This page is intended to provide our visitors with information concerning the 106th Infantry Division Association, schedules of upcoming events, links to existing resources, information on how you can support the Association and other items of interest. During World War II, at 5:30 in the morning of December 16, 1944, a massive German counter-attack started in the region known as the Schnee Eifel–
with the 106th right in the middle. The 106th would soon find two of its three regiments surrounded and captured – a loss of almost 7,000 men. Vith and the vital crossroads, would delay the German schedule to the point where their plan would soon fail. This Association was founded in 1945 by the veterans of the 106th Infantry Division. The 106th Division was activated in March 1943 at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina; trained at Camp Atterbury, Indianapolis, Indiana starting in April 1944; sailed in October 1944 for various ports in England; sailed on the last day of November and first days of December 1944from Southampton, England to Le Havre, France at the mouth of the Seine River; bivouacked at Rouen; departed on December 8, 1944 to the area of St. Vith, Belgium, to relieve the 2nd Infantry Division, then in a defensive position; the relief of the 2d Division commenced on the 11th and was completed the 13th, responsibility for the defense of the sector passing to the 106th on the 12th.
