Henry Kitterman Chaplin 22D 22nd U.S. Infantry 8x10 Photo Ayers Kaserne Base For Sale
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Henry Kitterman Chaplin 22D 22nd U.S. Infantry 8x10 Photo Ayers Kaserne Base:
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This Henry Kitterman Chaplin 22D 22nd U.S. Infantry 8x10 Photo Ayers Kaserne Base is the exact item you will receive and has been certified Authentic by REM Fine Collectibles.Lt. Henry Kitterman, artilleryman and chaplain in Korean War is a former artilleryman who used to support allied soldiers with big guns, now passes them spiritual ammunition as a chaplain. Lt. Henry C. Kitterman, 26, an ordained Lutheran minister, arrived in Korea and was assigned as a forward artillery observer.
Hospitalized with a machine gun bullet in the ankle, he returned to action in August as executive officer of a battery. In a different UPI photo he directs fire from forward position and he ministers spiritual support to ailing soldiers in his new role as minister. Hailing from New Albany, Indiana, Kitterman is scheduled to return to the US soon and he hopes to apply for a regular army commission as a Chaplain.
The 22nd Infantry Regiment is a parent regiment of the United States Army. Currently the 2nd Battalion is active, with the regimental colors residing at Fort Drum, New York. The 1st, 3rd, and 4th Battalions have been inactivated.
The 2d Battalion, 22d Infantry (Triple Deuce) Regiment was originally constituted on 3 May 1861 in the Regular Army as Companies B and K, 2d Battalion, 13th Infantry. It was organized in May 1865 at Camp Dennison, Ohio. It was reorganized and redesignated on 21 September 1866 as Companies B and K, 22nd Infantry.
Companies B and K, 22d Infantry were consolidated on 4 May 1869. The resulting consolidated unit was designated as Company B, 22d Infantry. It inactivated on 30 June 1927 at Fort McPherson, Georgia. The unit reactivated on 1 June 1940 at Fort McClellan, Alabama, and following the end of World War II, inactivated on 1 March 1946 at Camp Butner, North Carolina.
Activated 15 July 1947 at Fort Ord, California for assignment to Germany in the German occupation. Sent to Fort Benning, and subsequently shipped to Bremerhaven, Germany in 1951. 2d Battalion went to Schweinfurt, Germany.
Ayers Kaserne at Kirch-Göns, Germany (coordinates: 50° 28' 46.08" N 8° 38' 41.83" E) was a U.S. Army installation built in 1952 as part of the major construction efforts under the U.S. Army troop augmentation program of the early 1950s, occupied by the 22nd Regimental Combat Team of the Fourth infantry Division until May, 1956, and by the Third U.S. Armored Division in 1956 and then home to Combat Command A, 3rd Armored Division was stationed at Ayers Kaserne beginning 12 May 1956. The troops arrived following an 11-hour train ride from the port of Bremerhaven.
As of 1 October 1963, Combat Command A was reorganized and re-designated as the 1st Brigade,3rd Armored Division (United States) which was the largest combat brigade in Europe until 1996 when the division colors were transferred back to Ft. Knox, Kentucky for retirement of the colors, thus the end of the historic 3rd Armored Division (United States) (Spearhead).
The installation was known throughout the United States European Command (EUCOM) as "the Rock".
Originally, Ayers Kaserne was used as a recovery field for the German Luftwaffe during World War II. The entire base was demolished, except for one bunker.
United States President and Commander-In-Chief Gerald R. Ford visited Ayers Kaserne in July 1975; the first visit by a U.S. President to a U.S. military installation in Europe since John F. Kennedy's 1963 visit to the 3rd Armored division in Hanau, Germany.
President Ford was accompanied by General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (the seventh Supreme Allied Commander, Europe), Colonel Louis C. Wagner, Jr. (Commander, 1st Brigade, 3AD); and Georg Leber (German Minister of Defense).
Units of the 1st Armored Division (forward) occupied the kaserne until its closing and return to the German government in 1998.
Today, the former military kaserne has been redeveloped as a business/industrial park, chiefly occupied by a transport company named "Bork". All post buildings have been demolished except for the former chapel.
The kaserne was named Ayers Kaserne in honor of SSG Lovall E. Ayers, B Company, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, killed in action in World War II.
WWII
The regiment arrived in England on 29 January 1944, settled in near Plymouth, England, and started preparations to assault Utah Beach.
The regiment assaulted Utah Beach on 6 June 1944, as part of VII Corps in the D-Day Invasion, and arrived in the vicinity of Ravenoville, Normandy, by the end of D-day. It then participated in the Cherbourg Peninsula operation while attached to 2d Armored Division from 19 July through 2 August 1944.
The regiment then returned to 4th Infantry Division, and headed for Belgium as part of the Operation Cobra, moved into Belgium on 6 September 1944, and entered Germany on 11 September 1944. On 14 September its 3d Battalion broke through the Siegfried Line near Buchet, but neither the regiment nor other formations of 4th Division were able to exploit a success because of rough terrain lacking good roads, bad weather hampering air and artillery support and several other causes. These developments were described by Ernest Hemingway in his article War in the Siegfried Line.
The regiment was attached to 83d Infantry Division between 3–7 December 1944, and then returned to 4th Infantry Division in Luxembourg on 12 December 1944. The 22d then moved to Belgium on 28 January 1945, and re-entered Germany on 7 February 1945, where it remained on mop-up and occupation until 12 July 1945, when it returned to the New York POE, and moved to its temporary home at Camp Butner, North Carolina while the regiment trained for movement to Japan; however, the war in the Pacific terminated, and the regiment remained at Camp Butner until it was inactivated on 5 March 1946. Related Items:
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