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Military Police Units in USFA
US Forces in Austria
Looking for more information from military/civilian personnel assigned to or associated with the U.S. Forces, Austria from 1945 to 1955. If you have any stories or thoughts on the subject, please contact me.

 

796th MP Bn History

505th MP Bn

61st MP Co

64th MP Co

65th MP Co

67th MP Co

68th MP Co

202nd MP Co

572nd MP Co

501st MP Stockade Det

USFA Stockades
Hörsching (Camp McCauley)
Salzburg (Camp Truscott)
Vienna

 
505th Military Police Battalion
(Source: Email from William (Bill) A. Good)
I was in Vienna from Jan. 1946 until Nov.

I served with the 505, 524, and 796 Military Police in Vienna. I have two large photos of the Motorcycle Squad, B Company at Mariahilfer. I have many 2"X3" pictures taken with a small kodak brownie in Vienna and some at Tulln Air Base.

I have some history of my tour of duty in Vienna and would like to share it.
Military Police
Vienna

 

1. 505th MP Bn barracks

2. B Co, 505th MP Bn jeep

 

3. Motorcycle Squad, B Co
4. Several Vienna MPs on their motorcycles
5. 796th MP Bn headquarters		  

6. MP Station

7. Jeep patrol on Währingerstrasse

8. Sports event

9. Near the City Park
       
Mariahilfestrasse
Vienna

 

1. Court yard

2. John Willoughby
3. Willoughby, Austrian policeman, Holt 		4. Motor pool

5. Barracks room 		     
       
Währingerstrasse
Vienna

 

1. Motor pool inspection
2. Motor pool on Währingerstrasse 		   
       
Mail car from Linz
Wien Westbahnhof

 

1. Westbahnhof

2. 440th QM Co truck

3. Mail guard

4. Mail car
       
Miscellaneous
Vienna

 

1. Reminder of the recent past
2. Hotel Austria

3. Street scene

4. American soldiers in Vienna

5. Tuxedo Club

6. Yank theater

7. Russian soldiers parade in Vienna

8. Russian Headquarters on the Ring

9. 110th Sta Hosp
10. Air show at Tulln AB, summer 1946

11. Air show at Tulln AB, summer 1946

12. Air show at Tulln AB, summer 1946
 
501st Military Police Stockade Detachment

USFA Stockade area, Camp McCauley aerial photo mid-1950s (Jakob Dinier, Austria)

USFA Stockade area, installation map, Camp McCauley (Jakob Dinier, Austria)

USFA Stockade sign (John Mahoney)
c. 1953
(Source: John Mahoney, son of late John Mahoney who served with the 501st MP Detachment at Hörsching, Austria)
I am sending you photos taken by my Father, PFC John Mahoney, 501st Military Police Det, USFA Stockade at Camp McCauley, Austria.

(Webmaster note: additional Camp McCauley photos submitted by John can be viewed on the Linz Page in the USFA Camp Directory section.)

USFA Stockade
Hörsching

 

1. Det sign in front of barracks
2. General's visit
3. Entrance to USFA Stockade compound

4. Signs at entrance

5. Sentry Post #1

6. PFC Mahoney

7. Tower #1

8. Tower #1

9. Perimeter fence.

10. Det commander



 
67th Military Police Company

An MP from the 67th MP Co in Wels (Louis Ferran)

The 67th MP Co billets in Wels (Louis Ferran)
(Source: "American Military Police in Europe, 1945-1991," by Robert L. Gunnarsson, Jr., 2011)
67th Military Police Company

The 67th MP Company was activated on September 15, 1948 at Camp McCauley, Hörsching, Austria and posted at Wels Air Base. The company was initially attached to the 25th Transportation Traffic Regulation Battalion.

The 67th and 68th MP Companies (activated in Salzburg around the same time) were created under a force reduction plan that involved the concurrent inactivation of the 524th MP Battalion in Linz. For all practical purposes the battalion was converted into two smaller sized units. USFA Command delegated each of the two MP companies a portion of the mission previously conducted by the 524th Battalion.

For the 67th MP Co that meant it assumed a dual-mission:
1. to train guards needed to secure rail movements (supply trains and the "Mozart" passenger train) along the line of communication from the ports of Leghorn (Livorno) and Trieste into Austria;
2. to provide VIP guards for dignitaries visiting the area.

To accomplished this mission, the company was subdivided into a headquarters section and two operational platoons, each subdivided into four squads per platoon. By March 1950, individual squads were posted at Linz, Vienna, Leghorn, Trieste and Munich to provide coverage throughout the unit's area of responsibility.

On March 25, 1952 the 67th MP Company was reorganized, increased in size, and assigned a new dual-mission of providing law enforcement and highway patrol durties at Camp McCauley in Linz and Camp Roeder in Salzburg. The company was placed under the operational control of the commanding general, Linz Military Post. The new duties included post and highway patrol and armored car projects. In addition, the company was required to assign troopers to the Enns checkpoint, to the vice squad and to game warden duties.

As a result of the pending implementation of the State Trraty in Austria, the 67th was scheduled for elimination. The company was officially inactivated on July 31, 1955 at Camp McCauley.

67th MP Co
Wels, Austria

 

1. Highway Patrol
2. Enns Bridge
3. Greif Hotel

4. Wels PX



 
572nd Military Police Company
(Source: Email from Paul Lilly)
I was assigned to the 572nd Military Police at Wels, Austria.

We were at a building in the middle of town. Then we moved to Camp Roeder. This was in 1953.
 
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