PRINTER'S NO. 3965
No. 602 Session of 2002
INTRODUCED BY GEIST, SEMMEL, M. BAKER, BELFANTI, BENNINGHOFF,
BUNT, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, L. I. COHEN, CORRIGAN, COY,
CREIGHTON, CRUZ, DeWEESE, J. EVANS, FAIRCHILD, FICHTER,
FLICK, GRUCELA, HARHAI, HENNESSEY, HERMAN, HESS, HORSEY,
KELLER, KENNEY, LAUGHLIN, LEDERER, LEH, LESCOVITZ, LEWIS,
LUCYK, MAJOR, MARKOSEK, McGILL, MELIO, METCALFE, S. MILLER,
MYERS, PICKETT, READSHAW, ROBERTS, ROHRER, RUBLEY, SATHER,
SAYLOR, SCHULER, SHANER, STABACK, STAIRS, E. Z. TAYLOR,
TURZAI, WALKO, WANSACZ, WATSON, WILT, WOJNAROSKI, G. WRIGHT,
YOUNGBLOOD, ZUG, PIPPY, BROWNE, DALLY, FREEMAN, R. MILLER,
JAMES AND COLEMAN, JUNE 6, 2002
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, JUNE 6, 2002
A RESOLUTION
1 Urging the Secretary of the Army to review the reconsideration
2 request for the 110th Regimental Combat Team's Presidential
3 Unit Citation for its actions in World War II.
4 WHEREAS, The 110th Regimental Combat Team of the 28th
5 Division, known as the "Keystone Division," played a critical
6 role in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II; and
7 WHEREAS, On December 16 through 18, 1944, the 110th
8 Regimental Combat Team accomplished a task which was above and
9 beyond that of other units by making heroic stands at Clervaux,
10 Marnach and Hosingen which made the penetration timetable of
11 German General Hasso von Manteufel's armored force impossible to
12 achieve; and
13 WHEREAS, The valor of the 110th Regimental Combat Team set
1 the stage for the 101st Airborne's victory at Bastogne; and
2 WHEREAS, Contemporary historians contended that without the
3 valiant action of the 110th Regimental Combat Team there could
4 not have been a stand at Bastogne; and
5 WHEREAS, On June 22, 1945, General Basil H. Perry, 28th
6 Infantry Division, forwarded a packet to the Commanding General,
7 15th United States Army, recommending the 110th Regimental
8 Combat Team for a Presidential Unit Citation; and
9 WHEREAS, Major General Norman B. Cota, formerly Commanding
10 General of the 28th Infantry Division, forwarded two different
11 recommendations for the Presidential Unit Citation for the 110th
12 Regimental Combat Team; and
13 WHEREAS, On March 1, 1946, the Department of the Army
14 formally disapproved this award and has still not sufficiently
15 acted upon a request for reconsideration of this decision which
16 was filed by senior leaders associated with the 28th Infantry
17 Division; therefore be it
18 RESOLVED, That the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
19 request that the Secretary of the Army review the
20 reconsideration request for the 110th Regimental Combat Team's
21 Presidential Unit Citation and, based on the scholarship of the
22 last 50 years which clearly demonstrates the merit of this
23 reconsideration, award the 110th Regimental Combat Team the
24 Presidential Unit Citation for the valiant accomplishments of
25 this unit during the preceding days of the United States Army's
26 stand at Bastogne; and be it further
27 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
28 the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Army
29 and to each member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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