Claud served in the 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division.
The 143rd happened on to the stage just at the right moment, for, during the afternoon, German armor broke out on the flat ground cast of Herrlisheim and crossed the Zorn Canal, the main obstacle before Weyersheirn, with twenty tanks and 500 infantry. The presence of the 143rd element in Weyersheim and the arrival of other Division reinforcements in the sector averted a clean breakthrough, and turned about and rallied the 12th Armored elements falling back before the enemy assault. Very quickly a line of defense along a small stream running southwest from Rohrwiller was selected. As darkness closed in, 143rd troops moved to dig in and firmly establish it, knowing that the Germans could be expected to follow-up with an even heavier attack.
To the left of the new Division line enemy pressure was accentuated by the loss of Drusenheim during darkness of the 19th where a battalion of American infantry was cut off. The Rohrwiller-Weyersheim line was stabilized and strengthened on the 20th, but that evening a general VI Corps withdrawal to the Moder River north of Bichwiller pulled in the Division left, the 143rd abandoning Rohrwiller and withdrawing behind a line of the 3rd Battalion, 142nd, at the forward edge of Bischwiller.
U.S., World War II Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954
Name: Claud Adams
Gender: Male
Race: White (includes Mexican) (White)
Rank: Enlisted Man (includes Aviation Cadet or Student)
Admission Age: 29
Birth Date: abt 1916
Admission Date: Jan 1945
Discharge Date: Jan 1945
Discharge Place: Aid Station, Clearing or Collection Station, Dispensary
Military Branch: Infantry, General or Unspecified
Military Unit: 1
Diagnosis: Diagnosis: Wound(s), penetrating (point of entrance only: includes incised, puncture or stab wound) with no nerve or artery involvement; Location: Thorax, generally; Location: Humerus, generally; Causative Agent: Artillery Shell, Fragments, Afoot or unspecified; Diagnosis: Fracture, compound, comminuted with no nerve or artery involvement
Type of Injury: Injury Type: Battle casualty; InjuryType2: All battle casualties, and all battle injuries not intentionally inflicted by self or another person
Service Number: 35933059
Notes: None
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Claud Adams
Race: White
Marital status: Married
Rank: Private
Birth Year: 1916
Nativity State or Country: Kentucky
Citizenship: Citizen
Education: 2 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Bartenders
Enlistment Date: 11 Sep 1943
Enlistment Place: Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Service Number: 35933059
Branch: No branch assignment
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Height: 00
Weight: 000
The 143rd happened on to the stage just at the right moment, for, during the afternoon, German armor broke out on the flat ground cast of Herrlisheim and crossed the Zorn Canal, the main obstacle before Weyersheirn, with twenty tanks and 500 infantry. The presence of the 143rd element in Weyersheim and the arrival of other Division reinforcements in the sector averted a clean breakthrough, and turned about and rallied the 12th Armored elements falling back before the enemy assault. Very quickly a line of defense along a small stream running southwest from Rohrwiller was selected. As darkness closed in, 143rd troops moved to dig in and firmly establish it, knowing that the Germans could be expected to follow-up with an even heavier attack.
To the left of the new Division line enemy pressure was accentuated by the loss of Drusenheim during darkness of the 19th where a battalion of American infantry was cut off. The Rohrwiller-Weyersheim line was stabilized and strengthened on the 20th, but that evening a general VI Corps withdrawal to the Moder River north of Bichwiller pulled in the Division left, the 143rd abandoning Rohrwiller and withdrawing behind a line of the 3rd Battalion, 142nd, at the forward edge of Bischwiller.
U.S., World War II Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954
Name: Claud Adams
Gender: Male
Race: White (includes Mexican) (White)
Rank: Enlisted Man (includes Aviation Cadet or Student)
Admission Age: 29
Birth Date: abt 1916
Admission Date: Jan 1945
Discharge Date: Jan 1945
Discharge Place: Aid Station, Clearing or Collection Station, Dispensary
Military Branch: Infantry, General or Unspecified
Military Unit: 1
Diagnosis: Diagnosis: Wound(s), penetrating (point of entrance only: includes incised, puncture or stab wound) with no nerve or artery involvement; Location: Thorax, generally; Location: Humerus, generally; Causative Agent: Artillery Shell, Fragments, Afoot or unspecified; Diagnosis: Fracture, compound, comminuted with no nerve or artery involvement
Type of Injury: Injury Type: Battle casualty; InjuryType2: All battle casualties, and all battle injuries not intentionally inflicted by self or another person
Service Number: 35933059
Notes: None
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Claud Adams
Race: White
Marital status: Married
Rank: Private
Birth Year: 1916
Nativity State or Country: Kentucky
Citizenship: Citizen
Education: 2 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Bartenders
Enlistment Date: 11 Sep 1943
Enlistment Place: Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Service Number: 35933059
Branch: No branch assignment
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Height: 00
Weight: 000
Claud served in the 143rd Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division.
The 143rd happened on to the stage just at the right moment, for, during the afternoon, German armor broke out on the flat ground cast of Herrlisheim and crossed the Zorn Canal, the main obstacle before Weyersheirn, with twenty tanks and 500 infantry. The presence of the 143rd element in Weyersheim and the arrival of other Division reinforcements in the sector averted a clean breakthrough, and turned about and rallied the 12th Armored elements falling back before the enemy assault. Very quickly a line of defense along a small stream running southwest from Rohrwiller was selected. As darkness closed in, 143rd troops moved to dig in and firmly establish it, knowing that the Germans could be expected to follow-up with an even heavier attack.
To the left of the new Division line enemy pressure was accentuated by the loss of Drusenheim during darkness of the 19th where a battalion of American infantry was cut off. The Rohrwiller-Weyersheim line was stabilized and strengthened on the 20th, but that evening a general VI Corps withdrawal to the Moder River north of Bichwiller pulled in the Division left, the 143rd abandoning Rohrwiller and withdrawing behind a line of the 3rd Battalion, 142nd, at the forward edge of Bischwiller.
U.S., World War II Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954
Name: Claud Adams
Gender: Male
Race: White (includes Mexican) (White)
Rank: Enlisted Man (includes Aviation Cadet or Student)
Admission Age: 29
Birth Date: abt 1916
Admission Date: Jan 1945
Discharge Date: Jan 1945
Discharge Place: Aid Station, Clearing or Collection Station, Dispensary
Military Branch: Infantry, General or Unspecified
Military Unit: 1
Diagnosis: Diagnosis: Wound(s), penetrating (point of entrance only: includes incised, puncture or stab wound) with no nerve or artery involvement; Location: Thorax, generally; Location: Humerus, generally; Causative Agent: Artillery Shell, Fragments, Afoot or unspecified; Diagnosis: Fracture, compound, comminuted with no nerve or artery involvement
Type of Injury: Injury Type: Battle casualty; InjuryType2: All battle casualties, and all battle injuries not intentionally inflicted by self or another person
Service Number: 35933059
Notes: None
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Claud Adams
Race: White
Marital status: Married
Rank: Private
Birth Year: 1916
Nativity State or Country: Kentucky
Citizenship: Citizen
Education: 2 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Bartenders
Enlistment Date: 11 Sep 1943
Enlistment Place: Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Service Number: 35933059
Branch: No branch assignment
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Height: 00
Weight: 000
The 143rd happened on to the stage just at the right moment, for, during the afternoon, German armor broke out on the flat ground cast of Herrlisheim and crossed the Zorn Canal, the main obstacle before Weyersheirn, with twenty tanks and 500 infantry. The presence of the 143rd element in Weyersheim and the arrival of other Division reinforcements in the sector averted a clean breakthrough, and turned about and rallied the 12th Armored elements falling back before the enemy assault. Very quickly a line of defense along a small stream running southwest from Rohrwiller was selected. As darkness closed in, 143rd troops moved to dig in and firmly establish it, knowing that the Germans could be expected to follow-up with an even heavier attack.
To the left of the new Division line enemy pressure was accentuated by the loss of Drusenheim during darkness of the 19th where a battalion of American infantry was cut off. The Rohrwiller-Weyersheim line was stabilized and strengthened on the 20th, but that evening a general VI Corps withdrawal to the Moder River north of Bichwiller pulled in the Division left, the 143rd abandoning Rohrwiller and withdrawing behind a line of the 3rd Battalion, 142nd, at the forward edge of Bischwiller.
U.S., World War II Hospital Admission Card Files, 1942-1954
Name: Claud Adams
Gender: Male
Race: White (includes Mexican) (White)
Rank: Enlisted Man (includes Aviation Cadet or Student)
Admission Age: 29
Birth Date: abt 1916
Admission Date: Jan 1945
Discharge Date: Jan 1945
Discharge Place: Aid Station, Clearing or Collection Station, Dispensary
Military Branch: Infantry, General or Unspecified
Military Unit: 1
Diagnosis: Diagnosis: Wound(s), penetrating (point of entrance only: includes incised, puncture or stab wound) with no nerve or artery involvement; Location: Thorax, generally; Location: Humerus, generally; Causative Agent: Artillery Shell, Fragments, Afoot or unspecified; Diagnosis: Fracture, compound, comminuted with no nerve or artery involvement
Type of Injury: Injury Type: Battle casualty; InjuryType2: All battle casualties, and all battle injuries not intentionally inflicted by self or another person
Service Number: 35933059
Notes: None
U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Claud Adams
Race: White
Marital status: Married
Rank: Private
Birth Year: 1916
Nativity State or Country: Kentucky
Citizenship: Citizen
Education: 2 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Bartenders
Enlistment Date: 11 Sep 1943
Enlistment Place: Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana
Service Number: 35933059
Branch: No branch assignment
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Height: 00
Weight: 000
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