Description

357th Infantry Regiment
90th Infantry Division • World War I & World War II •

82 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview

Printed shortly after V-E Day by the Ferdinand Nickl Buchdruckerei in Weiden, Oberpfalz, Bavaria, “Short History of the 357th Infantry Regiment” is the regiment’s own account of its service in both World Wars. It traces the 357th from its 1917 activation at Camp Travis as part of the 90th Division through the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne battles of World War I, then follows its 1942 reactivation and combat across Normandy, France, the Rhineland, the Ardennes, and Central Europe in World War II, closing with regimental casualty statistics and cemetery listings. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original booklet.

Campaigns: St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne (WWI); Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, Central Europe (WWII).

Commanders: Col. Edward T. Hartmann (WWI); Col. Edwin D. Patrick, Lt. Col. John W. Sheehy, Col. Phillip Ginder, Col. George B. Barth, Lt. Col. John H. Mason, Col. Julian H. George (WWII).

Unit newspaper: Reveille

Table of Contents

Foreword
Dedication
World War I: Activation and Training
St. Mihiel Operation
Meuse-Argonne Operations
The Period of Occupation
World War II: Activation and Training in the U.S.
Embarkation and Training Overseas
Campaign of Normandy
Campaign of Northern France
Campaign of the Rhineland (Part I)
Campaign of the Ardennes
Campaign of the Rhineland (Part II)
Campaign of Central Europe
Regimental Statistics
Photo and Illustration Credits

“We have come a long way together over seemingly unsurmountable obstacles and performed almost impossible tasks… although our forward path is marked by the graves and blood of our fallen comrades, their efforts were not in vain.”
— Col. John H. Mason, Dedication