330^th Infantry Regiment

The 330th Infantry came ashore with the 83rd Infantry Division on 19 June 1944 and first fought in Normandy's hedgerows before the Cobra breakout carried the division into Brittany. At St. Malo the regiment handled much of the siege work on the north shore. Its battalions attacked St. Ideuc, La Yarde, and the Parame-St. Malo causeway, moving street by street with tanks, tank destroyers, engineers, and artillery. On 14 August the regiment pushed into the walled city of St. Malo, while the chateau garrison surrendered later that day. After the Citadel fell, the 330th guarded the coast and prepared the amphibious assault against Ile de Cezembre; the island surrendered on 2 September before the assault was needed.

The regiment next moved with the division through Loire security and Luxembourg, then entered Germany in December. In the Roer fighting the 330th attacked Strass, where one battalion was temporarily cut off after German infiltration around Schafberg blocked the supply route. The fight cost heavily before reinforcements and armor reopened the road. During the Ardennes phase the regiment had separate attachments, including VII Corps, 3rd Armored Division, and later the 29th Infantry Division in the Schleiden area.

In Operation Grenade the 330th fought with the 29th as Ninth Army crossed the Roer, then rejoined the division's drive to the Rhine. At Oberkassel a task force of the 330th, tanks, and tank destroyers tried to reach the bridge by deception, but the Germans demolished it as the force arrived. In April the regiment fought through the Harz Mountains, cleared difficult wooded country with Task Force Biddle, and later relieved attached troops mopping up between the Saale and Elbe before the division turned over its Barby bridgehead.