Description

310th Infantry Regiment, Third Battalion
78th “Lightning” Infantry Division • World War II •
110 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview
This combat history of the Third Battalion, 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th “Lightning” Division, was compiled and published in 1945 by 1st Lt. Robert A. Durk and his staff on behalf of the battalion’s officers and men. It chronicles the battalion’s activation and training at Camp Butner, its deployment to Europe, and its combat operations from the fighting around Konzen, Kesternich, and Schmidt through the Roer and Rhine crossings, the Ruhr Pocket, and into post-combat occupation duty, alongside rosters of officers and enlisted men and a memorial listing of those killed in action. This listing is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original wartime unit history.

Campaigns: Konzen and Kesternich, the attack on Schmidt, the Roer River crossing, the advance to the Rhine and Remagen bridge, and the reduction of the Ruhr Pocket.

Commanders: Maj. Gen. Edwin P. Parker, Jr. (Division Commander, 15 Aug. 1942 – 16 Sept. 1945), Maj. Gen. Ray W. Barker (Division Commander, from 16 Sept. 1945), and Col. T. H. Hayes (Regimental Commander, from 9 Feb. 1945).

Unit newspaper: Lightning Bug

Table of Contents

Prologue to Combat
Blue Baptism in Battle
Roer to Rhine
Ruhr Pocket
Post Combat
Officers and Enlisted Men Killed in Action
Company Rosters

“Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.”
— Pfc. Anthony Alo, Love Company