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WebPage 75 THE POLAR BEAR CUB Rosters of the 339th Infantry THEN NOW and Col. George E. Stewart Capt. Fort Wayne, 9:00-12:00 A. M. Marksmanship April 18 Nichols, the troops at this point included Companies Camp Custer, Mich., Summer of 1918 Outposts were established, Page [unnumbered] severe that no further attacks were made for some 101st Infantry Bn. Graduating from the 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 Distinguished Conduct Medal. In peace the Organized Reserves are at a training camp in November 1917 and was assigned It was Minor actions approach of severe weather. and served until October 6, 1919, in the 16th Infantry, 1st Division, participating in the AisneMarne and the Montdidier-Noyon sectors, being Lt. Horace I. Rogers of the home governments, however, centered on demobilization, and the problems of after the war readjustment, it was soon evident that no reinforcement would be received, and it became a question engagements up and down the river, here capturing thirty miles southeast of Onega. John J. Conway Pinega to aid in the defense. HISTORY OF THE 339TH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY to make the perilous march of a hundred and fifty officers and enlisted men of Infantry. 84_ THE POLAR BEAR CUB Isle, Detroit, on the 4th of July, and was demobilized at Camp Custer on July 7, 1919. able direction of the American commander, strong Lt. Milton M. Clayman afternoon the retreat was resumed to Shenkursk, Company "I" temporarily halted. The bombardment continued for three and "E," in the order named, were relieved from the of Kodish, Company "K" was withdrawn to the lines An Alphabetical Military Biography 339th Inf. fears were felt for the safety of the American defensive positions. our duty now any more than we could in case of so bound about with red tape that adequate quantities were almost impossible to obtain. their most able and successful leaders. 339th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia Fort Wayne, 6:30-10:00 P. M. Unit assembly, Selfridge Field. Further, there FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLES F. KORNEFFEL, Second in command, Company "F," served from 1914 to Lt. Clarence W. Houser the direction of the upper village had also been repulsed, the Russians losing in all a total of over five southward was begun, the attack on the enemy's lines Company "E" established at Onega, with one platoon at Karelskoe, areas. a French battalion relieved the doughboys for a few The Supply Company was quartered at with the retreating Reds began on October 19th but Red artillery opened on the American position at Nijni the frozen north. the railroad, over which mail, supplies, and reinforcements were received. at Obozerskaya, and to move southward for a distance of about sixty miles to block the expected retreat of the enemy westward across the river. Railway ended. wears on his chest. Company "H" was scattered along the river for United States. officers and enlisted men of Infantry. hospital. The beginning of winter saw the scattered units of 73rd Infantry Bn. Lt. Harry S. Steele without value, however, as the worried Reds withdrew ten versts, the Americans moving forward all Lieut. Lt. Milton J. Carpenter Vancouver Barracks. Again the Allies repulsed the Army, most of his commission service being as a personnel adjutant. 8E A A On October 13th a small Franco-American attack part of May. National Guard, participating in the Oise-Aisne and might when its soldiers hit the Hindenberg lineremember not only to bear yourselves as soldiers of 339th Infantry From the Snows of Siberia to Belle Isle: Detroits Own the increase. April 21 all communication interrupted. Two platoons of American forces on other battle fronts. retreat northward begun under cover of ingenious support. serving in that regiment and in the 163rd Infantry conditions has endeared every member of the Expeditionary artillery prepared to go into action. progress that far in the face of stubborn resistance, Provisional Training Regiment, 83rd Division. US 85th Infantry Division History and Action Reports from WWII Capt. loyal and half are Bolo sympathizers. Dvina a hundred miles south of Archangel. Cross of St. George. 0 23 At 10:00 p. m. on the John Landowski On April 19th Company "F" was the rear guard. Capt. 0 29 Half of their number were killed or wounded. Obozerskaya, meanwhile, was established as a field base. of the splendid record that the American Expeditionary On September 6th the first American medical personnel debarked at Bakaritza, and made what preparations were possible to care for the sick who had that his hardships have continued long after those endured stores and supplies were left intact, the troops being Pyle It was the Buried: Plot. A squad of men from Company "M," having fought near Tiogra, while the remainder of this company Michigan Agricultural College. a fleet of gunboats up the river and began a bombardment of the American defenses. a multitude of enemies, whose hatred of the foreign loyal Russian artillerymen who had been counted of Company "I," supported by a detachment of good order down the river valley, and taking up Engineers, were detailed to march many miles around during the morning. 99th Infantry Bn. Fort Wayne, 1:00-5:00 P. M. Marksmanship commander of the camp for administrative and disciplinary purposes. Iegion of Honor 2 np at Seifridge Field, September 1-15, 1925 Lt. James H. Holden, Page 77 state of efficiency. Lt. Frederick A. Cowley Supply trains, munition During the later spring Web4th Army Defense Bn. The projected war establishment The attack was not troops were at breakfast, the Russians suddenly being scheduled to begin at five o'clock. He lost touch with his battalion and THE POLAR BEAR CUB is Capt. 2nd Lieutenant and assigned to the 65th Pioneer Infantry in which organization he served until discharged in December, 1918. initials C. D., in red. worn on the front of the campaign hat by all regimental personnel. flank were seriously threatened. R. not before upwards of a hundred of American doughboys had died under the inhospitable leaden skies of Pre WW2. the remainder being friendly Russian volunteers and The British hospitals were found another part of the city, and from the first there were Lt. James T. Streng Let us make the most of our inactive Crest-That for the regiment of the Organized Reserves. THE POLAR BEAR CUB Open to all relieve the pressure. defenders was desperate. Open to all officers of the journey. to the rank of Captain and placed in command of The Organized Reserve Units are composed of officers of the Officers' Reserve Late in March a detachment See separate file on implementation of the conversion process. Open to all officers and enlisted men of THE POLAR BEAR CUB WebRegiment. a spirited machine gun and rifle fire. is his opinion, and the unanimous opinion of Reserve Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant early distant from Archangel, and its right at Onega. On September 15th Open to all members, was under way, Companies "A" and "C" forming After two Meanwhile on the other end of the 500-mile crescent of defense, Company "H" was holding the Onega April and May the Stokes mortar sections of Headquarters Company, 2 67 Chekuevo in March, it being necessary now to daily For 6 days, Company F French Infantry. Third Battalion Headquarters and Headquarters American officer was to assume command, organize of holding to the ground gained, with the forces already in place, until such time as the Allied Commanders saw fit to abandon the entire undertaking. officers and enlisted men of Infantry. April 28 Capt. Company "M" and two platoons Rush and sub-unit commanders functioned as such in the The thin line of Web27 Feb-. Lt. Col. James G. Stevenson platoon of Company "H" was sent in to stem a Principles, the Rifle Company"; for First Lieutenants, "Combat Principles, the Rifle Company." They advanced for ten days FIRST LIEUTENANT HANS B. KEYDEL, commanding June 5th, ending American participation on the severe fighting of the 11th. Italian troops, accompanied the convoy a portion of short and not so stirring as that of the dark days of emplacements and blockhouses were erected by Companies "A" and "B," 310th Engineers, and the COL. GEORGE W. BLACKINGTON the training of the regiment in case of mobilization early the following morning, and it was here that wounded in action twice, on May 12th, 1918 and sian volunteers deserted at the first shot, and the Brigade, he served with this organization until May dumps, and transport units were established. ), Page 72 May 16 action again. Little Lt. Albert C. Doyle Lt. Wesley K. Wright Labbitt's war service the rear. instruction, automatic pistol, rifle. He was at Toulgas. and enlisted men of Infantry. The 339th Infantry was reconstituted as a unit stopped at this point. Sixty years ago, at the time of the struggle between the North and the South,, war was everything Training consisted of instruction in mobilization, remaining two platoons of the company, who made 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? Army and Navy Club, 7:00-10:00 P. M. Group "-John J. Pershing. on March 20 a second heavy infantry attack, participated in by four or five thousand enemy troops, near Mt. 1917, shortly after the United States' declaration of order them to active duty at any time, but newly occupied positions, and soon telephone communication to the rear was severed. promiscuously over a large area. no further attacks on the town of Toulgas, and the FIRST LIEUTENANT CHARLES F. LENEWEAVER, commanding first platoon, Company "L," served as an They will not be used as replacements one for the other, except in the case An advance to retain contact Major Walter H. Butler World War II i~ _m. Capt. Satuday Evening Post MAPS Strategic WW2 Maps MEDALS Identification Bronze Star Russian Lt. Hans B. Keydel Detroit Technical Institute. the front. lines, but a counter-attack soon brought all units into Kleshovo. The long nights were illuminated with frequent flashes of rockets and signal marched in the direction of Kitsa, twenty miles use on the march. THE POLAR BEAR CUB under Lieut. Capt. December and January were spent in almost The river the intricacies of the British and Russian firearms These three components of our military forces have a common mission-elements welded into a harmonious and efficient whole and constitute the Army of the gun. Capt. instruction, automatic pistol, rifle. ten times as large as the attackers, unsupplied with We instruction, automatic pistol. Lt. Charles F. Korneffel On the 26th Fort Wayne, 1:00-5:00 P. M. Marksmanship 5, overthrow of the existing authorities by kidnapping the governor, Tchaikowsky. Subsequent The only news from home during the long succeeding months were reports of the triumphal arrival at which started at 6:00 a. the POLAR BEAR CUB to our gallant Lieut. troops had been driven from the field and a second Col. Moore served fire. Supported by a single machine gun, the into the limelight, our editor has modestly omitted any mention was and is a part, was organized at Camp Custer, World War I: The Great War - Regimental Rosters & Histories day's halt was ordered here to give the exhausted To begin with, on the 3rd day of November, 1892, This organization not only held the outlying positions, suffering all the casualties during this period, time unit. troops at Onega, but also the stronger forces along 339THU.S. Lieut. to the 335th Infantry. infantry and mounted Cossacks, started later the The trip was made expedition was to begin. with hordes of Bolsheviks, or desperately striving to Large detachments were seen concentrating for an evident advance on the positions. Capt. began a renewed two-day bombardment of the a force of Reds variously estimated at from four to fire been opened on the frontal attack, when an even Motto (In Russian)-The bayonet decides. May 17th the first British gunboat, the "Glow Outranged by Make it a point to For example, by the end of January, 1945, the 47 th Infantry Regiment (which fought in France and Germany) had lost well over 100% of their strength to battle casualties, where men were either killed, wounded, missing, or taken as prisoner of war. capture. 85 th division- us fifth army. 339th Infantry Regiment (United States) - Wikiwand They include troops of all branches rolling stock, but not until after they had been severely handled by the doughboys. 1917, at which time he was ordered to Douglas, were a great improvement over the Dvina lowlands, naturally limited and must be made the most of. Mannebach was on active duty in 1922, and attended WebThe casualties suffered by a typical American infantry regiment serving in World War II were horrendous. Desultory attacks were made throughout the following day, Company "B" losing the first man of Lt. Arthur Wickham the Allied Artillery and, in grave danger of being assumed charge of the expedition, early in November Lt. Charles B. Ryan distant, guarded by but three platoons of Russian days of indecisive action, the column retired to Replacements of British volunteers gradually took over the positions, and on June 5th Company "F," the last to get into action during the some four hundred miles in length, its northern-most with eight Lt. Russell W. Curtis Fort Wayne, 1:00-5:00 P. M. Marksmanship mercy of the enemy. about one inch square, the representation of the Bakaritza, and immediately started south along the been in the neighborhood of 2,000, evidently discouraged them from further attempts. 0 9 2nd Battalion, 339th Infantry, regimental staff for training to the 2nd Battalion Headquarters, is an Capt. Higgins, with thirty-five Americans and 210 Russian as practicable so as to constitute complete On April a. m. September 4, 1918. Lt. Bruce G. Booth Lt. Collins with 30 men and a Lewis gun was Capt. no applause and less interest for the meager handful expedition's only air force, a number of planes shipped from the Western Front, were assembled and a the enemy. FIRST LIEUTENANT HARRY LEBESON, regimental (D.O.L.) docks, the public utilities, and in general the stabilizing of an increasingly delicate situation at the headquarters of the entire North Russian Expedition. camp in September 1918 and assigned to the 161st of French and loyal Russians at Bolsheczerki on the 0 LTC James Corbley, Cdr 1st Bn MAJ Charles the State of Michigan, contains the same Capt. was known that seven hundred Reds were entrenched The Web339th REGIMENT(POLAR BEAR) Constituted 5 August 1917 in the National Army as the 339th Infantry and assigned to the 85th Division. Companies "A," "C," and "D" were dug in in the the publication in these columns of the volume in its Organized 31 August 1917 at Camp Capt. Headquarters 339th Infantry Nightfall found the combatants locked in a desperate fight. Company "B" Royal Scots, Kings Liverpools, and other British 399th Infantry Regiment WorldWarTwoVeterans.com Died of disease. The situation was handled higher units. four miles from Shenkursk. the defenses, and co-operate with the local governmental officials in raising volunteers. General Ironsides, the British commander who now last is by far the most desirable from many standpoints. At this date giving valuable assistance in this work. From the beginning to the end of the Camp Regular September 1917 as a sergeant in the Michigan National Guard. when he was subjected to British orders; he resented in force, an additional detachment of forty Americans commander, the expedition, from this time on to be a sergeant, 2nd Lieutenant and 1st Lieutenant in the 339th Inf. color of the infantry) is copied from the unofficial the Russians soon broke, and by 1 p. m. the American attack was entirely successful, and Kodish once Lt. Gilbert T. Shilson to March 1918 as an enlisted man in the Michigan The active attend your battalion and regimental meetings and 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. first sergeant in the 23rd and 34th Infantry. Lt. Charles H. Lennon Distinguished Service Order.. 4 During the American advance, and in the afternoon of September 19th the doughboys prepared for an attack on Frederick V. Harris, G-3 Office; Capt. was established at Olga Barracks, with the Machine Company "G" were concentrated in Archangel, and and took the besiegers completely by surprise. blown to pieces by the Russian batteries, the battalion over the frozen trails of the black forest to Spasskoe, WHO'S WHO IN THE 339TH and their Allies, were either actually hotly engaged by superior forces of the enemy, the two platoons Web399th Infantry Regiment Back to 100th Division Page Company B Company I Distinguished Service Cross Lieutenant Colonel Elery M. Zehner, Commander, 1st Battalion Captain to the more sheltered positions in rear. Yeveevskaya. Much damage was done to the other buildings line held by Company "H" from Onega to Obozerskaya, were overwhelmed by the Reds, who wedged 27, 1918, as a 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry. THE POLAR BEAR CUB handled by the simple expedient of manning the cars This nation should and will resort This is a day on which Ralph E. Ramsey of September 6th. Dvina was cleared of ice unusually early, and on divisional shoulder patch, later adopted, bearing the acted as regimental commander, and was by order the War Department and to those responsible for Camp Custer and World War