Breton Dinth United States ‘ : tian |THE COAT OF ARMS OF THE 9TH U. S. INFANTRY Surrounding the famous Indianhead insignia of the and Division ts the French Fourragere, which every member of the Regiment is entitled to wear so long as he remains a member of the Ninth. The Fourragere was awarded to the Regiment in 1918. The horizontal bar below this is the blue-and-gray furled streamer representing the Ninth’s participation in the Civil War. In the shield proper the Dragon stands for the fighting in China in 1900. The Sun is the familiar Mexican-Aztec symbol which was added to commemorate the M. in War. The curved bar is the Bloody Bend of the San Juan River in Cuba. The Tepee represents over 400 campaigns against the Indians, which the Ninth fought through the Nineteenth Century. ys oTH INFANTRY INSIGNIA ace bhesiNinih sitar scatisniadtle reli the Coat of Arms. The design again incorpogates™the five-toed Imperial Chinese Dragon to me nal the - Boxer Rebellion. It has been offically recognized in War Department Orders, which authorize Ar as a belt buckle or as a cap decoration, pro} unique distinction in the S. Army. ot Ninth United States Infantry xh Regiment of the Second Infantry Division has a proud and illustrious his- tory. The Regiment - The Manchu Regiment - is one of the renowned American military organizations. Its history dates back to the early days of the Republic. It has participated in every war in which the Regiment has been engaged for the last 147 years. Sackett’s Harbor, -Chicamauga, San Juan River, the Boxer Rebellion, Meuse- 1Argonne, Normandy, Brittany, Belgium, Germany - these are some of the great chapters. The Regiment first was formed 147 years ago and has been in continuous active service for the last 90 years. Its history began in 1798 when the Ninth Infantry was organized in Maryland under an act authorizing President John Adams to mobilize troops < for and during the ao continuance of existing differences between tel Uutted scitey adn keane Republic ». After been composed the Regiment wasdi led. Soon, however, it was called\into heing again by another crisi aig 1812. In that year the h Infantry was formed in Massachingetts and assigned to these difference: 2 the Army of the North. U the command of General Winfield Scott, one of the distinguished A his time, the Regiment participated in five major cay the Capture of York, Fort oo Sackett’s Harbor, Fort Erie ippewa River. On December 24, oe two months after cessation of hosti- “ities, the Regiment was disbanded. ican Army officers of Le Thirty-three years elapsed before the Ninth Infantry was formed again, in 1847, for the War with Mexico. The Regiment was recruited in Rhode Island and Massa- chusetts and again was commanded by General The played is demonstrated in the list of battles in which it fought: Cerro Gordo, the Valley of Mexico, Contreras, Churubusco, Scott. important part it 3Chapultepec. After the peace in June, 1848, the Regiment returned to the United States and was mustered out in Rhode Island. Seven years later, in 1855, the Ninth, Infantry was formed for the fourt! e, and it has remained in oot ever since. W the Regi- avig fought 400 s with the Indians, Between 1855 x ment was credited wit Peblewacd ical a {e Black Hill Expe- gn and the battles orn and Cascades. among them the memorab! dition and Apache Ca: of The Little Bi In the il War the Ninth Infantry was in the\Grand Army of the Republic. In Legge fought in Mississippi, in 1863 — nessee, in Kentucky and Georgia. Regiment was at Chickamauga, &\ Murfreesboro, Chattanooga and Atlanta. ~~ Immediately after the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898 the Ninth Infantry was sent to Cuba. Its campaigns there included San Juan River and San— tiago. The Bloody Bend in the Regimental Coat of Arms is symbolic of the battle of the San Juan River. The Philippine Insurrection in 1899 brought the Regiment to Manila, and _ its campaigns during this period may be 5traced in the names on_ its Philippine battle streamer: Tarlac, Samar, Zapote River, San Isidore, Malolos. From the Philippines, the Regiment, in one of its most famous expeditions, was sent to help quell the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, This was the origin of many of the present traditions, includ- ing the nickname, < Manchu Regiment >. It was in the battle of Tientsin that Col. x Emerson G. Liscum, then Regimental © Commander, gave the command that haf > been kept alive for 45 years i Regimental motto. The Color geant had fallen. Col. Liscum pickéd up the Regimental colors only mortally wounded himself. hee words were, « Keep up the fre is order still stands. From this exes also came the Regi- 6 ment’s most prized troplisd the Liscum Bowl. The Ninth Infanity had restored a captured mint ad hinese government, and in evatipeld the Regiment’ an ingot of silver. Out of this'eas fashioned a punchbowl and oblets, the value of which has been Rrored at as high as 50,000 dollars. The he Chinese presented OM Liscum Bowl is now in safekeeping at San Antonio, Tex., awaiting the Regi— ment’s future days in garrison. After the Boxer Rebellion the Ninth Infantry returned to the Philippines in 1901 for the campaigns against Agui-— naldo. Another Regimental trophy, the Bell of Balangiga. was acquired during this period. The bell hung in a church in Balangiga and was used by the Insurrec- tionists as a signal for a surprise attack on our troops.From 1905 to 1907 and again from 1910 to 1912 the Regiment was garrisoned in the Philippines, and from 1914 to 1017 it was on the Mexican Border. Then the United States entered the World War. In May, 1917, the Ninth Infantry went to Syracuse, N. Y., to prepare for overseas service with the A. E. F. The Regiment arrived in France in September, XN 1917. At Bourment it was assigned to os the Second Division and has remained, part of the Division ever since. ~S The Regiment participal Q many of the great campaigns oft irst World War : the Aisne, ean St Mihiel. Meuse-Argonne. April 14, 1918, Gael John Petshing ANE FY Come 8 mander, sent the following message com- mending the Ninth Infaiiry on its conduct under fire : ’ « Allo: to extend my warmest congratulations upon the splendid spirit shown by the Ninth Infantry in the recent seeiie with the enemy, especially to se men who declined to accept their status as prisoners, but turned upon their captors and destroyed them and returned again to their own lines >. The Ninth won high honors in the World War, including the French Fourra- gere for having been cited twice in orders of the French Army. After the Armistice the Regiment became part of the Army of Occupation and was stationed in the Rhineland at Bendorf, Germany, It retur— ned to the United States in the fall of 1919. 9The Regiment was at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., when the United States entered the present war. After months of training there and at Camp McCoy, Wisc., it sailed for Northern Ireland in October, 1943. On June 7, 1944-D Day plus i - the Regiment's greatest mission began when it landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy with the Allied invasion forces. Spearheading the Second Division, the Regiment drove inland from the bengh, cleared an assembly area and in*th¥ee days seized the entire pes Forest. In the Normandy campaign re Regiment fought at St. Laure: Wer and St. Germain. d’ ain! Hie GON ihadh eueatent, Trevieres Then 4 partici— 10 XN driving south from pie and crossing the ae &s in heavy fighting. For 39 days the Ninth Infantry was in line without relief. When a respite did come it was only a brief one. From Vire the Regiment was sent to Brittany to take part in the Brest campaign. At the Brest airfield and at the nearby villages of Bourg-Neuf and Fourneuf the Ninth Infantry fought some of the most severe battles on French soil. On September 17 Wthe Regiment entered Brest, first Allied Unit to penetrate the city’s defenses, and on September 18 the German garrison, thousands strong. capitulated. Sixteen days after the fall of Brest, on October 4, 1944, the Ninth Infantry entered Germany at Schlausenbach, in the Schnee-Eifel Mountains, where its mission was to hold defensively along a sector of the Siegfried Line. On December 10 the Regiment moved north to the Monschau Forest and three days ae attacked a Siegfried Line stron ghey Wahlerscheid, Germany. The va uc ceeded after four days of fighting in snow and cold, but the Regi Chives had a chance to exploit its gains: To the south the Germans h ken through the American Iggy their winter counter- 12 & aS, offensive. The Ninth Sey was com pelled'te choy piltboxes it had won and withdraw into Belgium. At Rocherath, Belgium, the Regiment made one of great stands in its history, «co» oF , ~\s repulsing German armor and infantry for 18 crucial hours in its sector and frustrating a German thrust to the west. The Regi- ment’s withdrawal continued through Wirtzfeld to Camp Elsenborn, which was reached on December 20. There it ° 13bivouaced and regathered its strength. Then, on January 21, the drive on Ger- many was resumed. The Regiment advanced over much the same route it had followed in the withdrawal, passing through Butgenbach, Krinkelt and Roche- rath, On February 2 the Ninth Infantry re-entered Germany through the same Siegfried Line stronghold it had seized and relinquished in December. The first main objectives of the Regiment in Germany lay to the east of the pillbox line. These CY objectives were taken in a swilt adyaiice in which the Regiment seized ¢ ages of Schoneseiffen, Harpersche)~ Bere- scheid, Ettelscheid and\Scheuren and captured more than $00 prisoners. On Marchi Regiment attacked across the ok iver north of Gemund 14 and swept eastward aa miles in a whirlwind seven-day e that reached the Rhine at Rhemeck at 0930 on March 11. Sixty towns, mote than a thousand pri- soners al eat stores of enemy ammu- nitio pins and vehicles were captured, ¢ Ninth overcame the last vestiges xo¥ German resistance. Gemund, Bleibuir, x & Weyer, Pesch, LEtcherscheid, Schonau, Hohn, Hitlerscheid, Rupperath, Schuld, Kallmuth, Kesseling, Waldorf, Gonners- dorf, Niederzissen, Oberzissen, Rheineck— town after town fell to the’ fast-moving battalions which headed toward the Rhine like a prairie fire - infantry on tanks, on tank destroyers, on trucks - but mostly on foot — on forced marches through rough, hilly country.The final thrust to the Rhine was made on March 11. By the afternoon of the preceding day the Regiment had advanced along the Gonnersdorf-Rheineck road to within a mile of the river. The road runs through a deep valley and as it nears the river it passes below Schloss Rheineck, an ancient castle high above the Rhine. Although German fire swept the valley, the final objectives were won. The Regiment was firmly established on the banks of the Rhine. There this history pauses, but a> fair prospect that the next chapt y be the most eminent. For as climax of the war approaches, the h Infantry, as often before, stands the thick of _ battle. Before sae final goal of victory. OS ReeCommanding the Regiment is Col. P. D. Ginder, a graduate of West Point with 17 years of service. Before coming to the Ninth, Col. Ginder commanded task forces in the Hurtgen Forest campaign last November, and for his gallant leader- ship in that difficult fighting he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cros Preceding Col. Ginder. ei! Commanders during the oan years were : Col. Harrison ye (captured by the Japanese peer from May, 1939, to oS 1940. Col. William H. Sion (now Lt. General, Commanding 'th 9th U. S. Army) in September and erable 1940, Col. Walier M. Robertson (now Major Geese, Commanding the Second Divisi ot) from November, 1940, vr 1941. Re Col. Homer C. Brown (now Brig. eneral in Australia) from December, SF 1941, to June, 1942, Col. C. J. Hirschfelder 1942, to January, 1945. ‘a Col. P. i a : D. Ginder from January, toNe ro ¢ ROSTER REGIMENTAL AND ‘ALION STAFFS. COMMANDERS AND ne 4 ST SERGEANTS 0 2 a? 20 March 1945 Be Sconimandiog Officer Col. P. D. Ginder Executive Officer Lt. Col. Walter M. Higgins Jr. S-1 Capt. Walter E. Whitney S-2 Maj. Carl W. Miller S-3 Maj. Earle W. Aldrich S-4 Capt. Alonzo E, Baird Ss Maj. James C. Hardwick Regimental Surgeon Maj. Hugh J. Mayfield Sergeant Major M/Sgt Bernard Doherty 21ist BATTALION Major Lloyd J. Ptak Major William F. Hancock ist Lt. Norman J. Boyden Commanding Officer Executive Officer $-2 $-3 Capt. Norman K. Fricker S-4 1st Lt. Francis W.Schumacher Batt. Sergeant Major T/Sgt Harold Christensen 2nd BATTALION Maj. Frank E. Ball Maj. Vernon T. Adler ist Lt. Francis X. Bee Commanding Officer Executive Officer COMPANY COM AND FIRST Headquarters Co. Service Co. a Me) Connon Co, i : oe LE corms $2 $3 Capt. John A. Frye x $4 Ist. Lt. Captain B. Baldwin > Compeny B Batt, Sergeant Major T/Sgt Anton F, Tanner ©) i @ Company C ard BATTALION & OS et iam F. Kernan M. Merritt Lt. Col. Maj Commanding Officer Executive Officer $2 ist, LQYRussell 1. Carlson S-3 Robert J. Hitt S4 “Ors Le. Grayson E. McElvany T/Sgt Paul F. Johnson Batt. cegt@ 22 Hq, Co., 2nd Bn Company E NDERS oe “ANTS, ith Angwin - Manuel Ortiz Cc Gordon N. George + Set Jack Chaney Capt. Samuel W. Horton Jr Ist Sgt Joe M. Kostelecky Capt. Buford Arms M/Sgt Andrew Mosey Capt. William I. Felton (Battalion S-1) Ist Sgt James D. Dermody Ist Lt Donald B. Whalin Ist Sgt Robert T. Botsford Ist Lt. John S. Milesnick Ist Sgt Leon Griffin Capt. Arnold E, Alger Ist Sgt Lawrence: W. Greeley Capt. Olaf I. Carlson Ist Sgt Andrew Babin Capt. ‘Thomas H. Birch (Battalion S-1) Ist Sgt Lloyd W. Shelton Capt. Homer G. Ross Ist Sgt Wiley D. Mc Kinney 23Company F.. ist Lt. Gedrge G. Garabedian ot + dst Sgt’ Paul R. Abiters Company G Capt. James A. Force * ist Sgt John I. Keene Company Hl, (one, Collis, W, /Tannaball M/Sgt Nathan Stutz Hq. Co. 3rd Bn Capt. Curtis E. Meland (Battalion S-1) Ist Sgt Darbes Fontenot Company I ist Lt. Leslie G. Swartwout ist Sgt John O. Watson Company K ist Lt. Linwood A. Carleton 1st Sgt Joseph Pasola Company L. Capt. Melvin S. Goldstein tat Sgt Homer L. Me Connell Company M Capt. James N. Hall ee cee COUR: 4 Tae Set Adolph J. Wicket OS™ Dee ee , & xs o & 5 Win ist ichard C. Ernst By obert J. Donovan ge fohn J, Gullo - Staff Artist 24