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General Orders 1946 - Fort Benning

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UEN~AL Oaorns WAR DEPARTMENT<br />

NO. 120 WASRIYQ~N 2.5. D. C., 16 October <strong>1946</strong><br />

Section<br />

GENERAL COUltTS MARTIAL--Authnritg to appoint granted ................... I<br />

RATTLE HONORS-Citations of unlta ....................................... I1<br />

[-.GENERAL COURTS MARTIAL,By direction of the President, the commanding<br />

officer. Camp Polk. Louisiana, is em~~owered, pursuant to tile eighth<br />

article of war, to appoint general courts martlnl.<br />

IAG 260.401 (1s Rev 40)l<br />

II..BATTLE flON0RS.-As authorized by Executive Order 9396 (sec. I, WD<br />

Bul. 22. 19433, suoersrdine - Executive Order 9075 (see. 111. WD Bul. 11. 1942). . .<br />

citations of the following units In <strong>General</strong> <strong>Orders</strong> 45, Headquarters First Army,<br />

8 June l'J46, are confirmed under the provisions of section IV, WD Circular<br />

333. 1943, in the name of the President of the United States as public evidence of<br />

deserved honor and distioctlon. The citations read as follows:<br />

1. The 1st Battalion. 16th Inrantry . - Reaimemt. . is cited for outstanding - per- -<br />

fomance of duty in action from 16 to 19 Novemher 1941. ~nciusive. Marking the<br />

Openingaf the American offensive through the Hurtgen Forest to the Raer River,<br />

the let RattoCian. 16th Infantry Regiment, attacked northeast from Schevenhutte,<br />

Germany, OD 16 November 1944, with the mission of seizing the strategie bigh<br />

ground around Hamich. Germany. The 1st Battalion lmmedintely encountered<br />

extremely heavy enemy opposition of Intense artiiicry and mortar flre, which, he cause of tree bursts iu the dense forest, exaetrd an onusually high toil of rasualtiea<br />

Barbed wire entanelemcots and numerous antinersonnei mines nratected<br />

enemy wrilionf frtml which continuous n,acl~:nc-gun aud other small-arms Ure was<br />

dlrffrrd. 1Hwitlrc tlrv difflcult~. of advan

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