Chiefly on the advice of Washington, the committee that had investigated supply conditions at Valley Forge recommended that Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene be appointed Quartermaster General.

The many challenges faced by QM General Thomas Jesup at the onset of the Mexican-American War.

General Grant gave his highest praise to City Point and the Quartermaster personnel who ran this critical operation by stating: “There has been no army in the United States where the duties of Quartermaster have been so well performed.”

The Story of the USS Chattanooga, a “home-made” steamboat built by the Quartermaster Department in October 1863 to carry supplies to General Grant’s starving army at Chattanooga, Tennessee. As told by Assistant Quartermaster William Le Duc, who “commanded” the Chattanooga.

The business of the department naturally divides itself into three sub-departments, as follows: (1) Clothing, camp, and garrison equipage; (2) Transportation by land and water, with all its means and supplies; and (3) Regular and contingent supplies for the army and the department.

Historians and others have primarily highlighted the tactics of war without considering the logistics. This article will examine the supply system of General Sherman’s army in his campaign for Atlanta, GA.

The Story of Montgomery Cunningham Meigs.

The general objective of the Quartermaster service in the AEF was to maintain a stock of ninety days’ supply in France, replenished partly by automatic shipment and partly by requisition on supply agencies in the United States and by local procurement.

Extracted From: America’s Munitions 1917-1918, Report of Benedict Crowell, The Assistant Secretary of War, Director of Munitions | Government Printing Office, Washington - 1919

Firsthand observations of a division Quartermaster company from training to overseas service.

Short biographic sketch from the former Quartermaster historian.

A short overview of Quartermaster activities and a list of some units present at D-Day.

89th Quartermaster Railhead Company in the Battle of the Bulge 1944.

This is an account of the duties, experiences, and problems of a division quartermaster from the time the Second Infantry Division departed from its home station at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, in November 1942, ...

June 1944, During the first week the First Army and V Corps quartermaster (who landed on D-day) and the Engineer Special Brigade, were confronted with one of the greatest supply, burial, and evacuation difficulties in modern warfare.

It was a raw bleak morning on the 27th of February when the 970th QM Service Company sailed out of the New York harbor on the first leg of a journey thousands of miles long, packed with hard work, experiences, and thrills galore.

Foreseeing the situation as it would be following the Lingayen invasion, the War Department, several months prior to the operation, had authorized the activation of a Highway Transportation Division and its assignment for duty to the Luzon Base Section.

This article is based on an interview with 1st Lt. James Cooper. who was in the Quartermaster Office, Base K Headquarters, during the Leyte invasion.

Another ”impossible” supply situation has been overcome, but with our supply lines growing longer and more difficult every day, the Quartermaster will be called upon to solve countless others in the near future.

One of the most interesting stories told by men returned from Japanese prisoner-of-war camps is that of Lieutenant Joseph Goodman, Q.M.C. Bombed, strafed, and half starved for over three years, Lieutenant Goodman somehow managed to survive the rigors of prison life, from Manila to Manchuria.

Never in United States military history was the Army Quartermaster Corps called upon for greater feats of endurance and ingenuity than in the Battle of Bataan.

The story of the Philippine and Bataan Quartermaster Depots is a saga of “too little and too late” - a saga of supply when adequate supplies simply did not exist.

More than 32,000 officers, officer cadets, and key enlisted personnel were trained at The Quartermaster School between July 1,1940, and December 3, 1945.

Service support consequently develops from: what has to be done, what can be done, how it has been done previously, what there is to do it with, and how it can be done.

These were the men and trucks of the 2nd Quartermaster Company on their way to pick up supplies. This was the small contingent that had kept the Indianhead Division fed, fueled, supplied, and clothed through its tough campaign in South Korea.

First Cavalry Division’s Quartermaster section came to Korea green and untried for the type of operation in store for them.

Early in July of 1951 truce negotiations at Panmunjom, Korea, began. One of the important discussion topics was the exchange of prisoners of war.

Division Quartermaster trucking missions in the combat zone are as diversified as they are numerous, and not necessarily limited to the support of Quartermaster operations.

Department of the Army General Order #39, 9 June 1955, Korean Service Medal and United Nations Service Medal, lists unit designated by the Commander in Chief, Far East, as having directly supported the military effort in Korea although they may not have been physically located in Korea.

On 19 Jan 93, the 267th Quartermaster Company successfully deployed 110 personnel from Fort Lee, VA, to assume control of all bulk petroleum assets in Mogadishu and Log Base Durham at Jilib.

Logistics operations were fast-paced and extremely reactive, which resulted in a premium on quick, effective and flexible planning.

A small element of 30 personnel was tasked with purifying and distributing water to United Nations Operation Somalia (UNOSOM) Forces, as part of Operation Restore Hope.