by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | Post-World War II Development
By Brig. Gen. J.C. ODELLThe Quartermaster Review – July/August 1954 The Research and Development Center at Natick, Mass., the Quartermaster Corps’ newest installation, has been designated Headquarters of the Quartermaster Research & Development...
by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | Other Aerial Delivery Historical Articles
CPT Kenneth L. Stanten & CW2 Martin J. Neises Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – September 1988 The mission of the 21st Support Command is to provide logistical support to the U.S. Army European Theater of Operation. Within the 21st Support Command, the...
by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | Korean War Era
Airborne Quartermaster Field Operations By LT. COL. ROBERT C. McKECHNIE, QM-USARQuartermaster Review September-October 1950 What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?—WILLIAM...
by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | World War II Era
Quartermaster Training Service Journal24 November 1944(From the archives of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum, Fort Lee, Virginia) The plane’s nosing over now. You’re heading down towards the jungle. As the plane circles lower, your eyes keep...
by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | Rigger Essentials
The first Parachute badge was designed during World War II by Captain (later Lieutenant General) William P. Yarborough of the 501st Parachute Battalion. A memorandum of record written by Captain Yarborough on April 22, 1941, tells the story of the birth of the...
by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | History of Army Heraldry
Colonel Ralph R. BurrArmy Information Digest – August 1961 A mistake in identification by a general early in the Civil War started the system of shoulder patches that now is common in the U. S. Army. The use of these distinctive unit emblems to identify soldiers...
by Josh | Aug 24, 2022 | Remount
By Major A. A. CEDERWALD, QM-Res.The Quartermaster Review – November-December 1928 IN TRACING the events that led up to the organization of the Remount Service, as we know it today, it seems desirable, purely as an historical recital, to state briefly the efforts made...
by Josh | Aug 24, 2022 | General History
Quartermaster Generals 1775 to Present
by Josh | Aug 24, 2022 | War Dogs
Quartermaster Training Service Journal – 7 July 1944 About 4 Feb 44, T/4 Boude with his scout dog, Dick, went out with a Marine reconnaissance patrol of about fifteen men from Co. K. The mission of the patrol was to locate and reconnoiter a trail through a...
by Josh | Aug 24, 2022 | World War II
Quartermasters hit the beach (Quartermaster Review Sept-Oct 1944) “No one seems ever to think a soldier in QM ever gets to smell any gunpowder, dig any foxholes, get into any fighting, go without food, mail and the like. Our QM outfit hit the beach on D-day...
by Josh | Aug 15, 2022 | Somalia
LT David B. Roath SFC Frank NapoleonQuartermaster Professional Bulletin – Autumn 1993 Operations other than war (OOTW)-a new term in the Quartermaster dictionary. Quartermasters have had some opportunities to define and explore this new support...
by Josh | Aug 15, 2022 | Korean War
by 2nd Lt. Richard L. Henson, QMCQuartermaster Review January-February 1954 EARLY in July of 1951 truce negotiations at Panmunjom, Korea, began. One of the important discussion topics was the exchange of prisoners of war. The final outcome of this topic in the truce...
by Josh | Aug 14, 2022 | Civil War
by LT Nick OverbyQuartermaster Professional Bulletin-Winter 1992 “War is Hell” – the famous quote attributed to Major General William T. Sherman – was an understatement for the time and a reality for the soldiers of the Civil War....
by Josh | Aug 13, 2022 | Heritage
Former members of the Quartermaster Corps include U.S. Presidents, supreme court justices, military heroes and prominent citizens. From the American Revolution to about 1912, officers and noncommissioned officers were detailed from the Infantry, Artillery and...
by Josh | Aug 26, 2022 | World War II
Colonel G. F. Doriot, Q.M.C.*The Quartermaster Review – March-April 1944 History of the Quartermaster Subsistence Research Laboratory A QUARTER of a century ago at this Depot a new procedure in Army subsistence was inaugurated. A step was taken which was to...
by Josh | Aug 26, 2022 | General History
By MAJ. Louis C. WILSON Q. M. C.The Quartermaster Review – May-June 1928 Overview of Army Rations from the Revolutionary War to 1928 FROM THE wielding of a club by the primitive cave man to the handling of modern scientific and effective implements of warfare by...
by Josh | Aug 26, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs in Korea
Cpl. William R. Davidson of Philadelphia, Pa., 114th Graves Registration Co., Quartermaster Corps, fills out a Form 52B, giving information regarding a deceased American soldier at the UN Cemetery at Taegu, Korea. At right are (l-r) marker (cross), unidentified...
by Josh | Aug 26, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs in World War II
by Major Scott T. Glass Quartermaster Professional Bulletin-Autumn 1997 The author thanks First Sergeant Francis Miner of the 3060th Quartermaster Company,Colonel David A. Pergrin of the 291st Engineer Battalion, Joseph Potten of Malmedy, and Henri Rogister of Liege,...
by Josh | Aug 26, 2022 | Other Subsistence Historical Articles
CPT Mark RusselburgQuartermaster Professional Bulletin – Summer 1992 The future of Army food is happening now at the Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center in Natick, MA. Home of the Department of Defense Food Program, the center is responsible for all...
by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | Aerial Delivery / Rigger Photographs
From the Archives of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and the Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department, U.S. Army Quartermaster School and Center, Fort Lee, Virginia Operation “Test Drop”, Fort Bragg, NC, February 1953, An MRS tractor which landed...
