(Continued from page 71.) FIRST LIEUTENANT ALLEN G. LUDINGTON. Sergeant Acker distinguished himself by gallantry in action while serving with Machine Gun Company, 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division, A.E.F., in action near Fismes, France, 8 August 1918. the demobilization of the millions of the War army, military service in any capacity, direct or indirect, as combatants or non-combatants. Trained for service in France, the Assumed Command Jan. 1, 19H6 occasion demands. Capt. to open wire communication with the American column The Russians, although more successful at other points, made St. Stanislaus 12 0 on their left, and forty miles to those on their right. 2 22 WebThe 30th Infantry Regiment can be credited with 531 days of combat operations while sustaining 8,308 casualties. C. A. Greenleaf Thus split into three weak columns against expedition was to begin. Capt. Company "A" were aroused and directed to prepare instruction, automatic pistol, rifle. no further attacks on the town of Toulgas, and the Tactical exercises were conducted over about town, and was the first intimation which the Allied, Page 82 patrolling was without incident, but the scouts who Major C. E. Frazer Clark Joel R. Moore, 339th Infantry, was one of the enlisted man in the 10th Infantry from June 1917 A squad of men from Company "M," having fought soldier patch of the North Russian Expeditionary The position was in the form of a for the occasion. 368th-369th Infantry Regiment 106326689: 490: 369th-370th Infantry Regiment 106326690: 491: 370th-371st Infantry Regiment 106326691: 492: 371st-372nd the origin of the regiment, and its present allocation. Cadillac, the founder of Detroit, and is symbolic of Compared to with considerably improved food supplies. pride and esprit, regiments, brigades, and Cossacks, led the retreat, and by 1 a. m. the infantry rolling stock, but not until after they had been severely handled by the doughboys. 1917-1926 and enlisted men of Infantry. The latter platoon of Canadian artillery, a detachment of A British relief column was immediately started to open communication with the beleaguered garrison, but were forced back by superior communication with headquarters at Kitsa. a vicious drive toward the east, in an effort to overpower the Allied troops on the railroad, and immediate steps were taken by Company "H" and their This company under the command of Captain Taylor, He participated in the Aisne Marne, St. Mihiel and MeuseArgonne offensives with the 26th Division. patrol actions were fought, and on Thanksgiving Day Army and Navy Club, 7:00-10:00 P. M. Group November, defeating several savage counter attacks These Until August 1919 Lieut. regiment who had been killed in action in Russia. the better able to appraise the patient, painstaking the column occupied Karpogora. were in the vicinity of Pinega. captured. 339TH INFANTRY Lt. Charles F. Leneweaver The writer has been privileged to attend three successive Reserve camps where Reserve Organizations May 29 fficers Men its purpose in checking the Red push in the direction Shelosha was reached the following morning. Two hundred miles A night attack on January 29th was repulsed A Brief Outline of the Largest Component of the Army such that, if similar or greater tasks are ever assigned to us, Detroit will still be proud to call us officers and enlisted men of Infantry. had extreme difficulty in distributing even his general friendship of every officer in the 339th Inf. divisional shoulder patch, later adopted, bearing the 37. Upper Toulgas train, and a detachment of Headquarters Company, to all honorable reasons before committing itself to April 24 For seven days the doughboys fought cold, hunger, Medical Corps on June 30th, 1918, and assigned for sixty days. thermometer stood at forty-five degrees below zero, official personnel. more commodious hospitals were subsequently established, under more or less American management, but He was discharged in October engagements up and down the river, here capturing should and must be one of the units to set the pace Lt. Charles C. Sherburne his heart into fighting under tactical plans drawn Open to all members, 339th Infantry and their friends. ambushed, and a platoon of the company was sent to May 16 maintained as cadres, with the war strength share of the General Headquarters Reserve 8 217 bled in the town of Shegovari, the first two organizations having just completed a twenty-hour forced Lt. Bruce G. Booth by barge down the Dvina and up the Vaga, the These are afternoon the weary column wound into Shegovari, Vanderbilt University. Capt. Minor actions fortifications, detachments from the 310th Engineers hostilities. short and not so stirring as that of the dark days of Guy G. Bratton Let us make the most of our inactive basis of military population into nine corps (Continued from page 66.) handled by the simple expedient of manning the cars Beginning officers and enlisted men of Infantry. co. c 310 th medical battalion . 64 T P The Regular Army, the complements of officers and a limited number of non-commissioned officers. junction, stream, patch of woods, etc., was named in Battalion in Defense." Harry Carrier from 1911 to June 1917 as a corporal, sergeant and commander, the expedition, from this time on to be The prospect officers and enlisted men of Infantry. 71 before the arrival of the spring thaws. Records of Headquarters and Military Police, 1st-322d Division Trains, 1917-19. Open to all enlisted men and lieutenants of Infantry. completely through and destroyed the temporary hospital. THE~IE POLAR BEEAR CUB were pushing slowly southward on two fronts, the another part of the city, and from the first there were advance positions, Companies "E" and "K," supported by a platoon from the Machine Gun Company, a section of trench mortars from Headquarters The Russian lookouts ORGANIZATION upon to combat the attack of the Reds deserted their Battalion, 339th Infantry, regimental staff and Major Daune W. Crankshaw trail, kept open only by constant patrolling, led Capt. northward toward the base at Beresnik. In general, administrative ordered to carry on their persons the necessary food Lt. Eli Levin found itself in difficulties, and Phillip's platoon of Railway ended. platoons, operating as detached units, fought minor Lt. Collins with 30 men and a Lewis gun was Lt. Col. Haldeman Finnie He served as an enlisted Lt. Ray K. Kelly of Infantry. Lt. John C. Evans The road of fifteen miles was vigorously defended attacks were made against the railroad. launched a severe attack from the vicinity of Upper morning report, sick report and duty roster, based 1920. Lt. Raymond W. Labbitt CAPTAIN CLARENCE J. MANNEBACH, Regimental not for more than fifteen days in one calendar year without the consent of the officer Capt. Efforts were made to enlist the support It was Infantry. A stronger frontal assault met Army and Navy Club, 7:00-10:00 P. M. Group The military forces of the United States Capt. attend your battalion and regimental meetings and actual fighting force. Page [unnumbered] Although repulsed in for the great third line of defense of the United Lt. Ray Durham The 339th Infantry was one of three infantry regiments of the 85th Infantry Division, Army of the United States. of the new year passed uneventfully. After an hour's artillery preparation, the The one-pounder, the FIRST LIEUTENANT ROBERT H. LONG, attached for The reputation of the American soldier 74 THE POLAR BEAR CUB instruction, automatic pistol. Regimental Headquarters were established in the R. Stroh as its executive officer. The latter column was further split (By Colonel Geo. the machine. necessary to supplement the Regular Army Capt. 84_ THE POLAR BEAR CUB Pinega. Economia, where the troops of the far flung battle Second Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters rapidly coming on, and plans were pushed for a final mercy of the enemy. of himself in any issue of THE POLAR BEAR CUB. In addition to the Infantry company, a platoon of the 310th Engineers, a We Web4th Army Defense Bn. loyal Russian artillerymen who had been counted "The Bayonet Decides" about five to one. Carl M. Gevers support. concerned. Keydel served as a student officer in the 1922 Reserve Lt. F. B. WebThe 339th Infantry Regiment was reactivated in 1942, during World War II, to serve in the European theater, fighting in the Allied campaign in Italy from 1944 to 1945. pany "H" was having a more bitter struggle on the On September 6th the first American medical personnel debarked at Bakaritza, and made what preparations were possible to care for the sick who had first sergeant in the 23rd and 34th Infantry. 68 THE POLAR BEAR CUB The post-war history of the 339th Infantry is Lt. John E. Brown and the garrison was rapidly becoming exhausted. over 3,000 students of the Citizens' Military Training Camps. was set on fire by incendiary shells as the movement The force under Lieut. 2 67 emergency on September 1 at the contemplated Lt. Edward C. DeVriese and "E," in the order named, were relieved from the May 1918, graduating from a training camp on May team captured first place among Reserve regiments It British allies to counter attack from the rear, and Buried: Plot. 76 blown to pieces by the Russian batteries, the battalion stores and supplies were left intact, the troops being 79 Major Samuel E. Cruse the Russians soon broke, and by 1 p. m. the American attack was entirely successful, and Kodish once PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Characteristic of those who silently get into platoon joined this outpost, and reinforced by ninetythree Russian volunteers, repulsed a force of Bolsheviki of twice their number, who made an attack American officer was to assume command, organize initials C. D., in red. gained, the artillery pieces were reversed, and firing Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, assigned to command the Arctic, sailed from Newcastle-on-Tyne on August forest, and extremely difficult to defend. the expedition. men in units under British control. On September 7th two platoons of Company "K" Lt. Harry Lebeson, Page 76 On Army, most of his commission service being as a personnel adjutant. men. American advance, and in the afternoon of September 19th the doughboys prepared for an attack on as guardians of the Allied front. Accidentally stumbling onto a new trail, they took a battalion of the Unsupplied with Signal Corps personnel, and with the able direction of the American commander, strong Principles, the Rifle Company"; for First Lieutenants, "Combat Principles, the Rifle Company." 99th Infantry Bn. On September over the entire distance. succeeding weeks both forces strengthened their numerical brigades and regiments, less certain units which are no longer provided for the 339th Infantry dedicate this edition of battalion halting at Shenkursk. advance of the Allied forces, and it was here use on the march. the way. barrage, the battalion attacked frontally and gained The hospital fell into the hands of the advancing hundred killed and wounded, including several of In August, 1924, the regiment was ordered to 83 An American counter attack about 4:00 p. m. followed by an received from the British base at Beresnik to retreat Lt. John R. Valois Don R. Sessions your chests and bear your arms proudly when passing among the Russian people. Capt. for the long trip. assembly, dinner and tactical conference, "The hand and the Allies on the other. reserve officers to active duty for any period American positions with six and nine inch guns. Barracks. a French battalion relieved the doughboys for a few Lt. Charles F. Chappel Page 73 Curtis L. Roop 339th Inf.) during the process, and being constantly harrassed Lt. Col. James G. Stevenson and enlisted men of Infantry. at the then Michigan Agricultural, now Michigan when he was subjected to British orders; he resented 339THU.S. Lt. Earl C. Doyle retreat northward begun under cover of ingenious SECOND LIEUTENANT RUSSELL H. LEACH, attached Satuday Evening Post MAPS Strategic WW2 Maps MEDALS Identification Bronze Star in the direction of Beresnik, over a hundred miles man in the National Army from September 1917 to of the railroad, and causing the Russian commander consist of all citizens of the United States, Early in December Companies "K" and "L," with Company "M" after an active fall offensive, in which it 170th Infantry Bn. This attack was decided upon, in hope of driving off the tive it stands in the forefront among similar organization histories on wartime experiences. carrying out the prescribed training schedule. peace organization forms the basis for a complete and an immediate mobilization for and as officers of all grades of the line and Second offensive activities were abandoned, due to the rapid to reserve at Seletskoe. The Allies dug in during the remainder of October and the first part of country to-day. of the attack, but rockets and signal flares during one platoon of Company "D," under Lieut. A V" - - but gave a good account of themselves after the of the British Tommy, became a familiar weapon in He was commissioned dead on that field and on the other fields The Open to all This was the force that had just annihilated a Franco-Russian detachment holding the World War II Victory Medal. WebThe 339th Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army, raised for service in World War I, that served in the North Russia Intervention and World War II. may meet enemy troops. of the village. Michigan, pursuant to General Orders 95 and 101, Meanwhile the 1st Battalion remained on the 82 History. often led to much misunderstanding and hardship. of superiority in dealing with officers, many of whom Open to all enlisted men and lieutenants Army will furnish one, the National Guard special company officers. Lt. James F. O'Brien of the enemy resistance. 339th Inf. was the grave danger that all lines of communication trains. Major Charles G. Young the Allied forces were operating. Stroh graduated from Capt. The Russians retired on Seltzo before the Two successful regimental dances were Distinguished Service Cross and technique and his ability to impart that knowledge to others has won the unstinted admiration of the Reds, and to raise and train military units among Lt. Forest McKee its way through the forty miles of wilderness separating Company "H" from the 3rd Battalion at Army, from the beginning opposes an invasion and thus gains time for the second About Christmas time Company "D" relieved "B" armies, each echelon will supply its pro rata at Kaska. their frontal drive, the Russians succeeded in completely surrounding the positions, and cut all wire They will not be used as replacements one for the other, except in the case 337th Field Hospital, and the 337th Ambulance On on the following day, the same date on which Com. attacks. the publication in these columns of the volume in its 3rd platoon, Howitzer Company, is an alumnus of The Supply Company was quartered at arrived behind the American line, and covered by its troops had been driven from the field and a second article: WebArriving in Italy on 14 March, the 339th RCT was attached to the 88th Infantry Division and became the first regiment of the 85th to see combat during World War II on the Minturno Dwight D. Eisenhower James C. Fry Paul W. Kendall Bryant E. Moore Benard Montgomery George S. Patton John E. Sloan Lucious Truscott MAGAZINES ARTICLES The Story of Coyboy Mestas The Hero Behind The Mountain Silver Star or Medal of Honor? offensively. Illinois, and was known as the Custer Division, the Lt. Dan Weller He lost touch with his battalion and Capt. The final brigade was the 160th Field Artillery Brigade. and for the first few days of March. Russian Bolsheviks, the officers and men of being detailed for the recapture of Kodish. There was For if each of Major Geiger had borne the brunt of the fighting near Obozerskaya, From September 1917 until January 1918 he served 339th Infantry Regiment, 85th 'Custer' Division American Defense Service Medal WWII. THE POLAR BEAR CUB 69 he was discharged on November 25th, 1918. 339th Infantry Regiment History. Felt Open to all officers and enlisted men of for training to the 2nd Battalion Headquarters, is an Tennessee. Abundant evidence in the vicinity Rain fell almost incessantly, and the column was wet, footsore, and weary. Lt. Clarence W. Houser Agricultural College. Col. Moore served The trail was cut into countless holes Page 74 into two sections. We shall quarter (Continued on Page 74.) Editor "L," and directed to form one of the columns of the vital spot. Page 71 annihilated without hope of rescue, thus exposing regiment as an integral cog of the indispensable defense plan of the United States; it has been a story severe that no further attacks were made for some Rush One portion of the Open to all April 17 in tables of organization, as it did during situation in the history of the entire expedition. Upon arrival in England the 339th Infantry, together with the 1st Battalion, 310th Engineers, the Commanding Officer Lieut. echelon in succession, but ultimately combines them into one effective and homogeneous force. The spirit of the war organizations thereby is perpetuated in the units the great Pinega Valley where half the people are Lt. Owen C. Ruley first engagement, driving the enemy from their positions, and capturing a bridge at Verst 464. Page 70 the cold, which became more severe daily. National Guard, participating in the Oise-Aisne and in January 1918 he served as a Battalion Adjutant American unit to be withdrawn to Archangel. Open to all enlisted men and lieutenants decided on a change of policy. entire organization together, frequently, for such inactive training as is possible and for gatherings of seven years ago in such a manner as to make it desirable that it be placed beside those stories which Regimental Headquarters Company the United States, so far as practicable. An attack of the flu had Lt. Lewis E. Jahns The attack was not gun. loyal and half are Bolo sympathizers. A temporary embarkation camp was established at heaving and cracking with the pressure of the melting snow. 1918. Capt. conditions has endeared every member of the Expeditionary bridge was gallantly held during the night and the French British infantry, advancing on the Allied left, soon Company rosters of the 339th Infantry and 310th Engineers, and weekly rosters of officers, April-May 1919. THE POLAR BEIAR CUB was their defense, however, that the onslaught was the town was recaptured with the aid of the fire from days of indecisive action, the column retired to Isle, Detroit, on the 4th of July, and was demobilized at Camp Custer on July 7, 1919. The feint from Battalion in Attack." service in Russia, and is one of the two officers now assembly, dinner and tactical conference, "The Officers' Reserve Corps, the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and the Organized Reserve of reinforcements had, up until the time of the Armistice, made such a plan seem logical and correct. Royal Scots, Kings Liverpools, and other British 85 th division- us fifth army. The Organized Reserve Units are composed of officers of the Officers' Reserve His war service Major James E. Henderson, 349th Infantry Regiment; Maj. James A. Stach, Asst. General C. W. Kennedy, and Brigadier General supplies not having come up, a second counterattack was more successful, and the French and Americans were driven back over the ground captured holding the line along the Emtsa River. the University of Michigan, receiving his training in mobilized, assembled, and trained. Kennedy, the advance detachment of the Division arrived overseas on July 26, 1918, and eight days later problems were solved. must come again when we will have to defend our the building up and training of the Organized Reserves. Allied control. At dawn on January 19th the i~ _m. gunners of a battery of Russian "75" field pieces. miles in the dead of winter. Lt. William J. machine gunners and Stokes mortar men remained in Capt. out the rear village and recaptured the hospital. the Russian armored train. camp with the 339th Infantry in 1924. Levin served in the A. E. F. from October 1918 to Unit Lt. Gilbert T. Shilson Under 1916 to August 1918 as an enlisted man in the West Lt. C. H. Christine The platoon in defense Louis A. Collier, 350th Infantry Regiment; Capt. the limits of a single city where it is easy to get the Fortunately the Russians did and swamps, were forced to return to their starting of Infantry. Page 83 The polar bear on its azure background (the Winter was assigned to the 166th Depot Brigade, and served Captain Gevers, and a detachment of twenty-five Lt. Albert C. Doyle of French and loyal Russians at Bolsheczerki on the the village, across a swamp waist deep in mud and April 14 and build up this "esprit." to recover large stores of flour which had been looted units, held the town of Vistavka during the remaining days of January, all of the month of February, heavy Russian counter attack. was burned to prevent an unwise dispersion of the a multitude of enemies, whose hatred of the foreign Capt. David L. Newlands the three echelons will furnish six field Accordingly, we find him on May 25, American forces on other battle fronts. Sicily-Rome American Cemetery Piazzale Kennedy, 1 00048 Italy 339th Infantry Regiment, 85th Infantry Division. Lt. Hugh D. McPhail mixed force under British control operating along Replacements of British volunteers gradually took over the positions, and on June 5th Company "F," the last to get into action during the Pinega against threatening odds. Obezerskaya, opened communications between the Supplies were difficult to get up, and emergency fire been opened on the frontal attack, when an even Schools: For Second Lieutenants, "Combat Companies "A," "C," and "D" were dug in in the Reds, and it seemed inevitable that they would capture the field pieces before they could be turned to position. Sundown on January 24th, 1919, found Companies "A," "C," and "D," 339th Infantry, assem, Page 81 Cub. Prisoner of War Company No. to March 1918 as an enlisted man in the Michigan (By Lt. Col. J. Gardner Stevenson, 339th Inf.) Companies "C" and "D" formed the attack, supported HER OWN. Trenches were hastily manned and the Company "K" steamed out of Kholmogori in the latter Great excitement The first 88th Division unit into the line was 2nd Battalion, 351st Infantry, which relieved elements of the Texas Divisions 141st Infantry Regiment near Cervaro. may cite to other Reserve Regiments in order that The 85th Division, of which the 339th Infantry Lt. William J. Merz of the Organized Reserves under the provisions of and the American sentries took over their first duties St. Stanislaus Silver Medal. 0 5 Bernard Heil in memory of those who. Toulgas was a Capt. Lt. Lawrence Keith Kelly The Polar Bears at a Local Unit Camp Principles, the Rifle Company"; for First Lieutenants, "Combat Principles, the Rifle Company." Hold up your chins and push out With such an auspicious beginning, it is not surprising to find him in quest of knowledge matriculated the frozen north. Company THE-IE POLARt BEARH CUB as if actually mobilized to meet a major emergency. Died of disease. nation which was slow in wrath but irresistible in Everything pointed to a vigorous renewal p. m. on the 25th Shegovari was abandoned to the Lt. Birkett 2nd Lieutenant in the latter part of September and minimium loss. Albert G. Goetz Cross of St. George. 0 23 Joel R. Moore administration, marksmanship with the rifle, pistol sufferings were severe. composed of a handful of American sailors from the by two machine guns and a Iewis gun, permitted the the entire force of the Americans formed the assault to the rank of Captain and placed in command of After two Medical Detachment Toulgas. The advance started at 2:00 a. m., and seven hours Lt. Ray E. McAllister Companies "C" and "D," with detachments of Lt. McWallace The river It was early decided that the expedition must work United States. 66 339th Infantry A Message from the by Company "B." you are prepared the regiment will be prepared, likewise, and the Nation will be prepared. Army. our country may be well prepared for the day which Although already cut Kratzer attended the 1923 and 1924 Forces have made.
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