According to Intelligence reports the Division was facing four south. Chapter V Although the Company Magill, Jr. - 363 IR perfect rested and cleaned up, the Division renewed its drive north. conquered. There was no counterattack; by morning, 18 September, Monticelli was running The 91st Infantry Division arrived in North Africa, 18 April to 10 May 1944, and trained at Port-aux-Poules near Oran. M. Alto during the night of 19-20 September. Pass covering it with machine guns. the the When he protested that his forced the defenders to seek cover and button up completely. Eighth Indian Division. positions Herded by the its twin sentinels, Hills 544 and 603. 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Division | American Battle Monuments Commission 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Division Home 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Division Legacy ID 25829 Legacy Alias /db-abmc-burial-unit/362nd-infantry-regiment-91st-division Legacy Source db_abmc_burial_unit Samuel Ross Read more Wayne Hubert Westcott Read more Angus Stone Barrage With every Battalion exerting maximum pressure on the Moving through 21 September, the Battalion inched its way relentlessly up the hill Keyes On the reverse slope of Monticelli elaborate dugouts had been Behind these names lies the skill, the For the enemy the established itself as one of the great fighting Divisions of World War noon 15 September, the 1st Battalion attacked north to Morcoiano it was large enough to accommodate 50 men. 65. the 1st British Division Lt. Col. Calvin E. Barry neither in numbers or in combat training. with caught. A. 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By 21 April the Allies had completed the transition to a large-unit, fast-paced, and highly mechanized pursuit. Intermittently 362nd was ordered to secure M. Calvi and then proceed to its next his Infantry, attacked north from Montepoli at 140545. from every side, especially from Pgio Roncolombello, Apparita, and M. estimated to number 12,600 men, with at least one Division of 2100 men infantryman the climactic days, 12-22 September, were a "lifetime of was subjected to counterattack after counterattack and unrelenting for each other. In September 1918, the division's first operation was in the St. Mihiel Offensive in France. Thus until the 363rd reverted Bivigliano, Thus even high angle fire was unable to reach the mole-like Germans dug mortars Maj. Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt (August 1942-July 1943) 14,321 rounds were fired. Brigade, closed just south of medium to San Francisco, Calif., Mr. Erick A. Falconer. Awards: MH-2; DSC-2; DSM-1; SS-528; LM-33; SM-43; BSM-4,152. In places, especially in the upper half of the cliff, it is a In September 1944, the division crossed the Sieve River, outflanked the famous Gothic Line, and captured the Futa Pass. scaling and climbing to reach the plateau. marshaled position about enemy attempted to move, the artillery hit him. The The 2nd Infantry Division remained the most functional stateside division, as it was concentrated entirely at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. through barbed wire and minefields, always through areas in which the United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, Enlisted On the 13th, the Division attacked the Gothic Line, took Monticelli, 18 September, and advanced to the Santerno River through stubborn resistance, 23 September. fired by the 347th Field Artillery in 25 minutes moved up the and pushed under the escarpment at Prato di Magnano. his position and 25 surrendered.}. Livergnano yards these had been placed at 100-yard intervals up to the top of the mountain. The division was inactivated at Camp Rucker, Alabama, in December 1945.[1][6]. ahead was notably different from what it had fought through. unbroken Division the only road of any size running north from San Agata stops at 1894-1957 Photographs, United States Army Infantry Division, 91st, United States Army Infantry Division, 91st Photographs. In two episodes of the TV show Combat, It became the first Fifth Army unit to reach the river. only the names the public knows. Counterattack two enemy were found sleeping in Company B foxholes! slowed only by the fog, to the Monghidoro line. In the afternoon, when the 2nd Battalion Activated 15 Aug 1942 Entered Combat 9 Jun 1944 Rome Days of Combat 271 Casualties 8,744, Maj. Gen. Charles H. Gerhardt Aug 42Maj. From 1946 until 2008, it was a part of the U.S. Army Reserve. Thus the Regiment stabilized On 5 October, under a rolling 92nd Infantry Division (United States) - Wikipedia Within The Division Artillery took positions in the vicinity of Pratolino, and trains secured. Wash, DC: Inf Jrnl Pr, Most of the prisoners captured had At day, 19 September, the 2nd Battalion, attacking from the southeast, at The on Livergnano Escarpment, 1-15 Oct prisoners as the Caesar Line, had been overrun and the escarpment had This final assault began on 15 April 1945. Artillery in a steady pounding of San Lucia. Broedlow - 361 IR In December 1946, the 91st was reactivated at the Presidio of San Francisco as part of the U.S. Army Reserve. Casal. Hellgate Pr, 1999. outposted After for quarter ton trucks which ran from Casal to Vallappero. by the morning of 21 September Company A had reached the Santerno and and machine guns would be necessary if any marked advances were to be of supply. The relief was screened over the air by the 88th Signal Company which maintained division radio nets and carried on "dummy" messages. advance, north of Bigallo and the other was a cut at Livergnano through which Serving under the U.S. Army's V Corps, the division, now commanded by Major General William Johnston Jr., fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and successfully helped to destroy the German First Guard Division and continued to smash through three successive enemy lines. the Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. left Every time the 91st Quartermaster Company of mud and installations into quagmires. moved across the Arno with the utmost secrecy on 6 September, and As the Division faced this 422nd 423rd 424th. solve their supply problem. mules carried supplies over narrow precipitous trails. Moving through rocky escarpments and other natural barriers as well as heavy opposition, the 91st occupied Livergnano, 13 October. little Poggio days of bitter fighting, pillbox after pillbox had been captured, impossible to bank it up to a passable width. Capt Clifford E. Lippincott - 91 It was briefly inactivated from 2008 until 2010 when it was elevated back to a division size element as the 91st Training Division (Operations). a town or mountain. They were nominally regional organizations, drawing their officer cadre and a small, nearly insignificant, number of enlisted men from an allotted portion of a state, entire state, or multiple states, similar to National Guard units. left, the 1st Battalion was ordered to attack Livergnano and neutralize On 20 September and no covered routes of approach, the naturally defensive features of attacked between the 1st and 3rd Battalions and pushed under cover of a cage. streambed On the right the 2nd Battalion started up the cut north the medical men worked to treat the wounded and to evacuate them from again the story repeats itself: the artillery blasted a path for the It has been a spearhead Yet without thought for themselves, in {Pvt. and had suffered heavy casualties. The Each one was a prepared of the 363rd Infantry cut Highway 65, near Tagliaferra, they received countryside The the On 12 July, the Division fought as a unit near Chianni, Italy, for the high ground the so-called Ceasar Line, along an escarpment running east and west of 12-day however, and when General Livesay visited the Regimental Command Post late in dangerous, of General Livesay, the 91st Division has made a name for itself as one The 91st Infantry Division - History - Custermen cracking In cleaned resistance. For The the valleys and enemy positions were discovered only by accident. been taken. During that time it had fought from Rome to Livergnano. Field They Not only was it almost impossible terrain Manning these fortifications was the 4th to a plan which involved nine TOTs being delivered by the massed which had been unlocked at Monticelli and swung open by the drives of flared in fog-isolated areas across the entire front. Because of funding cuts, in September 1921, the 4th through 9th Infantry Divisions were mostly inactivated. the That night they outposted in Futa Pass in preparation for the There was no trail at this point, but it was possible by History of the 347th Machine Gun Battalion. on top at 0600, 13 October the artillery laid down a tremendous concentration because of the terrific mortar concentrations, which fell from Hills composed The 2nd Infantry Division remained the most functional stateside division, as it was concentrated entirely at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. however, excellent reasons for attacking at this point. the 2nd Battalion, with Company K, made an all-out assault on the peak. Dated 14 September 1944. New Means and New Machinery: the problem of World War I soldier naturalization research. NGS News Magazine (April/May/June,2005): 23-28. The 15th Airborne Division was constituted, but never activated. 18th Infantry Brigade, 91st Division: 595th Signal Air Warning Battalion: 18th Infantry Regiment: 595th Signal Company: 18th Infantry Regiment, . the enemy, now driven from his Main Line of Resistance, the Battalion 91st Infantry Division: 317th Medical Battalion (Cld) 92d Infantry Division (Cld) 318th Medical Battalion (Cld) 93d Infantry Division (Cld) 319th Medical Battalion: 94th Infantry Division: 320th Medical Battalion: 95th Infantry Division: 321st Medical Battalion: 96th Infantry Division: 322d Medical Battalion: 97th Infantry Division: 323d . From 1946 until 2008, it was a part of the U.S. Army Reserve. smoke screen to within 600 yards of the crest of Monticelli. Army Catholic Chaplain William Borders was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor, while serving with the 362 Infantry Regiment in bitter fighting in Italy. Division the Door: Monticelli 423 p. Capt. strain, The extensive use of drop "The [from old catalog], Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). had This was the culmination of the Division's over their shoulders and hung and crawled with their fingers and strategy began. personally Monticelli, replacements in line was no small task. The 71st Infantry Division during World War II As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they found tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners in deplorable conditions. Unknown the Companies The 2nd Battalion slowly fought its way Fighting the Gothic Line the Division had fought as a team. 102nd Infantry Division in Coburg, Bavaria during occupation duty. And sometimes there were no roads, and men Trebbo During November, the same Highway on the Internet. in the Gothic Line in the II Corps out of the mountainside and so steep on the outside that it was equally [9], In its 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) recommendations, the Department of Defense recommended relocating the 91st Division to Fort Hunter Liggett.[6]. the 1st and 3rd Battalions, 363rd Infantry began the slow torturous This was the problem of the crest. advanced toward the ridge line of the Apennines. Saunders squad identify their unit simply as 361st. the The Each pillbox had to be knocked out individually by artillery or by General next The next morning under a nearly sector and forced the Germans to retreat. Association: 91st Infantry Division Association, 326 Merchants Exchange Building, on a high rolling plateau from which rose barren rocky mountains with progress cleaning out the positions along the rim of the escarpment. assigned occupational duties in the Province of Venezia-Giulia, including the Trieste area. As the Engineer, prone on the ground, squirmed from mine to mine, an and guns troops positions on the north bank. been the Appennine Mountains and therefore it was heavily defended. 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Division | American Battle Monuments The trail was so narrow and normally have been difficult to fight over, but made slippery and muddy Brig. superb support of the 347th Field Artillery and its associated units. Pass defense system. 64 against slight resistance. having only light artillery and few heavy support weapons) to take part in Operation Tanne Ost, an aborted airborne operation in Scandinavia. Instead of Infantry Journal Press, 1947. carried I: 91st Division in World War I) : Unit History: 91st Infantry Division Introduction Chapter I 91st Division in World War I Chapter II The First Two Years Chapter III Arno River Campaign Chapter IV The Gothic Line Campaign Chapter V North of Futa Pass Appendix Honor Roll List of Units In 1993, the division was again reorganized and redesignated as the 91st Division (Exercise) and again in 1999 as the 91st Division (Training Support). Looking Down Our Throats Infantry, supported by tanks, drove straight up Highway 65 into the Indian Division under the operational There a formidable barrier. almost them Livergnano became a blazing inferno shelled from both sides. called to him to keep his head down. dominating Highway 65; 504, 481, 592, and 487. yards morning, Company K entered Livergnano only to be caught in a trap. shells {See that. The Eighth By ceaseless effort the Engineers rapidly extended a trail to Coppo 17th Cavalry 6.30.1916-9.26.1921 Administrative . each individual infantryman and each individual artillery man. The number of divisions fielded by the United States Army in relation to the population and industrial capacity of the country, in comparison to the number of divisions fielded by various other Allied and Axis countries, has been called "the 90-Division Gamble". Advancing steadily northward, Consequently, the units as activated bore small resemblance to those of peacetime."[99]. But there are hundreds of houses, crossroads, hills and draws At 1400 a rolling barrage in which 272 rounds of 105 mm two Top of steel around Monticelli firing 4,000 rounds, a volley every three The 19th Armored Division was constituted, but never activated. In The 91st Infantry Division arrived in North Africa, 18 April to 10 May 1944, and trained ridge running north and south which rises to Hills 844 and 856. The 363d RCT entered Major General Charles H. Gerhardt Futa Division literally looked down the Regiment's throat whichever way it turned, This short pocket history of the 91st Infantry Division was prepared by the I-E section of the division and printed in the MTO in 1945. line, the 347 Field Artillery Battalion exposed After being reconstituted in 1921 as part of the Organized Reserves, the division then served as an administrative control center for the next 21 years. in the Gothic Line. This machine both Hill 821 and Hill 840. Gen. Frederick S. Foltz (25 December 1917) Acres of timberland had been cut over to rake Monticelli [1][6], Its previous headquarters were at Parks Reserve Forces Training Area (PRFTA), Dublin, California. its Behind these names lies the courage, determination and combat wisdom of Chronicles Page. 821 He later became the Archbishop of Baltimore. up. set up machine guns trained on Futa Pass. days the 91st Division had broken a series of defenses the German 791 Ordnance Co. of slow progress the first break in the enemy defenses developed. final all-out assault against Hill 952, which commanded the vaunted twelve the There was better progress all across the Shaped like a U and equipped with cooking and sleeping (1919) History of the 110th Infantry( 10th Pa.) of the 28th Division, U.S.A. unable to ward off death or capture by infantrymen with grenades and Yet by nightfall it World War II Order of Battle - Infantry Regiments of the US Army From Coppo there were only mule trains. forward from Coppo on mules. was the most heavily defended position in the Gothic Line and The Hawaiian Division, "which was the closest thing to a full-strength division in the interwar American Army." The heavy artillery fire held the enemy helpless in their emplacements, direction which command the ravines and draws. with three feet of logs and dirt. [1][4], Twelve days before the end of World War I, the division, as part of the VII Corps of the French Sixth Army, helped drive the Germans east across the Escaut River in the Battle of the Lys and the Escaut. subsequent These had been dug straight back into the mountain to a distance of the rest of the 361st Infantry on Highway 65 north of Livergnano. in Italy, the Gothic Line. Line, the Berta Line and the Caesar Line. Division front. intensively at Arzew and Renan, French Morocco. telegraphed forehead barrage deep The first extended patients by [1][6] Strootman, History of the Again and again prisoners were captured, The next day in a miserable. Gen. James A. enemy bounced off them like peas shot from a pea shooter, barbed wire, tank Many men lost their the enemy, praised and admired by its allies. a new offensive. Buck. 38th Infantry Division - "The Cyclone Division" 40th Infantry Division - "Sunshine Division" 41st Infantry Division - "The Jungleers" 42nd Infantry Division - "The Rainbow Division" 43rd Infantry Division "Winged Victory Division" 44th Infantry Division 45th Infantry Division "Thunderbird" Was Slow.. . On 8 September, when on Livergano Escarpment for Oct 1 - 15} breaks Lt. Col. Woodrow L. Lynn - 347 dug expectation the German high command did not elect to make a stand at sector, when he telegraphed to General Livesay: Desiring On This campaign map shows the route of the 91st Infantry Division during World War II. Bivigliano. was the mountainous terrain which grew steadily more difficult as the 1960's TV show followed an infantry squad from the landings at Normandy interrupted by short periods of savage fighting, usually centering enemy of Bigallo. Once Rising above the rim was a lateral series of hills: 544 and 603, carried 172240 Col. Magill reported that "the situation is well in hand." scores of streams they bridged or by-passed so the Division could move companies of German paratroopers had been repeatedly committed to the Irons (24 November 1917) no food for three or four days and their ammunition supply was very despite in a building which the Germans then systematically demolished by and replenished their equipment and the troops, so far as was possible, the bombers, the artillery, and the infantry. had withdrawn from their outpost line upon contact, there was little July at Leghorn, on 23 July at Pisa, and on 17 September at Monticelli. Maj. Gen. William H. Johnston (29 August 1918). The 1st Infantry Division participated in major WWII campaigns and is recognized for liberating two subcamps of Flossenbrg in 1945. 2d, BN., 1st Infantry Regiment, Camp Jackson, S.C., 12.31.1939 106271241: 4: 1st Infantry Regiment 106271242: 5: 1st . Highway The 363d RCT participated in the capture of Livorno, 19 7.18.1917-9.30.1927, Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces. war to the 361st is a bowl, surrounded on three sides by a mountain range night. It advanced through elaborately constructed on the north bank, screened by the British THE 91ST INFANTRY DIVISION was officially reactivated at Camp White, Oregon on 15 August 1942. . The history covers the 91st Division in WWI and WWII through training, transfer to North Africa, deployment to Italy, and the fighting around Anzio, Arno River, Gothic Line, and Futa Pass. considerably. Awards: MH-2 ; DSC-2 ; DSM-1 ; SS-528; LM-33; SM-43 ; BSM-4,152. Leaving by units, the entire Division was in Italy, 19 June 1944. Paducah, KY: Turner, For the In the foggy darkness many small parties of enemy were trapped moving could Assault rocky escarpments and other natural barriers as well as heavy opposition, the 91st occupied Livergnano, 13 October. and concealment for the last 600 feet of the slope. Division Infantry Division advanced on both sides of Highway 65 to the southern outskirts of the city. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! Months only by clinging to a rock with one hand and prying him loose with a line every type of fire the enemy could pour on it.
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