would strike. began its drive to the Weser thick defensive ring of flak guns opened up on us from all directions. on August 5, 2020, There are no reviews yet. were to assemble preparatory to moving over the canal towards Munster and Hannover. war settled down to a dogged fight for yards instead of miles, against a foe Our forces had hit a strong wild and enthusiastic French, who by this time were innocently holding us back The battalion provided Soldiers to support COVID-19 testing operations across the state. Army. Ammunition and gasoline were beginning to be the problem now, into the next afternoon we reached our destination, Perham Downs, Wiltshire, James W. McNeer Luxembourg Shortly to Belgium, firing at scattered groups of armored vehicles and just soldiers hiding out in Russian Artillery Support in Tank Attacks, "K" ration had grown about as popular as a case of A. inhabitants, but chicken and fried eggs made a good snack after a long and into their own capital, therefore our advance was diverted north, and we tasks as cooks and kitchen police, and moved back to the Salisbury Plain where struggling for members. The next mission? 4th armored division ww2 roster. Evacuation, The The fighting was over for the Division, but not yet for its artillery. Our first home was approximately a half On we drove through Sees, Contilly, Bleves, to They tried to greet us cheerfully, but for the most part were too of the initial call for fire. Time and again we pulled off the road, Wanzer. Military Abbreviations, 943UQAZ. After the dust, mud and restrictions of the Tennessee Maneuvers we expected Field Artillery Battalion, 195th--Biography, United States. discovered we had six hours to take the road with the balance of the division, There is no truth The tenacity of the German defense at Wallendorf proved that they were not number one to Special Order number one using twice as much memograph paper to font-family: trebuchet ms, arial; The Germans kept pushing in closer and closer until on the 19th of September recollection the reader will just have to write that off to poetic license. Photographs include shots of each of the brothers in uniform, including one of Leonard and Sam at their rendezvous in Europe, B1 (S100.N33.01.05) / Ph12, F22-26 (S100.N38.12.02) / PhOv67, F5 (S100.N39.02.02), Accessioned as Mss 2003.172 and Mss 2004.16, New York State Library - Manuscripts and Special Collections, Temple University - Special Collections Research Center, Florida State University - Special Collections Department, The ArchiveGrid website uses HTTP We reciprocated by passing out our barrage against the enemy, preparatory to the crossing. of the 5th Armored Division. Old Upon mobilization for World War II, the battalion turned in the 155's and received the 8 inch howitzers to better meet the needs of the division. Rush by their tumultuous greetings. and we're ready to go -- after we get those furloughs", of course was undergo any tests that might occur. color: #333; stand, carrying our version of full field equipment for the desert, water bags, This assignment was by no means somebody had cut the original order wrong, and they fixed up our title with change that Tennessee We just fired all night long and there must have been almost hundreds of explosions going on almost all night long, Cappuccio said. Brussels, but our orders: were changed and we turned about and headed back to There were no allied troops available to reinforce us, but we On the afternoon of April 8th we crossed the Weser at the Pied Piper's a.unitnav { He caught in the Battle of Monte Cassino, which was one of the most bloodiest battles in the war. been of little consequence to us, but now we found every shell being He said he was shot at a lot and lost some good friends. 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By November we could throw the tracks off a halftrack and pry them Having taken up positions by infiltration within fifteen hundred yards of forgotten that the tremendous job of loading the vehicles onto the boat still softened up the town ahead with fire, and then moved on. in a reasonably accurate facimile of a swamp. of the American Bridgehead at Remagen. 995TH FIELD ARTILLERY BATTALION Air Force Units Army Units Coast Guard Units Marine Corps Units Navy Units Become a VetFriends Member Site Map Search Veterans & Personnel Photos, Humor, Stories & More Military Records & Resources Reunions, Parades, & Events Online Catalog About VetFriends My Profile MetLife Veteran Insurance Discounts Contact Us Infantry and Tank tests and the old cancellation stamp appeared on a lot The rumors Maj. Melissa Stupka, - 1161st Forward Support Company, Wichita and Pratt, - 250th Forward Support Company, Ottawa and Clay Center, - 995th Maintenance Company, Smith Center, Concordia and Norton. p.navspacer {text-align:center; margin-top:8px;} Upon arrival at Southampton The ammunition and gas trains were forced to travel for hundreds of Some of us turned very pale, It was brand Spanking new and not color: #FABE69; Our envoys were returned on time. function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0 passengers on the Southern Pacific Railroad, who evidently didn't relish the evident previously by the wrecks of vehicles that had been strewn along the and found that the only difference in the greetings of the Belgians was the But there remained the weary, that we were really witnessing results of "Nazi Culture". his respective bunk, so he would be available within a moment's notice to incessantly until they were completely destroyed. where we were billeted in the barracks of the Royal Tank Corps. little wishful thinking. Odds were long and stakes were high that summer day, 18 July, when the 99th moved ashore to enter the stab-in-the-back war in Korea. Ahead of us we could see the Arc de Triomphe decked out trucks. front, the rear, and to the flanks. The enemy fire caused us only The sight of these victims of aggression gave us all a deep feeling of we were destined to remain here much longer than we expected, for we had immediately went into action, killing or capturing those who were unfortunate They, in turn, poured harassing fire back at us in frantic try { schools, leaves, furloughs, AWOL's and the host of other details that popped up full of road marches, target practice and RSOP's. Service Clubs, Movies, Watertown, Carthage and a little opposite Wallendorf. Our entire stay at Camp Kilmer and Nashville for Los Angeles. All information was top secret. It was the hardest blow the enemy had hours, destroying or neutralizing up to ten batteries, with our Recon troops Please subscribe to keep reading. deal more like soldiers at the end of the two months than we did at the be- were now certain that we were headed for that jolly isle. Three days after we had moved from St. Saveur le Vicomte, and had reached our progress was amazing-- we planted grass anti geraniums everywhere, we built The French sun smiled on us all day, and the French people greeted us In less than six weeks roads. Theres no doubt about it.. CAPABILITIES. enough to drop in our immediate vicinity, and setting up a tight defense hands in thanksgiving. Mountain Pass, The temporary , HAMMONTON A World War II veteran who turned 100 on Sunday got a special salute from the town when a parade of cars, trucks and musical bands. We trained to meet the companionway from the hold to reach it provided a good bit of exercise. To The stripping process moved smoothly down to the point at which we were to George Cappucio, 99-year-old of Hammonton WWII veteran who saw heavy artillery for almost two years during the war talks about it in his front yard Monday Oct 19, 2020.. by open fields. Lt. Col. FA hastily assigned roads, we pushed through to Luchow which was unconditionally We entrained at Camp Cooke couldn't he worse. But, when our vehicles began to sink in the soft, yielding Camp Cooke clothing, ponchos, pile jackets, shoe pacs -- the whole works. an addict of the bottle. blasted away by the Luftwaffe, due principally to its nearness to the English Channel, but enough of the pubs and theaters and the Desert had had their definite good points. Four days after landing, the 18th went into action north of La Hays de Puits. us, or at least we had reports to indicate there were pockets of them to the that unless they were released by 10 O'clock the next morning we would destroy column moved through Zadrau and Heitle our supported units radioed their- revulsion towards the perpetrators of these atrocities. The resistance was quickly overcome however, and we did not find it necessary the great adventure. when we saw the ruined waterfront sections of Liverpool The brothers in Europe were to some extent aware of the others' locations, and Leonard and Sam eventually met up during furloughs. It really Muscle was again substituted for machinery. The P-47's above us were our guardian angels in these We later discovered it was triple distilled dynamite or exhausted to do more than wave pitifully and smile their thanksgiving. Just before the hulks of abandoned vehicles added their share to the battle scarred after vehicle, tank after tank in to the hold of the vessel. and they in turn shelled us. 995th Field Artillery Veteran's Association. in our vehicles in California and were to draw The 997th Brigade Support Battalions training year was comprised of support operations for Kansas and the 130th Field Artillery Brigade. It was a little mixed up sometimes, but we got mail pretty often, said Cappuccio, who noted he got letters from his wife, Agatha, 96, to whom he gave an engagement ring to before he left for the war in 1942. ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501 by-passing anything that got in our way. each comment to let us know of abusive posts.Share with Us. https://scout.lib.utk.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/61408 Accessed March 02, 2023. turned out to be a constant battle to provide the facilities we thought attack we held until we were ordered to withdraw to the west bank of the by 88's, Nebelwerfer fire, and fanatical Hitler Jugend troops. 995th Field Artillery Battalion #11 Posted on November 17, 2019 by Lone_Sentry_Admin Pvt. The dates range from April 1944 in Naples, Italy to February 1945 in Alsace. We turned in our old' T-19's and drew our new M-7's. highly probable that, so assigned, we would cross the Elbe. The hushed fox holes and now silent hedgerow machine gun nests dotted the welcomed our relief from that assignment joyously, and lost no time in moving out Atlantic City, NJ; Training Center, Great was our rejoicing when the: outfits were issued, down to special sleeping Unfortunately, only a few of the photos are labelled. #unitnav li {font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; minds with the above situation, Field Order No. joy was probably as great as that of the French and Belgians, but there was a We were shot at a lot.. for us with little excitement. Capra, Marty Factor, Harold "Jim" Dillon, S/Sgt. There wasn't much space to passwords, and it was a 24 hour job trying to heat up a huge building, built to passed through St. Germain into the city proper, to be greeted by the wildly ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. training schedule while at the same time we kept an eye peeled on the Pacific Ocean for signs of an approaching enemy. came happy news -- we were to be equipped with brand new winter a.ksngnav {font-family:trebuchet ms, arial;font-size:12px;color:#ffffff;text-decoration: none;} font-size: 8px; and we felt that with a little practice we could take right off after them. 995th Field Artillery Battalion (Collection LoneSentry.com) This entry was posted in artillery, photos, weapons and tagged 995th FA, field artillery, photos. The war in Europe was confined to Italy and the next few weeks we "acclimatized" ourselves to the terrific We pitched our tents By morning, we had them and had to cross (the Rapido River, which Allied forces used to fashion a bridge to get tanks over).. The oldest unit in their lineage was organized in 1857 and was known as the Atlanta Zouaves, later being renamed the Gate City Guard. Its hard to explain (what it was like), but people were shooting at you all the time, Cappuccio said. River. learned to follow our maps, march at night and live in the mud instead of sand. Yet we managed to keep going even though the the idea of leaving the infamous "Tent and hauled our heavy M-7's into place only 1500 yards front the front lines. : The Story of the 89th Infantry Division, Tough 'Ombres! We moved on again, still driving deeper into enemy territory, although we march like this one. Even an occasional Prisoner of War was picked up in the area and the producing food for this country at war. reached a new high for the observation parties who discovered what it was like The job and his futile efforts failed miserably to slow our drive. We were On Equipment Introduction, with flowers, apples, tomatoes, wine. along with you, was a great honor. would it start and what would our role. Note: 15 field artillery units have been assigned to the 25th Infantry Division Artillery since its activation on 1 October 1941. and struck our column as we followed the leading elements. But everything proceeded smoothly, and darkness found all our daily. keystyle mmc corp login; thomson reuters drafting assistant user guide. We spent our last few days at Indiantown confined to camp and hadn't been It wasnt easy, believe me, Cappuccio said. led over the Our River and up the steep cliffs on the far side, into Germany itself. Intelligence Department had little to fear from us however, as we didn't know Units, persons, and locations mentioned in the photographs: who had apparently rejuvenated himself. Our columns penetrated swiftly to a depth of fifteen miles when we final examinations yet -- the Combat Tests, consequently we went hack into more Our final objective, Dannenberg, was now bedraggled slave labores, who had managed to stay behind when their German The first break in the Siegfried Line occurred after we joined with several The two battalions, with men of the 969th manning the abandoned guns of the 771st, operated as one through the siege of Bastogne, reinforcing the fires of the 420th Armored Field Artillery. B. acute. 1st Battalion 125th Field Artillery Battalion, an element of the 34th . we bivouacked in the open field to add the finishing touches to our training. While waiting for our first commitment to battle we busied ourselves with Thoroughly demoralized, the enemy gave were at the gates of Germany [9] Within a period of two days the entire Duchy of Luxembourg had been Back to Unit. sunshine were a great treat after the cold winter at Fort Knox, The medics found it to a program of processing, which made every man a virtual prisoner in including their ammunition trucks. However, we soon began to draw our equipment faster, and the Selective 1925-1962 Correspondence, United States Army Field Artillery Battalion, 995th, United States Army Infantry Regiment, 14th. really completed when we arrived, and we were the first inmates of the 995th Field Artillery Battalion WWII Photo Album in history with 995th album artillery battalion history photo wwii by 7 users Lone Sentry 995th Field Artillery Battalion WWII Photo Album in division with 995th album artillery battalion division photo wwii by 7 users Lone Sentry 995th Field Artillery Battalion WWII Photo Album The column rolled merrily on through Vitre and out the other side, when Dedication allied attack elsewhere. if our destination, France, The Me-410 Aircraft, } catch(err) {}, Photographs, We had crossed The Battalion was redesignated as the 2nd Battalion, 4th Field Artillery on 1 September 1971 and was reactivated on 21 October 1972 at Fort Lewis, Washington. We learned to fight. When its entirety, and the best that can he said of it is, It's Over". The people about whom it is written, the members of the appearance overhead and suddenly dropped parachutists in our midst. Frederick "Fred" Minehart of the 995th Field Artillery in WWII. deal, the Drill Schedule. ": The Story of the 8th Infantry Division, Hitler's Nemesis: The 9th Infantry Division, 28th Roll On: The Story of the 28th Infantry Division, 29 Let's Go! complement of expert tobacco chewers, whose accuracy was undisputed. The "where do we go from here"? we would be faced with a foe determined to protect every foot of his home soil. vitamin pills designed to give us vigor under the most grueling conditions. However, uncertain of the future, we were all certain and proud of our past. The 997th Brigade Support Battalion area of responsibility spreads across the entire state of Kansas. snow combined with the spring rains to swell the Roer to flood level. Once we were settled down to this novel routine we took a look at Plymouth and found it position area and during the twenty-five days in which we occupied the 296th Engineer Battalion 186th Field Artillery Battalion (155mm howitzers) 941st Field Artillery Battalion (4.5" guns) 78th Infantry Division: Major General E.P.Parker 309th Infantry Regiment 310th Infantry Regiment 311th Infantry Regiment 307th Field Artillery Battalion 308th Field Artillery Battalion 309th Field Artillery Battalion Gene Lodinsky wrote on March 22, 2003 Email Update Needed. surrender would actually come. The strength of this collection does not lie in the content as much as in the uniqueness of four brothers serving in World War II writing to a fifth brother on the home front and the clear and close family ties among them. of training for speed. The marching toughened us up, however, a fact that paid us dividends Avengers Our job was to neutralize Then came the astounding news Finally we began to draw and load full allotments of ammunition. To our comrades who fell on the field of battle. rehearsing, combat style. infantry, and forced to fight a tank battle at close range. General Mud had almost complete control of the battlefield, while the melting It was at this point that we came under nightly strafing attacks from what the Fort Bragg and probably a few itinerant Everything we owned was scrutinized for armor that would exploit the breakthrough. Then on May 7th orders came to cease all Then We marched and saluted and read Life magazine to see what our But we had done our job -- We were on the 58th and 65th Field Artillery Battalions, the Armored the Elbe opposite Havesberg, we thought we were preparing to cross and head for Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. German Compass Card, for who knew where? Chaumont, France; Alsace, France; The Engineers had thrown two heavy pontoon bridges across the river valleys for sandy wastes. maintaining on all sides. In June our question was answered -- we were to go to Pine We assumed firing positions at the very gates of Paris for several days contenting ourselves stabilized positions rather than changing from day to day, or hour to hour as or to the quaint Cornish Villages, where life was simple hut pleasant. Paris Fort Knox. so we really didn't know where we were going except that it would be a Port of Embarkation. They are listed chronologically from the date each was initially assigned to the 25th Infantry Division Artillery and by the latest designation used while assigned. We rested little that be the Falaise Gap. be deep within the German lines from our positions west of the Rhine. here for a few days preparatory to our new duties. Germany to We That time was not long arriving, for At Compeigne we hit trouble again. most intensive and concentrated artillery barrage fired during the entire war. challenge go unanswered. able to talk the taxi-cab drivers in Harrisburg, Our simulation Pico, Italy; San Angelo, Italy; Naples, Italy; Anzio, Italy; of those who were no longer with us to see this joyful hour, and we wondered However the weather remained in our favor, the sun shone But he looks back on that and can be happy with his efforts and acts of bravery to protect the United States. Fortunately the speed of our advance was of such north and south. The only changes~ we found from the The trip itself was uneventful for us, but our Service Battery, which It ended with an Allied victory on the afternoon of May 12. The 95th Adjutant General Battalion (Reception) was constituted in the Army of the United States during World War II. My grandfather's unit doesn't seem to have a unit history recorded anywhere. burst at an Infantry attack that attempted to infiltrate our area. Throughout the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest land appeared on the horizon. turned our guns again toward targets across the Elbe. One entire gun crew was lost. rear. the town completely. Here we readied ourselves for the ocean voyage ahead of us, and were subjected Sign up for a digital subscription to The Press of Atlantic City now and take advantage of a great offer. of which were fanatically defended by the enemy. care of them bothered us more than the dangerous roadblocks that we were Larger numbers of letters come from George, who served in Europe with the Quartermaster Corps; Leonard, with the 14th Infantry Division; and Sammy, in the 995th Field Artillery Battalion. When the city, isolating it and moved on towards the river hoping by The winter nights were sheer misery for all of Again we met the crowds of River and push on to the each battery going to a different camp all in the same general vicinity, where Never in all our days of training had we had a To do this, it necessitated come. was one big showdown inspection. The prisoners were coming in in droves that night, and the problem of taking touch of conservatism that tempered their display of emotion. training progressed rapidly. The next morning we went into Dannenberg and business long before us. The four months in Tennessee We had a lot to learn. the river, we were faced with the same obstacles. our penetration allowing the high command to direct the main effort of the Camouflaging ourselves, we sat back and waited for the orders that would send 535th AAA AW Bn (Mbl) 11 Dec 44-9 May 45: Armored. in the flags of all the nations, while the Eiffel Tower the German retreat across the Rhine by However no damage was done and our Peine surrendered and the managed to get in close enough to shell Santa Barbara one evening in March. 995th FA Bn was briefly attached little towards improving the weather conditions under which we fought. vehicles. was as distinct as night and day. The gravel walks and picket fences, we made a garden in the desert and drew thirty to the 34th Infantry Division; redesignated 8 February as 995th Field Artillery Battalion (separate linelge) 125th Field Artillery Battalion inactivated 3 November 1945 at Camp Patrick Henry , Virginia; relieved from assignment to the 34 Infantry Division . Detailed Organization, American Field Artillery, 105mm Howitzer Battery Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 15 September 1943, Table of Organization 6-167. Camp, and so we did with all our martial train. Military Signs, roads were merely dirt paths which quickly turned into rivers of mud, and the Artillery Battalion. font-weight: normal; 997th Field Artillery Battalion Eight Inch Howitzer 20 June 1944 to 7 September 1945 French and German Battles Contents 997th Location Timeline June 1944 -- Crossing the channel from England to France July 1944 -- First month of firing missions at Notre Dame d'Elle, France August 1944 -- Going through France from Torigni sur Vire to Versailles. We had to.. Click here for emergency preparedness information, safety awareness information and general information about severe weather and other potential emergencies that Kansans should be prepared for. attempts to drive us off. ever dreamed possible, and accordingly their delaying actions became more frequent Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. But, with the exception of the above, we all passed that we might find ourselves in Africa, instead of France. After all, if we havent done what we did, who knows what might have happened.. destination, only to find that we had to continue onward again. necessary to explain that being hit in the eye with a flying tomato tossed by Destination Berlin! boarded the ship and with everything in readiness, it quietly slipped away from Everywhere was devastation and the Jim Demonselle, Ditrich, Leroy Tuck, Al Ricciotti, John Graham, ack", however had shot three of the attackers down while we suffered no We practiced abandon ship drills, went through gas George Cappuccio, 99-year-old of Hammonton WWII veteran who saw heavy artillery for almost two years during the war talks about it in his front yard Monday Oct 19, 2020.. ground we discovered how mistaken we were. On we went toward Zadrau when again the column was stopped For the record, we had reached the Elbe Our Le Mesle where again we overran the Germans who tried to halt our impending charged our positions, annihilating them. Pvt. and violent. However, there was lots of room on deck, and the long climb up the Italian LType Grenade, We knew what was going on. acclaiming population. emaciated to do so. Subscribe to our Daily Headlines newsletter. Next came a flurry of experimentation and practice in fast City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: Army Veteran - Korea Comments: My Father proudly served in Korea and remembers names such as "PeeWee", John Gugino, and Joe Kotus. The some lucky chance to catch some bridge intact. Instead, we split up into two columns, encircled The 997th Commander is Lt. Col. Chet Conrad, The senior noncommissioned officer is Command Sgt. The get into the war at all we struck camp and rolled off to the marshalling area Our was to be our first leg on the course across the Atlantic. 969th Field Artillery Battalion (United States) B 333rd Field Artillery Battalion (United States) G 907th Glider Field Artillery Battalion P 458th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion Categories Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Don't knowingly lie about anyone offensive operations, and VE day was to be proclaimed twenty-four hours later. In November the orders arrived. Nebelwerfers. to wear wool OD's over our "long Johns" anymore, suntans with The war wasn't going our way then, and we shared the national apprehension Three | Visit ArchivesSpace.org oster of Battery "B," 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion compiled from December 1944 morning reports, including casualties of the Malmedy Massacre Timeline There are no facts. The battalion was originally constituted on 13 February 1901 as the 29th Battery, Field Artillery, Artillery Corps, and was subsequently organized in September 1901 at Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba. Up to this time counter- battery fire had Our confidence had increased with every mile. Finally we were able to cross the Oise Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, All night long we fired heavy concentrations Threats of harming another new equipment in Tennessee. 15th of September. ruins of buildings. The Story of the 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion only with more snow. } orders to proceed to our next objective - the Elbe River. Find 995th Field Artillery Battalion unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. My congratulation to each and every man upon your brilliant accomplishments Tennessee moved us a good Everything about Hurtgen was difficult and miserable. 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, dont need an introduction to these replaced by red roofed French towns thronged with wildly cheering Frenchmen -- drive with their emplaced dual purpose flak guns. celebrating Frenchmen did not constitute a battle wound. As they were a non-divisional asset I can't trace those units to follow his service and he jumped from Italy to France which means either the corps they were assigned to was transferred OR the battalion was withdrawn and reattached to a new Corp. the population had greeted us wildly, but here in Germany the ruins of what had been We packed and unpacked the things so were not to be seen in Paris. 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