Ook ben ik opzoek naar informatie over de Amerikaanse eenheid die op 15 januari 1945 het Luxemburgse gehucht Schimpach ingenomen heeft en eventuele informatie van gevechten die dag bij het station Schimpach-Wampach.
Alle informatie is welkom!
Doncols (Donkholz)...
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Doncols (Donkholz)...
Kan iemand mij vertellen welke Amerikaanse eenheden op 12 en 13 januari 1945 in het Luxemburgse plaatsje Doncols (in het Duits Donkholz) waren en waar (boek, divisiegeschiedenis?) ik iets kan vinden over de gevechten daar op die dagen? Was dit wellicht de 90th US Infantry Division?
Ook ben ik opzoek naar informatie over de Amerikaanse eenheid die op 15 januari 1945 het Luxemburgse gehucht Schimpach ingenomen heeft en eventuele informatie van gevechten die dag bij het station Schimpach-Wampach.
Alle informatie is welkom!
Ook ben ik opzoek naar informatie over de Amerikaanse eenheid die op 15 januari 1945 het Luxemburgse gehucht Schimpach ingenomen heeft en eventuele informatie van gevechten die dag bij het station Schimpach-Wampach.
Alle informatie is welkom!
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"Wilders die weer wat uitkraait over criminele allochtonen: in zijn wereld is dat een pleonasme" - Alexander Pechtold
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Kan er niet veel over vinden behalve dat aan Duitse zijde op 2 januari de 5FJD aanwezig was.
Verder op deze site dat de US26th op 22 januari in Doncols was:
http://yd-info.net/page13/page13.html
Hier nog wat gevonden, op 11 januari veroverd 90th Doncols
III Corps 90th Inf Div captures Doncols and Sonlez against heavy
artillery concentrations.
Dit is de site
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/his ... i_9501.dgx
Mischien heb je er wat aan?
Verder op deze site dat de US26th op 22 januari in Doncols was:
http://yd-info.net/page13/page13.html
Hier nog wat gevonden, op 11 januari veroverd 90th Doncols
III Corps 90th Inf Div captures Doncols and Sonlez against heavy
artillery concentrations.
Dit is de site
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/his ... i_9501.dgx
Mischien heb je er wat aan?
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The following day the 90th, now assigned to III Corps, began its highly secret trek toward its assembly area in Luxembourg. Identification on vehicles was obscured, relieving troops assumed the T-O patch in order to keep the enemy in complete ignorance, and the 50 mile march began.
Southeast of famed Bastogne the enemy had thrust a salient contained for the past several weeks by the 26th and 35th Infantry and 6th Armored Division. These units had successfully prevented further penetration, but the strength of the enemy, the terrain and wintery weather combined to make their operations difficult in the extreme. Corps plans called for an assault along the perimeter of the enemy salient with the 90th making the main effort with the object of reducing the salient and destroying the enemy contained therein.
On January 9th all was in readiness for the attack. The 90th examined the terrain which stood in its way and saw endless reaches of towering hills coated with snow and ice. From this day until the end of combat the 90th was destined to conduct its activities in the hill of Europe.
The weather was also a formidable foe. For now the January winds swept paralyzingly through the exposed valleys, the temperature hovered around the zero mark, armor and other vehicles ground helplessly on the ice for traction, and the specter of trench foot and frost-bite hung night-marishly over the American troops.
The enemy, with mobile reserves of SS Panzer units, were well dug in on the sides of the hills ready to resist fanatically any encroachment on their main supply roads running east from Bastogne itself. And so the 90th Division arraigned itself against the hills, the winter, and the Germans. With the 357th on the left, the 359th on the right, and 358th in reserve, the assault was launched on the morning of January 9th from line running generally from Bavigne northeast to a crossroads north of Nothum.
Where precious gains in the area had been measured in terms of yards, the 90th provided the added impetus required to shrivel the salient to nothing. Nebelwerfer barrages of unaccustomed intensity roared menacingly overhead ; artillery and tank fire added their bit in an attempt to halt the rising tide that threatened to engulf the salient. Berlé fell to the 90th the first day, on the third day Sonlez and Doncols were taken.
The speed and power of the assault was a decided surprise to the Germans. On the third day of battle alone more than 1,200 prisoners were captured. So devastating was the attack that enemy communications were almost completely shattered. Captured documents revealed the great respect accorded the 90th by the enemy...
"It is imperative (said one directive) that steps be taken to ascertain whether or not the American 90th Infantry has been committed. Special attention must be given to the numbers 357, 358, 359, 343, 344, 345 915, and 315. Prisoners identified with these numbers will immediately be taken to the Regimental G-3".
The 358th Regiment was committed on the fourth day, sweeping rapidly northward as far as Bras itself. The 90th had fought through Luxembourg and was now in the soil of Belgium. On that day, also, contact was established between the 90th and the 35th Infantry Divisions as well as with the 6th Armored. The enemy salient had been liquidated, the objectives attained.
New order called for a resumption of the attack to the northeast, the 6th Armored on the left, 26th on the right, and the 90th in the center. On the 14th the attack was resumed in the direction of Niederwampach. A strongly held line along the railroad south of the town, however, held up the attack until one battalion, sweeping wide around the left, attacked the town unexpectedly from the northwest. With the aid of a 14 battalion artillery concentration, Niederwampach fell at last in comparatively docile fashion.
By the night of January 16th the 90th held a line facing east from Longvilly on the left through Oberwampach and Niederwampach on the right. It now became evident that the enemy was attempting orderly withdrawal from the area. Convoys of vehicles stretched endlessly on the roads leading out of the Rundstedt "Bulge". But skies which had been previously overcast now cleared and yielded to Allied control of the air. The German retreating columns were mercilessly pounded, while the 90th's artillery joined in the holocaust of fire, inflicting irreparable damage to the German machine... the same machine which had proudly boasted one month before that Paris was its objective.
On the following day, the 17th, the enemy counterattacked the 90th's forces at Oberwampach. Elements of the 2nd Panzer Division attempted doggedly to re-enter the city, SS troops screamed at the top of their lungs in a frenzy of fanaticism as they stormed the town from the north and east. Artillery concentrations plus the effective work of the 733rd Tank Destroyers battalion inflicted costly casualties and smeared the assault for "no gain". Three such attacks were repulsed on the first day.
It required still another night and day of ceaseless, but futile counterattacks to teach the enemy that the 90th had no intention of giving ground no matter what pressure might be exerted. Tankers of the 712th Tank Battalion accounted for six enemy tanks, eight German panzers were knocked out by the Tank Destroyers, Division artillery cut five notches in its belt.
In all, the Germans launched nine counterattacks led by powerful armor. Snow and wind blanketed their dead, so that no accurate count of casualties could be obtained. In the 36-hour period during which the battle raged, the 344th Field Artillery Battalion fired 6,000 rounds of ammunition. When at last the Germans realized the hopelessness of their mission and attempted to make good their escape artillery concentrations boxed off their avenues of retreat and made an inferno of the enemy lines. What had begun as an ambitious counterattack against elements of the 90th, ended in a dismal fiasco with the 90th in firm possession of Oberwampach.
Thereafter, the Division moved in a general northeasterly direction, plodding through deep drifts of snow, engaging the enemy and the snow and ice and wind of winter with equal fortitude. One by one, the objectives fell, and obstacles were brushed aside with veteran efficiency.
(http://www.90thdivisionassoc.org/)
Southeast of famed Bastogne the enemy had thrust a salient contained for the past several weeks by the 26th and 35th Infantry and 6th Armored Division. These units had successfully prevented further penetration, but the strength of the enemy, the terrain and wintery weather combined to make their operations difficult in the extreme. Corps plans called for an assault along the perimeter of the enemy salient with the 90th making the main effort with the object of reducing the salient and destroying the enemy contained therein.
On January 9th all was in readiness for the attack. The 90th examined the terrain which stood in its way and saw endless reaches of towering hills coated with snow and ice. From this day until the end of combat the 90th was destined to conduct its activities in the hill of Europe.
The weather was also a formidable foe. For now the January winds swept paralyzingly through the exposed valleys, the temperature hovered around the zero mark, armor and other vehicles ground helplessly on the ice for traction, and the specter of trench foot and frost-bite hung night-marishly over the American troops.
The enemy, with mobile reserves of SS Panzer units, were well dug in on the sides of the hills ready to resist fanatically any encroachment on their main supply roads running east from Bastogne itself. And so the 90th Division arraigned itself against the hills, the winter, and the Germans. With the 357th on the left, the 359th on the right, and 358th in reserve, the assault was launched on the morning of January 9th from line running generally from Bavigne northeast to a crossroads north of Nothum.
Where precious gains in the area had been measured in terms of yards, the 90th provided the added impetus required to shrivel the salient to nothing. Nebelwerfer barrages of unaccustomed intensity roared menacingly overhead ; artillery and tank fire added their bit in an attempt to halt the rising tide that threatened to engulf the salient. Berlé fell to the 90th the first day, on the third day Sonlez and Doncols were taken.
The speed and power of the assault was a decided surprise to the Germans. On the third day of battle alone more than 1,200 prisoners were captured. So devastating was the attack that enemy communications were almost completely shattered. Captured documents revealed the great respect accorded the 90th by the enemy...
"It is imperative (said one directive) that steps be taken to ascertain whether or not the American 90th Infantry has been committed. Special attention must be given to the numbers 357, 358, 359, 343, 344, 345 915, and 315. Prisoners identified with these numbers will immediately be taken to the Regimental G-3".
The 358th Regiment was committed on the fourth day, sweeping rapidly northward as far as Bras itself. The 90th had fought through Luxembourg and was now in the soil of Belgium. On that day, also, contact was established between the 90th and the 35th Infantry Divisions as well as with the 6th Armored. The enemy salient had been liquidated, the objectives attained.
New order called for a resumption of the attack to the northeast, the 6th Armored on the left, 26th on the right, and the 90th in the center. On the 14th the attack was resumed in the direction of Niederwampach. A strongly held line along the railroad south of the town, however, held up the attack until one battalion, sweeping wide around the left, attacked the town unexpectedly from the northwest. With the aid of a 14 battalion artillery concentration, Niederwampach fell at last in comparatively docile fashion.
By the night of January 16th the 90th held a line facing east from Longvilly on the left through Oberwampach and Niederwampach on the right. It now became evident that the enemy was attempting orderly withdrawal from the area. Convoys of vehicles stretched endlessly on the roads leading out of the Rundstedt "Bulge". But skies which had been previously overcast now cleared and yielded to Allied control of the air. The German retreating columns were mercilessly pounded, while the 90th's artillery joined in the holocaust of fire, inflicting irreparable damage to the German machine... the same machine which had proudly boasted one month before that Paris was its objective.
On the following day, the 17th, the enemy counterattacked the 90th's forces at Oberwampach. Elements of the 2nd Panzer Division attempted doggedly to re-enter the city, SS troops screamed at the top of their lungs in a frenzy of fanaticism as they stormed the town from the north and east. Artillery concentrations plus the effective work of the 733rd Tank Destroyers battalion inflicted costly casualties and smeared the assault for "no gain". Three such attacks were repulsed on the first day.
It required still another night and day of ceaseless, but futile counterattacks to teach the enemy that the 90th had no intention of giving ground no matter what pressure might be exerted. Tankers of the 712th Tank Battalion accounted for six enemy tanks, eight German panzers were knocked out by the Tank Destroyers, Division artillery cut five notches in its belt.
In all, the Germans launched nine counterattacks led by powerful armor. Snow and wind blanketed their dead, so that no accurate count of casualties could be obtained. In the 36-hour period during which the battle raged, the 344th Field Artillery Battalion fired 6,000 rounds of ammunition. When at last the Germans realized the hopelessness of their mission and attempted to make good their escape artillery concentrations boxed off their avenues of retreat and made an inferno of the enemy lines. What had begun as an ambitious counterattack against elements of the 90th, ended in a dismal fiasco with the 90th in firm possession of Oberwampach.
Thereafter, the Division moved in a general northeasterly direction, plodding through deep drifts of snow, engaging the enemy and the snow and ice and wind of winter with equal fortitude. One by one, the objectives fell, and obstacles were brushed aside with veteran efficiency.
(http://www.90thdivisionassoc.org/)
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