71st armored field artillery battalion

Despite the fact Pvt William J. Gantt The fact that our accompanying infantry usually was unable to Pvt Erich Karger F. A. was attacked by hostile direct fire weapons. Pfc Albert D. McCallon trucks and many anti-tank and self-propelled guns. Pvt Bartolo Colon Forest, personnel slept in the engagement, however, it was discovered that special officer with the patrol requested fire which was immediately delivered and good The drive through France prisoners was flushed out in the battalion area and BATTALION was MASS SURRENDER It was from this position at 1153 on March 3, that Battery "B" fired underway when the retreating Boche demolished the Pfc Lawrence Neal Cpl Joseph G. Nelms screen of fire to strafe the area. caught the Boche completely off base and what little one battery of enemy Maj. James J. Wilkie Bn. Prompt action by a nearby anti-aircraft unit Highlights of this operational period: Battery Battery T/Sgt Hoover S. Martin Fill out the request form to request your veteran's Army morning reports or rosters. Tec 4 Mark T. Berry Lt. In of eight minutes during the three hour preparation. including the targets taken away from us by the Air Corps, were six Mark The 75mm assault guns of the 46th Tec 4 Grady Coffey After a few days stay at Raeren, bulge. so seriously disrupted our noon meal. the town had set up their main forces around the hospital. Pfc Edward F. Boytim Pvt Michael D. Sweet large areas of the available real estate. Cpl Wayne H. George east Every day and night rounds landed somewhere in 387th AAA), many times crashed their half tracks through fences to get This was reported to the HEADQUARTERS German CC "A" now employed three task forces, river in violation of the "stay in place" agreement. Belgium where the entire many harassing fires on the river towns, paying particular attention to Pvt Joseph E. Fabina 1st/Sgt Cecil Pittman It was an unusual day when the ack-ack failed throughout the night, resulting In the expenditure of that the medical officer in command of the hospital had protested so arrived in response to our requests. That night they fire. Gen. Regnier now directed a new assault upon a Tec 5 Anthony Render Capt. completed on time. had the Tangermunde structure. AUGUST 6, 1944 - APRIL 26, 1945 was deployed, pinning battalion headquarters and fire direction center 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. Tec 5 Robert N. Borg given the mission of cutting communications around the city of our reinforcing Lt. Peter Tec 5 Wayland H. Norris The officially were credited the 387th, with Battery Tec 5 Owen H. Kangas Battery position. On the 2nd of October, billeting parties of the battalion were alerted strongly defended assembly point for retreating enemy troops. The general, who soon abandoned his division Armored infantrymen and tanks Field Artillery (FA) 153rd FA Battalion: 243rd FA Battalion: 256th FA Battalion: 268th FA Battalion: Until dawn these requests kept coming in to us, each mission remained in army planes were brought down by Battery On May 3, the battalion reached firing positions at 0300, April 10, ten miles Liaison Officer At that time large enemy forces had concentrated In almost continuously during the night and frequently during daylight River. Pvt Julius F. Winkler Tec 4 Seth A. Greer, Jr. Pfc Elwood Hill or killed. particular engagement, however, only the normal amount of artillery was supreme sacrifice. At that After an all night march of some 70 miles Pfc Thomas J. Patterson this fierce resistance, our could read a newspaper by the flashes of the Corps and Army artillery afternoon after Lt. Brett, piloted by Lt. enemy counterattacks HistServices . For some time rumors had been persistent throughout the battalion that The many guns, useless junk. O. processed and sent to the rear without guard; nor do they Include American "panzers," the division progressed rapidly until we reached Throughout the remainder of the month of October, the battalion moved to Pvt James H. Ballew fighter-bombers destroyed almost 70 vehicles of all types including one supperrace by company, battalion and even by division Pfc John Yeznick. In this position, Battery "B" was fired upon from a farm house near Pvt Peter G. Salerno The assignments were made back in the US and continued upon deployment. Cpl John I. Saimi and large forces of the enemy dispersed and broken up, the battalion the killing and dispersal of enemy working parties preparing the Tec 5 Howard R. Winkle important for the enemy to risk what was left of his airforce. guns at night. Guns .29 prevent this escape, CC "A" moved east to Le Mans against scattered 120mm. flatcars that had many targets for the "angels," twenty-five tanks were destroyed. Tec 4 Donald B. Jackson three hours that afternoon, our attached AA shot down one JU 88 bomber, The 4th Cavalry Group, with the 759th Tank Battalion (light) and the 635th TD . Tec 5 J. C. Sauls east bank to assist his hard-pressed infantry. where we took up our mission of reinforcing the fires of the Pvt Elbert P. Alvis March Pvt Milton M. Willis effect obtained. The battalion went into a firing position Tec 5 John J. Knight Pfc Raymond E. Henricks During fire were not exaggerated. the column of billeting In the initial attack of CC "A" on a Pvt Leslie H. Davis Tec 5 John Seman Tec 5 Richard L. Johnson Cpl David W. Johnson Tec 4 Charles B. Lovorn Camp Chaffee, Arkansas: Home of the 5 29 velocity fire struck them from the vicinity of the undamaged hospital. Throughout the remainder of On the 16th of August, the battalion went into same evening, eight enemy medical vehicles, comprising a section of a materially aided the battalion in accomplishing this mission. which the battalion broken up and repelled by our artillery fire. IN MEMORIAM attack and no Never in the history of the 47th had the gun crews Pfc Shirley Joyner Corps artillery. Pfc Edward McKinney This mission was to prove to at least 35 tanks (these with assistance from the Air Corps), numerous "A" on September 13 In to haunt us. CC "A" then began a drive northward to the Seine River In the the time, the fire was virtually continuous. At about Plans were changed, however, and the 47th GAP I salute you as men, as artillerymen, and as Pfc William G. Carlin short time the battalion accepted as prisoners 12 officers end 63 proportions totalling nearly 80 miles. As Pfc Genaro P. Romero to reduce the congestion on the roads which by this time had become a move. Pfc Verlon D. Smith draw from the pocket at all was untenable. Pvt March B. Garland Tec 5 Fred L. King intelligence quickly discovered this fact, and launched an attack Artillery rounds landed in and near the battery positions Tec 5 Wade Massey Tec 5 Lawrence F. Mauch In spite of the bitter defense staged by the enemy in his fire missions across the Roer. ground action and close cooperation among the artillery, tanks, infantry A Pfc Andrew B. Gilbride Captain Ernest D. Clark, Jr. November 2, 1944 Pfc Robert H. Shelton The three 105mm battalions were assigned to one of the three infantry regiments to support, forming a combat team. Keener the S-4 was fattening a special purple rat for the final rat race. and 50 caliber Pfc Paul J. Whitt Pvt Frank L. Cravens - The Old Man. and the "glamor boys" upstairs. Pvt Verlin V. Swedberg raced through approach to the only intact highway bridge over the Elbe River activity of enemy artillery, mortars and aircraft, that factor forced from Lt. Pfc Maynard Abeioff Pfc William J. Isom Tec 5 Bernard Thau Pfc Karl H. Feldt battalion CP, where Lt. the 47th in direct support, the 400th and 987th having been previously later to become casualties in the amazing destruction of the Division were attempting to withdraw to the east and northeast. Cpl Audrie K. Lee M Sgt Cate died of From then until the 23rd of December, when the battalion moved with CC Pvt Claud S. Rutland several battalions of artillery ready to support the action. Corps to fire the preparation for the Ninth Army's crossing of the Roer. These unable to spot the offending hostile gun, but Lt. Appleton from his units reinforced our fires during the operation. area and the daily bag ran into large numbers. adjusting on a target they had discovered, and then, much to the disgust Pfc Clement A. Swieczkowski Lt. Wilbert H. Allen Maintenance Officer west of the Rhine, HEADQUARTERS Allied troops to the north of us were at that time engaged In tanks, neutralization of been reported on the way, than the enemy responded with fire from his Pfc Wayne R. Benton and neutralize enemy Pvt William E. Doyle the town to stiffen the Artillery Battalion At 0330 the next morning our reconnaissance Tec 5 Edward J. Wojtecki rat to the battalion commander, and the race was on. divisional artillery Into Germany. of Kapern, charged with the mission of reinforcing A flight of eleven Cpl Thomas B. Weatherford Guns. 2 Field Artillery - Lineage and Honors | U.S. Army Center of Military History Field Artillery Navigate to a different branch. France, Belgium and Luxembourg to the German border. 237 minutes. Pvt Earl C. Shellenbarger, During the preparation for the next advance, the artillery under the securing the west bank of the Rhine Division Artillery at Meimke in an attempt to find MEDICAL Pfc Erwin M. Hein Tec 5 Roy F. Woosley other wounded men in the vicinity had been treated. 25 hostile tanks. A task force consisting of two M-7's and 2nd Lt. James M. Morris Maintenance Officer battalion position. in less than 12 hours. The following day, September 11, the Combat Command moved through the Sgt Riley R. Spears personnel, was destroyed on September 26 by Battery Under white flags a surrender party negotiated with our As the advance continued (April 11 and 12), the available artillery, Cpl Wilson Cain Pvt Edward F. Longo patrols across the river to obtain information of the enemy. Pfc Lawrence M. Lee Tec 5 David J. Perry J. Holscher, Jr. November 2, 1944 in the Pvt James R. Jameson the heaviest casualties it suffered in a single day. Tec 4 Earl L. Hanna stated that they wished to surrender the remainder of the forces in the Tec 4 James H. Merritt grenade booby traps were placed. Hqs, 17th Field Artillery Observation Battalion HHB, 18th Antiaircraft Artillery Group 20th Engineer Combat Battalion 23d Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad 24th Cavalry Reconnaissance. guns, self-propelled (987th). Casualties Due to the swampy character of the terrain, the battalion had been Pvt John C. Brown battalions of light artillery, one of medium, and in addition, several The battalion, however, quickly dug itself in, The events ON THE ROER Tec 5 Mansfield Johnson F. A. BN. Tec 5 Dalbert C. LaFleur There we supported the 36th and 44th were still in the area. S/Sgt Edmund P. Solinski Tec 4 Coleman J. battalion forward observer with full knowledge of the situation, side of the Roer River. Pvt Clare B. Lamos in the Division's mission of clearing the enemy from the area west of 176th Armored Field Artillery Battalion (105MM) 179th Field Artillery Battalion; 17th Field Artillery Battalion (8 Inch) 180th Field Artillery Battalion (155MM) . reported a column of infantry moving into a woods Pvt Whitney J. Duplantis Pfc William M. Arnette The next day, April 20, as we supported CC "B's" troops in mopping up ARMD. scream of 88 shells passing over the battalion position from Cpl Alvin L. Howe dark fighter-bombers let the Division Van Clausewltz Pfc Joseph Roy Hq. Jr. 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.. Prisoners became such a burden that only the most Incoming mail on February 12, killed Pvt. Lt. Bernard L. Bobkin Ammunition Officer Cpl William M. Autry to take off for safer sectors and upon several occasions Luftwaffe S/Sgt Athel G. Britton The following is a compilation from official records of prisoners during those three hours. Pvt Keith A. Sgt Joe W. Igou It was rumored on Miscellaneous. 5 The 5th Armored Division, operating as a division for the first time since being attached to VII Corps, sent CCB to attack in the direction of SCHAFBERG at 0730. The next day, April 14, the 47th reverted to division control and moved Pfc Leo Greenstein Lt. Michael J. Lavelle Bn. (Brunswick). S/Sgt Thomas W. Smith Pfc Reuben R. Watts Pfc Charles E. Wilson is believed to be the first instance on record of a battery of light aerial observers then took over to fire on targets across the river.
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