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Letter from General Terry Allen - 23 April 1945 S1, I2 - Notes |
Camp Adair - Home of the 104th Inf Div and the 413th Seagull Regiment [S5, p 17] |
Summer 1942 - Activation of 104th Inf Div [S5, p 17] |
Links |
https://www.timberwolf104inf.org/index.html (Old website: www.104infdiv.org no longer works) |
104th Infantry Division Organizational History - https://www.history.army.mil/documents/eto-ob/104id-eto.htm (accessed 9 Apr 2024) |
Wikipedia Article |
Google Web Search "104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division" |
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Google Image Search "104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division" |
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Testimony (Zundert-Holland October 1944 |
Major Dates - Training Camps List - Battlefields - Units Lists - Div Command Posts List - Re-deployment home |
Key Timberwolf Dates |
Timberwolves - The Story of the 104th Infantry Division - Booklet Text |
104th Infantry Division - World War II 1941-1945 |
War Stories Archives - 104th Div |
Honoring the 104th Army Infantry Division of WW II |
Timberwolf Artifacts: Comments by/about 104th Div, - Page 1 Page 2 |
European Maps (2 maps) - |
General Terry Allen |
104th Division (Institutional Training) Timberwolf Division (Some history of the Division given) |
John H. Gallagher, Sr Collection 1951-1973 - Oregon State University This collection consists of photographs of Camp Adair; engineering reports (with photographs) about Camp Adair, Camp White (Medford, Oregon), the Corvallis Airport, and McNary Field (Salem, Oregon); and property appraisals of two Corvallis Sand and Gravel Company sites. Link |
104th Division (Training) Heraldic Items (Includes a 104th Div Bibliography) - |
Terry Allen Papers - University of Texas at El Paso - Includes biography .pdf |
TIMBERWOLF ARTIFACTS- COMMENTS BY/ABOUT 104TH DIVISION
TIMBERWOLVES. . -- Author: rmcagg@ptd.net |
Faces Beyond the Graves - 104th Infantry Division, World War II |
Order of Battle: 104th Infantry Division (Timberwolf)
S8 p 261, S9, 413th Infantry Regiment 414th Infantry Regiment 415th Infantry Regiment 104th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized) 329th Engineer Combat Battalion 329th Medical Battalion Divisional artillery (3 x 105mm, 1 x 155mm battalions) Special Troops (Quartermaster, signal, et cetera) Armored attachments: 750th Tank Battalion, 692d Tank Destroyer Batttalion |
Operations of the Timberwolf Division in Europe - Sept 44 - May 45 (Poster) - S13, |
National Timberwolf Pups Association Vets, Family & Friends of the 104th Infantry Division WW2 1749 9th Avenut San Francisco, CA 94122 https://www.timberwolf104inf.org/index.html |
Timeline | |
Yellow Background relates directly to Walter C. Robbins | |
31 July 1942 | The first officer assigned to the Division to report to Camp Adair was Capt. Clyde L. Pennington, Division Automotive Officer. The first enlisted man to report was S/S William E. Allen. S4, |
7 Aug 1942 | Major General Gilbert R. Cook opened his headquarters as commanding general of the Division at Camp Adair, Oregon. The strength report for August shows a total of 31 officers and 8 enlisted men. S4, |
15 Sept 1942 | The 104th Infantry Division formally activated with ceremonies at Camp Adair, Oregon. At 1000 hours, the 684 officers and 1,435 enlisted men, then in the division, marched to the central parade grounds, and stood at attention before the speakers platform - - As the first notes of a bugle sounded the Division Commander's party reached the platform and the troops in the field came to attention. - - Lt. Col. Frank Worthington, Division Chaplain, pronounced the invocation and Lt. Col. A.M. Button read the orders of activation S2, S3, S4, [S6] |
14 Dec 1942 | Basic training for the newly arrived recruits started and the soldiers soon learned why natives along the Willamette Valley hibernated each winter. The strength report showed a total of 819 officers and 15,112 enlisted men S2, S4, |
13 March 1943 | Basic Training ended S4, |
6-7 Aug 1943 | The division moved out of Camp Adair to the Oregon desert in the vicinity of Sisters-Bend, Oregon. The strength report showed a total of 934 officers, 38 warrant officers, and 10,713 enlisted men. S4, |
August to November 1943 | Oregon Maneuvers S2, |
August 1943 | To Bend, OR Maneuver Area S3, |
15 October 1943 | Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen assumed command of the 104th Inf Div. S3, S4, |
November 1943 to March 1944 | California-Arizona Maneuvers S2, S3, [S6, p 1] |
7 Nov 1943 | The Division moved by train from Bend, Oregon, to Camp Hyder, Arizona in the California-Arizona maneuver area S2, S4, [S6], |
29 Nov 1943 | The Division moved to Camp Horn, Arizona (6 miles to the west) S2, S4, |
4 March 1944 | Camp Granite, California S2, S4, [ |
9 February 1944 | To Yuma, AZ - more desert training - The arduous training in the Camp Horn area was completed and the Division moved northwest of Yuma for Corps maneuvers S3, S4, |
1944, March | To Camp Granite, CA S3, [S6] |
March-August 1944 | Camp Carson, Colorado: Additional
training S2, S3, [S6,
p 1] continued combat training. Night operation, weapon proficiency, reconnaissance,rapid maneuver, combat exercises, and battle teamwork were specially emphasized. [S6, p 1] |
15 March 1944 | Camp Carson S2, S4, |
June 1944 | Infantry Day - 15,000 men in review S3, |
16 July 1944 | Lt. Col. Wm. Summers, 3rd Bn, 413th Inf., received the following directive, "Stop your problem and move your troops to the barracks at once, the Division has been alerted for movement overseas." S4, |
10 August 1944 | Advance party left Camp Carson S2, S4, |
17 August 1944 | Advance party sailed for Europe from New York aboard SS Ile de France - Landed in Greenoch, Scotland S2, S4, |
15 & 17 August | The remainder of the Division, in 24 trains, moved out of Camp Carson, closing on camp Kilmer, NJ on 20 Aug. S2, S4, |
20 August 1944 | Camp Kilmer, New Jersey S2, |
25-26 Aug 1944 | The Division filed into coaches at Camp Kilmer and rode to New York harbor. Marching onto ferry boats, the men heavily loaded, rode silently to the piers. S4, |
27 Aug 1944 | Embarked for Overseas from New York aboard USS LeJeune, USS George Washington, USAT Cristobal and USS Ocean Mail (The Largest convoy of WWII and the first to proceed directly from the US to France) S2, S4, |
7 September 1944 |
We passed Portland Cape,
England, on Monday night and woke up in the harbor of Cherbourg on Tuesday
morning, 7 Sept. (Our 415th Regiment, aboard the U.S.A.T Cristobal,
landed on the famous Utah Beach)
S2, S3, S4, - Valognes, France - Manche Region S2, - Landed in Cherbourg, France - The firs American division to go directly from the states to France. [S6, p 2] |
7 Oct 1944 | At 1030 Division Headquarters received the following warning order from III Corps: "Be prepared to move the Division by rail and motor forward on or about 15 October." S4, |
10 Oct 1944 | Barneville, France - Manche Region S2, |
14 Oct 1944 | At 0600 the advance party composed of officers and men from all Division units, moved out and the Division was informed that it would move to the vicinity of Vilvorde, Belgium, north of Brussels S4, |
15-16 Oct 1944 |
6,523 troops of the 413th,
414th, 415th & Div Special Troops boarded dilapidated "40 & 8" freight cars at
La Haye du Puits. S4, - Attached to I British Corps, to free the Port of Antwerp [S6, p 2] |
16 Oct 1944 | Brig. Gen. Bryant E. Moore, Assistant Div. Commander, and the Division G-3 reported to Headquarters, First Canadian Army at Antwerp. S4, |
18 Oct 1944 | At 1750 the Division was informed by SHAEF that the 692nd Tank Destroyer Battalion, 555th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons (Mobile) Battalion and the 750th Tank Battalion were attached to the Division S4, |
20 Oct 1944 | Malines, Belgium - Brabant Region S2, |
22 Oct 1944 | The I British Corps directed that the 104th Inf Div relieve the 49th Inf Division (British) during the period 23-25 Oct. S4, |
22 Oct 1944 | Westmalle, Belgium - Antwerp Region S2, |
23 Oct 1944 | 5 May 1945 - Combat Service (195 consecutive days) - (Reportedly more consecutive days of combat thatn any other division in the ETO) S2, |
23 Oct 1944 | In the early hours, Regimental Combat Team 413 [th Inf Reg] moved from its bivouac area completing the relief of the 56th Brigade (British) at 1700 S4, |
23 Oct 1944 | Entered combat at Wuustwezel,
Belgium S2, - First Battle [S6, p 2] |
23 Oct - 8 Nov 1944 | Holland - Battle of the Dykes S2, |
25 Oct 1944 | Oostmalle, Belgium - Antwerp Region S2, |
25 Oct 1944 | At 1030 0n 25 Oct a patrol of Company E, 414th Inf Regt gained contact with the enemy in the vicinity of the Custom House on the Wuustwezel-Breda highway just north of the Holland frontier. S4, |
October 1944 | To Belgium S3, |
Oct-Nov 1944 | "Move To Germany" S14, Page 12 |
November 1944 | To Germany S3, |
1 Nov 1944 | Ruephen, Netherlands - North Brabant Region S2, |
2 Nov 1944 | Crossed the Mark River at Standaarbuiten, Holland [S6, p 2, 3] |
3 Nov 1944 | Hoeven, Netherlands - North Brabant Region S2, |
5 Nov 1944 | The 104th Div Headquarters received a TWX from Headquarters First United States Army, directing it to move to the vicinity of Aachen, Germany S4, |
7 Nov 1944 | Grenhof, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, |
7 Nov 1944 | At 0100 tactical reconnaissance parties from all units left for Germany. By 2200 the Division (less the 414th) closed in its assembly area south of Aachen, Germany S4, |
8 Nov 1944 | The 1600 relief of the 16th Inf (1st Inf Div) began by the 415th and completed by 0025 9 Nov. S4, [S6, p 3, 4] |
9 Nov - 14 Dec 1944 | Beyond the
Seigfried Line (Aachen to the Roer River) Ordered to clear the west bank of the Inde River (a small tributary of the Roer River) - S2, S8 p103, [S6, p 3] |
10 Nov 1944 | Brand, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, |
10 Nov 1944 | Shortly before noon General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander of all Allied Forces in the European Theater, General Omar Bradley, Commander Twelfth Army Group, and Lt General J. Lawton Collins, Commander of the VII Corps, called on the Division Commander at Grenzhof, Germany. S4, |
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16 Nov 1944 | At 0325 the G-3 at Division Headquarters received the following message from VII Corps: "This is D-Day, H-Hour is at 1245" (Operation Queen). S4, |
24 Nov 1944 | Eschweiler, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, |
28 Nov 1944 | The attack of the 413th Inf againstt Inden, Germany (Walt was wounded] [S6, p 5] |
12 Dec 1944 | Weisweiler, Germany - Rhineland Region |
6 February 1945 | The Division was directed to prepare plans for the crossing of the Roer River. S3, S4, |
23 Feb 1945 | 7 March 1945 Objective Cologne (Roer River to Rhine River) S2, |
23 Feb 1945 | At 0245 in the black of the night, the Roer River line burst into a ball of fire - the thunderous battle flamed along a 22 mile front. At 0330 the barrages shifted to the east and the Timberwolves commenced crossing the flooded Roer (Operation Grenade). S4, |
24 Feb 1945 | Langerwehe, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, |
25 Feb 1945 | Duren, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, |
27 Feb 1945 | Buir, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, |
March 1945 | Crossed Rhine River S3, |
3 March 1945 | Sindorf, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, |
5 March 1945 | Brauweiler, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, |
5 March 1945 | At 0923 the Timberwolves drove into Cologne and by 2100 four battalions had a firm grip on the great industrial center ("the third largest rubble pile in Germany"). S4, |
8 March 1945 | Cologne, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, [S6, p 8] |
9 March - 1 April 1945 | Encirclement of the Ruhr (Remagen to Lippstadt) S2, [S6, p 8] |
21 March 1945 | The Division was directed by VII Corps to move to the Remagen bridgehead in the vicinity of Honnef S4, |
22 March 1945 | Honnef, Germany - Rhineland Region S2, |
25 March 1945 |
Herborn, Germany - Hessen-Nassau Region S2, -The 3rd Armored Division, with the 414th attached was directed to pass through the 1st Div & the 104th at 0400 to seize Altenkirchen, 25 miles to the east, and to be prepared to continue its advance to the Dill River S4, |
26 March 1945 | Flammersfeld, Germany - Hessen-Nassau Region S2, |
27 March 1945 | Hachenburg, Germany - Hessen-Nassau Region S2, |
28 March 1945 | Herborn, Germany - Hessen-Nassau Region S2, |
29 March 1945 | Friedensdorf, Germany - Hessen-Nassau Region S2, |
30 March 1945 | Medebach, Germany - Westphalia Region S2, |
31 March 1945 | Nieder Marsberg, Germany - Westphalia Region S2, |
April 1945 | To Pretzsch to meet Red Army S3, |
1 Apr - 8 May 1945 | Paderborn to Torgau S2, |
1 April 1945 | At 1400 units of the 3rd Armored, with the 1st Battalion, 414th Infantry, mounted on its tanks, linked up with the 2nd Armored Division of the Ninth Army at Lippstadt. The iron ring of infantry and tanks was locked around the Ruhr. Over 335,000 German troops had been encircled and the great industrial area could no longer support the Hitler war machine S4, |
6 April 1945 | Warburg, Germany - Westphalia Region S2, |
7 April 1945 | Trendelburg, Germany - Hessen-Nassau Region S2, |
9 April 1945 | - Adelebsen, Germany -
Braunschweig Region S2, - At 0400 the 3rd Battalion, 413th Inf, crossed the Weser River in assault boats and was quickly followed by the 2nd Battalion S4, |
10 April 1945 | Duderstadt, Germany - Graunschweig Region S2, |
11 April 1945 | Patrols of the 2nd Battalion, 414th, with the 3rd Armored had reached Nordhausen & found a large German concentration camp for political prisoners, discovering 5,000 corpses among the 6,000 inmates in various stages of decay S4, |
12 April 1945 | Nordhausen, Germany - Thuringia Region S2, |
14 April 1945 |
Ober-Teutschenthal, Germany - Saxony-Anhalt Region S2, - After bitter fighting, units of the 413th clinched the city of Bad Lauterberg S4, |
15 April 1945 | The battle for Halle raged from 0800 to 1055 19 April during which time General De Witt's troops resisted, house to house from the northern to the southern extremities S4, |
16 April 1945 | Landsberg, Germany - Saxony-Anhalt Region S2, |
21 April 1945 | A message was received from VII Corps directing the Division to remain along the west banks of the Mulde until further orders. The offensive action of the Timberwolf Division in World War II had ended. Since 25 March the 104th had advanced 375 miles, had captured 19,152 prisoners, & played a vital role in trapping the 335,000 Germans troops in the Ruhr pocket and the 65,000 Nazis in the Harz Mountains. S4, |
22 April 1945 | Delitzsch, Germany - Saxony Region S2, |
24 April 1945 | Visual contact between the 104th Div and the Russian forces was first made on this day at 1305 S4, |
26 April 1945 | Contact with the Russian Army at Torgau, Germany - between the Mulde and Elbe Rivers S2, [S6, p 11] |
6 May 1945 | When the Russians closed up to the east bank of the Mulde River, it was announced that the Division had officially broken contact with the enemy, after 195 consecutive days of arduous combat (reportedly more consecutive days than any other division in the ETO). S4, |
7 May 1945 | A representative of the German high command signed the unconditional surrender S4, |
8 May 1945 | Prime Minister Churchill announced "V-E Day". S4, |
11 June 1945 | The Division began its movement from Germany to Camp Lucky Strike near Dieppe, 25 miles from Le Havre, France S4, [S6, p 11, 12] |
26 June 1945 | To United States aboard SS Monterey S2, S3, [S6, p 11, 12] |
2 July 1945 | To United States aboard SS Ericsson S2, |
3 July 1945 | SS Monterey arrives New York |
11 July 1945 | SS Ericsson arrives in New York S2, |
June 1945 | Deactivated S3, |
26 June & 2 July 1945 | Embarked for US from France S2, S4, |
1 Aug 1945 | Camp San Luis Osbispo, California S2, S4, |
5 Aug 1945 | The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima S4, |
9 Aug 1945 | The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki S4, |
15 Aug 1945 | Japan Surrenders S4, |
2 Sept 1945 | The President of the United States announced "V-J Day". S4, |
15 Sept 1945 | Last review of the 104th Infantry Division - The 104th Infantry Division on its third birthday passed in final review before its commander, Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen S2, S4, [S6, p 11, 12] |
20 Dec 1945 | Division deactivated - The War Department ordered the inactivation of the 104th Infantry Division. Its mission in World War II had been accomplished S2, S4, |
1945 | Timberwolf Scrapbook S11, |
December 1946 | Reactivated, Portland, OR - Organized Reserves S3, |
Sources | ||
Source Citation |
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S1 | Letter from General Terry Allen, Headquarters 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division, Office of the Commanding General, APO 104, US Army. To All Timberwolves. 23 April 1945. Acc000327. I2, Transcription and Notes | |
S2 | Major Dates - Training Camps List - Battlefields - Units Lists - Div Command Posts List - Re-deployment home | |
S3 | Original Source: - http://home.teleport.com/~eewilson/campadair.html (link not working 6 Feb 2010) | |
S4 | Key Timberwolf Dates | |
S5 |
Book: History of the 413th Infantry Regiment. Los Angeles,
California: Warren F. Lewis, 1946. Bk4269 Read Online: 1. FamilySearch.org: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE3454514 2. Fold3: https://www.fold3.com/browse/291/hO397E6w9-_E2YZHMS1-4Vfqh - Article: ". . . Growing Collection of Unit Histories" - 23 July 2019 - https://blog.fold3.com/explore-fold3s-growing-collection-of-unit-histories/ |
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S6 | "The Trail of the Timberwolves: 104th Infantry
Division". Major General Terry Allen. Camp San Luis
Obispo, California, 1945. Acc000563/Doc0367.pdf Reading Notes: Doc3847.txt |
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S7 | Map: "Touring Europe with the Timberwolves!" Map - | |
S8 | Book: Yeide, Harry. The Longest Battle: September 1944 to February 1945, from Aachen to the Roer and Across. Zenith Imprint, 2005. Bk3341 | |
S9 | U.S. Army Center of Military History, www.army.mil/cmh-pg | |
S10 | Letter, News Article, Envelope - National Timberwolf Association, Aug 1987 - Talking about the Chicago, Illinois Convention to be held in Sept 1987. Acc002280/Doc0961.pdf | Doc0961.pdf |
S11 | Book: Timberwolf Scrapbook - Acc000666/Doc0672.pdf | Doc0672.pdf |
S12 | Book: Clark, Katherine P. War Stories of WWII: Written by the Soldiers of the 104th Infantry Division, Timberwolves. National Timberwolf Association, 2011. Bk3769 | |
S13 | Map. "Operations of the Timberwolf Division in Europe - Sept 44 - May 45" Reproduced by 663rd Engineer Co., U.S. Army, 1945. Walt Robbins, Sr. ID0005 PapersAcc002789/Doc1721.pdf | |
S14 | "Timberwolf Tracks in History: Move To Germany" Timberwolf Howl, Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan-Feb 2015 - Link, | |
S15 | Book: Hoegh, Leo A., Howard J. Doyle. Timberwolf Tracks: The History of The 104th Infantry Division 1942-1945. Washington, DC: Infantry Journal Press, first edition July 1946, 2014 Edition. Bk3945 | |
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