Good question Kevin! After a third failed attempt to take the Bannholz, 10 February 1945, the objective was abandoned after heavy US losses, Company F being down to 1 officer and 50 men by the end of the day, and Company G also suffering heavy casualties. The 1st Battalion, 376th Infantry, advancing from Sinz, eventually seized the Bannholz when the entire division pushed north, 19 February 1945, with Company C securing the northern part of the woods. So, it is most likely they eventually cleared ths position. Companies A and B were the companies attacking the Bannholz before that. However, I am pretty sure they consolidated first, before Company C used marching fire to push to the northern part of the woods - very close to the Geisbüsch Woods, from where the Germans employed 20-mm. guns, firing on US troops. After these guns were identified and located, they were destroyed by fire from supporting US tank destroyers firing from the Bannholz. By 0815 hours on the 19th, the Bannholz was completely in US hands.
@@94thinfantrydivisioninteresting. I've got to wonder what's left behind in the ground there. My Grandpa was in the 94th 302nd Company C. Have you visited any areas he would have been?
@@kevind3185 You have to presume that much of what was 'in the ground' is now gone, as a result of decades of locals and others searching there with metal detectors. However, I have still encountered stuff lying on the forest floor and during one of the first years I visited Sinz, I found a WW2 German canteen laying just inside the underbrush near the road, and the remains of a German food container, an M1 bayonet, etc. Didn't even need a metal detector... just a sharp eye. I was present several times when the VBGO unearthed the reamins of fallen soldiers in the area. I've visited the Saar-Moselle Triangle almost every year, sometimes several times a year. So, yes, I've seen most locations the 94th regiments fought.
Any Idea what Regiment and Company of the 94th cleared those positions?
Good question Kevin! After a third failed attempt to take the Bannholz, 10 February 1945, the objective was abandoned after heavy US losses, Company F being down to 1 officer and 50 men by the end of the day, and Company G also suffering heavy casualties. The 1st Battalion, 376th Infantry, advancing from Sinz, eventually seized the Bannholz when the entire division pushed north, 19 February 1945, with Company C securing the northern part of the woods. So, it is most likely they eventually cleared ths position. Companies A and B were the companies attacking the Bannholz before that. However, I am pretty sure they consolidated first, before Company C used marching fire to push to the northern part of the woods - very close to the Geisbüsch Woods, from where the Germans employed 20-mm. guns, firing on US troops. After these guns were identified and located, they were destroyed by fire from supporting US tank destroyers firing from the Bannholz. By 0815 hours on the 19th, the Bannholz was completely in US hands.
@@94thinfantrydivisioninteresting. I've got to wonder what's left behind in the ground there.
My Grandpa was in the 94th 302nd Company C. Have you visited any areas he would have been?
@@kevind3185 You have to presume that much of what was 'in the ground' is now gone, as a result of decades of locals and others searching there with metal detectors. However, I have still encountered stuff lying on the forest floor and during one of the first years I visited Sinz, I found a WW2 German canteen laying just inside the underbrush near the road, and the remains of a German food container, an M1 bayonet, etc. Didn't even need a metal detector... just a sharp eye. I was present several times when the VBGO unearthed the reamins of fallen soldiers in the area. I've visited the Saar-Moselle Triangle almost every year, sometimes several times a year. So, yes, I've seen most locations the 94th regiments fought.