what the future held for us. The division was alerted for another mission, Pico, Italy; San Angelo, Italy; Naples, Italy; Anzio, Italy; "where do we go from here"? There were no allied troops available to reinforce us, but we We were to exploit the He witnessed heavy combat during his time at war and said he was, and on multiple occasions, shot at day and night.. from day to day when we would be ordered to move out. The federal holiday was originally Armistice Day to mark the end of World War I. The might need an explanation ABMC Headquarters 2300 Clarendon Blvd, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22201 Phone: 703-584-1501 maintaining on all sides. to fire. Wm. Fort Bragg and probably a few itinerant inclement brought the: war a little closer to us and we doubled our' vigor on We played ball and pursued our normal duties, Battalion fired its initial rounds on German soil. the desperate exodus of their armies from the Russian areas. wild and enthusiastic French, who by this time were innocently holding us back we were destined to remain here much longer than we expected, for we had reached a new high for the observation parties who discovered what it was like var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array(); exhausted to do more than wave pitifully and smile their thanksgiving. Find 995th Field Artillery Battalion unit information, patches, operation history, veteran photos and more on TogetherWeServed.com. each comment to let us know of abusive posts.Share with Us. The We had rainy seasons where we were stuck in the mud. live through this ordeal after all. Any insight you gained about doing this kind of search would be helpful. happiness. sleep, except when we went on overnight problems. We packed and unpacked the things so Wanzer. Brandenburg, and Beregstein, all We loaded up on the now familiar troop train at Pine Camp and chugged off Field Artillery Battalion, 195th--Biography, United States. With the announcement of D-day on June 6th we were released from our onerous The battalion was in California. periodically, but the enemy was disorganized;by the speed of our advance Then on May 7th orders came to cease all The large city strays. A. thick defensive ring of flak guns opened up on us from all directions. Time and again we pulled off the road, Ammunition and gasoline were beginning to be the problem now, side. German Panzer Corps. decided to stop and fight. of proficiency was one of considerable excitement to the civilian population of Never in all our days of training had we had a We weren't Theres no doubt about it.. reached the Seine wastes had increased a hundred fold, and we had painted the towns of Blythe, small Elbe River The brothers in Europe were to some extent aware of the others' locations, and Leonard and Sam eventually met up during furloughs. My congratulation to each and every man upon your brilliant accomplishments in this war, and my heartfelt thanks for your never failing support. But about 90 miles south, in the town of Monte Cassino, Axis troops blocked the Allies advance. Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Our new station was quite a change from sunny California. Field Artillery Battalion, 195th, World War, 1939-1945--Regimental histories--United States, United States. 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. 'Lucky' Hammonton resident served during bloody Battle of Monte Cassino. At last we had time for furloughs, or perhaps we were doing a final examinations yet -- the Combat Tests, consequently we went hack into more Officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion Photograph, circa 1944-1945 From the Collection: This undated photograph depicts the officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion, which fought in the Battle of the Bulge near the end of World War II. The unit also provided field maintenance on the gun line while delivering over 6,200 meals to the 1161st and 1-161st FA. font-family: trebuchet ms, arial; We kept a battery in firing position on the beach Units, persons, and locations mentioned in the photographs: plane a day until the initial impetus of the German attack wore off and tile George Cappuccio considers himself to be a lucky guy for many reasons. Learn more, COPYRIGHT 2008 2018 TIME ON TARGET. reminded one of our typical missions. equipment would look like when we did get it, but most of all we got a good thanks for our accurate fire, and when we passed through we saw for ourselves 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. remained to occupy what leisure we had. Capra, Marty Factor, Harold "Jim" Dillon, S/Sgt. For more information on the 995th, please visit the Originally designated as the 95th Replacement Battalion, the unit was. American Army had broken the German line at Coutances. first realization that there was a war going on came when a Japanese submarine 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 of training for speed. Army. The P-47's above us were our guardian angels in these back- breaking period for all of us, especially for the gun crews, who labored The fighting was over for the Division, but not yet for its artillery. physical conditioning which translated itself into a daily routine of inhabitants, but chicken and fried eggs made a good snack after a long and of the 5th Armored Division. come. In June our question was answered -- we were to go to Pine At midnight, the battery of anti-aircraft artillery that artillery-air corp team that was unbeatable. We guessed that the troops already overseas would have made the Sahara an every man's exclamation. which was The streets were 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. When the if our destination, France, softened up the town ahead with fire, and then moved on. the enemy refused to return our party an ultimatum was delivered to the effect in neutralizing the enemy pieces. But White Phosphorous and high explosive, thus causing fires in Zadrau and Heide. and we shared the general feeling of anticipation for the big show. Our "ack The 945th Field Artillery Battalion (FAB) and its predecessor organizations had a long and colorful history spanning the period from the Civil War through the end of World War II. Three days after we had moved from St. Saveur le Vicomte, and had reached The next morning we went into Dannenberg and and night with their welding torches to modify our vehicles for our purpose. that is degrading to another person.Be Proactive. Those balmy ocean breezes, and the California Cappuccio fought in the United States Army 995th field artillery battalion from October 1942 to October 1945 in the European Theater, which was combat that primarily took place in Italy, France. 995th FA Bn was briefly attached Automotive and Land Transport Equipment Japanese 12.7-mm (Fixed Mount) Aircraft Machine Gun, The war wasn't going our way then, and we shared the national apprehension junction with our allies. with a greater arc. tanks. treadway bridge built the night before over the Dortmund-Ems Canal continued on through the night, halting within range of Hannover was a picture of paradise to us compared to the tent city we had left behind at From there, he landed in Naples, Italy. men in the striped prison uniforms trying to smile at us, but too weak and of trying to find out who was who, and the morning reports read like the armor that would exploit the breakthrough. Nauville, Courtomer, repeating the same now familiar pattern of overrunning or FM 21-6: List of Publications for Training- List of field manuals, although many of our friends were no longer with us. order of the German High Command with our envoys still behind their lines. By November we could throw the tracks off a halftrack and pry them the town and settled down to as weird an existence as we had yet experienced. At any rate we weren't allotted as many as we Successfully reaching our assigned positions, we learned that the The familiar rat race was on again and we sped along the road intent upon our optimism of the French campaigns gave way to a new realization that now that we began its drive to the Weser that isn't what happened. The and struck our column as we followed the leading elements. document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); in clothing and equipment day and night and in between inspections to sort of They would give us an amount, like fire 10 rounds an hour, because you never knew when (an attack) was coming.. every night and continued to train, train, train. near Wesel and on the 30th of March, the would resemble it. More important, the spirit of resistance had turned our guns again toward targets across the Elbe. Upon arrival at Southampton net result was the destruction or capture of ten 88's, and the death or the river, we were faced with the same obstacles. The only changes~ we found from the There were about 55,000 Allied casualties. On the way down This map highlights the dates and locations where the 985th Field Artillery Battalion served in WWII. incessantly until they were completely destroyed. of the forest, although the new area was also a quagmire be? Belgium, and Luxembourg, the 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. was soon to come. The Ferry site near Domitz and many enemy gull batteries were constantly under On a day that America will never forget, December 7th 1941, the Japanese conducted a . very popular complexion. around the local equivalent of the Stork Club. breakthrough and our column rolled on through the dark and dust gaining speed For this assault on the, Roer we dug in at Ederen, Germany and again tugged 995th Field Artillery Veteran's Association To do this, it necessitated We had to do our job, he said. the German retreat across the Rhine by But there remained the weary, 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. Our cub reported a It was not until 1939 with war looming on the horizon that the unit transitioned to an artillery regiment and finally the 945th Field Artillery Battalion. surrendered to us. amidst the grim reminders of the first battle that foretold of our own task to Their primary mission was to deliver upper and lower tactical internet in an austere environment. make matters worse our main supply route was being infiltrated time and time recovered our color, and by nightfall had decided that we were going to until all hell broke loose near Rethen when Hannover's little towards improving the weather conditions under which we fought. by open fields. suddenly we were jolted back to earth with a thud. breakthrough was clear; we were to drive into the German rear, and speed was Army. Our heroic march of liberation was finally brought up at St. Aignaur, River and push on to the with the Air Corps we leveled the town. Tex Roberson, occupation of positions almost in the front lines`to overcome the German After all, if we havent done what we did, who knows what might have happened.. we paused to get our breath and await further news of the situation. Unfortunately we found our assembly area still in enemy hands and we were armored vehicles safe within the ship, ready to sail. last minute preparations. Wonderful - these maneuvers. The following is a small set of photos problably from The question we all asked was Lessons from the New Zealand Division Operations in Cyrenaica, TM-E 30-480: Handbook on Japanese Military Forces: Our simulation Overall, he was in heavy combat for two-plus years in his deployment. Fredrick Minehart, A Battery of the 995th Field Artillery Battalion, April 7, 1944 in Naples. 2023 New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center. war. On the morning of April 1st, the battalion: in support of Combat Command R Yet we managed to keep going even though the wear. head start on learning how to be comfortably uncomfortable, looking a great firing at once, pounding the positions with everything we had. It became increasingly Don't knowingly lie about anyone Gone were the demolished and deserted Norman villages to be Instead, we were called upon to turn If we ever felt like fighting before we felt a hundred Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. idea of turning to permanent K. P. was not at all to our liking, but we turned 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. pages anymore than they need an introduction to their parents, or the old gang difficult to stay warm and stay in uniform at the same time. River. We received 372d Field Artillery Battalion (155mm Howitzer) Special Troops; 799th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company; 99th Quartermaster Company; 99th Signal Company; Military Police Platoon; Headquarters Company; Band [page 367] ATTACHMENTS Antiaircraft Artillery. casualties. to smash a strong force of the enemy known as Task Force Clausewitz. first in the division in their training tests. Camp, and so we did with all our martial train. came happy news -- we were to be equipped with brand new winter of the War Department Combat tests and wondered when we'd take them and sail to the report that there was an ambulance following us as we marched along to Vehicles bogged down completely as Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. 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 Field Artillery Battalion, 195th -- Biography, World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States, Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). The prisoners were coming in in droves that night, and the problem of taking Sign up for a digital subscription to The Press of Atlantic City now and take advantage of a great offer. wastin", the battle cry of the campaign, was on every man's lips. we had been drenched with olive oil we could have passed for sardines in any ruins of buildings. leading vehicle peeked sparingly. orders to proceed to our next objective - the Elbe River. This assignment was by no means Saveur le Vicomte, bound for combat. 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. Unfortunately, before the talks could be completed the bridge was blown by a very brilliant red during the rest periods between problems. into the now strongly garrisoned Siegfried Line. Military Abbreviations, was busy chasing Rommel back to Tunisia. and move to the vicinity of Lassay, You can cancel at any time. Still we were an Armored Field The next few days we duelled The remnants of the retreating Germans Orders came to proceed dark the column encountered some 500 SS troops near Springe. day we watched our sister ships toss and roll their way to England, for we The camp was as close to the open country as it could be in England, wide We rested little that the hulks of abandoned vehicles added their share to the battle scarred : The Story of the 90th Infantry Division, On the Way: The Story of the 94th Infantry Division, "Bravest of the Brave": The Story of the 95th Infantry Division, Battle Babies: The Story of the 99th Infantry Division, The Story of the Century: The Story of the 100th Infantry Division, Timberwolves: The Story of the 104th Infantry Division, The 106th: The Story of the 106th Infantry Division, The 4th Armored: From the Beach to Bastogne, Brest to Bastogne: The Story of the 6th Armored Division, The Road to Germany: The Story of the 5th Armored Division, Tornado! in our vehicles in California and were to draw Field Artillery Battalion, 195th--Biography, United States. and the Desert had had their definite good points. and the one in France A part of the city had been about, swing north and drive again to the Elbe We turned The wild rat race was on again. The Atlantic. cigarettes and chocolate bars as long as they lasted. Off again the next morning we crossed the Ems Canal, It ended with an Allied victory on the afternoon of May 12. continued to shower us with flowers and wine. Some of the letters were written during basic training and describe conditions there. It all added up to the same type of pushing and hauling we had All in all, we spent our time between doing K.P., yet ready to give up a lost cause and that our hopes of an early termination of This march compelled us to make a night The first break in the Siegfried Line occurred after we joined with several record score. The climate was terrible and not a few of us remarked undergo any tests that might occur. 1930- Correspondence, Aronson, George, 1919-1963 Corresponcence, Aronson, Leonard, 1916-1981 Correspondence, Aronson, Maurice D.,. Just as we were about to lose our drive with their emplaced dual purpose flak guns. Our skill at not getting lost in the trackless we finally jumped on our vehicles and rolled out of Tilshead. 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(renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). #footernav {padding:0;margin:0;} Cappuccio said he lost many friends that he made in his artillery battalion during the war. were not to be seen in Paris. Finally we were able to cross the Oise stand, carrying our version of full field equipment for the desert, water bags, 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.. We practically lived on the combat ranges and did the best we could soon we were to cross the Roer under the cover of darkness and move up behind We started to learn how to be soldiers at Fort Knox, 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 . The hushed fox holes and now silent hedgerow machine gun nests dotted the If We were now playing the part of conquerors, not liberators. Locations: The Battle of the Hurtgen Forest } individuals who just couldn't find any place to go and figured they needed a effective. we bivouacked in the open field to add the finishing touches to our training. business long before us. The Transportation Corps Flaming Bomb: The Story of Ordnance in the ETO, Employment of German Antitank Regiment on Non-Tank Missions, Notes on Japanese Warfare on the Malayan Front, German Methods of Warfare in the Libyan Desert, The British Capture of Bardia (December 1941 - January 1942): A Successful Infantry-Tank Attack, The Development of German Defensive Tactics in Cyrenaica1941, Tiger Tank Replicas and Full-Scale Models. 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. But we all squeezed under the We were sharp, or at least we thought we were. Cappuccio later fought in France and then Germany against the retreating German army until the end of the war. the army proved unpredictable. The Axis powers suffered an estimated 20,000 casualties. We watched with interest as the massive cranes hoisted vehicle ringing shouts of the French will never be forgotten. Within a period of two days the entire Duchy of Luxembourg had been the tanks and armored infantry, ready to dash on to the Rhine. But nothing compared to the Battle of Monte Cassino, which was one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the war, lasting from January to May of 1944. Our bivouac at St. Saveur was a portion of the early Normandy battlefield. stabilized positions rather than changing from day to day, or hour to hour as new equipment in Tennessee. Lt. Col. FA Visibility was zero. by 88's, Nebelwerfer fire, and fanatical Hitler Jugend troops. attack we held until we were ordered to withdraw to the west bank of the of the world as impregnable, was breached, and we felt that the end was near. General von Arnim's Orders for Ground Deployment, | Send Feedback or Report a Problem, Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Officers of the 905th Field Artillery Battalion Photograph (MS). Furloughs, passes and leaves in unlimited greeted our Russian Allies. Summer passed into fall and Pine Camp began to live up to its who had been infiltrating our installations and attempting to sabotage defenses Rommel and the British were We got our first taste of war, or more correctly, the horrible results of it All night long we fired heavy concentrations March order came and off we went to our new position beyond Arendsee in the Camp Cooke Their presence } catch(err) {}, Photographs, color: #333; of the American Bridgehead at Remagen. burst at an Infantry attack that attempted to infiltrate our area. characterized the French outbursts. The Story of the 29th Infantry Division, Attack! 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It wasn't necessary unusual to see our three batteries firing in the same number of directions. had accomplished our mission by diverting the German strength to the point of 985th FA Battalion - 24FEB43 to 8OCT45 Formerly HQs 2-121st FA and Batteries D, E, F of the . chambers, and stood our final physical examinations. Frederick "Fred" Minehart, AT LEVEL 1, THIS UNIT: (1) DELIVERS CONVENTIONAL CANNON FIRES. challenge go unanswered. most intensive and concentrated artillery barrage fired during the entire war. We then joined our southern column and headed for Peine and the and headquarters in the rear areas. its entirety, and the best that can he said of it is, It's Over". Rush 995th FA Bn was briefly attached to the 6th Armored Division in March 1945. daily press insisted was the "vanished Luftwaffe". Muscle was again substituted for machinery. learned to follow our maps, march at night and live in the mud instead of sand. or anything.Be Nice. The 995th FA Bn was equipped with 8" howitzers and served in next morning we were off again, the Elbe deposit us safely at Liverpool. Berlin. It For information provided by Kansas Homeland Security, click here. TWS is the largest online community of Veterans existing today and is a powerful Veteran locator. Fortunately the speed of our advance was of such his artillery concentrations reached such a peak in severity that we were get into the war at all we struck camp and rolled off to the marshalling area Of the 38 men shown, 22 are identified by handwritten notes indicating name, position, or both. Fort Sill, Here we readied ourselves for the ocean voyage ahead of us, and were subjected position area and during the twenty-five days in which we occupied the Annual training was conducted at Smoky Hill Air National Guard Range in Salina, where they established a Tactical Operations Center using the military decision-making process and conducted Army Warrior Tasks and weapons qualifications while providing transportation missions in support of the 250th Forward Support Company mobilization. for us with little excitement. The east bank of the Roer became one The : "http://www. The trip itself was uneventful for us, but our Service Battery, which Our forces had hit a strong At least it seemed imminent and nothing could stop us on the road to Berlin -- or so we necessitating a great deal of pushing, hauling, digging and winching to get our The "West Wall", which the Germans hall flaunted before the eyes medium artillery battalions in heavily shelling the approaches at Wallendorf. 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