22nd Infantry World War 2 Page 2

The 22nd Infantry in World War II

German firing positions along the hedgerows in Normandy

German trenches dug along the hedgerows

Captain Glenn D. Walker Executive Officer of 3rd Battalion gets time to write a letter to his wife Margaret.
Walker would retire as a Lieutenant General and would serve two tours in Vietnam. His first tour in Vietnam
he was Assistant Division Commander of the 4th Infantry Division and his second tour he commanded the Division.
Thus Walker served in two wars with the 4th Infantry Division.

Staff Sergeant Jacob Horowitz of Cannon Company 22nd Infantry

22nd troopers receive familiarization with German anti-tank weapon.
Weapon is Panzerfaust, disposable after firing.

The caption identifies this as 1st Platoon, I Company, 22nd Infantry
passing through Le-Repas, France, July 30, 1944. However there
does not seem to be a location in France called Le-Repas. In the
French language "Le repas" means "the meal".

Soldiers of 22nd Infantry ride on tanks
from the 66th Armored Regiment during the St. Lô breakout
July 1944. Since the tank in the foreground has been identified
as "Duke" of Company D, 66th Armored Regiment, the soldiers
riding on it are most likely from 3rd Battalion 22nd Infantry.

22nd Infantry soldiers ride on top of a Sherman tank
of the 2nd Armored Division during the St. Lô breakout.

Soldiers from 2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry ride on M4 tank "Fury"
from F Company 66th Armored Regiment during Operation Cobra,
the St. Lô breakout.

Photo from:

https://erenow.net/ww/armored-attack-1944-us-army-tank-combat-european-theater/5.php

August 1, 1944
22nd soldiers take a break, wearing straw hats found in a French store.
Note fixed bayonets on rifles, ready for close quarter combat.

The caption reads: "This dead German, lying in front of his Mark V tank, is one of many who tried
to meet the onslaught of the American advance on St. Pois, France. August 5, 1944
3rd Bn., 22nd Inf. Reg't "

U.S. Army Signal Corps photo SC 192430
Photo courtesy of John Tomawski

St. Poix, August 1944

Another German prisoner taken by the 22nd

A jeep of 2nd Battalion 22nd Infantry on the streets of Paris, August 1944.
The jeep has a post attached to the front to break wires the Germans would
stretch across roads.

A vehicle of 22nd Infantry in Paris.