Description

The 115th Infantry Regiment in World War II
29th Infantry Division • World War II •
392 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview

Written by Joseph Binkoski and Arthur Plaut and published in 1948 by the Infantry Journal Press, this is the official combat history of the 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, in World War II, covering the regiment’s mobilization at Fort George G. Meade in 1941 through the Omaha Beach landing on D-Day, the drive on St. Lô, the Brest campaign, the fighting into Germany, and its inactivation at Camp Kilmer in January 1946. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original book.

Campaigns: Normandy (1944) • Northern France (1944) • Rhineland (1944–1945) • Central Europe (1945)

Commanders: Col. Eugene N. Slappey • Col. William Ednie • Lt. Col. Louis Smith • Col. Edwin McDaniel • Lt. Col. Edley Craighill • Col. William Blandford

Unit Newspaper: 29 Let’s go

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Prologue to Glory
Chapter 2: D-Day and the Battle of the Beaches
Chapter 3: The Drive Inland
Chapter 4: The Drive on St. Lo
Chapter 5: Exploitation of the Breakthrough
Chapter 6: The Brest Campaign
Chapter 7: Fall of a Fortress
Chapter 8: Into the Reich
Chapter 9: The Drive to the Roer
Chapter 10: The Winter Months
Chapter 11: The Roer to the Rhine
Chapter 12: The Regiment Takes a Break
Chapter 13: The Final Drive
Chapter 14: Bremen and Home
Battle Honors
Honor Roll

“The Regiment that had landed in Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944, had passed into history.”
— from Chapter 14, “Bremen and Home”