376^th Infantry Regiment

The 376th Infantry Regiment was organized at Fort Custer, Michigan, on September 15, 1942, and assigned to the 94th Infantry Division. After training at Camp Phillips, the Tennessee Maneuver Area, and Camp McCain, it staged through Camp Shanks, departed New York on August 6, 1944, reached England on August 11, and landed in France on September 14. It first served in Brittany, containing the German garrisons at Lorient and St. Nazaire until the division moved east in January 1945.

The regiment entered Germany on January 8 and opened the 94th Division's Orscholz Switch Line fighting. On January 14 its 1st Battalion took Tettingen and Butzdorf, and the next day another battalion attacked toward Nennig and neighboring Moselle-floodplain villages. German counterattacks by the 416th Infantry Division and 11th Panzer Division forced bitter close fighting through January. The 376th retook northern Nennig on January 23, fought with 8th Armored Division support in the Sinz operation, protected the 301st's left flank, and fought in the Bannholz Woods.

Attached to the 10th Armored Division from February 19 to March 3, the 376th helped exploit the breach through the Saar-Moselle Triangle. With the Reserve Combat Command, it advanced along the western side of the triangle toward its northern tip. When the armored bridges over the Saar were blown, the regiment crossed near Ockfen during the night of February 22-23. Its battalions cleared east-bank pillboxes, endured artillery and mortar fire at the crossing sites, took Ockfen, and occupied high ground around the village. The regiment then helped support the armored thrust toward Trier, clearing Wiltingen, the Filzen peninsula, and Kommlingen. After reverting to the 94th, it held the northern sector, moved toward Schillingen in the March breakout, and fought through the Hunsrueck.