Colonel Dennington graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in January 1943. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. Ordered to Europe in January 1944 from the Atlanta General Depot, he served in the Supply Division, Office of the Theater Quartermaster, before volunteering for duty as Quartermaster Supply […]
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,…
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… read more Mortuary Affairs Today CPT Arnd Frie […]
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, March 9, 1991Specialist Steven Hawkins proudly holds the unit’s tattered guidon at present arms First […]
Korean War Era By Lieutenant Gordon C. BennettQuartermaster Review January-February 1953 “When there is no book, write the book!” Members of the 8081st Army Unit (full designation: Quartermaster Airborne Air Supply & Packaging Company) were faced with this alternative a few… read more Korean War Era By PVT. Tony RickettiQuartermaster Review September-October 1953 When it […]
CW4 Beu’s key assignments include: Training Developer, Combined Arms Support Command, Fort Lee; Senior Food Service Technician, U.S. Forces and Eighth United States Army, Republic of Korea; Senior Food Service Technician, Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC), Kuwait; Executive Food Program Manager, Fort Eustis, Virginia; and the Division Food Advisor, 1st Armored Division, Bad Kreuznach, […]
Colonel Stephen Cherry received his Bachelor’s Degree from East Carolina University and Masters Degrees from the City University of New York in Public Administration and a Master’s in Strategic Studies from the Marine Corps War College, Marine Corps University, in Quantico, Virginia. Stephen enlisted in the Army 19 December 1983 and attended Infantry Basic and […]
Bosnia (Humanitarian Airdrop) & New Technology CPT Stephen R. Davis CPT Mary E. Denniston CPT Edward F. EhlersCPT John B. Hinson CPT Maria Ogden Quartermaster Professional Bulletin-Autumn 1997 Operation Provide Promise was the largest humanitarian airdrop operation in the history of the United States. Relief… read more Bosnia (Humanitarian Airdrop) & New Technology CPT Brian […]
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 cemetery for… read more National Cemetery System by Edward SteereQuartermaster Review-May/June 1953 The […]
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… read more General History Glen C MorrisQuartermaster Professional […]
General Case was born in Raquette Lake, New York, on March 20, 1914, and died on January 25, 1996. He graduated from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Speaking, and was commissioned in the US Army in 1936. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College and […]
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 Supplies… read more
Civil War The Quartermaster Review – September-October 1928 EDITOR’S NOTE.-The following article was supplied by Lt. Col. A. B. Warfield, Q. M. C., and furnishes invaluable information as to the functioning of the Quartermaster Corps during the Civil War period–nothing,… read more Civil War The Story of the USS Chattanooga, a “home-made” steamboat built by […]
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 into… read more Post-World War II Development This document from the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum Archives provides […]
