83Rd Infantry Division Spearhead. Vol 2 No 2. February 10, 1945
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Normandy Luenboarg Brittany rmany Loire River rVrdeanes VOL. 2 No. 2 SOMEWHERE IN BELGIUM FEBRUARY lO, 194tt DOUBT DESPAIR DEFEAT! RANKING CORRESPONDENTS COYER 83rd CAMPAIGNS FOR PRESS AND RADIO More tharf a dozen war correspondents representing the press and radio of the United States and Great Britain visited the Division during the Ardennes drive to cut the Houffalize- St. Vith highway. The correspondents, many of 30 Days for whom covered the Division in Normandy, Brittany, along the Loire, and in Germany, wrote Dozen GIs of the heroic action of the doughboys in doing a tough job in bitter cold and deep snow -At Home to smash the German resistance around the two Langlirs and A dozen GIs turned their Blhain to blaze a trail through eyes from the Heinie towards the Bois de Ronce for the Third the "briny" last week as the Armored Division. third group in the Division RADIO COVERAGE finished sweating out furlough Cedric Foster, radio commen• papers granting them a 30-day tator In the States, talking from rest period in the states. dispatches sent from Europe by With thoughts in mind of SHAEF and various wire servi• trading their M-ls for fishing ces, paid high tribute on Jan• rods and surrendering to choc• uary 14 to the 83rd DirisSom. olate malts and frosty beers in which was then pushing to the exchange for the overseas diet south with the 84th Division of K rations and synthetic lemon and the Second and Third Ar• juice, the twelve jackpot win• mored Divisions. ners assembled at the office of Other radio commentators al• IT'S D-DAY for these Nazi dead-end kids waiting the last ride to the 83rd PW cage to the Division Adjutant General so carried the 83rd and the ARMY HOUR devoted time on join thousands of other supermen thrown off the road to glory by Division doughs from to start the first leg of then- its Sunday broadcast of Janua• trip to respective Main Streets Carentan to Duren. Signal Corps photo ry 14 to the doughboys of the in the USA. 83rd fighting around Langlir. GOES TO MOTHER'S SIDE- Associated Press, United Press Via the rotation plan and Veterans of 83 rd and many newspapers including emergency cases verified by the HITLER 70 THOUSAND the New York Times, Boston Red Cross, a T/4 with 41 months Can Now Wear Herald and many Ohio papers overseas credit started home• were among those in the States 3-Star Ribbon. ward- A Pfc was granted leave to SHORT-COURTESY 83rd that carried stories of the gal• ^comfort his seriously ill mother, lant spirit and fighting quali• aM^Sgt. medic, because of two ties of the 83rd doughboys. As badly worried Hitler continued to scrape the bottom of Members of the 83rd Division and one-half years of constant who landed at Omaha Beach to his manpower barrel statistis were quoted this week which foreign service, qualified for the GASK STAYS TWO DAYS- subsequently participate in the joy ride and an engineer private Correspondents that visited show that the 83rd has accounted for the equivalent of fighting south of Carentan to tossed his shovel into the tool the division Included Roland C, the banks of the Roer River in U once invincible Nazi divisions. box after 32 months of tough Gask, Assistant War Editor of Germany are entitled to wear An official total of 37,736 pri• combat work. NEWSWEEK, who spent two three bronze battle participa• can advance. days and a night with the soners of war have been tucked tion stars. Veterans who first HE'LL MARRY THE GIRL. The largest single catch of doughboys of the 329th Infan• away in 83rd PW Cages in Nor• saw action in Normandy, M/Sgt. Chester W. Lloyd, 330th prisoners was taken at Beau- try. His first visit to the Divi• mandy, Brittany, the Loire France between D Day and July regimental medic from Scran- sion was west of Duren in Ger• gency in France on September 24th earned the Initial battle ton, Pa., said that when he gets Valley, Luxembourg, Germany many. Mr. Gask. who recently 17 when 19,692 officers and men participation star by beating home he *s going to marry the and Belgium. An additional 1,449 came from the CBI, believed in back fanatical German SS and girl. She is Mary Louise Smith- have been treated and cleared of the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe writing exactly what he sees para troop resistance to comple• through our medical channels. and Marines surrendered on the (Continued on page 3) and what actually exists. tely undermine the first orga• banks of the Loire River. This BAG 70,000 NAZIS. nized enemy defense plan on ARTICLE IN NEWSWEEK. was not only the largest batch THANKS TO WO'S • It has been estimated that an the Continent. His first story appeared in the of prisoners to be taken by this BATTLE STAR GIVEN. December 25th issue; a later additional 30,000 Germans A COW IS BORN Division in a single operation NEWSWEEK carried the story have been killed or wounded Reinforcements who joined but the largest to be taken of the 83rd in the Ardennes. by 83rd doughs and artillery• the Division after July 24th are Warrant officer Harry Long by any comparable unit during of Wichita, Kansas recently was The ATLANTIC MONTHLY, men since the commitment of given battle participation credit magazine known for the excel• the entire war. for the campaign of Northern the hero of the day and became Ibhe Division in Normandy on the pride of his comrades in the lent quality of its contents, was MAD COLONEL TAKEN- France and are entitled to wear {the 26th of June 320th Infantry. represented by Miss Monica the bronze battle star-for taking In the campaign at St. Malo There was an awful noise is• (Continued on page 3) These combined figures rep• part in the fighting between and Dinard, 13,000 Germans suing from a barn at 2330, so resent approximately 70,000 July 25th and Sept. 17. men or equivalent to seven were herded into the PW cage Mr Long accompanied by War• MATCH THIS ONE {German divisions, knocked including the mad Colonel von CREDIT FOR DUREN. rant Officer Valentine Wunsch Shrapnel comes pretty close out of commission by the 83rd. Aulock who only two days be• The third battle star has of New Jersey decided to inves• to soldiers at the front at fore had proclaimed: *T am a been given for the fighting on tigate- The pair entered the barn times but T'Sgt. Osborne BEST PRISONER HAUL. and found a cow in the throes German soldier and German the "holy soil" of Germany it• Jones of Spartanburg, S- C- self. The date of Sept. 15 marks of giving birth. believes his encounter has no During the Normandy cam• soldiers do not surrender." the start of the campaign within Mr. Long became a veterinary match. In an attack on an paign alone the Division's ad• In addition to accounting for the Reich and no termination by necessity while Mr. Wunsch enemy position, this dough• vance was made into a defense approximately 70,000 German date has yet been set by the illuminated the scene with a boy was caught in a mortar soldiers, a task force partially War Department Personnel of TL-122-B- While the operation barrage. After one burst gone held by 16,000 crack SS was in the initial stages the en• composed of elements of the the Division who took part in struck particularly close he and Paratroops and after the tire Service Company paced the felt a hot pain on his thigh. 83rd assisted in the operations the fighting enroute to Duren barnyard, anxiously awaiting a Nazi withdrawal there were Investigation disclosed a at the peninsular city of Brest are already entitled to wear this report. After awhile the special• left only 3,000 to flee to the battle participation star. ist and his able assistant emerg• piece of flying metal had where 35,000 heinies were cap• ignited a box of matches to Siegfried Line and organize in All three stars are worn on ed from the barn and announc• tured after a three week siege the European Theater of Oper- J ed that big cow and little cow his pocket in. attempt to stem the Ameri• of the seaport fortress, ations campaign ribbon. _ I were doing fine- Pajre 3 83rd SPEARHEAD February 10, IMS. Mona of Antilles 83rd SPEARHEAD SUMP HOLE Published under Supervision of AC of S, G-3 331st Unit Capt. Thomas C. Roberts Public Relations Officer Capt. John C. Neff Editor STAFF: T'4 Albert Gladding, T/4 Alllan Nemrow. Pfc John Maloney, In any kind of profession Pfc. Carl Weber, pfc. Lae Geldhcf. ARTIST: Corp. Nick Firfircs. Cuts SS HUMORIST: Pfc. M. Renek. UNIT REPORTERS: Sgt. Robert Beacham, there are always little symptoms, 329th Infantry; Sgt. Grcver Craw.'ord, 3?61h Infantry; Corp. Jack Straus, which the wise man can see, 331st Infantry; Sgt. Will'mi Sohuman, Divarty. «The Mrd SPEARHEAD is published weekly by the officers and men of th<? 83rd Infantry that will show he's nearing his Division, APO-P3, U. S. Army (c/o Postmaster, New York). News, fea• To Size last mile1. With a boxer it's his tures, art and photograph** material pcc^ptfd frcm m-m^ers of the legs, with a painter it's his division. No payment made. Member of Camp Newspaper Service, td5 Bitter hand-to-hand combat in East 42nd St., New York, N.