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The 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion was a United States Army unit that saw action in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Their main mission was to identify the location of enemy artillery using the "sound and flash" technique ( sound ranging and flash spotting).
The corpses of the soldiers of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion were recovered on 14–15 January 1945; the winter weather preserved the flesh and the wounds. The autopsies revealed that approximately twenty of the murdered American soldiers had close-range gunshot wounds to the head — the coup de grâce that ends ...
84 U.S. POWs of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion and hundreds of other U.S. POWs from other units: Perpetrators: 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. Joachim Peiper; Werner Poetschke; Sepp Dietrich
This movement was part of the general German advance during the Battle of the Bulge. At the same time, a US convoy of thirty vehicles and nearly 140 men of Battery B of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion was heading south from Hürtgen Forest toward Ligneuville.
Most of the captured came from Battery B of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion. The Americans were not, it should be emphasized, front line troops who had fought stubbornly and then thrown up their hands at the last moment.
- Malloryk
At about midday, one of the serials in the 7th Armored Division column transiting Malmédy, B Battery of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, arrived outside Pergrin’s temporary headquarters in the Renz house on the St. Vith road.
At about 1 p.m. on December 17, Battle Group Peiper arrived and opened fire on Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, south of the Baugnez crossroads. At a range of about 800 yards across the open snow-covered fields, the Germans caught the Americans completely by surprise.
