by Amy McClure | Aug 29, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs in World War I and Interwar Years
By MAJOR Louis C. WILSON Q.M.C.The Quartermaster ReviewMay-June 1930 A MOST tremendous appeal to patriotic fervor, to gratitude, and to sentiment, is now materializing in the pilgrimages provided by our government for the mothers and widows of our...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Desert Storm
This detachment suffered the greatest number of casualties of any allied unit during Operation Desert Storm due to a SCUD Missile attack on February 25, 1991 Members of the 14th Quartermaster Detachment receive a hero’s welcome at Latrobe Airport, Pennsylvania,...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | General History
Glen C MorrisQuartermaster Professional Bulletin-Summer 1992 Ever since the U.S. Army drew its first “line in the sand” at Lexington, MA, in the days of the American Revolution, commanders have been responsible for providing their soldiers with quality...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Somalia
SFC Kenneth E. Price, Jr.Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Spring 1994 Quartermaster water support during Operation Restore Hope in Jilib, Somalia, reinforced one non-commissioned officer’s viewpoint of the Army’s need for strict sanitation...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Desert Storm
This detachment suffered the greatest number of casualties of any allied unit during Operation Desert Storm due to a SCUD Missile attack on February 25, 1991. Members of the 14th Quartermaster Detachment receive a hero’s welcome at Latrobe Airport, Pennsylvania,...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | 1980’s Transition
David L. BruenQuartermaster Professional Bulletin – Spring 1994 Overview on the transition of the Water Operations mission and training from the Engineer to the Quartermaster Corps in 1981 The Petroleum and Water Department at the U.S. Army Quartermaster Center...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | World War I
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...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Vietnam
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 Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Korea
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...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | World War II
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...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | World War I
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...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Petroleum & Water
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...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs Today
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...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs in Bosnia
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....
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs in 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 Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs in Korea
By LTC John C. Cook, Q.M.C.The Quartermaster ReviewMarch-April 1953 THE respect and care for the honored dead, the men who died for an ideal and their country, traditional with the people of the nations embracing western civilization, has never been so resolutely...
by Amy McClure | Aug 26, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs in World War II
Recovery in 1959 of B-24 Bomber crew lost in Libyan Desert in 1943 Story of the 1959-60 search for and recovery of crew members of the B-24 Bomber Lady Be Good. This aircraft was discovered in the Libyan Desert 16 years after it lost its way back from a World...
by Amy McClure | Aug 25, 2022 | Gander, Newfoundland
On the morning of December 12, 1985, at 0645 local time (0515 EST), Arrow Airlines flight 1285, a DC-8-63 charter carrying 248 passengers and a crew of eight, crashed just after takeoff form Gander International Airport, Gander, Newfoundland,...
by Amy McClure | Aug 25, 2022 | Jonestown, Guyana
Fort Lee Traveller, December 7, 1978By Frank Wright and Marie M. Russo It started out as a fact finding mission by an American congressman. It ended as one of the most horrendous acts of self-destruction in history. The location: Jonestown, Guyana. The Incident:...
by Amy McClure | Aug 25, 2022 | National Cemetery System
Edward SteereQuartermaster Review, March-April 1953 Congress provided the legal sanction for creation of a national cemeterial system by authorizing President Lincoln in the Act of July 17, 1862, “to purchase cemetery grounds … to be used as a national...
