The following is a collection of abstracts, anecdotes, articles, reports, chronologies, and illustrations designed to provide a broad perspective of the rich heritage and history of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. Wherever possible, sources are identified, and authors are credited for the content presented.
The following is a collection of abstracts, anecdotes, articles, reports, chronologies, and illustrations designed to provide a broad perspective of the rich heritage and history of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. Wherever possible, sources are identified, and authors are credited for the content presented.
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Major Howard McCyostFebruary 1920Quartermaster Service NewsReprinted in the Quartermaster Professional Bulletin - March 1988 Water purification during and after World War I Wholesome drinking water has become recognized as one of the important elements entering into...
This document from the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum Archives provides a well researched and written history of the Quartermaster Corps' development of the Army Green Uniform. TECHNICAL REPORT 68-41-CM THE ARMY GREEN UNIFORM by Stephen J. Kennedy and...
Extracted from the Magazine of the 1st Logistical Command, Vietnam, April 1968 Utilizing ocean-going tankers, fixed and rotary wing aircraft, tanker trucks, and multi-product pipelines, the 1st Logistical Command distributes more than 100 million gallons of jet,...
By LT. COL. Merwin H. Smith, Q.M.C.Quartermaster Review, November-December 1951 The war in Korea came at a time when Far East Command petroleum stocks were, in general, in good supply except for avgas and jet fuel and packaged stocks of certain grades of lubricating...
LIEUTENANT JOHN K. EVANS, Q.M.C.The Quartermaster ReviewMay-June 1944 AN ARMY marches on its wheels these days, and without fuels and lubricants those wheels bog down in a morass of despair and ultimate defeat. Even in the First World War it was said that...
Extracted from "Quartermaster Support of the Army", pages 660-662Erna Risch, 1962 Storage and distribution of petroleum to the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I , 1917-1918. The storage and distribution of the bulk of Quartermaster Supplies...
World War IWater-Cart showing manner in which it is filled by pumps on rear end. Tank held 150 gal., filled in 20 min, Marbache, (Meurthe-et-Moselle), France,8 September 1918 World War IIRefueling with 5 Gallon-cans NCO from the 4th Quartermaster Company Water Section...
CPT Arnd Frie CPT Jamie Kiessling CPT Gerard L. McCool CPT Thomas Moody CPT Benett Sunds CPT Robert Uppena CPT Garth Yarnall Quartermaster Professional Bulletin/Winter 1998 During the Civil War in the United States, 42 percent of the casualties were unidentified in...
SSG Randy E. Posey & SGT Cedric T. RigginsQuartermaster Professional Bulletin - Summer 1996Peace enforcement operations: a new term in the Quartermaster dictionary. Quartermasters have had some opportunities to define and explore this new support concept. With the...
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 concept....