Description
1st Infantry Division
V Corps, First U.S. Army • European Theater, World War II •
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Document Overview
Compiled by the intelligence staff (G-2) of the 1st U.S. Infantry Division under Maj. John H. Lauten, this volume presents a consecutive account of enemy operations facing the Division from 1 December 1944 through 9 May 1945, drawn from official situation reports, captured enemy documents, and prisoner-of-war interrogations. Printed in Cheb, Czechoslovakia in June 1945, it traces the Division’s fight from the Ardennes counteroffensive through the Rhineland, the Remagen bridgehead, and the final collapse of German resistance in central Europe. This listing is for a digital download of a high-resolution scan of the original printed volume.
Campaigns: Ardennes-Alsace (Battle of the Bulge) • Second Breach of the Siegfried Line • Roer River • Rhineland & Fall of Bonn • Remagen Bridgehead & Rhine Crossing • Ruhr Pocket • Harz Mountains • Central Europe (Czechoslovakia)
Commanders: Maj. Gen. Clift Andrus, Commanding General • Brig. Gen. George A. Taylor, Assistant Division Commander • Col. Frederick W. Gibb, Chief of Staff • Maj. John H. Lauten, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 (compiler)
Unit newspaper: unknown
Table of Contents
Luchem
Enemy Breakthrough
The Big Picture
Butgenbach Ridge
Captured Photograph Captions
Captured Intelligence Estimate, 12th SS Panzer Division
Captured Letter: “We March!”
Captured Combat Report
Choice of Action
Defense of the Salient
Battalion Order
3d Parachute Division Estimate of the Situation
Defense Order, 1055th Grenadier Regiment
Order of Col. Liebach
Captured Interrogation Report
Second Breaching of the Siegfried Line
Defense of the Roer
Breakthrough
Captured Document
Crossing the Roer River
Collapse of the Rhineland
Fall of Bonn and Crossing the Rhine
Bridgehead Operations
Troubles in the Panzer Regiment
The Ruhr Locked Up
Retreat to the Harz
Defense of the Harz
Collapse
Cost Accounting
A General’s Briefcase
Unconditional Surrender
Incident on the Road
“Bits and Pieces”
“But the 1st Infantry Division had come just as far and was still there at the end.”
— Selected Intelligence Reports, Volume II, Unconditional Surrender (9 May 1945)