Campaigns. All attacks were repelled. In honor of their World War II service, the 9th was officially nicknamed the "Phantom Division." The Commanding General, 106th Division did obtain the release of a Platoon of tank destroyers (Company "A", 811th TD) which was ordered to St Vith.B  rigadier William M. Hoge, Commander, CCB, 9th Armored Division, conferred with Commanding General, 106th Infantry Division in St Vith after dark and received orders to be prepared to attack toward Winterspelt. In the late afternoon Company A, 19th Tank Battalion, joined the 12th Infantry (4th Division) as a mobile reserve in this area. In the meantime, however, the 2d Battalion of the 14th Parachute Regiment had cut the road south of Hoscheid and the relief force was checked within a thousand yards of the village by enemy fire concentrated on a sharp bend in the road. During the night of 17-18 December this force assembled in the cover of the Eselbour woods, waiting to jump off at dawn. The hard fact remained that the German infantry, masked by the accidents of the rugged Our country, had achieved considerable success in exploiting the gaps between the village strong-points. There it lay, with perfect cover for close-in work with the bazooka, when the American advance began. Several days later, he rejoined the 14th Tank Battalion’s Command Post in the vicinity of St. Vith. Despite continuous counterbattery fire, the gunners had given steady and effective support whenever called upon, expending about 4,000 rounds during the two-day action. Although no nickname for the 9th was in common usage throughout the war, "Phantom" division was sometimes used in 1945.   16-20 December. At 0030 hours, General Hoge arrived at the Command Post of the 14th Tank Battalion. With no real prior combat experience, the 9th Armored took on the brunt of the surprise German offensive on December 16 with units stationed in St. Vith, Echternach, and Bastogne. During the day enemy attacks were repulsed and enemy armored vehicles destroyed. One tank was later recovered by the 14th Tank Battalion Maintenance Section. German efforts to achieve a real penetration on the left flank were less successful than on the right. Menaced from two sides by superior strength, the American tank destroyers and cavalry were ordered to withdraw to the ridge south of the village. Battle of the Bulge. Remnants of the 9th Armored CCR including the 73rd Armored Field Artillery retreated into the town. But in these three days the regiment had held the enemy short of the Ettelbruck crossing and prevented the planned concentration of the 352d Volks Grenadier Division south of the Sauer. For two hours the fight went back and forth, 5 involving the 2d Battalion on the Diekirch-Hoscheid road and the 3d Battalion aligned on the ridge east of Diekirch. Division, because this division, under peremptory orders from its commander, had continued the westward advance through the night, the forward troops defiling into the Kautenbach bridgehead. The sector in which the Seventh Army would advance, as flank guard for the two panzer armies carrying the weight of the main counteroffensive, was weakly held. The division also received the 656th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Combat Command "B" 9th Armored Division, was composed of the following units: Troop "D", 89th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized); Company "B", 9th Armored Engineer Battalion; Company "A", 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion (plus one Platoon Reconnaissance Company, 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion); Battery "B", 482nd Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (Self-Propelled); Company "B", 2nd Armored Medical Battalion; Company "C", 131st Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion; Military Police Detachment, 9th Armored Division. (new) The 7th Armored Division races to St Vith. The LXXXV Corps was given orders to cross the Our River, north of its juncture with the Sauer, and advance on a westward axis parallel to that of the Fifth Panzer Army. Only a few days before the attack Heilmann warned Model that the 5th Parachute Division was only a Class IV outfit, but Model, who by now must have been surfeited with complaints on lack of equipment and insufficient training, merely replied that success would be won by the paratroopers' "usual audacity.". With the river momentarily secure at its back the regiment dug in along an arc facing out from Diekirch. Some were quietly bypassed as the German shock companies moved quickly inland. By 1130 hours “A” Company, 14th Tank, had fought its way to Neubruck where it was joined by the 1st Platoon of “B” Company, 14th Tank. This offensive would be known as “The Battle of the Bulge”. In the course of this withdrawal the armored field artillery batteries were hard beset and had to beat off the enemy at four hundred yards range. The Germans advanced across an open field in close formation. True, one arm of the 352d was reaching north of the 3d Battalion, but the latter still blocked the Sauer valley road and the direct approach to Diekirch and the Ettelbruck bridges. The enemy was still denied access to St. Vith from the south and southeast. The assignment of four infantry divisions to cover the southern flank of the assault armies was as far as he would go, nor could the numerous pleas advanced by his field commanders for additional strength in the south alter his decision one whit. CCA took this much needed breathing spell to prepare roadblocks and demolitions in front of its new 7-mile-long main line of resistance. tank destroyers and supporting batteries of the 3d Field Artillery Battalion drove off the Germans. Führen was attacked during the day by troops of the 15th Parachute Regiment, the 915th Regiment, and the 914th Regiment. His unit was sent to Europe in August 1944. Casualties in manpower and equipment while substantial did not permit the enemy to close in the vital road center at St. Vith. The 109th outposts on the far bank of the Our could see little in the half-light of the foggy morning. So, in freezing cold, some three thousand men, women, and children set out on the road to Mersch, leaving behind four hundred of the townspeople who refused to abandon aged relatives or property.6, All during the day of the 20th the 109th Infantry was out of touch with the enemy. The 109th Infantry had held its positions in this first day, and Rudder saw no cause for alarm since he occupied good terrain. At 0930 at 27th Infantry Command Post at Neubruck reported that they were surrounded and being attacked. 16-20 December. The shortage of bridging equipment continued to plague the Seventh Army, but Brandenberger's staff scraped together an impromptu bridge train and started it. Place and date: Near Grufflingen, Belgium, 21 December 1944. When night came the fight flared up once more, small groups of the enemy probing for weak points while artillery fire and searchlights were employed to guide the attack and distract the defenders. Combat Command RCCR of the U.S. 9th Armored Division sacrificed heroically to win precious time at … For some reason the Germans did not push on and Company C, holding the hills and crests south of Bigelbach, engaged them in a desultory, long-range fire fight for the rest of the day. Despite substantial casualties, he was still prevented from capturing St. Vith. General Leonard ordered the 2d Battalion, reduced to half strength, over to the east side of the Alzette to offer some infantry protection for the 9th Armored tanks in the Stegen-Ermsdorf area. The latter was horse-drawn but expected to motorize with captured American vehicles. As soon as the Allies had broken out of the Normandy Beachhead, they pushed the Germans back rapidly until they had reached the German Frontier in November and December. At 0530 hours, orders were issued for the withdrawal of CCB, 9AD. Therefore the 5th Parachute Division plan called for a quick and unopposed crossing at the Our; a bridge to be in at Roth by midafternoon of the first day; a rapid advance past the villages where the weak American forces were located; and a lightning stroke to force the crossing sites near Wiltz. He then ordered the 14th Tank Battalion less its detachments to attack and take Winterspelt. In point of fact the 109th already was on the march west through Ettelbruck. On the previous evening the force from the 5th Parachute Division which had been moving along the boundary between the 109th and 110th reached the primary ridge road (known to the Americans as the Skyline Drive) which extended laterally across the 28th Division sector from Weiswampach to Ettelbruck. This force consisting of two companies of Infantry (“B” and “C”/27), a company of medium tanks (“B”/14), a company of light tanks (“D”/14), and Troop “D”, 89th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, with attached platoons from Troop “E” and Company “F”, was deployed over a front of 4,000 yards. In this action the 14th Tank lost one tank while destroying seven enemy armored vehicles. On the whole the Seventh Army command was far from pleased by the day's performance, pressing General Moehring to continue the attack through the night. Beginning at 0130 hours, the enemy attacked the 27th Armored Infantry Battalion’s position at Neubruck. After two moves, it closed into an assembly area north of Werbomont at 0530 hours on the 25th of December 1944. Since the 9th Armored Division was in this sector with a force equivalent only to a combat command, Leonard's reserves consisted of one tank battalion (the 19th), a company from the divisional engineers, a battery from the 482d Aircraft Artillery Battalion, most of the 89th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, a company of self-propelled tank destroyers, and two reconnaissance platoons belonging to the 811th Tank Destroyer Battalion. No word had come from Führen since 2300 the previous evening. For two days the 5th Parachute Division had operated with only such heavy weapons as could be ferried across the Our or maneuvered over the Vianden wier, because for two days trouble had dogged the bridge builders at Roth. The planned attack against the 9th Armored right flank was therefore postponed until the guns could reach the 988th Regiment, which had been assigned the main role. About 0900 the division chief of staff gave Colonel Rudder permission to withdraw the two companies for use as a reserve. During the late. The bulk of the 9th Armored Division, a unit with no prior battle experience, was held in the west as the VIII Corps reserve, but just before the German attack CCB was transferred to V Corps. A platoon of tank destroyers was sent east to Schoenberg to relieve the forward command post of the 106th Infantry Division. While the American counterattack pushed in against the south flank of the 915th that regiment continued to work its way southwest through the darkness, establishing an advance position on the ridge overlooking Bastendorf. Once across, the German assault troops moved rapidly up the draws, masked from view by the fog and the heavy woods. Finally, in two night marches the division concentrated on the east bank of the Sauer, its zone of attack defined in the north by Wallendorf (at the junction of the Our and the Sauer) and in the. The regiment could expect little aid, for most of the slim reserves of the 28th Division would go to the hardpressed 110th Infantry in the center. From excellent observation on the heights the 107th and 108th Field Artillery Battalions brought the howitzers positioned near Diekirch into play, pinning the German shock troops to the river bank where they remained for the rest of the day. After all, the goal to be reached by the night of 16 December was near the town of Wiltz some ten miles west of the Our. The initial German assault near Hosdorf had provided the 109th with the first confirmation of an enemy advance west of the Our, but accomplished little else. This fire then shifted to 14th Tank Battalion Command Post. On the morning of the attack the LXXX Corps artillery broke the long quiet on the Sauer River as six battalions and a rocket projector brigade divided their fire to reinforce the divisional artillery of the 276th and 212th. The center German regiment, 988th, made its crossings near Dillingen, aiming in the direction of Beaufort and Haller. The cavalry unit, led by Capt. This force was relieved by infantry and armored units from the 7th Armored Division at 1700 hours. In Hoscheid the tanks were running low on ammunition. Mayer went missing in action on December 17, 1944. As a result complications would arise once the 5th Parachute Division and the 352d Volks Grenadier Division advanced beyond the river. There were only six assault guns in the divisional company. A rememberance pageto the Battle of the Bulge, December 16th 1944 - December 16th 1999. Combat Command "B", 9th Armored Division diverted to the Winterspelt area on the night of the 16th December, arrived in St Vith before dawn on the 17th, and received its final orders. The 109th Infantry, however, had been forced back fanwise away from the rest of the 28th Division. He need not have worried. Company F knocked out two assault guns in a 5th Parachute column with bazooka fire. 9th Armored Division (-CCB): fell back to central Luxembourg from Southern Center 10th Armored Division (task force): came to aid of 4th Infantry Division after initial attack 10th Armored Division (detachments): central Luxembourg XII Corps: 4th Inf Div, 9th Armd Div(-), 10th Armd(elem), 109th Rgt of 28th Inf div, 2nd Cav Gp antitank guns scored "many hits" on the German tanks, but as usual without effect, and two of the guns were lost. The fighting armored infantry had so successfully contained the German main forces on 16 and 17 December that the infiltrating units which first made headway in the Beaufort area were relatively, BELGIAN WOMAN SALVAGING GRAIN IN GUTTED BARN. All this while Company E had been under attack in Führen, but with its own fire greatly thickened by accurate artillery concentrations the company held the enemy at bay. Brandenberger sent word to OB WEST that a new commander was needed for the 276th Division. Two batteries actually took new firing positions in front of the rifle line. By then the 2d Battalion was moving from Bastendorf, under small arms fire "from all directions." The 352d Volks Grenadier Division succeeded in crossing a few tanks and assault guns, as well as more light artillery. The 109th "could fight it out . CCR, 9th Armored Division, and the Road to Bastogne []. These units would fight as a combat command, although the sector was not turned over to Col. Thomas L. Harrold and CCA headquarters until the next morning. At about 1430 hours, warning reached Service Company, 14th Tank Battalion Command Post, by foot messenger, that enemy columns were two to three kilometers from Ligneuville and approaching from the north and east. Although the enemy troops around Assenois had been broken and scattered by the lightning thrust on the 26th, the III Corps' attack on the following day met some opposition. Colonel Collins ordered the headquarters of the 60th Armored Infantry Battalion back to the motor park near Savelborn and committed Troop A, 89th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, to fight a rear guard action in Beaufort. Hard pressed as the day wore on, the gunners were relieved by a series of friendly sorties. The “A” Company tank crew undertook the mission of taking the head of Peiper’s column under fire, disabling several armored vehicles and allowing Service Company to withdraw and remain operational. But in the north there was no longer any question that Companies F and G could hold on, isolated as they were, along the road beyond Bastendorf. Troop “D” of the 89th Reconnaissance Battalion and the Reconnaissance of the 14th Tank Battalion were on patrol to close gaps that existed. The 276th Volks Grenadier Division had failed to seize control of the Sauer heights. This fire, combined with that of “A” an “C” Companies of the 27th Armored Infantry, caused very heavy casualties, and toward dark the enemy withdrew. At 1000 Company G came up from reserve at Brandenburg and was put on the right of Company F. For some reason the German force at Walsdorf did not press its advantage. It would seem that the German gunners were firing by the map (there had been numerous changes of position in this area which were unknown to German intelligence) and the opening barrage shortly dwindled away to occasional salvos without inflicting much damage or disrupting communications. How the Battle of the Bulge Was Won (And Nazi Germany Was Placed Near Its End) Combat Command RCCR of the U.S. 9th Armored Division sacrificed heroically to win precious time at … The unseen enemy, firing behind the cover of huge boulders and trees, had the upper hand; at dark a platoon of cavalry assault guns laid down a protective barrage and the American task force withdrew to the hills flanking the exit from the Waldbillig-Müllerthal defile. The American 57-mm. Nonetheless, Heilmann hoped that the vehicles of the 15th Parachute Regiment and the self-propelled 75-mm. World War Two Historians, Teatchers, Students and Researchers Ressources Center 16-20 December, Only six days prior to the German attack, troops of the 9th Armored Division (General Leonard) had been assigned a 3-mile sector on the VIII Corps front between the 28th Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division. The division now had a bridge at Bollendorf, its weapons were west of the Sauer, the division command post had been moved across to Beaufort, and the center and left regiments had made. The 9th Armored Division could report on the night of the 19th that the situation on its right flank was satisfactory, and on the left flank too as far as Stegen; beyond Stegen the situation was "obscure." Beyer's troops, in this final plan, had the mission. Also included are units of the 8th and 9th Army Air Forces. At 1008, “B” Company, 14th Tank, knocked out an enemy tank to its front. C.C.B. These strongpoints were nearly two miles apart; behind them the third rifle company was located in reserve at Brandenburg with one howitzer battery to give support. A total of 14 Wisconsin deaths were in the 101st Airborne and 11 in the 9th Armored Division. The 109th, fortunately, was given a few hours to rest and better its defenses before the enemy continued the advance to wipe out the Diekirch-Ettelbruck bridgehead. He became a corporal and light machine gunner in Troop D, 89th Calvary Reconnaissance Squadron, 9th Armored Division. However, the trucks of the 14th Tank Battalion happened to be in a more favorable position when Peiper’s column hit Ligneuville. At 1330 hours Company “B”, 14th Tank, repelled a strong enemy attack. left a large bomb crater in the road close to the Our. The Battle of the Bulge was the largest land battle in US military history, fought in Luxembourg and Belgium during the winter of 1944-1945. The enemy was determined to take this village, located as it was on the boundary between the 5th Parachute Division and the 352d Volks Grenadier Division. Against this supposedly limited force the CCA commander mustered his remaining men, assault guns, and armored vehicles for a counterattack to reestablish contact with the three isolated companies "and drive the enemy into the river." and that would be the end"; the regiment could tie in closely with the 9th Armored force and withdraw to the south; or the 109th and the 9th Armored force could be pulled back toward Bastogne. The 14th Parachute Regiment, badly disorganized in the series of village fights at Hoscheid and elsewhere, was pulled together and sent marching to the Clerf River. (new) Combat Command Bof the 9th Armored Division at St Vith. This sector fronted on the Sauer River south of the junction with the Our and earlier had been held by a battalion of the 109th, WALLENDORF, VIEWED FROM REISDORF on the western side of the Sauer River, Infantry. Photo: Brigadier William M. Hoge, Commander, CCB, 9th Armd Division. One was crippled by enemy fire, its driver and loader wounded by a rifle grenade when it drove squarely into the files of German infantry on the road, guns blazing; but the other fought its way north to the beleaguered batteries. General Robertson had by then lost his division reserve to the 99th as well as a combat command of the 9th Armored Division, on loan to him to use when the Wahlerscheid breakthrough was completed. If this plan were successful the 5th Parachute Engineer Battalion would ferry the assault companies across the Our, then join the advance and reach the Wiltz sector with ferrying equipment by the end of the first day. The 352d Volks Grenadier Division had assembled two of its regiments west of Bastendorf during the previous night, leaving the 916th Regiment to occupy Diekirch as the Americans left. Artillery, high velocity gun, and mortar fire being received along all CCB, 9th Armored Division positions. This mission in Dempwolff's judgment required a continuation of the attack southwestward toward Waldbillig and Christnach where American reinforcements already had arrived to help the 4th Infantry Division. That the 109th had disrupted the German plans is witnessed by the fact that the commander of the 352d was unable to get his division in hand until 19 December, while the attack in force could not be resumed until 20 December. The Combat Command closed into its assembly at 0530 hours on the 25th of December after being in continuous combat with the enemy from 0700 hours the 17th of December trough 1430 hours the 24th December, 1944. By midafternoon the 2d Battalion of the 915th Regiment, which had bypassed Bastendorf earlier, was pressing in on that battery and Battery A, 108th Field Artillery, emplaced nearby. Throughout the night, “D” Company, 14th, with attached units, was in constant contact with the enemy. By midafternoon it numbered only twenty-five men and an artillery observer commander as the single officer left. Although there were no American troops in the Sauer valley, observers on the heights were able to follow every move of the 916th. If all went well one of the two divisions would come to a halt in a blocking position around Arlon, south of Bastogne. Shortly after 1000 the German advance guard was firing its burp guns into Battery A, 108th Field Artillery, east of Diekirch. Also, the German armored vehicles and heavy weapons, which had been observed just at dark assembling across the river facing Führen, had yet to be encountered. Rebuilt around wounded veterans who had returned from the hospitals, the division was fairly young in terms of the conscription classes it represented and was at full strength when it moved west from Poland. The 10th Armored “Tiger” Division was activated on July 15, 1942, at Fort Benning, and entered northwestern France through the port of Cherbourg on Sept. 23, 1944. For a detailed report of the 9th Infantry Division’s Hurtgen Forest actions during September and October 1944, please visit my Hurtgen Forest page.. Battery A, 107th Field Artillery, for example, had been harassed by fire from small groups of Germans since the previous midnight. At 1000 hours, during the ensuing fire fight, the antitank guns were destroyed but two of Company “A’s” tanks were lost. The 3d Battalion, last out, made its way west along the Bettendorf road, which already was under fire. Combat Command “B”, 9th Armored Division, made a major contribution to the defense of St. Vith, Belgium, during the ARDENNES - Battle of the Bulge during World War II in Europe, 17-23 December 1944. These units vary in size from a small number of people up to and including an Army Group. About 1100, detachments from the 15th Regiment in the north turned and brought Führen under small arms fire. Colonel Heilmann, who had recently taken over the division, was not too sanguine as to its ability or state of training as a unit. CCB, 9th Armored Division defended a roadblock at Manhay and supported troops from the 82nd Airborne Division in a successful counterattack on Regne, Belgium. The 212th Volks Grenadier Division, acting as the southern pivot for the entire German counteroffensive, would cross the Sauer in the Echternach sector and drive head on against the 12th Infantry. The loss of Company E and the platoon from Company K made the 3d Battalion position precarious. This threat as yet was not too serious, but the light tank company of the 19th Tank Battalion was dispatched north of Ermsdorf to watch the road which angled from Reisdorf behind the left flank of the position occupied by the 60th Armored Infantry Battalion. 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