US Army Training Center - Yearbook (Fort Dix, NJ)

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walled ciTy oT Zulpich. Then anoTher TesT oT driving power which The division passed successTuIIy-reducTion oT The Ruhr pockeT. In a maTTer oT hours The 9Th moved inTo The line and broke up a maior German aTTempT To break Through The pockeT, which had boTTled up Thousands oT enemy Troops. Digging inTo The area, iT cleared Mechede and Siedleinghausen and wenT on To Take LuTzel. In The closing days OT The war iT worked consTanTIy on The shrinking Ruhr pockeT, IiberaTing 900 slave laborers Trom Tive counTries wiTh The capTure oT Sinn on The Dill River. AT war's end iT was assigned To IngoIsTadT, Germany. HEROES: SfSgT Herschel F. Briles, CoITax, Iowa, was awarded The Medal oT Honor Tor acTion on 20 and 2I No- vember I944, near Scherpenseel, Germany. when he Twice enTered The hulls OT burning Tank desTroyers To rescue Trapped comrades during TighTing in which he capTured 55 German prisoners. 2d LT. John E. BuTTs, BuTTaIo, N. Y., was awarded The Medal of Honor posThumousIy Tor acTion in Normandy in June, I944, when, aIThough painTuIIy wounded, he reTused medical aid and conTinued in acTion wiTh his pIaToon. Wounded on I4 June near Orglandes and again on I6 June, he helped spearhead an aTTack To esTabIish a bridgehead across The Douve River. TfSgT PeTer J. Dalessondro, WaTervlieT, N. Y., was awarded The Medal oT Honor Tor acTion on 22 December I'-744 near KaITerhorberg, Germany, when, risking deaTh. he called Tor a morTar barrage on his open posiTion in order To haIT a German aTTack. PTc Carl V. Sheridan, BaITimore, Md., was awarded The Medal oT Honor posThumousIy Tor acTion near Weis- weiler, Germany, on 26 November I944, when he sTood in poinT-blank range oT Tire pouring Trom enemy deTense posiTions in a casTle and wiTh his bazooka blasTed The gaTe- way across a casTle moaT, enabling his uniT To advance. SgT William L. Nelson, MiddleTown, Del., was awarded The Medal oT Honor posThumousIy Tor acTion on 23 April I943, aT Diebel Dardys, near Sedienane, Tunisia, when he conTinued To direcT Tire on enemy posiTions even Though morTaIIy wounded. SUCCESSIVE DIVISION COMMANDERS: Col. Charles B. FlIioTT, AugusT l940g Brig. Gen. Francis W. HoneycuTT, SepTember I940g Gen. IThen Mai. Gen.I Jacob L. Devers, OcTober I940 To July I94I: Maj. Gen. Rene E. De R. Hoyle, AugusT I94I To July I942g Mai. Gen. ManTon S. Eddy, AugusT I942 To AugusT I944: Mai. Gen. Louis A. Craig. AugusT I944 To May I945g Brig. Gen. Jesse A, Ladd, May I945 To February I946: Mai. Gen. Horace L. McBride, March I946 To daTe oT inacTivaTion, I5 January I947. REACTIVATION DATE: is July 1947. TRAINING: Training, as ouTIined in ATP ZI-I, daTed 6 April I949, is aT The presenT Time in eTTecT Tor all Training companies. AddiTionaI Training includes Band Training, Ad- vance Non-Commissioned OTTicers Course, SpeciaIisT Course, Leaders' Course, Army Supply Course, TypewriTing and Army AdminisTraTion Course and AuTomoTive MainTenance 84 Minor Repair Course. SUCCESSIVE COMMANDING GENERALS: Mai. Gen. William W. Eagles, July I947 To April I948: Mai. Gen. ArThur A. WhiTe, April I948 To SepTember I949q Mai. Gen. John M. Devine, 0cTober I949 To presenT.

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--Ti-K 1 , 9Th TnTanTry Division's combaT ledger. The division wenT inTo acTion 8 November T942 when The 39Th CombaT Team landed aT Algiers while The 47Th CombaT Team was hiTTing The beach aT SaTi, French Morocco, and The 5OTh CombaT Team was hammering aT PorT T.yauTey, Morocco. When hos- TiTiTies ceased in ThaT area, The 9Th was given The iob oT guarding The Spanish Moroccan border. l.aTe in March T943 The 9Th moved inTo acTion again. The 6OTh CombaT Team ToughT aT Maknassy, Tunisia, while The remainder oT The division moved To ET GueTTar and aTTacTced The enemy on The GaTsa-Gabes axis in order To relieve pressure on BriTish Torces To The souTh. Tn The weelcs ThaT Tollowed The division conTinued To drive sTeadily Toward BizerTe, and on 7 May T943 iTs Troops rolled inTo ThaT ciTy To mop up Tinal resisTance in Tunisia. The 9Th drew a combaT assignmenT nexT in Sicily when, on 9 AugusT, iT wenT inTo acTion wesT oT Troina. By T2 AugusT one elemenT had reached FloresTa and anoTher had occupied Randazzo, lceypoinT oT The enemy's lasT deTense beTore Messina. The division remained in posiTion unTiT 20 AugusT when iT was oTTiciaTTy announced ThaT The island oT Sicily was Tree oT The enemy. The 9Th leTT Sicily in November T943, wenT To England To Train Tor The invasion oT France, and landed in Normandy on TO June T944. The 39Th CombaT Team saw acTion TirsT, capTuring Guinneville. Then The di- vision hiT The Germans hard, driving across The Douve River and reaching The easT coasT near ST. T.o, D'Ourville and Barneville early on T7 June. The CoTenTin Peninsula had been cuT OTT Through The 9Th's eTTorTs. WiTh This iob done, The division Turned norTh Toward Cherbourg, seizing OcTeviTTe and capTuring The senior enemy army and navy commander oT The Cherbourg area. By T July The 9Th had cleaned up The Cap de Ta T-Tague. T.aTer ThaT monTh iT spearheaded The ST. T.o brealdhrough and laTer joined in The chase which closed The Falaise Gap. The 9Th swung Toward The easT, across The Seine aT Meluen, pushed norTheasT To The Marne wiThouT opposiTion on 28 AugusT and swepT Through ChaTeau-Thierry The Tollowing day. On 2 SepTember T944 The division laid claim To being The TirsT Allied Torce To begin liberaTion oT Belgium, a uniT enTering ThaT counTry near Momignies. TT pushed on Through Chimay, Couvin, Toward DinanT and The Meuse River. By 5 SepTember The Meuse had been crossed and on T3 SepTem- ber The division moved inTo Germany souTh oT RoeTgen. Tn OcTober The division ToughT iTs way Through SaarTauTern, pressed German Torces baclc in November and in December, was TighTing near Aachen againsT deTermined enemy resisT- ance. During The German winTer oTTensive iT was moved To The Monschau ForesT area where iT relieved The 99Th TnTanTry Division and in biTTer TighTing beaT baclc The enemy's maior eTTorT in The division's secTor. Tn February T945 The 9Th lashed ouT Tiercely aT The enemy norTheasT oT Monschau and capTured Einruhr, Two miles Trom The viTal Roer River Dam. STiTl having To TighT every inch oT The way, iT pushed on To Take Wascheid and Gemund. Tn March T945 iT helped The TsT TnTanTry Division mop up The ciTy oT Bonn, Germany, aTTer having driven TasT and hard inTo The hearT oT Germany. l.aTe in March The 9Th was one oT The TirsT Two divisions TighTing in The Remagen bridgehead area -The TirsT TnTanTry Division To cross The capTured bridge. By The end oT The monTh iT was exTending iTs holdings in The bridgehead area by crossing The Wied River near Hopper. Tn April The 9Th surged Torward again, cuTTing The Cologne- FranTcTorT superhighway aT several poinTs and Taking The

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HE DQUARTIERS COMPANY 9th I AF. DIVISIO Mai Ollie A. Hood Capi' J. C. Sloan Isi' LI Franklin F. Brisiol Is+ L+ Edward A. Devlin Isi' L+ Roberf B. Freeman Isi L+ Carl M. Zilian Mfsgi Waller We-sibroolx MfSg+ Wm. H. Kuchinslci SFC Joseph Krusiclc Sgr Louis F. Biondi Sgi William H. Henon Sgr Wm. H. Higginbo'H'om Sg+ Horacio Lopez MfSg'I' Walfer W. Gilberi' Sgr William E. O'Brien I59 YEARS OF SERVICE Leif Io righf: MfSgI' Walfer J. Wesibroolr, Sg'r Harry S. Benson, MfSg+ Joseph Ayala, MfSg'I' Raymond A. EIIis, MfSg+ James Brady, MfSg'I' James H. LiHIe.