Redesignated as 965th Field Artillery Battalion 10 July 1946, reorganized and Federally recognized with HQ Klamath Falls 13 November 1947. Rosebaum asked for At an earlier and more optimistic hour this company had been dispatched to Houffalize with orders to make a counterattack southward to relieve the pressure on Bastogne. About the same time the 87th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, temporarily under the command of Maj. Charles A. Cannon, Jr., reported to General Clarke in St. Vith, the first unit of the 7th Armored to reach the 106th Division. Shortly after midnight the Ninth Army was informed that the two columns would depart at 0330 and 0800; actually the western column moved out at 0430. During the lull that followed, a platoon of light cavalry tanks and a section of towed tank destroyers came east from the river road to give a hand. fog but the nine hundred rounds plunging onto the Schnberg road Yet at no time during the day did the Germans use more than three assault guns and one or two platoons of infantry in the piecemeal attacks west of Schnberg. A small German attack hit the right flank just as the move was being. The German force left at Recht was no more than a screen, although under orders to maintain pressure on Poteau. 806 Bomb Squadron (446 Bomb Group) The Americans had blown the bridge and fallen back through Salmchteau to the lines of the 82d, whereupon a few of the Germans crossed the river and entered the village. Lt. Col. Fred M. Warren, acting commanding officer, sent the driver on to division headquarters to tell his story, and at the same time he asked for a company of infantry. By noon Task Force Lohse and most of the artillery had crossed the river at Vielsalm. of firing moving west. The liquidation of the Schnee Eifel pocket had freed the last elements of the LXVI Corps for use at St. Vith; General Lucht now could concentrate on the reduction of that town. General Hoge conferred with General Jones at St. Vith and the two decided that the combat command should withdraw from the river northwest to slightly higher ground. 7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. On the morning of 20 December the Americans defending St. Vith held A disabled German self-propelled gun is in the foreground. The bulk of CCB, 7th Armored Division, represented by Task Force Lohse (formerly Erlenbusch), commanded by Maj. Leslie A. Lohse, and Task Force Boylan, started to withdraw shortly after daybreak, Boylan's command acting as the division rear guard. trunk lines, although in the late summer of 1944 work had been started Well to the rear of the 1st SS The high ground commanding Chrain, seven miles northeast of Houffalize at the junction of the roads from Vielsalm and St. Vith which led to that town, was organized for defense without enemy hindrance. The eight battalions of field artillery taking part in the defense were put on a strict ration, seven rounds for each 105-mm. The center regiment of the 62d Volks Grenadier Division (the 190th), charged with seizing the high ground in the thick forest east of Grufflange, did get one battalion under way in the morning and succeeded, in overrunning an armored infantry platoon and three tank destroyers belonging to CCB, 9th Armored. Undetected, a German rifle company reached Neubrueck, in the valley southwest of Bauvenn, where the command post of the 27th Armored Infantry Battalion was located. The Mobile Battalion (comprising three platoons of assault guns, a company of engineers, and another of fusiliers) did not arrive at Schnberg until after noon. howitzer batteries of the 965th Field Artillery Battalion (the only corps artillery still in the sector) put more firepower at the disposal of the St. Vith defenders just at a time when the Germans were bringing their guns into position east of town. Darkness descended over the Salm valley as CCR sped across the Vielsalm bridge. west from Rodt. This detachment had literally forced its way, at pistol point and by The gap between the western anchor of the north flank at Vielsalm and the eastern outposts of the 82d Airborne Division was closed toward the end of the day when patrols from the 505th Parachute Infantry met a reconnaissance party from the 7th Armored south of Trois Ponts. A light colored monolith granite stone with a thunderbolt symbol cannon, hand and thunderbolt at the top followed by the inscription: 65th ARMD FA BN (SEP) THE Thunderbolt Battalion 105MM HOW M-7 WW II TUNISIA SICILY First ARTY BN to Land 6 June 1944 Normandy Rhineland Northern France Central Europe Supported in combat 4 Armies 8 CORPS 18 Throughout the 19th there were sporadic clashes with the enemy around the perimeter. and the sizable attached units all would have to make their westward Gen. Robert W. Hasbrouck) was in the XIII Corps reserve, planning for possible commitment in the Ninth Army Operation DAGGER intended to clear the Germans from the west bank of the Roer River once the dams were destroyed.2. The southern force of CCB, 7th Armored, under Colonel Wemple, was next to go, the plan calling for a move south through Braunlauf and onto the route traveled by Hoge's columns. Remer's heavy Panthers had made bad going of the muddy roads north of Rodt. The LVIII Panzer Corps commander was anxious to get the 1130th It was on this estimate that General. these units had carried out a successful withdrawal under the most difficult The First Army commander, tired and worried from the strain under which he had lived since 16 December, agreed to the withdrawal.6. Armored. Find A Battery, 965th Field Artillery Battalion unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. 922nd Battalion. St. Vith lay approximately twelve miles behind the front lines on 16 The glare thrown over the snow silhouetted the figures of enemy infantrymen advancing toward the Poteau crossroads. Battalion, at the tail of the column, rolled through Stavelot about 0800 on the morning of 18 December, it found itself in the middle of a fire fight between the advance guard of the 1st SS. Hq, 6th Armd Go 15 Jun 44-16 Jun 44. the river had been completed, that only the 112th covering force remained. He cannot protect Poteau. Hasbrouck had not yet sent his message to Ridgway when word came of the German advance against the north flank of CCB, 7th Armored, in the Rodt sector. South of St. Vith, where CCB, 9th Armored, had redressed its lines during the previous night consonant with the 7th Armored position on the left and taken over a five-mile front, the enemy made some attempt to press westward. to act as a breakwater holding the LXVI Corps in check while On the left the bulk of the 62d Volks Grenadier Division was still confronted with an unbroken defense. He decided, therefore, to flank the St. Vith defenses from the north as soon as his brigade, scheduled to arrive on 20 December, was in hand. It finally arrived in the division assembly area east of Vielsalm late in the afternoon. The divisional artillery would not be in position to support the attack. in communication with any other Americans. the 9th SS Panzer Division, reinforced by the 519th The gunners, as infantry observers reported, "threw everything at Wallerode but the shoes on their feet." superior force in front of St. That the enemy was prepared to contest this move all intelligence reports affirmed. did much to check the grenadiers. Another small German detachment deployed in front of the engineers an hour later was engaged and was finally put to flight by American fighter planes in one of their few appearances over the battlefield on this day. Our supplies must come in through a bottleneck over a bridge near Vielsalm. True, Kampfgruppe Peiper had been pretty well bottled up on the corps left wing; but this effort had been made by thinning the line between Malmdy and Trois Ponts. This fire was quite ineffectual and there was little comprehension in. At the small village of Petit Thier it was discovered that a lieutenant from the 23d Armored Infantry Battalion, separated from his column on the march south, had heard the firing at Poteau and had rounded up a collection of stray tanks, infantry, cavalry, and engineers to block the way to Vielsalm.4 The CCR commander took over this roadblock and, as the force swelled through the day with incoming stragglers and lost detachments, extended the position west of the village. So far we are missing at least one half of Clarke's force. Mayes's group moved out from the crossroads at first light on 18 December but had gone only some two hundred yards when flame shot up from the leading light tank and an armored car, the two struck almost simultaneously by German bazooka fire. south and rising against its eastern face. But Hasbrouck had no doubt that General Middleton counted on the continued defense of the St. Vith road center-this part of the mission needed no reiteration. The headquarters and tank company had little time to get set, for about 0200 the advance guard of the southern German column hit the village from the east and northeast. The unit formed at Fort Jay, New York as a company in the 2 nd Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers during the expansion of the Army during the . From these Jones learned that both regiments had begun The bulk of the LXVI Corps remained wedged in the streets of St. Vith or backed up along the roads funneling in from the east. One brief engagement was fought on the 18th at Gouvy, a rail and road junction southwest of Beho. Dismounted infantry in foxholes control the intersection at Poteau but [it is] covered by enemy fire." One company of Shermans circled in the direction of Wallerode, falling on the enemy flank while the tank destroyers contained the head of the German column on the Hnnange road. This was sometime after 1900. The closest of the northern armored routes, as these appeared on the German operations maps, ran through Recht, about five miles northwest of St. Vith. Both infantry regiments are in bad shape. As light broke, the right battalion of Remer's brigade attacked to cut the main western road close to Poteau. of the Ardennes battleground. to pull out of Salmchteau. in the new American positions on the far bank; thus while the main frontage the regiment now was between five and six hundred), and had been unable difficult job of disengaging from an enemy who might continue the attack Since the VIII Corps itself was in possession of only fragmentary information on the German strength and locations there was little to be passed on to the division commanders. Meanwhile, as dawn drew near, the left wing of the 164th moved against Thommen, where a cavalry platoon held an outpost to the south of the main CCB, 9th Armored, lines. They had firmly choked Bad road conditions, the blown bridge at Steinebrck, and continued attempts by Sixth Panzer Army columns to usurp the corps main supply road at Schnberg combined to delay Lucht's concentration. At 1345 Hasbrouck sent the signal for CCA to pull out. Here the first identification was made of the 9th SS Panzer Division. Late in the day General Jones moved the 106th command post to Vielsalm, setting up near General Hasbrouck's headquarters. Two German Divisions, 116 Pz and 560 VG, are just starting to attack NW with their right on Gouvy. 955th Field Artillery Battalion (155 Howitzer - Tractor Drawn) HOME STATION: Brooklyn, NY Armory 1402 8th Avenue: DATE MOBILIZED: 19 AUG 50: . The attachment already existing was thus legalized. . With little protection against the German bazooka teams a number of the fighting vehicles pulled out of danger. and an assault gun platoon, was deployed along the 3,000 yard stretch Although rationing had begun, there was no immediate threat that food, gasoline, or ammunition would fail. But the combat echelons of the two regiments of the 62d Volks Grenadier Division which had bypassed the city on the south were in position by the night of the 22d to renew the attack. Striking northwest and fighting off the small blocking forces left behind by Kampfgruppe Krag, the bulk of this part of the column succeeded in reaching the 82d Airborne. able to fight their way out through Schnberg as General Jones Usually, 4 to 6 guns made up a battery in the field artillery. This estimate was received at the headquarters of the VIII Corps at 0500 on 17 December, the first indication, it would appear, that the leading armored elements would arrive at 1400 instead of 0700 as planned. 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