410^th Infantry Regiment

The 410th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, on November 15, 1942, and assigned to the 103rd Infantry Division. It trained in Louisiana and Texas, staged at Camp Shanks, sailed from New York on October 6, 1944, and landed at Marseille on October 20. When the division relieved the 3rd Infantry Division near St. Die, the 410th took over part of the line and guarded the division's left flank while the 409th and 411th cleared the wooded hill mass southwest of the town. A patrol entered the western part of St. Die during the night of November 17-18 and found it deserted.

The regiment crossed the Meurthe with other 103rd Division units during the November offensive, then joined the drive through the Vosges toward Ville and the Alsatian plain. In early December it shifted from the High Vosges front to the Mertzwiller sector, where the fighting became slower and more urban. On December 7 one battalion relieved the 45th Division's 180th Infantry after a German counterattack had forced that regiment south of the Zintzel du Nord. When VI Corps renewed the offensive on December 10, the 410th recaptured Mertzwiller in house-to-house fighting, recovered men of the 180th Infantry who had remained hidden in the town, and advanced into the western edge of the Haguenau forest. On December 11 it seized Walbourg as the division pushed north through weakening German defenses.

The regiment held through the January Alsace crisis with the division, then joined the March offensive through Reichshoffen, Nieder Schlettenbach, Reisdorf, and Klingenmuenster. It entered Germany on March 23. In the final campaign the 410th reached the Lech River at Lechbruck, cleared the road from Steingaden to Buching, reconnoitered near Partenkirchen, cleared towns west of the Mittenwald-Seefeld road, and policed Innsbruck after the city's surrender.