Description

117th Infantry Regiment
30th Infantry Division • World War II •
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Document Overview
This is the official 1944-1945 history of the 117th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, humbly dedicated by those who came home to their comrades who did not. It covers the regimental staff and battalions, Regimental Combat Team 117 and its attached artillery, engineer, medical, tank, and tank destroyer units, decorations, and the regiment’s combat record from Normandy through Belgium, the Ardennes, the Rhine and Roer crossings, and into Germany to Magdeburg. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime volume.

Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes-Alsace (Battle of the Bulge), Rhineland, and Central Europe — including the fighting at St. Vith and Stavelot, the Siegfried Line, the Roer and Rhine River crossings, and the advance to Magdeburg on the Elbe.

Commanders: Major General L. S. Hobbs, Commanding General, 30th Infantry Division; Colonel Harry Kelley, Commanding Officer through 5 August 1944; Colonel Walter M. Johnson, Commanding Officer from 5 August 1944; Lt. Col. Ben Ammons, Second Battalion Commanding Officer.

Division newspaper: 

Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword
Regimental Staff
First Battalion
Second Battalion
Third Battalion
Cannon Company
Regimental Combat Team 117
Decorations
Normandy
Belgium and the Ardennes
The Rhine and Roer Crossings
Magdeburg

“The 117th Infantry never failed to take an objective, never lost one after taking it, and never failed in any assigned mission.”
— Colonel Walter M. Johnson, Foreword