310^th Infantry Regiment

The 310th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Butner on August 15, 1942, assigned to the 78th Infantry Division, and trained in the United States before sailing from New York on October 14, 1944. It reached England, landed in France on November 22, crossed Belgium, and entered Germany on December 7. In the division's first combat in the Monschau Corridor, the regiment attacked from Lammersdorf toward Rollesbroich on December 13. One battalion secured the village and its knoll, while the 2nd Battalion was attached to the 309th Infantry for the Kesternich fighting. It entered the first houses after artillery and tank-destroyer fire but suffered heavy losses in the German counterattack that night.

During the January 30, 1945, renewal of the Roer River dam operation, the 310th rapidly cleared thirty-two pillboxes and took Konzen, helped by a short artillery preparation that caught defenders under cover. In the Schmidt operation it was ordered through the 309th before daylight on February 6, struggled in dark woods under automatic-weapons and mortar fire, and then advanced with tanks of the 744th Tank Battalion to occupy Hill 493 outside Schmidt on February 7. It continued the next day along the Schmidt-Hasenfeld road while the final assault on the Schwammenauel Dam developed.

After the Roer crossings, the regiment supported armored exploitation at Wollersheim, forced a bridgehead across the Ahr at Loehndorf, and fought through the Remagen bridgehead. It took Konigswinter with the 311th Infantry, captured Menden, and cleared strongpoints around the town before the division relieved the 1st Infantry Division along the Sieg. In April the 310th crossed the Sieg with the 309th for the Ruhr Pocket operation, fought through Waldbrol, Lichtenberg, Freudenberg, Wipperfuerth, Elberfeld, and Wuppertal, and closed the war in western Germany.