Description

407th Infantry Regiment – Combat Record

102nd Infantry Division “Ozark” • World War II •

86 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview

Published in Coburg, Germany for the men of the 407th Infantry Regiment, this booklet was assembled by the regiment’s own officers — with a foreword and tribute from Commanding Officers Colonel James C. Reed and Colonel Phillip R. Dwyer — to record the unit’s combat history in its own words. It traces the 407th, part of the 102nd “Ozark” Infantry Division, from its September 1944 voyage from New York through holding actions in Germany and Holland, the assaults on the Roer and Rhine Rivers, the drive to the Elbe, and on to V-E Day, while also covering special units such as Roger’s Raiders and the Medical Detachment, the regiment’s decorations and awards, and a roll of the fallen. This listing is for a digital download — a scanned copy of the original wartime booklet delivered as a PDF.

Campaigns: Holding the Geilenkirchen sector (Kreuzrath–Teveran), the push to the Roer River, the Roer crossing and drive to the Rhine, the Rhine crossing at Wesel, and the final advance to the Elbe River — part of the Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace, and Central Europe campaigns.

Commanders: Colonel Howard H. Davis, Lieutenant Colonel James C. Reed, and Colonel Phillip R. Dwyer, under Major General Frank A. Keating, Commanding General, 102nd Infantry Division.

Unit paper: 407 Marksman

Table of Contents

Dedication
A Message from the Commanding Officer
Foreword
From New York to Germany
Work Begins
The Push to the Roer
From the Roer to the Rhine
From the Rhine to Victory
Special Units
Roger’s Raiders
Combat Medics
Attached Units
Those Who Will Not Return
Decorations and Awards

“You are the peerless, swashbuckling, all-around capable guys. You are truly the men of this war, the 407th Infantrymen.”
— Colonel Phillip R. Dwyer, Commanding Officer