Artillery, The King of Battle - 925th Field Artillery Battalion [WWII]

Very scarce unit history. POOR Condition Red cloth partly missing on front and back cover. Embossed Unit crest on front cover (Fortis Atque Fidelis). Duct tape on spine. Binding is cracked but pages remain secure. Eminently readable and useable. This narrative depicts the story of the Men Behind the Guns". It is dedicated to those Officers and Men, who trained, fought and died with the 925th Field Artillery Battalion.Includes unit roster and roster of unit members awarded decorations for valor. . . . . . . . . 925th Field Artillery Battalion (105mm Howitzer) was in the 100th Infantry Division in World War II. The Division landed at Marseilles, France, 20 October 1944, and sent its first elements into combat at St. Remy in the Vosges Mountains, 1 November 1944. The Division as a whole began the relief of the 45th at Baccarat, 5 November, assuming control of the sector, 9 November. The attack jumped off, 12 November, the Division driving against the German winter line in the Vosges Mountains. The Division took Bertrichamps and Clairupt, pierced the German line, and seized Raon l'Etape and St. Blaise, 16-26 November. Later in November, elements assisted in holding the Saverne Gap bridgehead while the bulk of the Division went into reserve. Crossing the Rhine, 31 March, 1945, it moved south in the wake of the 10th Armored Division and then east across the Neckar River, establishing and enlarging a bridgehead, 4-11 April. Heilbronn fell in house-to-house fighting, 12 April, and the Division resumed its rapid pursuit of the enemy, reaching Stuttgart by 21 April. The 100th was mopping up along the Neckar, southeast of Stuttgart, 23 April, when it was pinched out of VI Corps, and confined its action to patrolling the sector east of Stuttgart. Shifting to Goppingen, 30 April, the Division engaged in occupational duties as the war in Europe ended.

Product Info

Publisher: Stuttgarter Vereinsbuchdruckerei

Year: 1945

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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