22nd Infantry World War 2 Page 3

The 22nd Infantry in World War II

Soldiers of the 3rd Battalion 22nd Infantry, ride on an M10 Tank Destroyer
of the 801st TD Bn., near Mabompre, Belgium September 8, 1944.

The caption reads: "These Belgians greeted the ... 22nd Inf. Regt, with waves and cheers as they entered
their town, while only ... and sullen civilians greeted the American steamroller when it entered Germany,
a few kilometers on. 11 Sept. 44."

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo #ETO-HQ-44-14676
Photo courtesy of John Tomawski

Jeep and trailer of Company D 22nd Infantry, Paliseul, Belgium early September 1944.
Photo was taken on the “Rue de Bouillon” near the Paliseul train station.

Photo by Pierre Fourneau via Julien Woestyn

Belgium, early September, 1944 - 22nd soldiers are pinned to the ground
by German snipers

Nearing the Siegfried Line, September 1944

Jeep from 22nd Infantry, possibly from Company L.
This photo is a companion to the photo immediately above, taken only moments later.
Both photos, plus the one immediately below appear to come from 8mm film taken by
Major Clifford "Swede" Henley of the 22nd Infantry.

Advancing through the fields of haystacks

Colonel C.T. "Buck" Lanham took command of the 22nd on July 9, 1944,
and continued to command until March 2, 1945.
On September 11, 1944, the first American Infantrymen into Germany
was a patrol from the 22nd. COL Lanham (far left) tells General Barton (seated behind the wheel
of his personal jeep "Barton Buggy") of the event, as they prepare to follow the patrol
across the border.

The 22nd Infantry was the first Allied unit to penetrate the Siegfried Line.
This photo was taken from a captured German pillbox,
looking out at the ground the 22nd had to cross to take this position, September 1944.

A 3rd Battalion 22nd Infantry soldier stands in front of a camouflaged German pillbox on the Siegfried Line
September 15, 1944

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo SC 194030-S
Photo courtesy of John Tomawski

October 4, 1944- S/Sgt Peter Andrews, 22nd Infantry, 4th Division, examines "pole charges"
containing 20 1/2 pound blocks of TNT which are being used to blow up German pillboxes.

US Army Signal Corps photo

Red Cross Doughnut Girls visit with the 22nd Infantry, October 1944

22nd soldiers try to dry out a blanket, Hürtgen Forest, November 1944

Company F 2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry. Photo believed taken in the Hürtgen Forest.
2nd Lieutenant Lee Lloyd is in the front row, third from the left.
PFC John(Jack) L. Patterson is in the back row sitting, farthest left.

Photo courtesy of Jack Patterson, son of PFC John L. Patterson

2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry 81mm mortar team in action in Grosshau, December 1, 1944

2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry jeep rolling through the remains of Grosshau, Germany on December 1, 1944.

Bazooka team of Company E 2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry
in an abandoned building in Grosshau, Germany December 1, 1944.

Army Signal Corps photo #ETO-HQ-44-27915 (SC 144506)

22nd Infantry Regiment in the Hürtgen Forest near Grosshau, Germany
December 1, 1944

Photo from the National Archives via the Pritzker Military Museum & Library website

22nd Infantry Soldiers notice a white flag hung outside a German house,
Bleialf, Germany. The white flag signified that the occupants had surrendered,
or were otherwise non-belligerent.

US Army Signal Corps photo

January 1945, the Siegfried Line at Brandscheid