Lightning, The History Of The 78th Infantry Division
Publisher: Infantry Journal Press
Published: 1947
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: FOREWORD vii; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix; title: CHAPTER 1: PREPARATION FOR COMBAT 1; title: The Lightning Division in World War I — Reactivation At Camp Butner — Training Replacements — Carolina and Tennessee Maneuvers — Camp Pickett — Overseas — Bournemouth — France — Belgium — Up to The line!; title: CHAPTER 2: ATTACK 23; title: The Jumpoff — Through The Minefields — Rollesbroich — Simmerath — Witzerath — Bickerath — Patrols In The Hurtgen — First Attack On Kesternich — Paratroop Alarms; title: CHAPTER 3: CRACKING The SIEGFRIED LINE 59; title: Christmas and New Year's in The Snow — Winter Patrols — The First Reinforcements — Ardennes Offensive — Rescue of Kesternich Survivors — Pillbox Warfare — The Second Attack — Seizure of Kesternich — Lightning's Medal of Honor — Drive To The South — Konzen — Eicherscheid — Dedenborn — Crossing of The Roer — In to Ruhrberg; title: CHAPTER 4: THE BATTLE FOR THE DAM 93; title: Attack Plan — Schwammenauel Dam, Key to Allied Crossing of The Roer — Night Attack — Strauch — Steckenborn — Woffelsbach — Barracks Area — Struggle for Schmidt — Kommerscheid — Harscheidt — Hasenfeld — Seizure of The Dam — Engineers Probe for Demolitions; title: CHAPTER 5: The COLOGNE PLAIN 123; title: Crossings of The Roer — Heimbach — Blens — Piercing The German Defenses — Vlatten — Sweep Toward The Rhine — Pursuit — Euskirchen — Erft River — South to The Ahr; title: CHAPTER 6: REMAGEN BRIDGEHEAD 161; title: First Infantry Battalion across The Rhine — Linz — Dattenberg — Ohlenberg — Kretzhaus — Erpel — Honnef — Night Fighting in The Mountains — Bruchhausen Hovel — Aegidienberg — Slashing The Autobahn — Konigswinter — Into The Rhineland — Hangelar Bruel — To The Sieg; title: CHAPTER 7: The RUHR POCKET 203; title: Holding Along The Sieg — Patrols into The Ruhr — Eleven-day Rat Race — Fifty Miles to Wuppertal — Death of an Army — Prisoners — Civilian Chaos — Remscheid — Wuppertal; title: CHAPTER 8: OCCUPATION 231; title: Guard — Training for The Pacific — VE and VJ Days — Passes — Furloughs — Points — Occupation — To Berlin; title: APPENDIX 243; title: Honor Roll — Awards and Decorations — Order of Battle — Units Attached — Division Command Posts in Germany — Attachments to Higher Headquarters — Cities And Towns Captured