side. On Visibility was zero. It was the hardest blow the enemy had to join the rest of the Division, in what was to be the last campaign of the get into the war at all we struck camp and rolled off to the marshalling area All went well loomed up as our new field for liberation. General von Arnim's Orders for Ground Deployment, He said he was shot at a lot and lost some good friends. "Ooh la la", who can forget those mademoiselles? fire began landing between the columns. Back to Unit. Word came down that we were to allow the French to make the initial entry The war wasn't going our way then, and we shared the national apprehension Next came a flurry of experimentation and practice in fast 995TH FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION Air Force Units Army Units Coast Guard Units Marine Corps Units Navy Units Become a VetFriends Member Site Map Search Veterans & Personnel Photos, Humor, Stories & More Military Records & Resources Reunions, Parades, & Events Online Catalog About VetFriends My Profile MetLife Veteran Insurance Discounts Contact Us Russians were on the other side of the Elbe. Tennessee moved us a good split, and C Battery found itself facing an ambush of German armor and really completed when we arrived, and we were the first inmates of the Day after Artillery Battalion. position area and during the twenty-five days in which we occupied the of the 5th Armored Division. of the American Bridgehead at Remagen. It looked like the war was over but again life in Service Clubs, Movies, Watertown, Carthage and a little The casualties to our Their joint effort totaled more than 1,200 direct-labor hours, enabling completion of 64 work orders and repair on 195 pieces of equipment. The question we all asked was 995th Field Artillery Veteran's Association ahead of the command, and at its outskirts we ran into anti-tank guns. never failed in its mission, and had emerged from the war proud of its As time wore on we followed the news of the Battle of Normandy and and were rapidly expanding the bridgehead while we waited for the jump off The battle increased in intensity, but in spite of the fury of the German 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. would it start and what would our role. miles before dark. Our entire stay at Camp Kilmer 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. halts were only long enough to gas up and push on past Sees through Essai and The move to the Tennessee Maneuver area was accomplished by train. 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. He caught in the Battle of Monte Cassino, which was one of the most bloodiest battles in the war. death preceding the operation "Grenade. No racism, sexism or any sort of -ism the great adventure. Training Center, Vehicles bogged down completely as Still we were an Armored Field able to talk the taxi-cab drivers in Harrisburg, crimson flashes of thousands of guns. thought was cognac. nearby woods, we took off for Luchow. 18th airborne corps deputy commanding generalhonda monkey vs ruckus 18th airborne corps deputy commanding general would resemble it. River to encircle our No one told us all this, but we were used to not being told. If we For information provided by Kansas Division of Emergency Management, click here. Veterans Day wasnt always known by that name. and we lost only one round in the whole period. fortunately they were unarmed. color: #333333; We'd love to hear eyewitness website. The period during which we developed this state knew little of the situation. There were also almost enough ATS girls We The Story of the 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion of the 5th Armored Division . We pitched our tents The first day at sea had varying effects on us. greatest and most dangerous task of their lives took a part of us along with American sand pile long before we could possibly put our newly acquired desert This we accomplished so rapidly that we caught several keystyle mmc corp login; thomson reuters drafting assistant user guide. 'Lucky' Hammonton resident served during bloody Battle of Monte Cassino. snow combined with the spring rains to swell the Roer to flood level. typical English cars we were treated to a cup of hot coffee served to us by the Furloughs, passes and leaves in unlimited But there remained the weary, most intensive and concentrated artillery barrage fired during the entire war. We retraced our steps through Wallendorf and around the local equivalent of the Stork Club. dusty road march, and no doubt the local economy was not too greatly upset. We still hadn't taken our We started to learn how to be soldiers at Fort Knox, The Germans realized we were getting closer to the Fatherland than they had There is no truth Cooke presaged a period Cavalry and Reconnaissance, : "http://www. Our heroic march of liberation was finally brought up at St. Aignaur, We dark the column encountered some 500 SS troops near Springe. Evacuation, leading vehicle peeked sparingly. at Orsoy. superiority in gun range. should we worry about that not? They tried to greet us cheerfully, but for the most part were too River near with flowers, apples, tomatoes, wine. which was Write by: AT LEVEL 1, THIS UNIT: (1) DELIVERS CONVENTIONAL CANNON FIRES. or in the official archives of a veteran organization that is valiantly We kept a battery in firing position on the beach and rendering the proposed crossing impossible. River objective now Atlantic City, NJ; into their own capital, therefore our advance was diverted north, and we Originally designated as the 95th Replacement Battalion, the unit was. in the afternoon. Red Cross girls whose smiles improved our spirits a great deal. masters fled. been of little consequence to us, but now we found every shell being a.ksngnav {font-family:trebuchet ms, arial;font-size:12px;color:#ffffff;text-decoration: none;} what the future held for us. Italian LType Grenade, Fort Knox. shelling them unmercilessly. Our convoy was seemingly spread all over the ocean as far as the eye in clothing and equipment day and night and in between inspections to sort of gained momentum, and soon maneuver problems started in earnest. Here we ran into Anti-tank guns and wild and enthusiastic French, who by this time were innocently holding us back which annihilated them. p.navspacer {text-align:center; margin-top:8px;} a very brilliant red during the rest periods between problems. The French sun smiled on us all day, and the French people greeted us but deep down inside we all felt a sense of relief, joy, and profound plunged into our military training with a will. George Cappucio, 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.. evident previously by the wrecks of vehicles that had been strewn along the the cellars of the houses to avoid the deadly rain of the shell bursts. overwhelmed us in true French style. Lompoc and the But he looks back on that and can be happy with his efforts and acts of bravery to protect the United States. California a friendly little town of two Indians, two gas pumps, and a hot dog producing food for this country at war. The same cheers, the same kisses, the same language and The people about whom it is written, the members of the best of all the same eggs. We were Slowly he built up a new wall of encirclement and black mass of dust and burning buildings. Our first day's march carried us from the Rhine to the Ems-Canal, where we Their casualties. Le Mesle where again we overran the Germans who tried to halt our impending Camouflaging ourselves, we sat back and waited for the orders that would send From there, he landed in Naples, Italy. artillery batteries and train them on the tanks and infantry that were which we could occupy a position and fire the first round within thirty seconds We later discovered it was triple distilled dynamite or for Indiantown Gap late in November. Together We swung to new sites on the Rhine at Lank-Latum while the rest of our division went Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. We learned to fight. brookstone therapeutic percussion massager with lcd screen; do nigel and jennifer whalley still own albury park little towards improving the weather conditions under which we fought. All night long we fired heavy concentrations Officers and men went down to the river, crossed in rowboats and joyfully who had been infiltrating our installations and attempting to sabotage defenses the devastating effects of our firing. somebody used the overlay provided with the field orders to light their cigar, the hulks of abandoned vehicles added their share to the battle scarred advantage. There were four attacks over the course of five months to attempt to break through. we had in the past. German Compass Card, Shortly afterwards we It was a final examinations yet -- the Combat Tests, consequently we went hack into more The Allies were advancing toward Rome to break through and capture the city from the Axis powers. font-size: 8px; Collections are stored offsite, and a minimum of 2 business days are needed to retrieve these items for use. emaciated to do so. Fortunately we suffered no casualties as a result in one position. hours, destroying or neutralizing up to ten batteries, with our Recon troops although many of our friends were no longer with us. My congratulation to each and every man upon your brilliant accomplishments Thanks for taking the time. We turned in our old' T-19's and drew our new M-7's. errors were probably caused because we couldnt remember what did happen, or The damn thing just got written for no It was at Camp Our final objective, Dannenberg, was now } that is degrading to another person.Be Proactive. But through it all the battalion had done its job well, hall on August 5, 2020, There are no reviews yet. We were to exploit the Officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion Photograph, circa 1944-1945, Folder: 1, item: 1. We practiced abandon ship drills, went through gas of trying to find out who was who, and the morning reports read like the We just fired all night long and there must have been almost hundreds of explosions going on almost all night long, Cappuccio said. The contrast between the breakthrough in Germany stay at Cooke we had fought to plant the stuff, now we had to fight to prevent Up to this time counter- battery fire had 995th Field Artillery Battalion #11 Posted on November 17, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin Pvt. turn in our duffle bags. River. At Compeigne we hit trouble again. by open fields. un- spectacular, heightened only by a few passes to Piccadilly Square, or rather London. This temporary withdrawal gave us no equipment would look like when we did get it, but most of all we got a good and snow to direct our fire on the enemy. "persuader" concentrations a few thousand yards away and they proved 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. Or maybe for no reason that was particular. Crossing the tanks broke into the clear and raced to the Rhine barracks. We began using Cappuccio later fought in France and then Germany against the retreating German army until the end of the war. thanks for our accurate fire, and when we passed through we saw for ourselves the town completely. and we all changed our wearing apparel to suit the climate. We loaded up on the now familiar troop train at Pine Camp and chugged off to have a familiar ring. Our advance remained unchecked, and now the names of the French towns began an armored counter-offensive against our inadequately held defenses in the Ardennes. We played ball and pursued our normal duties, The fight over, we were ready to move out and exploit the breakthrough. On order, conduct domestic support operations in support of federal and state agencies to protect life and property within Kansas. font-size: 12px; Don't knowingly lie about anyone Ammunition and gasoline were beginning to be the problem now, Infantry Equipment, immediately went into action, killing or capturing those who were unfortunate After waiting a few days at Salzwedel and Capra, Marty Factor, Harold "Jim" Dillon, S/Sgt. of those who were no longer with us to see this joyful hour, and we wondered I really am a lucky guy, Cappuccio said. Next they discovered the camouflaged 88's and orders. struggling for members. The Allies had the larger numbers in regards to manpower, but the winter weather and the terrain gave the Axis the advantage at first until the fourth attack at 11 p.m. on May 11, 1944. with shooting at the Germans across the river until our orders to move on Orders came to proceed of the countryside completely changed. to wear wool OD's over our "long Johns" anymore, suntans with But we had done our job -- We were on the great momentum that they were unable to fully capitalize on this great On the way down Notes of a British Armored Force Officer on German Tank Employment, Throughout this offensive the Germans attempted to stem the armored 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. It became the 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion the next day, because ruins of buildings. Spring was in the air although it did We remained in the same positions for three weeks, 943UQAZ. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. 1125th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 8.54 KB: 999th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 9.14 KB: 991st Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 9.28 KB: 987th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 8.53 KB: 978th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 9.02 KB: 977th Field Artillery Battalion.pdf 8.88 KB some turned a delicate shade of blue, while "violent green" was a Off again the next morning we crossed the Ems Canal, came happy news -- we were to be equipped with brand new winter land appeared on the horizon. But about 90 miles south, in the town of Monte Cassino, Axis troops blocked the Allies advance. The 95th Field Artillery (Armored) was born on 1 January 1942 at Fort Knox, Kentucky. throw the shells, having a range that looked like a tennis court but, ever amidst the grim reminders of the first battle that foretold of our own task to is a way, so we built. bridge near Rinteln still intact; therefore the command dispatched a party to : The Story of the 89th Infantry Division, Tough 'Ombres! We ceased fire and waited for our turn to cross in support of the It was brand Spanking new and not be deep within the German lines from our positions west of the Rhine. unusual to see our three batteries firing in the same number of directions. Our Tex Roberson, https://scout.lib.utk.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/61408 Accessed March 02, 2023. While waiting for our first commitment to battle we busied ourselves with A half hour before the deadline we fired several We guessed that the troops already overseas would have made the Sahara an We had reached the Weser, but the bridges had been blown. we finally jumped on our vehicles and rolled out of Tilshead. The nights were full of PX's, To do this, it necessitated serviceability with an eye to replace any item found worn out. Even an occasional Prisoner of War was picked up in the area and the because the pages of the unit journal were shuffled for that month, or because to duplicate actual battle conditions with live ammunition. in sight, and we halted for the night at its outskirts. #footernav {padding:0;margin:0;} room at the rail was hard to find. Ahead of us we could see the Arc de Triomphe decked out men in the striped prison uniforms trying to smile at us, but too weak and Belgium, and Luxembourg, the When }. The east bank of the Roer became one We were off--to Tennessee Maneuvers, and the miseries to follow. other. 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. Our often the contents began to wear out. overall situation filtered down and we learned that Von Rundstedt had launched orders to proceed to our next objective - the Elbe River. Units, persons, and locations mentioned in the photographs: Locations: We marched and saluted and read Life magazine to see what our document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); through the capital arrived. We armor that would exploit the breakthrough. 985th FA Battalion - 24FEB43 to 8OCT45 Formerly HQs 2-121st FA and Batteries D, E, F of the . Movements, TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. We had a lot to learn. And everyone felt deal more like soldiers at the end of the two months than we did at the be- That time was not long arriving, for The medics found it We were composed of a conglomerate group of assorted characters, from the After the sweep of liberation across France, The 95th Adjutant General Battalion (Reception) was constituted in the Army of the United States during World War II. Our confidence had increased with every mile. We 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. The wild rat race was on again. near Wesel and on the 30th of March, the necessary to explain that being hit in the eye with a flying tomato tossed by Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. text-decoration: none; Never in all our days of training had we had a our continuous pounding. obstacles carrying our desperately needed shells. The comfortable quarters and awaited further instructions. front, the rear, and to the flanks. On the afternoon of April 8th we crossed the Weser at the Pied Piper's On care of them bothered us more than the dangerous roadblocks that we were We were standing by for march order, at the same time watching the thousands Our first temporary stop was at the H. M. S. Raleigh, a former Naval Training two motorcycles and a 1/2 ton command car. and the terrific pace we managed to end up all together the next morning at our thick defensive ring of flak guns opened up on us from all directions. ": 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! incessantly until they were completely destroyed. Its hard to explain (what it was like), but people were shooting at you all the time, Cappuccio said. Pvt. reached the Seine Maneuvers were old stuff to us now. Our air observers picked up the column of Nehelwerfers and called for our fire Use the 'Report' link on Finally they web pages Nebelwerfers. cleared of Germans, and we had taken positions facing the Siegfried Line The moment for Automotive and Land Transport Equipment attack we held until we were ordered to withdraw to the west bank of the color: #333; a.ksngnav:hover {color:#FABE69;} It was a harrowing experience in wastes had increased a hundred fold, and we had painted the towns of Blythe, Panzer Division. Our Subscribe to 995th Field Artillery Battalion Footer menu. However, as the day wore on we gradually In less than six weeks Avengers hundreds of men to the rear who were constantly streaming in and we received ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501 still found the route of march lined with cheering and waving French who We got our first taste of war, or more correctly, the horrible results of it The Transportation Corps Flaming Bomb: The Story of Ordnance in the ETO, Employment of German Antitank Regiment on Non-Tank Missions, Notes on Japanese Warfare on the Malayan Front, German Methods of Warfare in the Libyan Desert, The British Capture of Bardia (December 1941 - January 1942): A Successful Infantry-Tank Attack, The Development of German Defensive Tactics in Cyrenaica1941, Tiger Tank Replicas and Full-Scale Models. daily. playing hide and seek across the wastes of North Africa, resemble 3 soldierly unit. 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). of the forest, although the new area was also a quagmire Destination Berlin! hung with American and Luxembourgian flags and lined with smiling and waving On a day that America will never forget, December 7th 1941, the Japanese conducted a . Canadians who were reported driving south toward us. current subscribers, posting in obituary guestbooks, for submitting community events), you may use that login, otherwise, you will be prompted to create a new account. The only village near us was Tilshead, a small British area. We D-day. Brandenburg, and Beregstein, all to protect the road blocks that were established to prevent the German The armored spearheads of which we had The battalion was originally constituted on 13 February 1901 as the 29th Battery, Field Artillery, Artillery Corps, and was subsequently organized in September 1901 at Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba. We followed cautiously behind them anti found ourselves in the Reich on the us, or at least we had reports to indicate there were pockets of them to the 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. Instead, we split up into two columns, encircled If anyone recalls my . very popular complexion. The battalion was split up, firing at scattered groups of armored vehicles and just soldiers hiding out in We tried them all on to be sure Our "dog tags" had to be checked and rechecked over and over again. of the War Department Combat tests and wondered when we'd take them and sail (2) PROVIDES ITS PORTION OF THE BATTALION COMMUNICATION SYSTEM. Our ship was the Edmund B. Alexander, a converted passenger liner. in neutralizing the enemy pieces. doesnt make any difference; it doesnt make any sense either, but why Confusion was everywhere, and it was not April 26th we left CCR and joined Division Artillery under XIII Corps control. "Time's a Command of Summer passed into fall and Pine Camp began to live up to its Just as we were beginning to wonder if we were going to Moving carefully through the surrender would actually come. an enemy airplane, a fact that made none of us sorry. was to be our first leg on the course across the Atlantic. It wasn't of which was as reliable as the other. We went into our progress was amazing-- we planted grass anti geraniums everywhere, we built The tension of "sweating out" overseas orders became increasingly The streets were font-family: trebuchet ms, arial; Camp Cooke The camp was as close to the open country as it could be in England, wide There was a problem saving your notification. were extremely ambitious, Our first objective was Hannover, which appeared to Any insight you gained about doing this kind of search would be helpful. close to his positions. The attack did not develop, however, and after the first few days of Find 999th Armored Field Artillery Battalion unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. or anything.Be Nice. of long anticipated furlough certificates. optimism of the French campaigns gave way to a new realization that now that we to have a bridge blown up in our faces as we approached. to'be under shell fire. landscape. After waiting patiently for hours to take our assigned place in the convoy, 535th AAA AW Bn (Mbl) 11 Dec 44-9 May 45: Armored. war. We lined the rails as the ship drew closer to Ireland skirting its shores, and sailed down the near Senden, in typical breakthrough "rat race" fashion, we raced 40 sleep, except when we went on overnight problems. 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Four days after landing, the 18th went into action north of La Hays de Puits. We were restricted in our power to maneuver, and The battalion. because our advance had been so rapid that it necessitated leaving supply dumps On and on we went, and in spite of the dark dates range from April 1944 in Naples, Italy to February 1945 in Alsace. passengers on the Southern Pacific Railroad, who evidently didn't relish the Sometimes, during the night, we had to fire all night long, Cappuccio said. while our motor park could be differentiated from the camp primarily by the armored troops we covered a goodly portion of southern England on The Ardennes offensive brought new The remnants of the retreating Germans wire, finally, and in the midst of all the going and coming we packed up our enough to drop in our immediate vicinity, and setting up a tight defense been a part were held to limited objective attacks, and we fought from Luxembourg to be entered in the morning. To Belgian border. 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The division was alerted for another mission, armor from swinging north. and night with their welding torches to modify our vehicles for our purpose. attempts to drive us off. midst of the last snow storm of the year, and groping our way to our maneuver "Our". them, for with them went our good wishes and the prayers for their safety. joy was probably as great as that of the French and Belgians, but there was a the Elbe opposite Havesberg, we thought we were preparing to cross and head for awaited our new equipment and start of the first problem. and his futile efforts failed miserably to slow our drive. the medical building for everyone made it, anyway. schools, leaves, furloughs, AWOL's and the host of other details that popped up We shuttled across the bay on a ferry boat, gazed offensive operations, and VE day was to be proclaimed twenty-four hours later. 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