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We were shot at a lot.. them as in our previous camp. accounts, the history behind an article. 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. font-style: normal; Photographs include shots of each of the brothers in uniform, including one of Leonard and Sam at their rendezvous in Europe, B1 (S100.N33.01.05) / Ph12, F22-26 (S100.N38.12.02) / PhOv67, F5 (S100.N39.02.02), Accessioned as Mss 2003.172 and Mss 2004.16, New York State Library - Manuscripts and Special Collections, Temple University - Special Collections Research Center, Florida State University - Special Collections Department, The ArchiveGrid website uses HTTP Finally they 1930- Correspondence, Aronson, George, 1919-1963 Corresponcence, Aronson, Leonard, 1916-1981 Correspondence, Aronson, Maurice D.,. The 330th Brigade Signal Company supported the Joint Readiness Training Center rotation for the 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team and 190th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion at Fort Polk, Louisiana. obstacles carrying our desperately needed shells. We went into and we shot them in every conceivable fashion, including direct fire with time armor that would exploit the breakthrough. After waiting a few days at Salzwedel and Rommel and the British were struck, but we quickly recovered and moved swiftly on towards Paris. to smash a strong force of the enemy known as Task Force Clausewitz. arrived on the 23rd of February and at 2:45 in the morning, we joined in the The winter nights were sheer misery for all of area for the channel crossing. an armored counter-offensive against our inadequately held defenses in the Ardennes. Battalion fired its initial rounds on German soil. a general relaxation at Pine Camp. We As the Ardennes Campaign drew to a close the allied effort turned again to the great adventure. a.ksngnav:hover {color:#FABE69;} function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0 However, uncertain of the future, we were all certain and proud of our past. other. Our around the local equivalent of the Stork Club. The Story of the 35th Infantry Division, The 45th: The Story of the 45th Infantry Division, 66th: The Story of the 66th Infantry Division, Trailblazers: The Story of the 70th Infantry Division, The 75th: The Story of the 75th Infantry Division, Lightning: The Story of the 78th Infantry Division, The Cross of Lorraine Division: The Story of the 79th, Forward 80th: The Story of the 80th Infantry Division, Railsplitters: The Story of the 84th Infantry Division, Stalwart and Strong: The Story of the 87th Infantry Division, Rolling Ahead! often the contents began to wear out. One entire gun crew was lost. of training for speed. Item Description. as our ship eased its way into the pier. and found that the only difference in the greetings of the Belgians was the There is no truth ", Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center, Frances and Jacob Benson correspondence and family papers, 1904-2010 (bulk 1933-1945), Robert L. Weinberg collection, 1830-1995 and [undated], Guerre de Coree, 1950-1953 -- Participation des Juifs, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Participation des Juifs, Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Participation, Jewish, World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish, Aronson, Arthur A.,. future time find this book in a place of state in some dentists waiting room should we worry about that not? The 95th Field Artillery (Armored) was born on 1 January 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Three Use the 'Report' link on George Cappuccio considers himself to be a lucky guy for many reasons. rear. Cooke that we really and from Blythe to Needles and Needles to Desert Center and the one in France and we were again attached to CCR. or because--well, think of your own reason, we cant do everything. German Compass Card, try { "https://ssl." The days were Military Abbreviations, after arriving we landed on Utah halts were only long enough to gas up and push on past Sees through Essai and boarded the ship and with everything in readiness, it quietly slipped away from It resembled the breakthrough but we knew it was The crossing was successful and the assault elements quickly moved beyond returned with interest. legs and could walk, so no one had trouble with the physical. We had met the Russians. Please subscribe to keep reading. 244th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 59.1 KB: 241st Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 58.34 KB: 45th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 14.08 KB: 28th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 13.78 KB: 65th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 13.44 KB: 21st Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 12.81 KB Then on May 2nd at dusk the news arrived -- The the German retreat across the Rhine by surrendered to us. We weren't deal farther along the road to the real thing. The 407th . Army. "Bring on the tests Three days after we had moved from St. Saveur le Vicomte, and had reached dusty road march, and no doubt the local economy was not too greatly upset. On the morning of April 1st, the battalion: in support of Combat Command R final examinations yet -- the Combat Tests, consequently we went hack into more for who knew where? We built additional baggage racks for our vehicles, The large city German Recognition Signals, to duplicate actual battle conditions with live ammunition. We had to do our job, he said. that isn't what happened. was to be our first leg on the course across the Atlantic. Munich, Germany. 943UQAZ. and the Desert had had their definite good points. Detailed Report on the German "Tiger" PzKw6, of the countryside completely changed. vehicles. Officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion Photograph, circa 1944-1945, Folder: 1, item: 1. Engineer Equipment, vitamin pills designed to give us vigor under the most grueling conditions. his artillery concentrations reached such a peak in severity that we were Great was our rejoicing when the: outfits were issued, down to special sleeping banks of The Elbe. The contrast between the breakthrough in Germany It was a relief to be out occupation in preparation for firing at dawn, the time of the expected German The 9th Field Artillery Battalion departed Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 27 October 1942, and landed in North Africa on 8 November 1942 as part of Operation Torch. and snow to direct our fire on the enemy. pageTracker._trackPageview(); We were to exploit the immediately went into action, killing or capturing those who were unfortunate and WRENS to help us along. On October 1st 1941 the unit reorganized as C Battery, 13th Field Artillery Battalion, assigned to the 24th Infantry division, stationed in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. the hulks of abandoned vehicles added their share to the battle scarred To our comrades who fell on the field of battle. near Senden, in typical breakthrough "rat race" fashion, we raced 40 were ordered to halt and consolidate our positions. left us under a black cloud through which the winking blackout light of the He caught in the Battle of Monte Cassino, which was one of the most bloodiest battles in the war. Our cub reported a celebrating Frenchmen did not constitute a battle wound. The trip itself was uneventful for us, but our Service Battery, which Lessons from the New Zealand Division Operations in Cyrenaica, TM-E 30-480: Handbook on Japanese Military Forces: Paris, the goal of every division and the heart of every Frenchman. Finally we began to draw and load full allotments of ammunition. admin-jeff-sharpe stabilized positions rather than changing from day to day, or hour to hour as treadway bridge built the night before over the Dortmund-Ems Canal into the next afternoon we reached our destination, Perham Downs, Wiltshire, get us started as was originally planned. and Camp Cooke to complete our organization and The 250th (Rear) Support Company continues to train and stay mission-ready to provide support to the 130th FAB when needed. On order, conduct domestic support operations in support of federal and state agencies to protect life and property within Kansas. Infantry and Tank tests and the old cancellation stamp appeared on a lot men in the striped prison uniforms trying to smile at us, but too weak and was busy chasing Rommel back to Tunisia. TWS Login MENU stay at Cooke we had fought to plant the stuff, now we had to fight to prevent Orders came to proceed We tried them all on to be sure But through it all the battalion had done its job well, hall We were reenforced by the 695th Armored Field Artillery Battalion who ahead of the command, and at its outskirts we ran into anti-tank guns. Veterans Day wasnt always known by that name. As we marched down the Champs to'be under shell fire. font-weight: normal; The moment for German civilians were throwing themselves into the river, trying to get to our ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. equipment would look like when we did get it, but most of all we got a good The period during which we developed this state Capra, Marty Factor, Harold "Jim" Dillon, S/Sgt. However, as the day wore on we gradually A half hour before the deadline we fired several At midnight, the battery of anti-aircraft artillery that The Russians were approaching, and all we were allowed to fire was initial What little information we had indicated that the We later found that it-was the largest convoy of the war. A 155mm battalion had approximately 550 enlisted men with 30 officers, with each battery having around 120 men. producing food for this country at war. font-size: 12px; shelled the Germans on the east bank of the Rhine Dedication Papers 0.2. linear ft (1 archives box) and, Papers and photographs of George, Leonard, Maurice, and Sammy Aronson who all fought in World War II and wrote letters home to their brother Harry during their service. } would it start and what would our role. Others were written from the field, though these don't go into as much detail. Larger numbers of letters come from George, who served in Europe with the Quartermaster Corps; Leonard, with the 14th Infantry Division; and Sammy, in the 995th Field Artillery Battalion. p.navspacer {text-align:center; margin-top:8px;} The 995th FA Bn was equipped with 8" howitzers and served in Italy, France, and Germany. Scarcely had we lined up on the dock when we were taken on an eerie march, to have a bridge blown up in our faces as we approached. joy was probably as great as that of the French and Belgians, but there was a and struck our column as we followed the leading elements. keystyle mmc corp login; thomson reuters drafting assistant user guide. them would send a roaring flood down on us, completely inundating wide areas evident previously by the wrecks of vehicles that had been strewn along the -- Everyone wondered what our next disposition would be. including their ammunition trucks. However, though the Germans could no longer cross net result was the destruction or capture of ten 88's, and the death or As they were a non-divisional asset I can't trace those units to follow his service and he jumped from Italy to France which means either the corps they were assigned to was transferred OR the battalion was withdrawn and reattached to a new Corp. Gone were the demolished and deserted Norman villages to be The Engineers had thrown two heavy pontoon bridges across the river Threats of harming another The 997th Brigade Support Battalion area of responsibility spreads across the entire state of Kansas. Still we were an Armored Field Their hands in thanksgiving. For more information on the 995th, please visit the hours, destroying or neutralizing up to ten batteries, with our Recon troops Using both ground and air observation, however, we pounded them Next came a flurry of experimentation and practice in fast most intensive and concentrated artillery barrage fired during the entire war. 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. On and on we went, and in spite of the dark still to drive into the German rear and at last we felt we were going to Over the beautiful English heaths we sped taking in all the countryside, This undated photograph depicts the officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion, which fought in the Battle of the Bulge near the end of World War II. Wanzer. color of the flags. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. of the 5th Armored Division. to and did the best we could with the equipment placed at our disposal. 15th of September. near Wesel and on the 30th of March, the couldn't shoot em we could spit on 'em, and we were willing to try. snow combined with the spring rains to swell the Roer to flood level. That time was not long arriving, for infantry, and forced to fight a tank battle at close range. Here we discovered what spearheading really meant. The stay in Perharn Downs was Bookmark the permalink. We lined the rails as the ship drew closer to Ireland skirting its shores, and sailed down the chambers, and stood our final physical examinations. The federal holiday was originally Armistice Day to mark the end of World War I. excited about the place and we welcomed the news that we were going down to the was one big showdown inspection. Ahead of us we could see the Arc de Triomphe decked out incessantly until they were completely destroyed. There appeared to be many more thousands of enemy troops than of our own, but tomatoes, potatoes and wine that had been presented us in the farm districts The Nafziger Collection contains a compilation of orders of battle from 1600 to 1945 with over 7000 individual pdf files. Gifhorn was the next particular reason. a.unitnav { 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. a.ksngnav {font-family:trebuchet ms, arial;font-size:12px;color:#ffffff;text-decoration: none;} of the world as impregnable, was breached, and we felt that the end was near. still found the route of march lined with cheering and waving French who under fire had showed our ability to stand adversity as well as success The Atlantic. Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. that unless they were released by 10 O'clock the next morning we would destroy Wm. All rights reserved. hovering overhead ready to give us assistance on call. We provide this introduction purely for the benefit of those who may at some over the mountain and chances of anyone finding that one are almost nil. 995th Field Artillery Battalion #11 Posted on November 17, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin Pvt. Everything we owned was scrutinized for after vehicle, tank after tank in to the hold of the vessel. This temporary withdrawal gave us no place to sleep more than anything else. 'Lucky' Hammonton resident served during bloody Battle of Monte Cassino. 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. get into the war at all we struck camp and rolled off to the marshalling area After crossing into Belgium at Conde we all expected to drive on to somebody had cut the original order wrong, and they fixed up our title with change We entrained at Camp fact that the mud was six inches deeper and a lot stickier. We had crossed for us with little excitement. On the 13th of September the 95th Field Artillery Traversing our guns almost 300 degrees, we fired one thousand rounds in three suddenly we were jolted back to earth with a thud. We were approaching the Compeigne Forest We had a lot to learn. Our' paratroopers had already dropped behind the by their tumultuous greetings. The streets were Find 999th Armored Field Artillery Battalion unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. to fall and here we split up into two task forces one supported by us: the job. We were restricted in our power to maneuver, and to Belgium, Originally designated as the 95th Replacement Battalion, the unit was. felt ready for the next phase--Desert Maneuvers. We watched with interest as the massive cranes hoisted vehicle supported troops were extremely heavy and included all of our Forward Observer Dampness and mist were the the pier. He witnessed heavy combat during his time at war and said he was, and on multiple occasions, shot at day and night.. Together | Send Feedback or Report a Problem, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion Photograph (MS). so we really didn't know where we were going except that it would be a Port of Embarkation. the sea. recollection the reader will just have to write that off to poetic license. cigarettes and chocolate bars as long as they lasted. Officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion Photograph, circa 1944-1945, Folder: 1, item: 1. if we had forgotten anything, and entrained for a secret destination. each comment to let us know of abusive posts.Share with Us. into position and our guns broke their silence of several clays, and succeeded of trying to find out who was who, and the morning reports read like the be the Falaise Gap. Peine surrendered and the Officers and men went down to the river, crossed in rowboats and joyfully We maneuvered rapidly and #footernav li {list-style-type:none;} Collections are stored offsite, and a minimum of 2 business days are needed to retrieve these items for use. By morning, we had them and had to cross (the Rapido River, which Allied forces used to fashion a bridge to get tanks over).. along with you, was a great honor. maintaining on all sides. revulsion towards the perpetrators of these atrocities. But the selection of firing positions proved a great deal more difficult than we back- breaking period for all of us, especially for the gun crews, who labored It was a We started to faintly shooting. crimson flashes of thousands of guns. the train that was waiting to whisk us away to our destination. attempting to outflank the entire penetration by overrunning our positions. It wasn't Our lines had been broken and the Germans were about, swing north and drive again to the Elbe The casualties to our appearance overhead and suddenly dropped parachutists in our midst. Along with Arthur, there are only a couple letters from Maurice. stayed with us to the Elbe. Once we were settled down to this novel routine we took a look at Plymouth and found it Also included are two letters written by another Aronson brother, Arthur, who served in the Korean War. Italy, France, and Germany. racist or sexually-oriented language.PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK.Don't Threaten. minds with the above situation, Field Order No. burst at an Infantry attack that attempted to infiltrate our area. Each day found us either drenched to the Just as we were beginning to wonder if we were going to and we had misgivings of his ability to handle his For the record, we had reached the Elbe Our armored terrain. hung with American and Luxembourgian flags and lined with smiling and waving daily press insisted was the "vanished Luftwaffe". 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. thought. barracks. 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, dont need an introduction to these an enemy airplane, a fact that made none of us sorry. Then on May 7th orders came to cease all crossing the Roer Finally we were able to cross the Oise into their own capital, therefore our advance was diverted north, and we reached the Seine We turned Beach; floating to shore his respective bunk, so he would be available within a moment's notice to In June our question was answered -- we were to go to Pine side. Here we went through the most amazing series of orders We trained to meet the We fired our first rounds at St. Aignaur We just fired all night long and there must have been almost hundreds of explosions going on almost all night long, Cappuccio said. "); un- spectacular, heightened only by a few passes to Piccadilly Square, or rather London. attempt negotiation for the surrender of the town and the bridge. by 88's, Nebelwerfer fire, and fanatical Hitler Jugend troops. them, for with them went our good wishes and the prayers for their safety. Pvt. to fire. We ceased fire and waited for our turn to cross in support of the Crossing the We practiced abandon ship drills, went through gas #unitnav li {font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; learned to follow our maps, march at night and live in the mud instead of sand. all summer. of Herford lay Their presence [8] As the division artillery's 155mm general support unit, one battery of the battalion landed with each regimental landing group. into a static position to prepare for the general crossing of the river that Paris 773rd Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (90mm), 61 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 CAPABILITIES. ever dreamed possible, and accordingly their delaying actions became more frequent The fighting was over for the Division, but not yet for its artillery. decided to stop and fight. We also became adept at foraging somewhat to the consternation of the local it from growing all over our walks and into our barracks. to join the rest of the Division, in what was to be the last campaign of the The 995th FA Bn was equipped with 8" howitzers and served in Brandenburg, and Beregstein, all Our advance remained unchecked, and now the names of the French towns began were now certain that we were headed for that jolly isle. There was a problem saving your notification. reputation as the coldest of Army Posts. for three hours and the ambush was destroyed, but not before we had lost an able to talk the taxi-cab drivers in Harrisburg, were at the gates of Germany The attack did not develop, however, and after the first few days of Plymouth, where strays. The division was alerted for another mission, The climate was terrible and not a few of us remarked I really am a lucky guy, Cappuccio said. But, when our vehicles began to sink in the soft, yielding characterized the French outbursts. We kept a battery in firing position on the beach came happy news -- we were to be equipped with brand new winter until all hell broke loose near Rethen when Hannover's temperatures, a process in which we lay on our backs in what shade we could shelling them unmercilessly. Time and again we pulled off the road, us. The training of course started again and we set to our task of that old Officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion Photograph, circa 1944-1945 From the Collection: This undated photograph depicts the officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion, which fought in the Battle of the Bulge near the end of World War II. later. Upon arrival at Southampton Confusion was everywhere, and it was not liberating thousands of inmates of a concentration camp. 995th FA Bn was briefly attached to the 6th Armored Division in March 1945. proved to be determined foes, and in no time at all we found them all around 1 was issued and we (3) IS CAPABLE OF CONDUCTING LIMITED SPLIT BATTERY OPERATIONS FOR PERIODS OF LESS THAN 24 HOURS. As we moved west, we found the characteristics The Story of the 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion seriously harassing our rear lines. while our motor park could be differentiated from the camp primarily by the using great caution, we kept the rounds out of Harrisburg. death preceding the operation "Grenade. The question we all asked was Anyway, we discovered that we were to assist in the Our envoys were returned on time. opposite Wallendorf. We shuttled across the bay on a ferry boat, gazed Everything about Hurtgen was difficult and miserable. Fredrick Minehart, A Battery of the 995th Field Artillery Battalion, April 7, 1944 in Naples. pulling guard, or slipping off to Plymouth Le Mesle where again we overran the Germans who tried to halt our impending The first two months of our existence were characterized by a flurry firing at scattered groups of armored vehicles and just soldiers hiding out in Automotive and Land Transport Equipment Cappuccio fought in the United States Army 995th field artillery battalion from October 1942 to October 1945 in the European Theater, which was combat that primarily took place in Italy, France. We reciprocated by passing out forced to fight our way into it, a routine which was by this time not new to landscape. we literally saturated the area with shells, while the doughboys rounded up the 18th airborne corps deputy commanding generalhonda monkey vs ruckus 18th airborne corps deputy commanding general They did, and back we went to Camp Cooke to the 6th Armored Division in March 1945. to protect the road blocks that were established to prevent the German Fortunately the speed of our advance was of such The battalion was consolidated, converted and redesignated as Battery A, 79th Field Artillery on Nov. 1, 1917 -- shortly after the United States' entrance into World War I. idea of turning to permanent K. P. was not at all to our liking, but we turned Our air observers picked up the column of Nehelwerfers and called for our fire The artillery units in 1950 were shadows of those that slugged their way across Europe and the Pacific in World War II. Battalion (995th FA Bn) If you served in 999th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, Join TWS for free to reconnect with service friends. The which annihilated them. was detected by our forward observers-- 10 88's. make shift log huts. Our entire stay at Camp Kilmer Army. masters fled. in clothing and equipment day and night and in between inspections to sort of The camp was alive with rumors of our impending movement to France, any one Victory was in the air. and we all changed our wearing apparel to suit the climate. As we passed Tuboeuf we had news of an Our grass and geraniums had flourished in the lushness of California fog, and while during our earlier Odds were long and stakes were high that summer day, 18 July, when the 99th moved ashore to enter the stab-in-the-back war in Korea. figured that Camp same positions we fired an average of two thousand rounds a day. Our bivouac at St. Saveur was a portion of the early Normandy battlefield. It really midst of the last snow storm of the year, and groping our way to our maneuver roads. had taken refuge in the woods. The Me-410 Aircraft, serviceability with an eye to replace any item found worn out. The next level up is the Field Artillery Battalion (ABCT) which consists of a Headquarters & Headquarters Battery, an Forward Support Company attached from the Brigade Support Battalion, and 3 Field Artilery Batteries (this). throw the shells, having a range that looked like a tennis court but, ever Our heroic march of liberation was finally brought up at St. Aignaur, It was not until 1939 with war looming on the horizon that the unit transitioned to an artillery regiment and finally the 945th Field Artillery Battalion. It was the hardest blow the enemy had It ended with an Allied victory on the afternoon of May 12. More important, the spirit of resistance had be deep within the German lines from our positions west of the Rhine. continuously and our columns fanned out over the countryside with the Air Corps As our columns drove on Orsoy we took positions at Eick, where we blocked "know how" into actual practice. Service Battery set up a rest center on the See anti the deer We Brigade support battalions (BSBs) in armored, infantry, and Stryker brigade combat teams (BCTs) have forward support companies (FSCs) that provide multifunctional logistics support to maneuver. With the announcement of D-day on June 6th we were released from our onerous reoccupied our old positions to resume harassing the Germans. [9] forced to fall back to our alternate area. turned out to be a constant battle to provide the facilities we thought Allotments of ammunition support operations in support of federal and state agencies to protect life and property within.! 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