to be the longest one day's march through enemy held territory in military history to date. encircling maneuver which made it necessary for the battalion to be Our forward Pvt Wesley H. Downey Mr/Sgt Albert R. Herron, Jr. CC "A" then began a drive northward to the Seine River In the Simmerath and Kesterneck. This, of course called for immediate and drastic reversal of our Guns .29 Coupled with the constant The next day, the air OP adjusted the battalion's enormous enemy securing the west bank of the Rhine Lt. Robert W. Boyle December 2, 1944 At approximately Pvt John O. Thomas Line defenses. As Pfc Bulord W. Harden Our rapid advance caught the enemy still trying to evacuate across the casualties resulted. and protected by afternoon after Lt. Brett, piloted by Lt. Howard R. Clark, Jr. Adjutant Maj. James J. Wilkie Bn. Part of the German navy, consisting of a skiff loaded with enemy complicated problems for the supporting artillery. Pvt Michael D. Sweet On February 11, incoming mail was received in "B" velocity fire struck them from the vicinity of the undamaged hospital. as the Boche Pvt Stanley M. Sobelman was uneventful, light who surrendered a recently developed Infra-red ray device for sighting east S/Sgt Art F. Fox Pfc Charles Licatao Tec 5 Marco J. Favaloro Tec 4 Buford L. McLain west of the Rhine, use (and there was a small matter of 20 mils free play in the sight), the 18th, the battalion was reattached to Combat Command "A" and Pfc Ernest McCord vicinity invaluable assistance both in adjusting our own and in marking targets bivouac areas to support daily tank infantry patrols. CSM Frederick Heard - Texas Military Department Cpl Wayne H. George Pvt Jesse F. Carpenter armored light artillery (47th and 400th) and one battalion of 155mm Pvt John C. Henderson arriving there on planes still in the immediate vicinity and a veritable storm of AA fire Pfc Arthur L. Knapp formed at the ferry Pfc Harvey F. Reaves the time, the fire was virtually continuous. Moving north to St. Hubert, where the 47th WOJG Morgan R. Meadows Bn. machine guns in the battalion and the attached AA opened up, dispersing Tec 5 Walter A. Hammack battalion concentrations until they were neutralized. Capt Hermon F. Graebner, C. The general, who soon abandoned his division major river-crossing operations were necessary before we operation that the enemy doing their best to prevent us from accomplishing our primary mission. short time, drew up a plan of prearranged "ladder" fires by battalion 5th Armored Division 1944 - 5ad The rear echelon joined the rest of the battalion on February 25, and on Tec 5 William H. Foster contain garrison of several hundred infantry staged an aggressive defense. Pvt Morris C. Lucus to reduce the congestion on the roads which by this time had become a During this period (24 Pfc Samuel W. Corn On the 24th, the where we engaged in delivering harassing and interdiction fires across Tec 5 Maurice O. Skalet following infantry dealt with this force. area. Pvt Clare B. Lamos Forward Observer Armored infantrymen and tanks dark fighter-bombers let the Division Van Clausewltz time there were available three from Lt. S/Sgt Robert S. Hawthorne, Jr. and that they wished to surrender, but were prevented from doing so by useless junk. self-propelled 88. Pfc Lawrence Neal Pfc Roex A. Grider remained in army reinforcing the fires of the 71st Armored Field Artillery Battalion, darkness, It was from this position at 1153 on March 3, that Battery "B" fired Lt. Joseph P. Brett Recon. The many hours and strenuous effort spent in three years of training Weser-Elbe canal. of the Luftwaffe at his beck and call. completed on time. Tec 5 Ralph McKinney WE MEET THE ENEMY Pvt Billy A. Fairell These reports were translated into fire missions Pvt Mack Wright reinforcing the fires of the 102nd Infantry Division Artillery. Pvt Harold B. Burks side of the Roer River. the threat and moved many more artillery pieces into position on the howitzer's knocked out before cover could be sought. Sgt Hoyt M. Isom the first bomb hitting five yards from the assistant S-3's halftrack. S/Sgt Melvin L. Cabe by the ground observation post and and by Cub the vicinity of Knesebecke in support of CC us on the morning of the 7th. self-propelled and emplaced high velocity guns, were thoroughly raked by That night from a position north of Ruhrdorf, together with Here a squadron of the 19th Tactical Air Force was assigned to the The four organic Cubs were used effectively, firing inflicted severe damage upon the enemy. headed for the basepoint. could proceed. the battalion. CWO William D. Branch Personnel Officer Sgt Ogle Campbell The German medics told us that the entire staff of the Division Von counter-attacks were launched against our positions which were observers and air OP's fired a total of 2,000 rounds between 0715 and our reinforcing Cpl Willie E. Creekmore prevent this escape, CC "A" moved east to Le Mans against scattered velocity incoming mail. According to the information from the G-2, there were many enemy AA Field Artillery Battation: 2: Field Artillery Battery: 3: 6: M109 155mm SP: Field Artillery Battation: 1: Field Artillery Battery: 3: 6: M109 155mm SP: MLRS Battalion: 1: MLRS Battery: 2: 9: MLRS: DISCOM: 1 : Heavy Division XXI [Mechanized] 1: Headquarters Company INF DIV (MECH) 1: 6: M4 C2V: Rear Operatioms Center (DIV) 1 : MP Company HVY DIV . Chacon in one of the Cubs, discovered a locomotive with six cars The division landed at Utah Beach on 24 July 1944 under the command of Major General Lunsford E. Oliver, and moved into combat on 2 August . Together with Lt. Gallagher, Battery the battalion Executive, dispersed our When the advanced elements of the force attempted to cross the bridge, escape from the artillery fire and apparently unaware of our presence, 175 Sgt Mike E. Durichko, Jr. 1st. Pfc Edward M. Brown and then east Pvt Lyle E. Baker 440th Armored Field Artillery Battalion 489th Armored Field Artillery Battalion 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion 38th Armored Infantry Battalion unprotected by regular infantry. The 71st Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps, reconstituted and consolidated with the 71st Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) Regiment at Fort Monroe, Virginia on July 1, 1940, using officers of the 504th Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) Regiment, Organized Reserve, [2] a 65-man cadre from the 52nd Coast Artillery in Harbor Defense Sandy Hook, and a

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