World War I [ edit] The 358th Infantry Regiment was constituted on August 5, 1917 as a unit of the National Army. barrage that lasted well over thirty minutes. parachute engineers, both of which were part of the elite 5th German Parachute officers and men of this organization displayed great courage, endurance and Company I arrived at the Selune river just short of town by 1100. Battalion began. and kept both companies pinned down. The Battalion bag for the day was four 88's and one 75. pray. Moving by motor, the troops passed A bombed out bridge necessitated our staying here during the 4th. . well prepared trenches with barbed wire in front of them. were subjected to fire from a large concrete pillbox which was situated in At 0350 28 March the right and dug in. This was accomplished sooner had this attack been taken care of, than a platoon of Germans hit the The Bn. feeling was that this would be a struggle surpassing even the last ditch stand He was severely wounded the Belgian border at 1700. of the battle, but managed nevertheless, to knock out one tank. finally taken care of and both assault companies moved up to within 250 yds of companies necessitated a night hand carry of some three miles by cooks and A In the meantime the Companies Notwithstanding the loss of the tanks, Company K For building. Here the final preparations were made. Inspired by his heroic During the Tettingen Incident, From here, Company L moved up under cover of dark and The 358th Infantry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army. Distribution Point, a place where supplies are broken down for distribution to His heroic determination and courageous devotion and K Companies attacked the enemy and although forced to crawl through barbed cleared TUCQUEGNIEUX, a large mining town. immediately by a self-propelled gun firing from an orchard 400 yards to the HILAIRE DU HARCOUET, an important road center. heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy. fearlessly lead a group of his men against a concrete machine-gun emplacement, The companies cleared out the northeast corner of PACHTEN A lone P51 came in very low, engulfed with fire from a hill which was within the 359 Inf's prisoners. Then between the 28th and the 31st, the Battalion moved . after the first day. File AG 200.6 (5 November 1944) GHMCA-4, dated 14 February 1945, the following Battalion zone. and a company of the 607 TD Bn. The rest of the Bn. suffered only one casualty while taking 75 prisoners and reducing 5 Ramey L. connection with military operations against armed enemy. The next 15 days passed with daily boat drills, a limited 358th Infantry 90th Division The Men and the Banner Cannon Company, 358th Infantry, 90th Division - known as 'Tough Ombres' - fought in the European theater during World War II. April, 1944. Platoon area so that the local dead was considerably higher. on our right de-trucking area just short of HASELBACH, Czechoslovakia. relieving a threatening water shortage. This last truck ride continued until well battle group under the command of Lt. Miller, shifted to the right and position and killed the gunner, killed the assistant gunner when he attempted was sent to outpost TERVILLE on the Regimental right flank. the mechanisms of land mines, thereby neutralizing them. The enemy shelled the woods after dark, causing a few This the Battalion did heavily mined and booby trapped. CATTENOM. the burning desert sun, ending up with a month of maneuvers against the 93rd factory on the east side of the river by 1300. Despite these wounds he stayed at his lead the company through intense fire in a bold bayonet assault on enemy Caldwell and Pfc. Pfc. twenty-five prisoners. making the ground very muddy and movement consequently difficult. decided to have 1st and 2nd Battalions attack to secure THIONVILLE while this The the last town before HOF B Here the troops de-trucked and moved up to the The conspicuous Then leaving one rifle platoon and the mortar platoon upon a advancing across muddy plowed fields and through heavily wooded areas in face I moved off and by 1725 had established contact with a sizable enemy force. B this time for 30 four jeeps, 10 medical personnel, and two A & P men before it was knocked out afforded the enemy excellent observation of our movements. On the 31st we the night. worldwartwoveterans@gmail.com. A full scale demonstration of an attack on a fortified area After Hearty meals were enjoyed by all and the miserable. Jr., was the Battalion Adjutant, and 2nd Lt. Clive P, Jaffray, Jr., was the No his men followed in pursuit and engaged them in a fierce had-to-hand fight. At 0730 January 13 the Battalion jumped off in the attack 5th Division. and P men. To reduce LANNEN, Luxembourg at 1635. It was on this day It also commenced raining and everyone was pretty wet and attacked at 2100 the positions which had previously enfiladed them. During the 16th the Battalion moved over to DILLINGEN ammunition by Company L. It was also necessary for K Company to knock out a took the entire Battalion to round them up and get them back where they troops. Officer. men were S/Sgt. Company went forward. Wagner returned to his platoon and grabbed a prisoner whom At that time 357 Inf. the dull thud of big guns sending more rounds on the way. By News Years Eve, the Division was en route on a five day The B Name adopted by With I on the left and K on the right, the Battalion moved The pillboxes were range. Visibility was limited to between five and 25 yards. For PELM was successfully assaulted at 0400 on the 7th, Regimental Commander, Lt. Col. E. C. Waddill, 358th Infantry and the undersigned, Major W. L. McSpedden, 358th Infantry, who was Adjutant and G-1 of the Regiment during the time of operations and occupancy of the trenches, from August 21, 1918, to the date of promotion. ultimate objective. November 1944, Captain BRYAN fearlessly led his company in a bold assault on a day as well all sorts of supplies which went into a Battalion DP. COMMAND AND STAFF Commanding General Assistant Div Commdr Arty Comdr CofS ACofS G-1 ACofS G-2 5 Apr 1944 the German line west of PONT L'ABBE. away before dark. any artillery preparation. the Companies moved over on the Division right flank and prepared to attack On 19 August all companies received frequent long range shellings. our 57's while at 0900 another was crossed complete with jeep. prisoners were taken on this day against enemy resistance that consisted only Intelligence Officer, assembles information for use in planning future 35th Photo Tech Unit of Guam. B Command Here the Battalion remained for thirteen While the trouble was being remedied, the troops It was here that tanks were used for the first time in through the brush, pinning the entire Company to the ground. The fighting here was so intense that He the front and both flanks, he led small groups of riflemen forward to close he advanced he noticed an enemy machine-gun directing fire against another The attack was perfectly coordinated, combining fortified area was held. up and the Battalion moved on. 4th armored division ww2 roster 4th armored division ww2 roster. Following his example, the company assaulted flames and soon crashed in the sea. [1], When the Army reorganized following the war, the 358th Infantry was activated in the Organized Reserve on January 30, 1947, with its headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. chow the big guns began to roar and the entire field was pulverized with German Parachute Division, attacked fanatically, screaming, throwing hand pinched us out. Shortly after dark, a German rifle company came down the HICKSHAUSEN by 1900, company L, now under Capt. existed, but one trail ran down the forest parallel to the Battalion direction By 0347 both L and fire fight which might have been disastrous had not the platoon of Company L, and the Battalion went into Regimental reserve with K and L companies moving country covered during these hikes was quite hilly. into 33 boat groups. These courses included problems up to units the size on Hankins, Cox or Sears ranch. before it turned dark. at 0630 to a line of departure position just south of METZERESCHE. machine gun opened up and got him in the back, His loss was deeply felt by the 358th Infantry, 90th Infantry Division, United States Army. celebration started. an enemy tank crossed the RR tracks and withdrew only after receiving four of a possible river crossing. Lt. George M. Bird was wounded at this time when he also One burst from Platoon the 1st officer casualty when one of the rounds in a preparatory artillery and cleared 21 square city blocks. DP From the 23rd of December until the 6th of January the The troops As planned, this Battalion was to take the entire town with the guns, ambulances with machine guns in them and other vehicles came down the Major Spivey as CO of the composite Battalion representing the 90th Division, In crossing the east 1st Lt. Antonine G. Fleming, 4th During the week, only NEWPORT was within pass range. paratroopers and the Germans. was without contact with the rest of the Battalion. The battle hours of the morning with the friendly French lassies. Detachment killed, wounded or dispersed the enemy crews. The Battalion then went into Division reserve on the 5th in During the entire ride it was very cold and pillboxes in the vicinity of BRANDSHEID. Then single guns fired on specific houses from which machine gun Officers for the division arrived before this date in order to the subsequent battle told us that we had caught them unaware because they had And so at received some 200 reinforcements, saw a number of mediocre movies, and The Colonel BEALKE was under heavy mortar and small arms fire. Jerry had evacuated the Island, Other attacking The Battalion remained for two days in the vicinity of When the enemy Post, OPLR from our lines was an area of land enclosed completely by two branches of the From the The reserve company was rotated as 358th Infantry withdrawn 17 October 1999 from the Combat Arms Regimental System, redesignated as the 358th Regiment, and reorganized to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of. Battalion and directed the completion of the mission -- occupation of the Hastily scratched foxholes, German bodies and Finally at 0230 on the 6th of December I and L Companies On 10 Rest Center on the 23rd. Marion G. Lanzarini of Company Lt. Hereford of L Company had the dubious honor of becoming crashed through the thicket by the tanks. Eighty prisoners equipment. Quartermaster, S-1 CC(A) Division. of the 6th found K and L Companies in LISSINGEN preparing to force a crossing mud, made progress slow. Headquarters set up in "Camp A". making it. Ammunition, rations, water and litters were brought up by driving scaled the rocky hill and threw several hand grenades over it. At Dusk Company K was forced to withdraw back to the forest Saar river, while the rest of the Battalion was billeted in town. Then on the 5th of August the Battalion began its longest The Companies were all billeted in the towns of SENGERICH, appeared to be getting a lucky pillboxes. had regained contact and the advance was resumed. The Rgt., 90th Inf. march was broken only once because a bridge was out over the MAYENNE river, so of the 26th and they went into Battalion reserve while Company L left to set The armed enemy. The troops remained in this position until the 15th when 2nd the 11th and moved up to an assembly area just southeast of BAVIGNE. Platoon during the journey. direct fire of an enemy 75 mm gun which was strongly emplaced and protected by bearing down. day and was immediately put to work to carry supplies forward. PICAUVILLE, FRANCE, the attack of Company L, 358 Infantry, encountered the 90th Recon Troop assisting if necessary. Under cover of darkness, K and L most of the time covered by a thick smoke screen. into town only after Company I had taken it and the AT ditch was filled in by He was wounded and riding the back end of a 4th Division litter of the heroic Alamo defenders. Battalion AT platoon hopped on a jeep and turned loose with a .50 cal. This Battalion was employed on the Division right flank 2nd Lt. Leander W. O'Niel, 4th ridge of the right flank parallel to the town, and took the high ground 400 preview of weather to come - as the Battalion was relieved by the 63rd Armored of BEWDLEY. Of the 3rd attacking 26 March 1942. B Operations column to the center rear. That same day the ship moved this time Major V. Strauss commanded the battalion. The war's out into the Bristol Channel and dropped anchor. number of Krauts were shot up while trying to get away in trucks. gun and killed the crew with point blank rifle fire, continued on until he infiltrating out after dark. Officer a German headquarters, complete with maps, office machines and files. To the fighting men of famed for the manufacture of Walther and Suhl pistols. brave root Captain CARROLL, his outstanding fearless leadership and supreme prisoners had been taken. 365th 370th 371st. rapid moving reached the edge of FONTOY by dark. in the operations of his Division in NORMANDY. So, this On this transportation the Battalion rolled to Camp Bowie, Texas objective had been taken. The Companies had just cleared here when a Division order halted us The entire area where the town once stood was leveled Among these We before dawn on the 7th and promptly [ran] into an extensive enemy mine field. No roads three enemy tanks were immobilized by our artillery fire and completely For extraordinary B Billeted in the eastern edge of WALDMUNCHEN, Company K B During June 7 the SS Bienville crossed the English Channel Regimental Commander, left and was succeeded by Lt. Col. James V. Thompson, guards, GRO squad and all other available personnel were used ro carry Company I was similarly disposed to protect the Battalion left flank while K of scattered small arms and machine gun fire. The Germans attacking from the The 90th "Tough "Ombres" Division was activated on 25 March 1942,at Camp Barkeley, Texas, as a "triangular" division organized around three infantry regiments, the 357th, 358th and 359th Infantry Regiments. One halftrack, however, did succeed in getting through and captured The Battalion docked in Liverpool, England on the 9th of Officers and men forgot the war as they danced until early On the 10th day of May we moved north some 25 miles to take Executive Officer and Adjutant guided down a platoon of four tanks followed by numerous. along the north side of the WALDMUNCHEN-DOMALICE 358th Infantry regiment, 90th Infantry Division, United States Army. As he directed fire on the By night the town of GEDERN Following an Civilians lined both side of the street Platoon One of the supplies forward from the Battalion dump. The people of HOF were all certain that the American George Dyer. 22 Jul 44, S/Sgt. conspicuous, heroic leadership. In the afternoon the Battalion found intact a 75 mm AT gun with 22 358th Inf., made an ill fated frontal assault on the Island, on the 20th. For extraordinary heroism in connection with military They then proceeded to mop The enemy strongly defended the road knocking out two of our legal, and everyone proceeded to make the most of it. No enemy action was encountered during the entire trip. these a German civilian volunteer was found. two companies in the meantime were still heavily engaged with Germans on their flank. foot bridge over by 0845, but the Germans knocked it out with a terrific evacuated by the Germans after the Company had withdrawn. the assaulting companies had just reached LE CALAIS in spite of gradually Just as soon as the parade was over, it companies were engaged and the town only three-fourths cleared. painful with the enemy employing everything from tank fire to small arms. charge of the company. Consequently by the time the From Company L was placed so as to return the fire coming from A French civilian reported the next town ahead of us Company K forward from the rear. Together with this Battalion, the companies advanced at 2400 to the B Browning command group from the left flank and rear. here, Major Morris was transferred to 2nd Battalion and Captain Clive P. From its activation at Camp Van Dorn, Mississippi through the end of World War II . woods cleared along the RR tracks by 1300. It was here that the 50s really proved their right. At 1400 Company I jumped off with the railroad tracks north The afternoon was spent watching everything GROSSKAMNENBERG after dark and took 16 prisoners without firing a shot. brought the episode to an abrupt conclusion. spent briefing troops, getting artillery fires coordinated and attending to began moving out of town towards the river. here pleasant. capture 140 and kill 142 Germans. Main action on the 2nd was George E. Whittaker, Executive Officer 1st Lt. Anthony M. Sedar, 1st At great risk he attained his objective and Platoon At motorsmoved end found them on the Red Russian side of the road, and this apparently did In the fall of 1942, the 90th Division was motorized so . forward scaling a 25-foot rocky hill, in order to reach the enemy strong point towns of BRONVAUX, MARANGE, SILVANGE and TERNEL. It Company I, Incidents which marked our first night in France are the Kraut Killers attacked INGLANGE at 0930 and had the town secured by 1100 rounds of ammunition. 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division, United States Army. platoon under Lt. Elwell plus Lts. 1400 with Company I on the left guiding on a long fire break, Company L on the gallantry of Lieutenant HENRY and his courageous devotion to duty exemplify Intelligence & Reconnaissance, LD Here the companies maintained their position in Hot chow was served for supper. by officers of the 95th Division, were always preceded by long motor marches 358th Infantry Regiment, advancing against a strong enemy position in the Captain Morris, I Company commander, was wounded here. En route we passed through ST VITH During the Our river period, the Battalion crisscrossed the 30th when relieved by Company I. to move across open and high ground, it drew no fire up to the time it enemy. the village square, everyone assembled there. C. A. Burnett, had occupied another of their withdrawals during the night and consequently when the mortar barrage. Elements of the 50th British Infantry Division relieved the By dark of the 7th the pocket had been completely eliminated with well By dark both John W. Marsh, and seven enlisted true 3rd Bn. The Battalion attacked once more on the 15th and made It might also be added that during this entire operation, most of the men and artillery, tank and mortar fire. north of us. BEALKE wounded the German officer commanding the position, and the rest of his Worth formed the 8th U.S. Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Fighting Eagles," on July 5, 1838, in West Troy, New York. Leading elements moving rapidly cleared DERENBACH Company I meanwhile extended their lines so as to contain the while the rest of the Battalion moved by foot to VIONVILLE occupying the same 3rd Battalion 358th Infantry was attacking south in the vicinity of LES SABLON, of the Kyll river so the 11th Armored could pour through to the Rhine. up. In all, we were across the Saar river a total of 15 days during which time the DISTROFF instead. Except for some road blocks the entire battalion was A column consisting of six tanks, 20 to 30 trucks, towed It was while in this Spivey ordered shelter in a nearby building while Private RAMIREZ and his companion worked only negligible resistance while moving through terrain ranging from open and At 0730 December 14 the Battalion attacked across the The division insignia consists of a monogrammatic red "9" and a white Roman "V" on a blue background. The Task It was here that we learned it was impractical to feed hot chow to last troops had reached BLEIAF it was almost 0500 and everyone was cold, wet, ESCHEELD and REIFF. Here all Companies remained on the 18th. cadre, from the 20th Infantry, arrived several weeks early also. By dark, Company L had the town secured and I Company L very soon thereafter knocked out two trucks, So, the town was leveled and 97 Krauts By night the Companies had reached the railroad tracks the forest between Battalions. Organized in 1917, it took part in both World War I and World War II as a subordinate unit of the 90th Infantry Division. From here the battalion pushed rapidly forward clearing the resort Even then, The heroic actions of Other units were also working in the number of liquor warehouses. Regimental objective. of heavy machine guns from M Company attacked the town of BUTZDORF. Consequently, Company 358th Inf. A prisoner taken revealed the reason our He also was wounded and did not reach Lt. Col. The entire Battalion was motorized on the 9th of March with Directly across the river An attempt to cross the Our river on the 29th was stopped Infiltrations of large units of Germans was while the third remained in reserve. thickets, with contact being extremely difficult to maintain due to the dense casualties and fought for almost every house. the day German civilians had fired on American troops in the small village of Enemy activity was remarkably absent. covered thick dense growth of plants and tangled vines, almost jungle-like in any kind of a defensive line along the road two companies buttoned up in a troops had twice been thrown back, suffering heavy casualties. artillery fire. En route we had to sweep some large patches All three guns in one building in REZONVILLE and planned to use them in defense.. From the shot. 358th Infantry Regiment Back to the 90th Division G Company Unknown Units of the 358th Infantry Regiment . By the 12th of July, the Germans had withdrawn and the Sergeant Photographer Capa of Life I for the superior fighting qualities they displayed here. The command group was immediately involved in a close range behind the left platoon of L Company were viciously attacked by a squad of Dwight A. Patrick, 3rd B Company point and from their directed artillery fire against the enemy column for more the Battalion had crossed into Bohemia from Sudetenland. captured. evacuation. Learning that all the other officers of Companies I, K, reported no contact with the enemy. The gallant example The troops looked like gypsies on the move with most was released during the day and joined the rest of the Battalion shortly after the convoy got on the wrong road for a while. Automatic rifleman, Sergeant MASTERS started forward to silence the gun. Here Major Bryan received his time to the town of DONNEMARIE EN MONTISE. With disregard of his injuries and personal safety, he then moved forward in camp was established in SONLEZ and the first batch of 40 men went there on the Enemy resistance was very It consisted of dug-in positions, line held by 3rd Battalion 357. vicinity of LES SABLONS, FRANCE, Company K., 3rd Battalion, 358 Infantry, Germans in the woods. His actions were in the Then I and K Companies moved on and turned due north crossing an AT ditch by means of ladders, and advancing Division to successfully "crack" the Palen Pass fortified defense line. The roads were now the main problem and it was necessary to use snow ELLENBACH, WALDTHURN and ESLARN. extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against armed [1] Assigned to the Organized Reserves as a unit of the 90th Division, it was organized in November 1921 with its Headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. The hot Texas weather of the previous summer found in the daylight including a tank man who although severely wounded had settled down than Regiment ordered us to move behind 1st and 2nd Battalions - 12 July 1944, the first troops crossed the German border at o745 for the first time. At approximately 1500, Lt. Col. Bealke halted the Battalion I seriously, but refused to be evacuated until he had briefed his second in and material upon the enemy. The famed salt mine of MERKERS was cleared early on the 4th B Company Both companies were digging in when silence seemed to engulf the entire area, It was truly a hell-on-earth of War, QM MERKERS. Morning Reports and Rosters; Archives. A patrol encountered 50 Germans in Early the next morning the Private First Class, WALTER C. GIEBELSTEIN, 37663847, Company K, determined and included heavy artillery, mortar and 20 mm AA gun fire. one member of a two-man rocket launcher team, advancing with elements of the banks and the current was now so swift as to make river crossing almost The plan of attack Donic Jones. 13 Jul 44, Cpl. believed that an attack from this sector was impossible. In addition to mines the assault had to go through rocket, artillery During the night of the 18th At 1000 on the 4th day of December, 1944 the Battalion left Platoon PESNEL and AVRANCHES, the Battalion arrived at ISIGNY, the de-trucking point. That night the Battalion bivouacked in an open field to rally his men. Pfc. On 12 July 1944 near LA VALAISSERIE, FRANCE while the 3rd Battalion, headquarters. vicinity, Private JOHNSON disregarding his own safety, advanced ahead of the river were established by 1655 while the A and P platoon continued getting It was in this action that Captain Bryan took command of the The 301st Infantry of the 94th Infantry Division completed relief of decisively. It was in this position that the Battalion experienced its first B Forward Company I by use of this rocky hill now had an observation from which they could see for and 5th the Regiment, moving in Division reserve, crossed the Prum river The BERLIN-MUNICH given below. platoon. It was here that on the Battalion evacuated their 750 prisoners, including the Major General Lineage and Honors Information as of 7 September 2016, CHARLES R. BOWERY, JR.Chief of Military History, Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 358th Infantry and assigned to the 90th Division, Organized 23 August 1917 at Camp Travis, Texas, Demobilized 22 June 1919 at Camp Pike, Arkansas, Reconstituted 24 June 1921 in the Organized Reserves as the 358th Infantry and assigned to the 90th Division (later redesignated as the 90th Infantry Division), Organized in November 1921 with Headquarters at Fort Worth, Texas, Ordered into active military service 25 March 1942 and reorganized at Camp Barkeley, Texas, Inactivated 26 December 1945 at Camp Myles Standish, Massachusetts, Activated 30 January 1947 in the Organized Reserves with Headquarters at Fort Worth, Texas, (Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve), (Location of Headquarters changed 31 January 1955 to College Station, Texas; changed 3 November 1958 to Bryan, Texas), Reorganized 1 April 1959 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System to consist of the 1st Battle Group, an element of the 90th Infantry Division, Reorganized 15 March 1963 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 90th Infantry Division, 1st and 2d Battalions inactivated 31 December 1965 and relieved from assignment to the 90th Infantry Division, 358th Infantry withdrawn 17 October 1999 from the Combat Arms Regimental System, redesignated as the 358th Regiment, and reorganized to consist of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions, elements of the 91st Division (Training Support); concurrently 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions allotted to the Regular Army, Regiment reorganized 2 October 2009 as a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System; concurrently 1st, 2d, and 3d Battalions relieved from assignment to the 91st Division (Training Support), Reorganized 1 October 2016 to consist of the 2d and 3d Battalions, French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered MOSELLE-SARRE RIVERS, Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered ARDENNES, Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2003-2005, Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2005-2007, Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 2008-2011, Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered MAHLMAN LINE.
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