Description

324th Infantry Regiment
44th Infantry Division • World War II •

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Document Overview

This combat history of the 324th Infantry Regiment, 44th Infantry Division, was compiled by the regiment following the close of World War II and covers its nearly seven months of continuous combat in France, Germany, and Austria, from its commitment at Embermenil in October 1944 through the German surrender in May 1945. It includes tributes to Colonels Thacher Nelson and Kenneth S. Anderson, rosters and honor rolls of the regiment’s companies, and accounts of the campaigns, awards, and daily life of the unit. This is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime unit history.

Campaigns: Embermenil–Avricourt, Vaucourt and the Leintrey Forest, the drive to Sarrebourg and Gondrexange, White Christmas in the Bliesbrucken–Rederching sector, the Rhine and Neckar River crossings, Blaufelden and the drive to Ulm and the Danube, and the final advance into Austria and the Tyrol Mountains.

Commanders: Colonel Thacher Nelson (killed in action, 25 Oct. 1944) and Colonel Kenneth S. Anderson.

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents
Dedication and In Memoriam
Letter from the Commanding Officer
October — On the Way
November — In the Lines
December — White Christmas Army Style
January — Reach
February — Forests and Forays
March — Over the River
April — The End Draws Near
May — Hostilities End
Reward
Anti-Tank Company
Cannon Company
Headquarters Company
Service Company
Medical Detachment
Company A
Company B
Company C
Company E
Company F
Company G
Company H
Company I
Company K
Company L
Company M
Roster

“Tired — victorious — there is no glory in the fatigue of the German Infantryman.”
— Combat History, 324th Infantry Regiment