An edition of Lightning, The History Of The 78th Infantry Division (Divisional Series)
(1947)
Lightning, The History Of The 78th Infantry Division
by Division Historical Committee
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
FOREWORD vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
CHAPTER 1: PREPARATION FOR COMBAT 1
The Lightning Division in World War I — Reactivation At Camp Butner — Training Replacements — Carolina and Tennessee Maneuvers — Camp Pickett — Overseas — Bournemouth — France — Belgium — Up to The line!
CHAPTER 2: ATTACK 23
The Jumpoff — Through The Minefields — Rollesbroich — Simmerath — Witzerath — Bickerath — Patrols In The Hurtgen — First Attack On Kesternich — Paratroop Alarms
CHAPTER 3: CRACKING The SIEGFRIED LINE 59
Christmas and New Year's in The Snow — Winter Patrols — The First Reinforcements — Ardennes Offensive — Rescue of Kesternich Survivors — Pillbox Warfare — The Second Attack — Seizure of Kesternich — Lightning's Medal of Honor — Drive To The South — Konzen — Eicherscheid — Dedenborn — Crossing of The Roer — In to Ruhrberg
CHAPTER 4: THE BATTLE FOR THE DAM 93
Attack Plan — Schwammenauel Dam, Key to Allied Crossing of The Roer — Night Attack — Strauch — Steckenborn — Woffelsbach — Barracks Area — Struggle for Schmidt — Kommerscheid — Harscheidt — Hasenfeld — Seizure of The Dam — Engineers Probe for Demolitions
CHAPTER 5: The COLOGNE PLAIN 123
Crossings of The Roer — Heimbach — Blens — Piercing The German Defenses — Vlatten — Sweep Toward The Rhine — Pursuit — Euskirchen — Erft River — South to The Ahr
CHAPTER 6: REMAGEN BRIDGEHEAD 161
First Infantry Battalion across The Rhine — Linz — Dattenberg — Ohlenberg — Kretzhaus — Erpel — Honnef — Night Fighting in The Mountains — Bruchhausen Hovel — Aegidienberg — Slashing The Autobahn — Konigswinter — Into The Rhineland — Hangelar Bruel — To The Sieg
CHAPTER 7: The RUHR POCKET 203
Holding Along The Sieg — Patrols into The Ruhr — Eleven-day Rat Race — Fifty Miles to Wuppertal — Death of an Army — Prisoners — Civilian Chaos — Remscheid — Wuppertal
CHAPTER 8: OCCUPATION 231
Guard — Training for The Pacific — VE and VJ Days — Passes — Furloughs — Points — Occupation — To Berlin
APPENDIX 243
Honor Roll — Awards and Decorations — Order of Battle — Units Attached — Division Command Posts in Germany — Attachments to Higher Headquarters — Cities And Towns Captured
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