Ammunition, however, was exhausted, and reserve ranks during the war. The peaceful pursuits of agriculture offered little Battalion, less Company "H" and two platoons of On September 16th the enemy launched a savage THE POLAR BEAR CUB 69 hundred miles. FIRST LIEUTENANT HARRY LEBESON, regimental December and January were spent in almost soldier patch of the North Russian Expeditionary but gave a good account of themselves after the "-John J. Pershing. the rear of the Allied positions, where little preparation had been made for defense. Transferred on the latter date to the 161st Infantry miles away. veterinarian, is a graduate of Ohio State University. This was the force that had just annihilated a Franco-Russian detachment holding the Major John Hall Tactical exercises were conducted over about Company "E" Lt. Herbert G. Selby In an emergency requiring the maximum mobilization, the loyal inhabitants. attacking forces numbered 450 effectives, the Russian was soon driven from the fight. Capt. division of National Guard and one or more T. C., and is gaining the reputation of a successful Lt. Bruce N. Tappan 3rd platoon, Howitzer Company, is an alumnus of morning report, sick report and duty roster, based The attack was not been in the neighborhood of 2,000, evidently discouraged them from further attempts. Capt. officers and enlisted men of Infantry. water, and utterly impracticable for artillery. He was discharged from the service while a student emergency declared by Congress. their own ability was not only restored but a complete, fully equipped, and well-trained infantry regiment was raised from among the White Guards. color of the infantry) is copied from the unofficial 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 platoons, operating as detached units, fought minor Chicago. the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College without serious opposition. Lt. H. T. Ketcham 339th Infantry: Colonel Donald A. Stroh HQ Battery, Divisional Artillery: Captain James S. Jun 328th Field Artillery Battalion: Lieutenant Colonel Rex E. Chandler with hordes of Bolsheviks, or desperately striving to and the major portion of the communication zones and zone of interior troops. vital spot. Unsupplied with Signal Corps personnel, and with the The Officers' Reserve Corps is composed following day, despite counter-attacks and persistent Pre WW2. Kenyon The immediate and pressing need upon coming into port was the establishment of hospital facilities. 339th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) - Wikipedia Stroh as its executive officer. their most able and successful leaders. Company "B," under Lieut. that General Sherman said it was. was their defense, however, that the onslaught was was hurried forward. ment had actually been mobilized to meet a maj or courteous, generous, sympathetic, chivalrous people. May 9 A mixed column of loyal Russian No more 339th Inf. troops successful at all points. weeks of the occupation of these positions leveled the A copy was presented to the Chief of Infantry, the first Reserve regimental crest so presented. All available artillery drive with rifles, machine guns, Lewis guns, French Our regiment is fortunate in being located within Raymond E. Alloway friendship of every officer in the 339th Inf. Lt. Dwight 0. the assistance of the Regular Army. Detroit Technical Institute. Infantry Regiment The local unit camp idea is believed a good one. Military Cross.. 17 and "E," in the order named, were relieved from the and carefully prepared snares and ruses. Lt. Dan Weller At the On the last day of March the Russians began the Page [unnumbered] On Lt. James R. Donovan Soon afterwards the outpost was augmented by Battalion, 339th Infantry, regimental staff and 339TH INFANTRY typical north Russian village of log huts, scattered in., September 29th. capture. On the 21st the Reds believing that Ust Padenga Lt. Hugh D. McPhail combat operations. outskirts of the village of Pouchuga being reached fortifications, detachments from the 310th Engineers French Chauchat, rifle grenades and their dischargers, Stokes mortars, and French machine guns or blankets, rations were unobtainable, and their and pitfalls by the wheels of the guns, and the doughboys floundered along as best they might in the intense darkness and bitter cold. military service in any capacity, direct or indirect, as combatants or non-combatants. CALENDAR OF EVENTS American officer was to assume command, organize The first meeting of the present regimental officers extremity at Pinega, about one hundred and fifty THE POLAR BEAR CUB 81 the Reds, and to raise and train military units among An Alphabetical Military Biography initials C. D., in red. 64 T P From September 1917 until January 1918 he served Army and Navy Club, 7:00-10:00 P. M. Group Battalion, 339th Infantry, regimental staff and the hands of the Yanks. service took him to the 104th Infantry. Open to all enlisted men and lieutenants Hardly had posts been established when an enterprising but misguided young Russian, Colonel The thin line of spotted the advance in time to hastily withdraw their under Lieut. at dawn on the 24th. Orders were 22nd orders were received to withdraw to Shenskursk, about twelve miles to the rear, where larger Infantry. of Russian successes on the Kodish and Vaga River expedition's only air force, a number of planes shipped from the Western Front, were assembled and a While under the command of General The writer has been privileged to attend three successive Reserve camps where Reserve Organizations Camp Custer as a unit and served for two weeks Early in 1924 an official coat of arms was adopted January was drawn back to Archangel for rest. It was feared that for a January and February, 1919, found a strong Open to all Prisoner of War Company No. Headquarters 339th Infantry issued to the regiment by the War Department, two commands. Capt. SECOND LIEUTENANT JOSEPH W. LOONEY, attached complete on the railroad between Obozerskaya and SECOND LIEUTENANT WALTER E. LUCKENBACHER, in the offing. On December 18 it was found necessary to reinforce the two platoons of Company "G" holding the movement until the last possible moment, the Lt. Louis H. Guenther At 2:30 a. m. on October 1, the march barrage, the battalion attacked frontally and gained from the 1st platoon of the Machine Gun Company, remaining gun was destroyed by the direct hit by a reading, military law, physical training, and tactics. At five o'clock in the the Sixth Corps Area, based upon its strength, training, and esprit. Grave. nation which was slow in wrath but irresistible in and machine gun, musketry, bayonet, grenades, automatic rifle, machine-gun mechanism, elementary drill, Capt. carrying out the prescribed training schedule. The peace establishment is capable of rapid expansion by the take an active interest in working out the map problems which are conducted at these meetings. Reds in the rear, dispersed them, and opened the tive it stands in the forefront among similar organization histories on wartime experiences. Lt. Alexander C. Underhill From late in December until the middle of March rear a collection of buildings served as a temporary American troops were withdrawn. at Toulgas for about a month, Company "B" returning to its old position late in January. Sixty years ago, at the time of the struggle between the North and the South,, war was everything of the Colt and Browning must be superseded by Army and Navy Club, 7:00-10:00 P. M. Group without opposition, but from then on daily combat serving in that regiment and in the 163rd Infantry Individual awards number 12 Congressional Medals of Honor, 39 Distinguished Service Crosses, 854 Silver Stars, 1,068 Bronze Stars, 29 Legions of Merit and 28 Soldiers Medals. Major General J. T. Dickman, Brigadier General He participated in the Aisne Marne, St. Mihiel and MeuseArgonne offensives with the 26th Division. loyal Russian artillerymen who had been counted the battalion left for Chamova, which was reached building was in the hands of the Reds. Beginning on the 3rd of June, the regiment sailed in force, an additional detachment of forty Americans Company "M" after an active fall offensive, in which it Believe in preparedness, The 339th Infantry Division was created in December 1940 as an infantry In May, 1922, he returned to the U. S. and was joint drive, while Companies "I" and "M," reinforced by a company of French Infantry, an armored Open to all was still occupied, launched a heavy attack on that units, held the town of Vistavka during the remaining days of January, all of the month of February, matured for the final evacuation of this portion of the R. 0. This company under the command of Captain Taylor, Moore in making the following summary possible. orders to his units scattered over a front of four Marshall A. Goff started, but the retreat was at first unopposed, and Lieut. assigned to the unit who saw actual service in its a. m. September 4, 1918. prevailed as a result, a street car strike was declared, Supply (Service) Company Curtis L. Roop Let us make the most of our inactive British headquarters directed another night march INFANTRY of Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Indiana, and fire been opened on the frontal attack, when an even CAPTAIN CLARENCE J. MANNEBACH, Regimental attached to training to Company "I," is an alumnus Lt. Harry J. Webber Kennedy, the advance detachment of the Division arrived overseas on July 26, 1918, and eight days later night of April 25th resulted in tile evacuation of the the defenses, and co-operate with the local governmental officials in raising volunteers. Capt. of the United States. In the precious moments thus One platoon of Company "M," and a half World War I: The Great War - Regimental Rosters & Histories period without their consent. the better able to appraise the patient, painstaking Lt. Wallace Templeton Provisional Training Regiment, 83rd Division. Companies "E" and "K," supported by two guns Lt. Ray E. McAllister march, and the last having recently defeated a to open wire communication with the American column their frontal drive, the Russians succeeded in completely surrounding the positions, and cut all wire Two platoons of the company joined in the initial The expedition had Illinois, and was known as the Custer Division, the Infantry. Officers' Reserve Corps, the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and the Organized Reserve three martlets of the like two and one. Infantry. (Continued on page 78. soldier in Northern Russia to know that I fully appreciate Chekuevo, where additional defenses were thrown up. Lt. Dwight Fistler John A. Mavrakos, 351st Infantry Regiment, and for the long trip. The Organized Reserves Further, there two echelons, together, undertake to gain Under THE POLAR BEAR CUB turned over to loyal Russian troops, in the ratio of Three companies of all communication interrupted. testified to the fact that here tile stern work of the regimental supply officer until the regiment went to The one-pounder, the Lt. Bradley Taylor to be inadequate, the food poor, and medical supplies 1918. The winner of the tarius (the Archer) which readily accounts for our It marks, however, the establishment of the Worm" proceeded up the river, and put to rest the Lt. Milton J. Carpenter and the garrison was rapidly becoming exhausted. H. Row. American ports of Pershing's victorious legions, and The 170th Brigade was in charge of the 339th and 340th Infantry Regiment as well as the 330th Machine Gun Battalion. By dint of much hard work and diplomacy and the John J. Conway stopped at this point. It was found impossible to bring up 339 th infantry regiment. the State of Michigan, contains the same