My grandfather was in the 495 th QM Depot company I have his discharge papers and would like to know what the 495th did ,Where they were stationed if possible and what does hon discharge by reason of AR 615 365 RR1-1 mean.I am trying to piece together my granpas records because no one at the NARA can help.They said there was a fire and records got destroyed,If anyone out there can give me any information I would really be greatful.My granpa was in the service during 1943-1946 and he passed in 2000 and I just want to know his background.Thanks so much for any help.
Hello , My name is barbara , and I too have been doing research . I found a man in Germany who was extremely helpful .... Deutsch ............There is also a site called Footnotes. Good luck with your search. Barbara Bass Bergstrom
Welcome to the forum Georges Granddaughter. The answer to that particular question I cannot assist with, but there are quite a few veterans on this site who have a good grasp of the 'army short-hand'. It may just mean that he was demobilised; as it was 1946! Best, Steve.
There was a fire in St. Louis I believe in 1976 a lot of Air Corp/Force records were destroyed. I requested my father's records and they were able to obtain them from other sources. To some extent is was a section of last names I am not sure anymore what letters but our last name starts with an H and that is one group that was badly damaged. Is his serial number on his discharge papers? You should be able to find something out with his service number. Have you Googled his Unit number or do you have his Enlisted Record and Report of Separation paper?
George's G/D - sounds American to me- so you might be on the wrong Forum for Americans to assist as we have only very few on here - 495th QM ?.... Cheers
Dutch Ship Lands Pacific Veterans in New York. Dutch Ship Lands Pacific Veterans in New York. Dutch Ship Lands Pacific Veterans in New York NEW YORK, Sept. 4. (AP)--The Dutch liner Bloemfontein, one of eight ships bringing more than 10,000 servicemen home from war to East Coast ports today, brought the first American troops to arrive in New York Harbor from the Southwest Pacific since the war's end. The following Army units arrived at East Coast ports today: AT NEW YORK (Aboard Bloemfontein)--858 troops, undesignated units. (Aboard William Wilkins)--110 miscellaneous troops. (Aboard Nick Stoner)--24 troops for reassignment or discharge. (Aboard Henry Wynkoop)--18 reassignment troops. (Aboard Gen. Brooke, originally due tomorrow)--4017 troops, including headquarters and base service squadrons of 459th, 470th, 471st, 497th and 460th air service groups; 63rd and 98th station complement squadrons; headquarters and headquarters detachment 2108th Ordnance Battalion; 435th Quartermaster Platoon; 334th Signal Company; headquarters and headquarters squadron 100th Fighter Wing; headquarters and headquarters squadron, 48th Fighter Group; 492nd, 493rd, 494th and 377th Fighter squadrons, and headquarters and headquarters squadron 362nd Fighter Group. AT BOSTON: (Aboard Bienville, originally due tomorrow)--2336 troops including the 605th, 1252nd, 1259th Engineer combat battalions; headquarters and headquarters detachment of 188th Quartermaster Battalion; 672nd, 695th Ordnance ammunition companies. (Aboard Gen. Bliss, originally due tomorrow)--3349 troops including headquarters and headquarters company of 16th and 20th tank destroyer groups; headquarters and headquarters company of 1131st Engineer Combat Group; 823rd Quartermaster Fumigation snd Bath Company; 887th, 888th, 889th, 915th and 873rd Air Engineer squadrons; 712th Air Materiel Squadron; 64th Airdrome Squadron; 87th, 107th and 310th Army postal units; headquarters 495th Quartermaster Battalion; 658th Engineer Light Equipment Company. AT NEWPORT NEWS: (Aboard G. Wythe)--17 troops, undesignated units. Source: Unknown, "Dutch Ship Lands Pacific Veterans in New York," Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Wednesday, 5 September, 1945, p. 4.
Lineage and Honors Information as of 11 December 2007 HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS COMPANY 495th SUPPORT GROUP Organized 7 February 1910 in the Montana National Guard at Kalispell as Company F, 2d Infantry Regiment Mustered into Federal service 27 June 1916 at Fort William H. Harrison, Montana; mustered out of Federal service 3 November 1916 at Fort William H. Harrison, Montana Called into Federal service 25 March 1917 at Fort William H. Harrison, Montana Drafted into Federal service 5 August 1917 Reorganized and redesignated 19 September 1917 as Company F, 163d Infantry, an element of the 41st Division Demobilized 21 February 1919 at Camp Dix, New Jersey Reorganized 8 May 1923 in the Montana National Guard at Kalispell as Company F, 163d Infantry Regiment Inducted into Federal service 16 September 1940 at Kalispell Inactivated 31 December 1945 in Japan Reorganized and Federally recognized 10 December 1947 at Kalispell as Battery C, 443d Field Artillery Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 1 March 1953 as Battery C, 443d Armored Field Artillery Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 16 December 1953 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 639th Field Artillery Battalion Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 190th Artillery Consolidated 18 December 1967 with Battery B, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 190th Artillery (see ANNEX), and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 2d Squadron, 163d Armored Cavalry Regiment Reorganized and redesignated 1 December 1988 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion, 163d Cavalry Converted and redesignated 1 September 2000 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 495th Transportation Battalion Ordered into active Federal service 10 February 2003 at Kalispell; released 11 June 2004 from active Federal service and reverted to state control Converted and redesignated 1 September 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 495th Support Battalion ANNEX Constituted 16 December 1953 in the Montana Army National Guard as Battery B, 639th Field Artillery Battalion Organized and Federally recognized 16 April 1954 at Kalispell Reorganized and redesignated 1 May 1959 as Battery B, 2d Howitzer Battalion, 190th Artillery HOME STATION: Kalispell CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT World War I Streamer without inscription (THERE WOULD BE COMBAT MEDALS FOR THESE THEATERS OF WAR HE WOULD GET) World War II Papua New Guinea (with arrowhead) Luzon Southern Philippines (with arrowhead) War on Terrorism Campaigns to be determined (Your Grandfather maybe entitled to this Presidential Unit Citation.) DECORATIONS Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered PAPUA BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY: JEFFREY J. CLARKE Chief of Military History (This discribes what his unit would have done, Combat Support Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thank you all for your information,I am so glad to have found this site.PA. Dutchman,I do appreciate all the wonderful advice I certainly will continue to do my search as it is now my mission.My grandfather was a wonderful man and I am proud of him as well as all of our armed forces.Thank you one and all! My Granpa was born in PA. Thank you again!
My father and mother lived around the corner from our home. Pop would sit out on the porch waiting for our sons, his grandsons, to come home from school. My father was so happy and proud of his grandsons. I must believe your Grandfather was very proud of you as his granddaughter. What you are seeking to do is honoring to him and of him. When our oldest son was in 9 TH Grade he had to do a History Report. He asked if he could interview his Grandfather, my father, who was at Hickam on the day the Japanese attacked 12/7/1941. Our son got an A+. I will post it sometime. The information was most helpful in my own search for my father's unit. We taped it and in time I was able to transfer it to a CD. Very few of his Unit survive and very few came back from the early campaigns in the Pacific. He had enlisted in 1937 and served to the end. Without the interview report I doubt I would have made contact with the Unit. Everyone I am in communication with are family members of men who were shot down over the Pacific. Only because my father came home was I able to provide these folks with some documentation of their campaigns in 1941/42/43. Then in 1943 the Unit returned to Hawaii and he was used to train replacement Armorers. Now the Unit Historian lost his brother who was with my father in the first years, he put me in touch with three men who were trained by my father to go back into the Pacific. Sometimes it takes time and some work but it will be well worth it. God bless you and your efforts, your Grandfather would be honored.
