General Orders 1946 - Fort Benning

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@mpany H, 397th Infantry Regiment, is cited for outstanding accomplishment
in combat on 8 and 9 January 1945 in the vicinity of Rimiing, France. Under
the pressure of a savqely prosecuted at,taek by numerically superior hostile forces,
which forced back adjacent elements, Company H staunchly held its ground,
threw back aasault after assault, and, by its gallant and unyielding defense,
prevented the encirclement of the battalion by the enemy. The initial hostile
attack in the night by infantry mounted on tanks was dispersed by the deadly
fire of the company's heavy machine guns and mortars, and subsequent daylight
tank-infantry attacks were also repulsed with heavy lasses to the enemy. Attempts
at infiltration by hostile soldie~s searing American parkas were thwarted
and the opposing riflemen killed or forced to withdraw. Sixty-three prisoners
were captured and an estimated four hundred casualties inflicted upon the attackers
in the heroic action in which every member of Company H, 3#7th Infantry
Regiment, reflected great credit on himself, his company, and the Army of the
United States. (General Orders 155, Headquarters 100th Infantry Division,
9 June 1945.)
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
OFFICIAL: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
8. hl. FITCH Chief of Staff
Bripudie~ Gewsral
Acting The Adjutant ffened