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US WWII MEDAL GROUPING – 71st INFANTRY REGIMENT – BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Officially government wartime engraved BRONZE STAR in official white box named to Sgt. David H. ROSAS. Also comes with his Bronze Start CITATION with original signature Adjutant General Ernest Wilson.
“A Brozse Star Medal is awarded to Staff Sergeant (then Sergeant) David H. Rosas,
AF 38 454, 419, 71st Infantry Regiment, for exemplary conduct In ground combat against the enemy on or about 27 November 1944 in the European Theater of Operations.”
The Regiment was engaged in the important battles in Peterbach, Struth, Rottweiler and Enchenberg around this time.
Also comes with ETO Campaign Medal and Purple Heart, Dog Tags, extra ribbons, AIR FORCE COMMENDATION MEDAL IN CASE, CUFFLINKS, large ribbon bar AND MORE.
The first companies of the Regiment entered combat on the twenty-third of October, 1944. They relieved elements of the 315th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Division east of Luneville, France, in the vicinity of Embermenil. The Regiment occupied dug-in positions in Le Remabois and in the eastern part of the Foret de Parroy. In the last week of October and the first weeks of November, with a series of night attacks, the First Battalion drove the Germans from their remaining strongholds in the forest. By continued and active patrolling, the Germans were kept from any effective offensive action in this part of the line.
On 13 November 1944, it jumped off in an attack northeast, forcing a passage through the Vosges Mountains east of Leintrey to Dossenheim, took Avricourt, 17 November, and pushed on to liberate Strasbourg, along with the 2d French Armored Division. After regrouping, the division returned to the attack, taking Ratzwiller and entering the Ensemble de Bitche in the Maginot Line. On 14 December, regiments of the 44th Division took part in assaulting major Maginot line fortifications.[11] The division’s 71st and 324th Infantry Regiments assaulted Fort Simserhof and nearby Hottviller.[11] After six days of fighting, the unit captured Simershof on 20 December.[11] Displacing to defensive positions east of Sarreguemines, 21–23 December, the 44th threw back three attempted crossings by the enemy of the Blies River.
