Description

331st Infantry Regiment

 · World War II ·

247 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview

Compiled by the officers and men of the 331st Infantry Regiment under Col. Robert H. York, this unit history traces the Combat Team’s path through the European Theater — from the hedgerows of Normandy to the Elbe River — combining narrative accounts of each campaign with regimental staff photographs, commendations, and decoration rolls. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime publication.

Campaigns: Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes, Rhineland, Central Europe

Commanders: Col. Robert H. York (Commanding), Col. Martin D. Barndollar, Col. Ercil D. Porter, Lt. Col. Henry Neilson, Lt. Col. William E. Long

Unit newspaper: The TTF

Table of Contents

Message from the Commanding Officer

Regimental Staff and Battalion Commanders

History of the 331st Infantry Regiment

Normandy: The Hedgerow Fighting

St. Malo and Dinard

The Moselle Valley

The Hurtgen Forest

The Battle of the Bulge

Crossing the Roer and the Race to the Rhine

The Elbe River and the Meeting with the Russians

Decorations and Awards

“The contribution of the 331st Combat Team has played no small part in this, the greatest of Allied victories.”

— Col. Robert H. York, Commanding