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“BUCKSHOT” — 329TH INFANTRY REGIMENT

83rd Infantry Division · World War II ·

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Document Overview

Published in occupied Germany in July 1945 and compiled by Historian Sgt. Raymond J. Goguen, this is the official history of the 329th “Buckshot” Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division, drawn from the regiment’s own records. It opens with a message from Colonel Edwin B. Crabill and traces the regiment from activation and training through the Normandy hedgerows, the taking of St. Malo, the Loire Valley, Luxembourg, the Hurtgen Forest, the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhine crossing, and the dash to the Elbe River, where the 329th crossed and held a bridgehead before the German surrender. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original regimental history.

Campaigns: Activation & Training · Normandy — The Hedgerows and St. Malo · The Loire Valley · Luxembourg · Hurtgen Forest to the Roer · The Battle of the Bulge · Crossing the Rhine · The Dash to the Elbe and Barby Bridgehead

Commanders: Colonel Edwin B. Crabill (Regimental Commander, wartime) · Colonel Alexander D. Reid (Regimental Commander, present) · Lt. Col. Charles M. Pack (Executive Officer) · Lt. Col. Tim O. Cook (1st Battalion) · Lt. Col. Granville A. Sharpe (2nd Battalion) · Major George C. White (3rd Battalion)

Division newspaper: Spearhead

Table of Contents

The Colonel’s Message

We Are Activated and Trained

We Cross the Atlantic and Train in England

We Cross the Channel and See France

We Fight Through the Hedgerows of Normandy

We Force Von Aulock from the Citadel (St. Malo)

We Live, Love, and Liberate in the Loire Valley

We Clear the Enemy from Luxembourg

We Enter Germany — Hurtgen Forest to Roer

We Fight and Freeze in the Battle of the Bulge

The Drive to the Rhine River

We Cross the Elbe, Hold the Bridgehead, and Take Zerbst

Chronology of the War

Acknowledgments

“Beneath the soil of Europe lie the bodies of over 850 of our comrades… Our debt to them cannot be paid.”

— Colonel Edwin B. Crabill, The Colonel’s Message