Description

180th Field Artillery Battalion
XII Corps, Third U.S. Army • World War II •
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Document Overview
Compiled by the men of the 180th Field Artillery Battalion, this unit history traces the battalion’s lineage from the Massachusetts National Guard’s National Lancers of 1836 through its World War I service as the 102nd Machine Gun Battalion, and into its World War II campaign from the Utah Beach landing in Normandy across France, through the Battle of the Bulge near Bastogne, and on into Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. It records the battalion’s command posts, roster of officers, and the men killed in action. This is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original document.

Campaigns: Normandy (Utah Beach), Northern France, the Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes), the Rhineland, and the Central Europe campaign into Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Commanders: Lieutenant Colonel Robert J. Hill Jr. (Commanding Officer), Major Peter J. O’Rourke (Executive Officer), and Major Edward T. Murphy (S-3).

Unit newspaper: unknown.

Table of Contents

180th Field Artillery Battalion Insignia
Dedication to the Fallen
Battalion History
The Landing at Utah Beach
The Drive Across France
The Battle of the Bulge
Command Posts, 7 September 1944 – 8 May 1945
Battalion Officers and Staff
Headquarters Battery
Battery A
Battery B
Battery C
Service Battery

“The 51,608 rounds of ammunition fired by this Battalion helped sound the death knell for the German Armies on the Western Front.”
— History of the 180th Field Artillery Battalion