Archives from: United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1946. Available also at the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, 'Indians in the war: burial of a brave' (1946). World War Regimental Histories. 134. Link to the website: http://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/ww_reg_his/134 Republished in 2025, in Grateful Memory of those who died in the service of their country. They stand in the unbroken line of patriots who have dared to die. That freedom might live, and grow, and increase it's blessings. Freedom lives, and though it they live - in a way that humbles the undertaking of most men. Franklin D. Roosevelt The material in this archive...

Document Source: Original History of the 70th Tank Battalion during World War Two, (1945) Major, 70th Tank Battalion, Henry E. Davidson, Jr, Commanding INTRODUCTION At 1100, on December 16, 1944, an alert order was received by all companies of the 70th Tank Battalion. The order came at an inopportune time for the battalion had just pulled into Luxembourg and was already in the process of servicing and repairing its vehicles, following the rugged fighting in the Hürtgen Forest. Many of the tanks were stripped down for complete maintenance and replacement of parts. Work was at once speeded up and the disabled tanks...

Document Source: 1945 Brief History of the 2nd Infantry Division (Indian Head). The members of the 2nd Infantry Division were the wearers of the famed Indian Head Patch in five different wars around the planet. This insignia had its origin during World War One as the identifying insignia on the vehicles of the Division Supply Trains. The Commanding Officer of the trains held a contest in March 1918, to select a distinctive identifying symbol for use upon the vehicles after he had seen the vehicles of adjacent French units decorated in this manner. Through his adjutant, he sent out a...

Document Source: Report and Short History of the XIX Corps Engineers in Europa, World War Two The German Army is totally defeated. Now, immediately thereafter, a brief history of the XIX Corps Engineers has been assembled. The past eleven months of combat are in the too recent past to view with perspective. This report attempts to record factual data with little comment. It is felt that the record of the Engineers of this Corps will be enhanced through close examination. Their record of achievement is solid; group planning has been sound, always reliable, sometimes brilliant; individual acts of heroism have...

Dec 17, 1944, defying the murky skies, the tiny liaison plane circled low as Lt David E. Runden dropped a note in the battalion area. Kraut Tanks in Setz Heading our Way the message read. The Battle of the Bulge was on! Marshaling his crack troops for a last, all-out offensive, FM Gerd von Rundstedt wheeled his panzers west in a surprise move that was designed to split open the Allied forces, drive through to Liège, and on to Antwerp. The 561-FAB backing up the 106-ID at the exact spot where the Germans chose to break through the line....

The 26th Infantry Division (Yankee Division), has been a famous division for almost two centuries of American burgeoning and growth. The lineage of the Yankee Division extends back to the beginning of the American citizen-soldier - the fighting colonial troops of the early Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies. The 102nd Field Artillery Battalion traces its origin to one of the oldest military organizations in America, the Gloucester Militia. Ancestors of the 101st Engineer Combat Battalion unfurled the first American flag on Prospect Hill during the Revolutionary War. Battery A of the 101st Field Artillery Battalion was one of the original artillery...

Archive sent to EUCMH by Sgt James 'Jim' Haahr (USA), 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division 1944-1945. You can, of course, use the information provided in this document as long as you credit the source (Fair Use). 26th Infantry 'Yankee' Division Advance Detail to Utah Beach and Cherbourg, France, 1944. Originally from the Department of the Navy, (letter) from Bernard F. Cavalcante (Head Operational Archives Branch to Ernie Greup, Durham, North-Carolina, . A 25 member detachment under the command of Gen Harlan Hartness, ADC 26th Yankee Division, including Col Collin Bushway, 726th Ordnance L.M., plus 5000 troops (not from the 26-YD)...

Source Document: After Action Report, 505th Engineer Light Ponton Company, World War Two, European Theater of Operations 505-ELPC - October 1944 (1) Designation: 505th Engineer Light Ponton Company. (2) Organization: May 15 1942. (3) Garison: Camp Gordon, Georgia. (4) General Order #15, HQ Eastern Defense Command and 1-A, dated May 15 1942. Sources from which original personnel were obtained: (1) Officers: CO, Capt Archibald E. Sutton (0-304319) CE, by transfer from the Engineer Replacement Training Center, Fort Belvoir, Virginia; EO, Lt Gerald L. Bilbro, CE, by transfer from the 75th Engineer Light Ponton Company, Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. Platoon Commanders and Motor Officer...