The 79th Infantry Division as the other US Infantry Divisions engaged three Infantry Regiments into battle. You have already discovered the story of the 313th Infantry Regiment during the Cherbourg Campaign, now let’s
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Topics:
World War 2,
WWII 101st Airborne Division,
WWII Atlantic Wall,
World War Two,
WWII 1st US Army,
WWII Paratroopers,
WWII 4th Infantry Division,
Infantry
Crossing the Rhine was only the first phase of Operation Flashpoint, once a bridgehead set up on the east bank of the river and towns in the area liberated, it was necessary to push back the enemy toward the east,
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2nd Battalion of the 313th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Infantry Division assembled in Park at 1030pm on March 23rd. If you have read our blog 79th Infantry Division – Operation Flashpoint: Rhine Crossing Training, you
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On March 8th,1945, 79th Infantry Division was attached to the XVI Corps to prepare the crossing of the Rhine River. Although the river had not been reached yet at the time, XVI Corps had begun plans and preparations for
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It was precisely two months after the German counterattack in the Bulge date to date on February 17th, 1945, that the 79th Infantry Division was attached to the XVI Corps and put into the 9th US Army. The mission of the
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Topics:
WWII 79th Infantry Division,
WWII Germany,
Roer River
While a road to get supplies in Hatten was finally found, 2nd Battalion of the 315th Infantry Regiment kept fighting to hold the small part of Hatten it had under its control.
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Topics:
WWII 79th Infantry Division,
WWII Rittershoffen Hatten,
14th Armored Division
Completely cut off from the world in Hatten and Rittershoffen on January 11th, 1945, 2nd Battalion of the 315th Infantry Regiment was fighting at close range. Men were exhausted, some time running out of ammunitions
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Topics:
WWII 79th Infantry Division,
France, Alsace,
Operation Northwind,
25thPanzergrenadier Division,
WWII Rittershoffen Hatten,
14th Armored Division
The battle of Hatten was now on, the young and unexperimented German soldiers met until then by the US Troops had given way to determinated veterans and 79th Infantry Division had to deal with them.
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Topics:
WWII 79th Infantry Division,
France, Alsace,
WWII - Alsace-Lorraine,
WWII 315th Infantry Regiment,
WWII Rittershoffen Hatten
Two once pretty Alsatian villages lost in the countryside. These words perfectly define Rittershoffen and Hatten, no one lives there and according to US soldiers no one would like but these two places became the central
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Topics:
WWII 79th Infantry Division,
WWII 315 Infantry Regiment,
France, Alsace,
Operation Northwind,
Hatten,
25thPanzergrenadier Division,
WWII 315th Infantry Regiment,
WWII Rittershoffen Hatten
