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Unit reports detailing operations of the 28th Infantry Division from 1 July 1944 to 28 February 1945. Also includes summaries of observed enemy activities and administrative notes during this time period.
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Nicknamed the ‘Bloody Bucket,’ the 28th Infantry Division held firm against German attacks during the Battle of the Bulge. This article appears in: April 2023. On September 16, 1944, Adolf Hitler revealed his master plan for reversing Germany’s declining fortunes in the West during World War II.
Historical and pictorial review of the 28th Infantry Division in World War II.
ABSTRACT. The 28th Infantry Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard suffered near collapse in the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest in November 1944 but recovered in time to delay a German force eight times its size in the Battle of the Bulge just four weeks later.
The 28th Infantry Division after training in England, landed in Normandy, France, 22 July 1944, and entered the hedgerow struggle north and west of St. Lo. Inching their way forward against desperate opposition, the men of the 28th took Percy, 1 August, and Gathemo, 10 August.
After suffering more than 6,000 casualties in heavy fighting in the Hürtgen Forest during the autumn of 1944, Maj. Gen. Norman Cota’s 28th “Keystone” Division was sent to an area that First Army thought would be a quiet sector to rest and replace their losses.
Today the 28th Infantry Division goes by the name given to it by General Pershing during World War I: "Iron Division." The 28th is the first Army National Guard division to field the Stryker infantry fighting vehicle, as part of the Army's reorganization in the first decade of the 2000s.
