General Orders 1946 - Fort Benning

were overrun in this attack and enemy tanks penetrated to the center of town.
Bazooka teams destroyed 3 of the enemy tanks from a range of 20 yards and
tankdestroyer flre from the 2d Platoon, 899th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
accounted for Tor 1 more. Fierce and vicious hand-to-hand fighting and the
extreme aggressireness of the men of the battalion caused the enemy to with-
draw in wild disorder, leaving 78 captured, many wounded, and the town safely
In hand. During the period 2 to 5 April 1945, the 2d Battalion (Reinforced).
47th infantry Regiment, assaulted and captured 3 towns, took 270 prisoners
and hundreds of small arms and automatic weapons, destroyed 4 enemy tanks,
and completely annihilated 1 battalion of infantry and elements of 2 other bat-
talions. During this period, the battalion operated without flank protection on
either flank, suffered numerous casualties, which were e\-acuated by Company
B, 9th Medical Battalion, crossed more than 13 miles of heavily defeaded and
ditUCUlt terrain, and engaged and annihilated n fanatical stubborn enemy by
a mogniflcent display of gallantry, cowage, and devotion to duty. (General
Orders 133, Headquarters 9th Infantry Division, 21 July 1945.)
BY ORDKB OF THE SECSFX'ARY OF WAB :
O ~ ~ A L
: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
EDWARD F. WITSELL Chief of Stan
Major General
The Adjutant General