379^th Infantry Regiment

The 379th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Swift, Texas, on July 15, 1942, and trained with the 95th Infantry Division before moving through the Boston port, England, and France in August-September 1944. After patrol duty along the Seille and relief in the Arnaville bridgehead, it entered the Metz offensive as the division struck the Moselle fortress belt. On November 14 the regiment attacked into the Seven Dwarfs fortifications north of Fort Jeanne d'Arc, fighting around the Fort St. Hubert and Jussy works and briefly facing isolation before the road to Moulins-les-Metz was reopened. Elements joined Task Force Bacon in the Fort St. Julien action, and the regiment helped clear Metz by November 22.

The 379th then followed the division across the Nied and into the Saar approach. In early December it passed through the 377th to force the Saarlautern crossing. After entering Saarlautern on December 2, its 1st Battalion seized the intact bridge over the Saar the next morning, opening the division's bridgehead into the West Wall. The regiment fought north toward Saarlautern-Roden while another battalion fought in Fraulautern until relieved by the 377th; the 5th Division took over its sector on December 18. After the January Saarlautern counterattack and the Holland shift, the 379th was attached to the 2nd Armored Division from March 1 to March 4, 1945. Two battalions helped clear Uerdingen and fought toward the Adolf Hitler Bridge before German demolition ended the chance of seizure. In April the regiment crossed the Lippe River and Canal, took Kamen with the 378th, and served under Task Force Twaddle in reducing the Ruhr Pocket.