Maps
99th Infantry Battalion (Separate) - Maps
Citation: Contained within the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate) Educational Foundation's digital archives. Currently researching to determine original source.
Elbeuf, seeing the elephant on August 25, 1944
Caption: Elbeuf, the first engagement for the 99th, just south of Rouen. This 2nd Armored Division overlay shows the approach route of the 99th into Elbeuf with 2nd Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment on their left, from Field Order 14. By August 25, 1944 the US XIXth Corps had swept 40-miles north-west of Paris along the west bank of the Seine River cutting off retreat for the German forces engaging Montgomery's 21st Army Group.
Citation: (Courtesy of the 99th Educational Foundation/Graphics by Erick)
Additional Elbeuf Maps
Citations: Currently researching to determine source of these maps that were in the digital archives of the 99th Infantry Battalion Educational Foundation.
Canal Drive, a combined arms effort on September 16th-17, 1944
Task Force Stokes was a combined arms team with the riflemen of the 99th riding into action on the tanks of the 2nd Armored Division. This overlay shows how the stubborn Norwegian infantrymen paired with the mobile tankers of the “Hell on Wheels” Division cleared German resistance north of Maastricht in September, 1944. The objective was an area of a corridor of fifty square miles created by the Vaart Canal and the Meuse River on the Belgian-Netherlands border.
Citation: (Courtesy of the 99th Educational Foundation/Graphics by Erick)
Würselen, the ten day nightmare of encircling Aachen
When the US First Army encircled Aachen, Germany’s ancient capital, the neck of the bag closed in the suburb of Würselen, while both sides poured artillery and air strikes into the area. This overlay is a snapshot of one day, showing units under the 30th Infantry DIvision in black and 1st Infantry Division in blue from the south. Along three kilometers of the 30th’s front-line five US Infantry Battalions, of three different regiments, fought shoulder to shoulder to hold the line. The German 1st SS Panzer Corps tried repeatedly to fight through this corridor to reach their garrison in Aachen, four miles away. Units rotated constantly giving companies for brief rests, but all were in artillery range of the enemy at all times.
Citation: (Courtesy of the 99th Educational Foundation/Graphics by Erick)
Malmedy and the Battle of the Bulge December 17, 1944- January, 17 1945
The German Counter Offensive of 1944 broke though the thinly held positions in the Ardennes forest and forced the evacuation of US First Army Headquarters at Spa. The Initial defense of the Malmedy area was affected by Lt Col Pergrin’s 291st Engineer Battalion, before the arrival of Task Force Hansen on the night of 17th/18th December, with the 99th, the 526th Armored Infantry Battalion, and the towed 3” anti-tank guns of Company A of the 825th Tank Destroyer Battalion. The Task Force was assigned to defend the town of Malmedy and crossings over the Amblève river at Stavelot and Trois-Ponts, and were reinforced by the 30th Infantry Division that had been trucked down from the Aachen sector. This overlay shows the integration of the Task Force units into the divisional defense plan of the area.
Citation: (Courtesy of the 99th Educational Foundation/Graphics by Erick)