101^st Infantry Regiment

The 101st Infantry Regiment was a Massachusetts National Guard regiment inducted into federal service on January 16, 1941 and assigned to the 26th Infantry Division. After training in the United States, it sailed from New York on August 27, 1944 and landed in France on September 7. The regiment entered sustained combat in Lorraine during Third Army's November offensive. On November 8 it overran Moyenvic, seized the Seille River bridge before it could be destroyed, and began the fight for Hill 310, a key height covering the Dieuze-Benestroff line. Its first attack stalled under intense fire, but the regiment worked around the position through Salival and Bois St. Martin and secured Hill 310 and Koecking ridge on November 11.

The 101st then fought through Guebling, Bourgaltroff, and the Sarre-Union area as the division pressed toward the Sarre. When the Ardennes counteroffensive began, the regiment moved north with the 26th Division into Luxembourg. It fought in the Rambrouch-Grosbous sector, crossed the Sure, and advanced through Bavigne and Nothum toward the Wiltz-Bastogne highway. In late December and early January its battalions fought through roadblocks, woods, and counterattacks near Wiltz. The regiment later helped clear Wiltz and took Clerf on January 25, 1945, closing the division's main Luxembourg phase.

After duty in the Saarlautern sector, the 101st reentered offensive operations in March. It took Brotdorf, Honzrath, Dueppenweiler, Lebach, Bubach, and Kalmesweiler during the Saar-Palatinate drive, then shifted through the Rhine crossing phase. It guarded Rhine bridges, moved through Darmstadt, reached the Main with the division, and entered Fulda on April 2. From there it followed the 26th Division through the Werra and Thuringia, screened the division's right flank in Austria, and entered Czechoslovakia on May 6.