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The more experienced U.S. 28th Infantry Division put up a much more dogged defense than the inexperienced soldiers of the 106th Infantry Division. The 112th Infantry Regiment (the most northerly of the 28th Division's regiments), holding a continuous front east of the Our, kept German troops from seizing and using the Our River bridges around ...
The 28th Infantry Division ("Keystone") [1] is a unit of the United States Army National Guard, and is the oldest division-sized unit in the Army. [2] Some of the units of the division can trace their lineage to Benjamin Franklin's battalion, The Pennsylvania Associators (1747–1777). [3]
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge. New York: Penguin. ISBN 9780143109860. Dupuy, Trevor N. (1994). Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge, December 1944 – January 1945. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 0-06-016627-4. MacDonald, Charles B. (2002). A Time For Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. New York: Perennial.
Monday marks 80 years since the Battle of the Bulge, when the Nazi army made its last offensive push of World War II. The battle was one of the costliest of the war, with the U.S. Army suffering ...
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive on the Western Front and took place from Dec. 16, 1944, through Jan. 25, 1945, in the heavy forest of the Ardennes region, between ...
German forces encircled numerically inferior American forces, primarily from the 28th Infantry Division's 110th Infantry Regiment and the 109th Field Artillery Battalion, and quickly forced them to surrender. The battle has been referred to as the Luxembourg "Alamo". [8] [9] [10]
The reading, which honors people who died who died during the Battle of the Bulge (December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945) and are laid to rest at Ardennes, Henri-Chapelle, Luxembourg, and ...
The unit was also awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for its actions during the Battle of the Bulge, from 16 to 24 December 1944. The unit was mustered out of federal service on 6 December 1945 at Camp Gordon, Georgia. The 112th remained an organic unit of the 28th Infantry Division throughout World War II. [6]