Soldiers whose infobox lists team IPW 46. If someone is missing or listed in error, edit that soldier's page.
The full roster is also at Category:Team IPW 46.
Class-roster terms: About the data.
Soldiers edit
Unit history (1943–1945) edit
Compiled from the contemporary typescript History and Activities of the Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team Number Forty-Six (RB Archive packet for Adolf Steiner; scans below). Dates and spellings follow that document as closely as OCR allows; uncertain names are left unlinked.
Activation and movement to the ETO edit
IPW Team No. 46 was activated at Camp Ritchie, Maryland, on 15 December 1943. Early officers and enlisted men named in the history include Lts. Diamant and Vogel (not yet firmly matched to roster pages), Lt. Adolf Steiner, Mendel Weinberg, Tec 3 Sumner, and Frank W. Hayes.
In early January 1944 Sumner was relieved; Hayes was promoted (Tec 5 → Tec 3) and Karl G. Heidemann appears with the team. On 18 January 1944 the team left Camp Ritchie for the POE at Fort Hamilton, New York; on 27 January it embarked at New York on the steamer Rangitata. After debarkation at Liverpool (7 February) and time at the 10th Replacement Depot (Camp Lichfield), the unit moved via Broadway and was associated with MIS before reactivation and attachment orders in April.
First Army / 30th Infantry Division edit
In April 1944 the team was attached to First U.S. Army and then to the 30th Infantry Division, with further attachment to the 120th Infantry Regiment (and related headquarters company orders). Capt. John H. Woorm and Lt. Felix Muller appear among the April officer reliefs/assignments.
The team embarked at Southampton (10 June) and debarked on Omaha Beach (12 June 1944). First prisoner-of-war processing is dated 15 June. Through Normandy the history records the Vire crossing, the St-Lô jump-off, and the saturation bombing of 25 July 1944, when Heidemann was hit by shrapnel and evacuated. Weinberg was evacuated for high fever around the same period. Temporary attachments to the 119th Infantry followed.
Mortain to the Low Countries edit
Capt. Albert C. Gerould assumed command about 10 August 1944 (relieving Woorm). The Mortain fighting and the Northern France drive follow: Domfront, rest near Évreux, Seine crossing, and a noted episode in which Steiner and Hayes “liberated a village.” The team entered Belgium in early September, saw Fort Eben-Emael fall, crossed into the Netherlands after the Albert Canal, and rested at Heerlerbaan. Lt. Morton D. Weinert joined about 14 September 1944. Hans Eichenwald and Martin A. Baer are listed from mid-August attachments; Stephan S. Rotszyld from October.
Siegfried Line, Bulge, Germany edit
Autumn–winter entries include the Siegfried Line / Roer fighting, Ubach, and winter quarters (including Christmas at Bevercé). The history notes the bombing of Malmedy and Bulge-period operations with the 30th Division—consistent with the team’s later Interrogation Report No. 107 while attached to Headquarters, 120th Infantry.
Into 1945 the narrative continues through the Rhine crossing, armored advances (e.g. Detmold, Barleben, Wernigerode, Plauen), recall from the 30th Division, and temporary association with Seventh Army / documentation centers before orders toward Third Army intelligence channels. The history states that with Steiner’s redeployment the team was inactivated after about twenty months (about nineteen in the ETO), having missed no day in action between 12 June 1944 and VE Day.
Confirmed roster names (ASN match) edit
Officers and enlisted men listed on the history’s roster page with Army serial numbers that match existing soldier articles:
- John H. Woorm — Capt.; periods including Apr 1944–1945
- Albert C. Gerould — Capt.; assumed command Aug 1944
- Felix Muller — Lt.; Apr–Aug 1944 (evacuated after shrapnel)
- Morton D. Weinert — Lt.; joined Sep 1944
- Adolf (Albert) Steiner — Lt.; activation through inactivation
- Frank W. Hayes — Tec 3; activation through inactivation
- Mendel Weinberg — S/Sgt; Dec 1943–Jul 1944 (evacuated)
- Hans Eichenwald — S/Sgt; from Aug 1944
- Martin A. Baer — Tec 3/5; from Aug 1944
- Karl G. Heidemann — Tec 5; Dec 1943–Jul 1944 (wounded St-Lô)
- Stephan S. Rotszyld — Tec 5; from Oct 1944
Unlinked or ambiguous in the OCR (need curator review before profiling): Lts. Diamant and Vogel; Tec 3 Sumner; and several enlisted men on detached service (OCR fragments only).
Interrogation Report No. 107 (27 December 1944) edit
During the Battle of the Bulge, IPW Team No. 46 was attached to Headquarters, 120th Infantry Regiment (A.P.O. 30 — 30th Infantry Division). At 1930 on 27 December 1944 the team issued Interrogation Report No. 107 covering PWs processed from 2200 hours 26 December through 27 December.
The report names no American interrogators. It summarizes two German prisoners (PW Nos. 3824–3825): one from 4 Co / 11 Pz Regt, 9 Pz Div (referencing Report No. 106) and one from Hq I Bn / 293 VG Regt, 18 VG Div, captured near map coordinates (792020) after a security squad was moved from Bellevaux to a roadblock and overrun. Unit-history notes place the 293rd VGR battalion’s move from Denmark via Bleialf (Schnee-Eifel) into the Malmedy–Stavelot sector.
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IPW Team No. 46 — Interrogation Report No. 107, 27 December 1944 (Hq 120th Inf Regt / APO 30) -
History and Activities of IPW Team No. 46 — page 1 (roster / early chronology) -
History and Activities of IPW Team No. 46 — page 2 (ETO chronology through Sep 1944) -
History and Activities of IPW Team No. 46 — page 3 (Siegfried Line through inactivation) -
Enlisted men’s dedication to Lt. A. Steiner (IPW Team No. 46)
Sources edit
- History and Activities of the Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team Number Forty-Six (pages 1–3; RB Archive / Steiner packet)
- IPW Team No. 46 enlisted dedication to Lt. A. Steiner (RB Archive / Steiner packet)
- IPW Team No. 46, Interrogation Report No. 107, 27 December 1944 (NARA declassified holdings; Authority NND 735017)
- Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge
- Adolf Steiner soldier profile (packet source of the unit history scans)