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Finalist, 2016 Army Historical Society Distinguished Writing Award.
The 4th Infantry Division has always been there in Americas modern wars. On 14 September 1918 the men of the Ivy Division stood up in their trenches and prepared to attack. It would be one of the first times that American troops would operate autonomously, aside from Anglo-Franco command. They would go over the top on uneven ground to be blown to pieces by German artillery and fall in their hundreds to the spitting of German machine guns, yet nevertheless win the day.
In World War II on D-Day they scrambled ashore across the sands of Utah beach and remained fighting in Europe until Hitler was dead and Germany had surrendered. From the Normandy campaign to the hell of the Hrtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, no other American division suffered more casualties in the European theater than the 4th, and no other division accomplished as much.
In Vietnam they would execute precarious search and destroy missions in dense jungles against a determined and resourceful enemy. They experienced a series of major engagements that would entail 33 consecutive days of vicious, close-quarters combat in the battle of Dak To in 1967. For their actions in Indochina they would receive no less than 11 Medals of Honor.
They fought in Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein, and in May 2009, at the height of Operation Enduring Freedom, the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team deployed to Afghanistan for a 12-month combat mission. They operated in the birthplace of the Taliban along the Arghandab River Valley, west of Kandahar City, a place often ominously referred to as The Heart of Darkness. The 2nd Battalion 12th Infantry Regiment saw heavy combat throughout.
Through firsthand interviews with veterans, across the decades, and the expert analysis of the authors, the role of one of Americas mainstay divisions in its modern conflicts is in these pages illuminated.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface
PART 1: THE GREAT WAR
1 The Ivy men are on the way
2 The Ivy men are here!
3 Baptism on the Aisne-Marne
4 Hell in St. Mihiel
5 The Meuse-Argonne Offensive: Part One
6 The Meuse-Argonne Offensive: Part Two
PART 2: WORLD WAR II
7 Well start the war from right here
8 Artillery flying all directions!
9 Breaking hard
10 No Boche in the building!
11 Maintaining contact
12 The Hrtgen Forest: Into the meat grinder
13 The cold shoulder of the Bulge
14 Seeing it through!
PART 3: THE VIETNAM WAR
15 Making End Term of Service
PART 4: GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
16 Iraq: We Got Saddam!
17 Afghanistan
Epilogue
Bibliography
The 4th Infantry Division has always been there in Americas modern wars. On 14 September 1918 the men of the Ivy Division stood up in their trenches and prepared to attack. It would be one of the first times that American troops would operate autonomously, aside from Anglo-Franco command. They would go over the top on uneven ground to be blown to pieces by German artillery and fall in their hundreds to the spitting of German machine guns, yet nevertheless win the day.
In World War II on D-Day they scrambled ashore across the sands of Utah beach and remained fighting in Europe until Hitler was dead and Germany had surrendered. From the Normandy campaign to the hell of the Hrtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge, no other American division suffered more casualties in the European theater than the 4th, and no other division accomplished as much.
In Vietnam they would execute precarious search and destroy missions in dense jungles against a determined and resourceful enemy. They experienced a series of major engagements that would entail 33 consecutive days of vicious, close-quarters combat in the battle of Dak To in 1967. For their actions in Indochina they would receive no less than 11 Medals of Honor.
They fought in Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein, and in May 2009, at the height of Operation Enduring Freedom, the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team deployed to Afghanistan for a 12-month combat mission. They operated in the birthplace of the Taliban along the Arghandab River Valley, west of Kandahar City, a place often ominously referred to as The Heart of Darkness. The 2nd Battalion 12th Infantry Regiment saw heavy combat throughout.
Through firsthand interviews with veterans, across the decades, and the expert analysis of the authors, the role of one of Americas mainstay divisions in its modern conflicts is in these pages illuminated.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Preface
PART 1: THE GREAT WAR
1 The Ivy men are on the way
2 The Ivy men are here!
3 Baptism on the Aisne-Marne
4 Hell in St. Mihiel
5 The Meuse-Argonne Offensive: Part One
6 The Meuse-Argonne Offensive: Part Two
PART 2: WORLD WAR II
7 Well start the war from right here
8 Artillery flying all directions!
9 Breaking hard
10 No Boche in the building!
11 Maintaining contact
12 The Hrtgen Forest: Into the meat grinder
13 The cold shoulder of the Bulge
14 Seeing it through!
PART 3: THE VIETNAM WAR
15 Making End Term of Service
PART 4: GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR
16 Iraq: We Got Saddam!
17 Afghanistan
Epilogue
Bibliography
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD
The long and proud history of the 4th Infantry Division is unknown by most people. Although it is among the oldest divisions in the American Army, our history has not been as widely reported and followed as that of some divisions.
As we approach the 100th birthday of the 4th Infantry Division (4ID) on December 10, 2017, it is timely that the authors have tackled this project of combining the 4th Infantry Divisions history in five warsWorld War I, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, and the War on Terrorinto one very readable document.
In World War I, the 4ID was the only American division to fight in the French, British, and German sectors. They finished that war with the first five battle streamers on their Colors, along with one recipient of the Medal of Honor.
Reactivated in 1940 as the storm clouds of World War II hung over the globe, the 4ID became an experimental motorized division before being selected as the spearhead division to attack Utah Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Fighting on foot across Europe, five more battle streamers were added to their Colors, along with five Medal of Honor recipients. The 4ID had the distinction of being the first seaborne division to land on D-Day, led the breakout at St. L, and were the first American troops into Paris and onto the soil of the German homeland. They fought for a month in the bloody Hrtgen Forest, held the southern shoulder of the German attack in the Battle of the Bulge, fought back through the Siegfried Line and into the heart of Germany. When the war in Europe was over, the 4ID was sent back to the States to prepare to participate in the invasion of Japan.
When the Russians threatened Europe in what became the Cold War, the 4ID was the first division reactivated and sent back to Germany to stand steadfast against the Russian threat, from 1950 to 1956.
A decade later, in 1966 to 1970, loyal 4ID soldiers fought for four and a half years in the jungles of Vietnams central highlands. They returned to the US having added an additional ten battle streamers to their Colors, along with 17 of their soldiers having earned the Medal of Honor.
The latter years of the 20th century were spent preparing for war against the Soviet Union, once again serving as the experimental division of the Army (Force XXI) where they became the most technologically advanced and lethal division in the world, and prepared to fight any battle they were called on to fightanywhere in the world. In 2003, they were tapped for the invasion of Iraq. They continue to fight in the War on Terror, spending four long tours in Iraq between 2003 and 2011, multiple deployments to Afghanistan from 2009 through the time of the writing of this book (where three 4ID soldiers have earned the Medal of Honor), and have once again picked up the mission of standing against the rising Russian threat in Europe.
It has been a busy and successful hundred years for the 4th Infantry Division. The following pages expand on this brief summaryhistory that has never before been encapsulated as it has in this one book. Fellow veterans and family members of the 4th Infantry Division will swell with pride as they read our history. Others will come to realize that this mighty division, which never sought publicity or glory, has always lived up to our motto in service to our countrySteadfast and Loyal.
Robert O. Babcock
President and Historian
National 4th Infantry Division Association
May 1, 2016
www.4thinfantry.org
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume is dedicated to my wife Freya for her continued support despite all the adversity. Posthumous thanks to my late grandfather Private 4829 Joseph Henry Pumford who fought at Passchendaele in World War One and provided invaluable inspiration for all my early interest in military history. He was promoted to corporal but then demoted for punching out a sergeant. He was unique in managing to terrify both sides in that particular conflict. Also and not forgetting offspring Allycia and Ashley Rae, brother Graham, sisters Sandra and Debbie, brother in law Mark, nephews Ben and Jake and niece Rachel. Not forgetting cousins Alan Pumford, Sue Ellis, Dean Ellis, treasured friends Andy Kirton, Dirk de Groof always there.
Many thanks to Ruth Sheppard, Tara Lichterman and the tremendous staff at Casemate including former editor Steve Smith who always inspired.
Special thanks to my dear friends, Mike Edwards, Mike Collins, Lt. Col. Jason Nulton (retd), Commander Jeffrey Barta (retd) and General Graham Hollands (retd) Betsy Jackson, for their wonderful support and encouragement. Grateful thanks to my dear friend Mr. Roland Gaul at the National Military Museum Diekirch and Helen Patton.
Thank you also to Mrs. Carol Fish and the staff at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Rudy Beckers and Greg Hanlon at Joint Base McGuire, Dix, Lakehurst for their wonderful ongoing support. Joseph Schram at the American Legion Flanders. Many thanks to Doug McCabe former curator of the Cornelius Ryan Collection Ohio University, my friends Brian Dick, Jerome Sheridan, Julia and Dale Dye, Ken Johnson, veteran John Schaffner and Madam Ambassador Denise Campbell Bauer.
Martin King
I would like to dedicate this book to my son, Daniel Edward, who is always smiling and making me realize how precious life is every single day. Thank you my co-authors Martin King and Lt. Col. Jason Nulton for your support and hard work. To my parents, John and Joanne Collins for your continued support in this wild ride of research, my brothers John and Chris, my sisters-in-law Melissa and Maria, nieces and nephew, Morgan, Katie, Keira, Margo and Henry. To the King and Nulton families, for their support and understanding during the writing of this book. My friends Michael Aliotta, Christopher Begley, Howard Liddic, John Vallely, Sean Conley, Christian Pettinger, Dirk De Groof, Rudy Aerts, and all those who support me during my many travels. To Kathleen Reilly and Ann-Marie Harris and the staff in the Local History Department at the Berkshire Athenaeum who continue to support and teach me about research. I would also like to thank Robert Babcock for his help with this book. Thank you to the staff at Casemate and editor Ruth Sheppard for your continued professional work and help throughout the publishing process. Finally to the members of the 4th Infantry Division, both past, present, and future, thank you for your service over the last 100 years, and continue to be steadfast and loyal.
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