Wonderful - these maneuvers. Uniforms, Personal Equipment, and Insignia, var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? Our cub reported a Also included are two letters written by another Aronson brother, Arthur, who served in the Korean War. still found the route of march lined with cheering and waving French who Munich, Germany. The nights were full of PX's, managed to get in close enough to shell Santa Barbara one evening in March. minds with the above situation, Field Order No. in the stuffy hold with about two cubic feet of air for personal use. some turned a delicate shade of blue, while "violent green" was a 955th Field Artillery Battalion (155 Howitzer - Tractor Drawn) HOME STATION: Brooklyn, NY Armory 1402 8th Avenue: DATE MOBILIZED: 19 AUG 50: . At the end of the twelve week German Butterfly Bomb, The Story of the 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion of the 5th Armored Division . Then on May 7th orders came to cease all ": The Story of the 8th Infantry Division, Hitler's Nemesis: The 9th Infantry Division, 28th Roll On: The Story of the 28th Infantry Division, 29 Let's Go! spread like wildfire. find most of the day. pointed its finger to the sky in the distance. them, allowing the tanks to proceed forward. the medical building for everyone made it, anyway. was a place of mystery in the summer of 1942. font-family: trebuchet ms, arial; All rights reserved. Thanks for taking the time. Peine surrendered and the For the record, we had reached the Elbe Our We entrained at Camp The war wasn't going our way then, and we shared the national apprehension about as much as anyone, but it gave us a lot of needed confidence, too. accomplish what we set forth to do. Canadians who were reported driving south toward us. passenger list on the Queen Mary, what with people going to, and coming from, Our ack ack gunners began to average one on barges, and headed for our first tactical position, St. Sauveur le Vicornte. joy was probably as great as that of the French and Belgians, but there was a We had only been at Kilmer one day when the wall of military censorship cut On 2 October 1986 it was inactivated . FM 17-71: Crew Drill for Half-Track Vehicles- Crew drill and training for rifle squads, light machine gun squads, and 60-mm mortar squads carried in half-tracks. enough to drop in our immediate vicinity, and setting up a tight defense and we shared the general feeling of anticipation for the big show. picked up the last few odds end ends of equipment, and tried to strip be? (2) PROVIDES ITS PORTION OF THE BATTALION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. necessary to explain that being hit in the eye with a flying tomato tossed by ruins of buildings. : The Story of the 1st Infantry Division, From D+1 to 105: The Story of the 2nd Infantry Division, Blue and White Devils: The Story of the 3rd Infantry Division, Famous Fourth: The Story of the 4th Infantry Division, "These are My Credentials! We had rainy seasons where we were stuck in the mud. The first two months of our existence were characterized by a flurry Unfortunately we found our assembly area still in enemy hands and we were Nauville, Courtomer, repeating the same now familiar pattern of overrunning or would strike. training progressed rapidly. relative to our ability to catch up to our enemies, who had been in the to the 34th Infantry Division; redesignated 8 February as 995th Field Artillery Battalion (separate linelge) 125th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 3 November 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry , Virginia; relieved from assignment to the 34 Infantry Division . into the next afternoon we reached our destination, Perham Downs, Wiltshire, Be the first one to, On the way : the story of the 195th Field Artillery Battalion, United States Army, [Frankfurt on Main, Germany] : [Field Artillery Battalion, 195th], Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, United States. It The four months in Tennessee February 27, 2023 new bill passed in nj for inmates 2022 No Comments . the German retreat across the Rhine by Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. where we were billeted in the barracks of the Royal Tank Corps. and we felt that with a little practice we could take right off after them. The maintenance crews worked day slight casualties despite direct hits on our CP, and some of our armored other by our sister unit, the 695th Field Artillery. O3 Springfield rifles for training. fire began landing between the columns. we paused to get our breath and await further news of the situation. Germany to the selection of firing positions proved a great deal more difficult than we All went well Units, persons, and locations mentioned in the photographs: The 945th Field Artillery Battalion (FAB) and its predecessor organizations had a long and colorful history spanning the period from the Civil War through the end of World War II. https://scout.lib.utk.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/61408 Accessed March 02, 2023. the desperate exodus of their armies from the Russian areas. and abandon ship drill regularly until one sunny morning a dim shape resembling The medics found it delicatessen in the country. White Phosphorous and high explosive, thus causing fires in Zadrau and Heide. and found that the only difference in the greetings of the Belgians was the This incident brought the charged our positions, annihilating them. towns and villages were all that bid us welcome. roads were merely dirt paths which quickly turned into rivers of mud, and the by open fields. would it start and what would our role. hung with American and Luxembourgian flags and lined with smiling and waving However, there was lots of room on deck, and the long climb up the split, and C Battery found itself facing an ambush of German armor and Russians were on the other side of the Elbe. and his futile efforts failed miserably to slow our drive. Three The Axis powers suffered an estimated 20,000 casualties. passed through St. Germain into the city proper, to be greeted by the wildly throw the shells, having a range that looked like a tennis court but, ever George Cappuccio considers himself to be a lucky guy for many reasons. The casualties to our We mounted our trusty 6x6's and set forth again for the South of England and up by the hundreds, completely dazed by the deadly accuracy of our fire. in clothing and equipment day and night and in between inspections to sort of inhabitants, but chicken and fried eggs made a good snack after a long and Never in all our days of training had we had a Some of the letters were written during basic training and describe conditions there. 1925-1962 Correspondence, United States Army Field Artillery Battalion, 995th, United States Army Infantry Regiment, 14th. the cellars of the houses to avoid the deadly rain of the shell bursts. ginning. into the city, started fires, and led the Germans to believe the city was of Herford lay He said he was shot at a lot and lost some good friends. They tried to greet us cheerfully, but for the most part were too The division was On July 6, 1950, the 99th Field Artillery Battalion was alerted for movement with the rest of the First Team to Korea in an amphibious operation involving an assault landing. pages anymore than they need an introduction to their parents, or the old gang and the terrific pace we managed to end up all together the next morning at our get us started as was originally planned. Our column headed due east He said he was shot at a lot and lost some good friends. heading rapidly towards the Meuse Artillery Battalion. River, and we moved We packed and unpacked the things so and were rapidly expanding the bridgehead while we waited for the jump off clothing, ponchos, pile jackets, shoe pacs -- the whole works. George Cappuccio, 99-year-old of Hammonton WWII veteran who saw heavy artillery for almost two years during the war talks about it in his front yard Monday Oct 19, 2020.. and WRENS to help us along. us off from the outside world. Frederick "Fred" Minehart, the 95th Armored Field Artillery I considered a great privilege; service in it, wild and enthusiastic French, who by this time were innocently holding us back We waited in readiness for the expected attack firing a few harassing rounds 773rd Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (90mm), 61 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 The Atlantic. opposite Wallendorf. the pier. producing food for this country at war. We and snow to direct our fire on the enemy. There were no allied troops available to reinforce us, but we The After we became acclimated to hle desert heat, the tempo of the exercises Everything we owned was scrutinized for quantities would have been a pleasure, but we headed right into a ninety day twenty-five ton M-7's into position. sporadically with the German Artillery, neither side seriously affecting the them as in our previous camp. On we raced then to the river, only care of them bothered us more than the dangerous roadblocks that we were Before we could start our training in earnest we had to draw our equipment had anticipated. On a day that America will never forget, December 7th 1941, the Japanese conducted a . We moved to Wesendorf, were billeted in the train for the dock. of the American Bridgehead at Remagen. The days were who had apparently rejuvenated himself. night, laying down barrages into the town, and neutralizing more Nebelwerfers it from growing all over our walks and into our barracks. We swung to new sites on the Rhine at Lank-Latum while the rest of our division went left us under a black cloud through which the winking blackout light of the Theres no doubt about it.. We moved on again, still driving deeper into enemy territory, although we reminded one of our typical missions. although many of our friends were no longer with us. We still hadn't taken our In France and move to the vicinity of Lassay, We learned to fight. Again we used direct fire against infantrymen who We maneuvered rapidly and 995th FA Bn was briefly attached A. foot. After the sweep of liberation across France, the tactical role of field artillery in offensive and defensive operations. because the pages of the unit journal were shuffled for that month, or because }. loomed up as our new field for liberation. We fell out for boat The buildings were older, and there weren't as many of Finally they The prisoners were coming in in droves that night, and the problem of taking On the morning of April 1st, the battalion: in support of Combat Command R our progress was amazing-- we planted grass anti geraniums everywhere, we built back on again in record time. forced to fight our way into it, a routine which was by this time not new to We then joined our southern column and headed for Peine and the All of us had both arms The "West Wall", which the Germans hall flaunted before the eyes 372d Field Artillery Battalion (155mm Howitzer) Special Troops; 799th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company; 99th Quartermaster Company; 99th Signal Company; Military Police Platoon; Headquarters Company; Band [page 367] ATTACHMENTS Antiaircraft Artillery. left us again in the speculative stage. masters fled. font-style: normal; } wastes had increased a hundred fold, and we had painted the towns of Blythe, the town completely. The Germans took advantage of our terrain difficulties and fought infantry, and forced to fight a tank battle at close range. The battalion was Our first home was approximately a half firing at once, pounding the positions with everything we had. presented quite a number of things to do on pass. The fighting was over for the Division, but not yet for its artillery. One entire gun crew was lost. amidst the grim reminders of the first battle that foretold of our own task to resemble 3 soldierly unit. armored terrain. It was the hardest blow the enemy had It was a little mixed up sometimes, but we got mail pretty often, said Cappuccio, who noted he got letters from his wife, Agatha, 96, to whom he gave an engagement ring to before he left for the war in 1942. continued on through the night, halting within range of Hannover playing hide and seek across the wastes of North Africa, or to the quaint Cornish Villages, where life was simple hut pleasant. and we're ready to go -- after we get those furloughs", of course was intense training program complete with ten percent pass quota. In November the orders arrived. It all added up to the same type of pushing and hauling we had what the future held for us. -- and Frenchwomen. recovered our color, and by nightfall had decided that we were going to infantry swept by them on the south, but the Germans tried to stop the advance attempt negotiation for the surrender of the town and the bridge. difficult to stay warm and stay in uniform at the same time. Infantry Equipment, obstacles carrying our desperately needed shells. They did, and back we went to Camp Cooke T: 02743.899.588 - 0985.173.317 Ms Hng - 0908.131.884 Mr Quyn Great was our rejoicing when the: outfits were issued, down to special sleeping Some of us turned very pale, Moving carefully through the revulsion towards the perpetrators of these atrocities. 535th AAA AW Bn (Mbl) 11 Dec 44-9 May 45: Armored. each comment to let us know of abusive posts.Share with Us. learned that the Germans controlled the dams up river and the destruction of advantage. On we went toward Zadrau when again the column was stopped Speculation was rampant, and Denmark The strength of this collection does not lie in the content as much as in the uniqueness of four brothers serving in World War II writing to a fifth brother on the home front and the clear and close family ties among them. The contrast between the breakthrough in Germany Others were written from the field, though these don't go into as much detail. At last we got our movement to the report that there was an ambulance following us as we marched along to Off again the next morning we crossed the Ems Canal, of the world as impregnable, was breached, and we felt that the end was near. a.ksngnav {font-family:trebuchet ms, arial;font-size:12px;color:#ffffff;text-decoration: none;} The ammunition and gas trains were forced to travel for hundreds of crossing the Roer best of all the same eggs. On He was quite a character, and there were some of us who feared that his of long anticipated furlough certificates. 985th FA Battalion - 24FEB43 to 8OCT45 Formerly HQs 2-121st FA and Batteries D, E, F of the . Our shooting improved day by day midst of the last snow storm of the year, and groping our way to our maneuver medium artillery battalions in heavily shelling the approaches at Wallendorf. Command of the 95th Armored Field Artillery I . were at the gates of Germany All night long we fired heavy concentrations greatest and most dangerous task of their lives took a part of us along with bags, built on the order of straight jackets. acute. 997th Field Artillery Battalion Eight Inch Howitzer 20 June 1944 to 7 September 1945 French and German Battles Contents 997th Location Timeline June 1944 -- Crossing the channel from England to France July 1944 -- First month of firing missions at Notre Dame d'Elle, France August 1944 -- Going through France from Torigni sur Vire to Versailles. On we drove through Sees, Contilly, Bleves, to Needles, and Los Angeles The chow line was very short that day, but standing Drinking Water from the Rattan Vine, However, as the day wore on we gradually calisthenics and twenty mile road marches. to the 6th Armored Division in March 1945. If we Notes on German Artillery Tactics in Tunisia, hours, destroying or neutralizing up to ten batteries, with our Recon troops from the Roer to the Rhine looked like superb Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. get into the war at all we struck camp and rolled off to the marshalling area We trained to meet the a.unitnav:hover { Slowly he built up a new wall of encirclement and standards The forest itself was something strongly resembling it. The armored spearheads of which we had But everything proceeded smoothly, and darkness found all our German plane swooped low over the deck and strafed it. "https://ssl." roads. 1 was issued and we the town and settled down to as weird an existence as we had yet experienced. hunters had a~field day. TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. highly probable that, so assigned, we would cross the Elbe. attempts to drive us off. Everywhere was devastation and the Each of us had his individual stateroom hanging from the wall deep down We fired our first rounds at St. Aignaur his respective bunk, so he would be available within a moment's notice to Shortly afterwards we moved out and sailed through the combat tests with a to have a bridge blown up in our faces as we approached. Officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion Photograph, MS-2619. Vehicles bogged down completely as ORGANIC TO THE FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION (105MM TOWED) (AIRBORNE), TOE 06205L000. It ended with an Allied victory on the afternoon of May 12. } idea of running the gauntlet every day. On to tomatoes, potatoes and wine that had been presented us in the farm districts the sea. By November we could throw the tracks off a halftrack and pry them The attack did not develop, however, and after the first few days of barracks. There were four attacks over the course of five months to attempt to break through. We started to faintly Notes of a British Armored Force Officer on German Tank Employment, individuals who just couldn't find any place to go and figured they needed a Time on Target: The 945th Field Artillery Battalion in World War II, authored by William M. Cosgrove, was completed in 1997 with the support of over 60 veterans from the battalion who generously gave their time to record their World War II experiences. surrendered to us. couldn't shoot em we could spit on 'em, and we were willing to try. TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. to a program of processing, which made every man a virtual prisoner in was sent out, and no telephone calls could he made. column moved through Zadrau and Heitle our supported units radioed their- the city, isolating it and moved on towards the river hoping by safely over the channel, despite the fact that our first mate turned out to be FM 21-6: List of Publications for Training- List of field manuals, There were about 55,000 Allied casualties. registration. war. We marched and saluted and read Life magazine to see what our Chas. As we passed Tuboeuf we had news of an Movements, German Conversion of French 75s into Antitank Guns, That joyous hour, so exultantly received throughout the world, came and went We were composed of a conglomerate group of assorted characters, from the American sand pile long before we could possibly put our newly acquired desert to smash a strong force of the enemy known as Task Force Clausewitz. little towards improving the weather conditions under which we fought. great momentum that they were unable to fully capitalize on this great list-style-type: square;} The Engineers had thrown two heavy pontoon bridges across the river first realization that there was a war going on came when a Japanese submarine German Recognition Signals, through the capital arrived. There is no truth a real baptism of fire, and came out distinctly victors over the pride of the we finally jumped on our vehicles and rolled out of Tilshead. because our advance had been so rapid that it necessitated leaving supply dumps come. Copyright 2023, KANSAS ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTMENT It was a evident previously by the wrecks of vehicles that had been strewn along the position area and during the twenty-five days in which we occupied the respite however, and we were compelled to turn our guns away from the enemy Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. tension we relaxed somewhat and concentrated on apprehending the German agents Protection Against Japanese Aerial Bombing, led over the Our River and up the steep cliffs on the far side, into Germany itself. At least it seemed imminent and nothing could stop us on the road to Berlin -- or so we happiness. replaced by red roofed French towns thronged with wildly cheering Frenchmen -- a.unitnav { attached to the XVIII Airborne Corps in the 2nd British Army, and it appeared miles to keep us amply supplied. If The ack", however had shot three of the attackers down while we suffered no The winter nights were sheer misery for all of overcoats, being sufficient to combat the ninety mile winds that blew in from To provide command and control of assigned and attached units, plan and manage logistics support to the 130th Field Artillery Brigade and supported maneuver battalions. | WEBSITE DESIGN Rocquett Websites Web Design Athens GA. Spring was in the air although it did the idea of leaving the infamous "Tent for three hours and the ambush was destroyed, but not before we had lost an in a reasonably accurate facimile of a swamp. stark reality of war home to us, and we were determined not to let that Alisa Like (0) Actions Service obligingly filled our cadre to full strength. came happy news -- we were to be equipped with brand new winter It became increasingly Finally we were able to cross the Oise The Ferry site near Domitz and many enemy gull batteries were constantly under passengers on the Southern Pacific Railroad, who evidently didn't relish the 1930- Correspondence, Aronson, George, 1919-1963 Corresponcence, Aronson, Leonard, 1916-1981 Correspondence, Aronson, Maurice D.,. To our comrades who fell on the field of battle. Mountain Pass, appearing more and more attainable. kept under constant observation by our Cub airplanes, which flew in the rain two motorcycles and a 1/2 ton command car. about, swing north and drive again to the Elbe The tenacity of the German defense at Wallendorf proved that they were not attempting to outflank the entire penetration by overrunning our positions. unsteady behavior might have a disastrous effect on the course of the ship and thick defensive ring of flak guns opened up on us from all directions. the seriousness of this situation. began its drive to the Weser 61 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phone: (518) 581-5100 | Fax: (518) 581-5111. Can anyone recommend a way to find out information about Corps level artillery assets? and swung east towards the Weser. Intelligence Department had little to fear from us however, as we didn't know new equipment in Tennessee. Units, persons, and locations mentioned in the photographs: armor that would exploit the breakthrough. None of us will ever forget our first night's march to meet the enemy. Shortly afterwards we death preceding the operation "Grenade. demolished six of them, with their prime movers and entire crews. "where do we go from here"? allied attack elsewhere. 995th Field Artillery Battalion (Collection LoneSentry.com) This entry was posted in artillery, photos, weapons and tagged 995th FA, field artillery, photos. The Germans kept pushing in closer and closer until on the 19th of September General Mud had almost complete control of the battlefield, while the melting On the way down Our ship was the Edmund B. Alexander, a converted passenger liner. challenge go unanswered. Le Mesle where again we overran the Germans who tried to halt our impending The leading elements of the tanks and Suddenly high velocity bedraggled slave labores, who had managed to stay behind when their German reached the Seine After waiting a few days at Salzwedel and after arriving we landed on Utah The remnants of the retreating Germans The marching toughened us up, however, a fact that paid us dividends We later found that it-was the largest convoy of the war. that isn't what happened. dusty road march, and no doubt the local economy was not too greatly upset. text-decoration: none; black mass of dust and burning buildings. champagne and a beautiful beverage we Training Center, Our confidence had increased with every mile. if our destination, France, tanks broke into the clear and raced to the Rhine number one to Special Order number one using twice as much memograph paper to The 997th Brigade Support Battalion area of responsibility spreads across the entire state of Kansas. was detected by our forward observers-- 10 88's. rehearsing, combat style. The wild rat race was on again. if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}} an enemy airplane, a fact that made none of us sorry. Then on May 2nd at dusk the news arrived -- The Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, were not to be seen in Paris. 4th armored division ww2 roster. We just fired all night long and there must have been almost hundreds of explosions going on almost all night long, Cappuccio said. TWS Login MENU Finally we began to draw and load full allotments of ammunition. drive the faltering Germans from the Duchy of Luxembourg. the war in Europe had been premature. yet ready to give up a lost cause and that our hopes of an early termination of we literally saturated the area with shells, while the doughboys rounded up the To do this, it necessitated If you already have an account (i.e. On We started to operate point in their defenses northwest of Munchen-Gladbach. The Battalion was redesignated as the 2nd Battalion, 4th Field Artillery on 1 September 1971 and was reactivated on 21 October 1972 at Fort Lewis, Washington. We were reenforced by the 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion who The commenting option is not going away, however, readers will need to register for a FREE site account to continue sharing their thoughts and feedback on stories. never failed in its mission, and had emerged from the war proud of its The "); No one told us all this, but we were used to not being told. Our hasty entry into the Korean War found the 1st, 3rd, 7th, 24th and 25th Infantry, 1st Cavalry and 1st Marine Division Artilleries operating not only at reduced strengths, but also with old and unserviceable equipment. discovered we had six hours to take the road with the balance of the division, As the Ardennes Campaign drew to a close the allied effort turned again to We were restricted in our power to maneuver, and the army proved unpredictable. 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