Name and Rank, Private First Class John L. Corcoran.
Unit/Placed in, 11th Infantry Regiment, ”Wandering 11th”, 5th Infantry Division” Red Diamond”.
John was born in 1919 in Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois.
Parents and Siblings, no record.
John enlisted the Army in Illinois with serial number 31468260.
John L. Corcoran was a Soldier/Pfc in the 11th Infantry Regiment .
John L. Corcoran was KIA in the Street Fights with the Germans at Diekirch Luxembourg, on Jan. 23, 1945, and he is honored with the Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
And he is buried at Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, Hamm, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
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World War II
In 1939, the 11th joined the 5th Division at Fort McClellan, Alabama and by 1942 was on its way to Iceland and remained there for 15 months until the regiment, and the division, moved to England. The regiment landed in Normandy on 10 July 1944 and fought its way across France as part of the 5th Infantry Division, which was assigned to General Patton’s famed Third Army. The 11th Infantry played a prominent role in the reduction of the fortified city of Metz in the fall of 1944. During the Battle of the Bulge, the 11th counter-attacked into the southern portion of the Bulge, engaging the Germans in bitter winter fighting. On 22 March 1945, the 1st Battalion made a night river assault across the Rhine River at Oppenheim, giving General Patton a division bridgehead over the Rhine two days ahead of Field Marshal Montgomery’s famous crossing. The 11th Infantry ended the war in Czechoslovakia.
Shortly after its return from the European Theater of Operations, the regiment was retired.
In 1948 the 11th was an Infantry Training Regiment, a unit of the 5th Infantry Division, stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
It was reactivated in June 1954 in Germany, the 11th returned to Fort Ord, California and became an Infantry Training Unit.
On 14 June 1958, the 1st Battle Group, 11th Infantry, was reactivated as part of the 2d Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Georgia where it remained until February 1962 when it was redesignated as the 1st Battalion, 11th Infantry and assigned as an organic element of the 5th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado.
