Membership Membership in the Army Quartermaster Foundation is an opportunity to contribute to the preservation and promotion of Quartermaster Corps history and tradition — to assemble the resources required to bring the Quartermaster Corps’ story to life in a state-of-the-art Army Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee, Virginia, and preserve the stories of selfless […]
Army Mortuary Affairs History Page Short Mortuary Affairs History With All Due Honors: A History of the Quartermaster Graves Registration Mission Our Honored Dead Essay on Quartermaster care of the dead from the Civil War to Korea U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory – Hawaii Short History A Short History of Identification Tags traces development of […]
Make A Donation to the US Army Quartermaster Museum Help us Preserve Quartermaster History! Financial Contributions Your donations are highly appreciated as Government funds are not available for facility construction or new acquisitions for the Quartermaster Museum. Any donation of funds to the US Army Quartermaster Museum are administered by the Army Quartermaster Foundation. […]
Note: At the time this article was written the term Graves Registration was used for what is now call Mortuary Affairs. most intensive search in history is being conducted on the far-flung battlefields of World War II. Identification and proper burial of unknown American servicemen who died overseas is a work which will go on […]
14th Quartermaster Detachment 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, 1991 Specialist Steven Hawkins proudly holds the unit’s tattered guidon […]
By Lt. Donald R. Neil, Q. M. C.The Quartermaster Review January-February 1932 Details of the construction of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier AFTER a period of over two years, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is now in its final stage of completion, and is rapidly approaching the form in which it will endure […]
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 American Revolution By Edward PaysonThe Quartermaster Review May-June 1950 It was March 1778 […]
Korean War By LTC IRWIN A. DAHL, QMCThe Quartermaster ReviewJanuary-February 1954 THE SOLUTION of logistical problems arising during an active campaign must reflect an adjustment between lessons derived from previous operations and existing conditions. The factors… read more Korean War By Corporal Mel ScottThe Quartermaster Review(January-February 1951) An article on the 2nd Quartermaster Company, 2nd […]
History of Army Heraldry By Arthur Du BoisThe Quartermaster Review – May-June 1928 WHETHER it is fancy, vanity, a dream, or conceit, the Army has developed a desire to be bedecked with symbolic figures representative of ideals, achievements, and exploits. In 1919 the War Department authorized… read more U.S. Army Symbols Background: Prior to the […]
If you are a Quartermaster Soldier or Civilian of any rank or grade or any component (Regular, Reserve, Guard, DA Civilian, active or retired) or just an affiliate or friend of the Quartermaster Corps, you are important to us. Why, because you’re one of us, and you’re family. And whether you are actively employed or […]
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 as… read more
Over in peaceful Arlington, across the historic Potomac, he rests – our Soldier Unknown – his last fight fought, his last journey ended. Within hallowed stone his tired body sleeps, safe for all time, but his lofty spirit quickens with the years in… By Dr. Steven E. Anders From the Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – September […]
U.S. Army Medals Illustrations and Description United States Army 1944 – Present Description: A gold five-pointed star, each point tipped with trefoils, 1 ½ inches wide, surrounded by a green laurel wreath and suspended from a gold bar inscribed “VALOR”, surmounted by an eagle. In the… read more Flags Colonel John D. Martz, Jr.Army Information […]
54th Quartermaster Company (Mortuary Affairs) Lineage and Honors Statement Constituted in July 1923 in the Organized Reserve as the 350th Graves Registration Unit Redesignated 1 July 1936 as Company A, 711st Quartermaster Battalion Redesignated 1 January 1938 as Company A, 301st Quartermaster Battalion; concurrently withdrawn from the Organized Reserves and allotted to the Regular Army […]
