USAREUR Units - 35th QM Bn

HISTORY OF THE 35TH QUARTERMASTER BATTALION

The Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 35th Quartermaster Battalion, was activated on 15 March 1944 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts as the 216th Quartermaster Battalion. It was constituted 8 March 1944 in the Army of the United States. The Battalion served throughout World War II in the Far East where it was awarded a campaign streamer for the Ryukyus Campaign. The organization was inactivated on 25 July 1949 at Seoul, Korea.

Redesignated at Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 35th Quartermaster Battalion and allocated to the Regular Army on 7 March 1951, the organization was reactivated on 1 June 1951 at Roth, Germany.

In 1951 the Battalion was transferred from Roth to Coffey Barracks, Ludwigsburg, Germany, and served continuously on active duty in Germany with the 510th Quartermaster Company (1), 531st Quartermaster Company, 568th Quartermaster Company and the 7th US Army Quartermaster Company (DS 3762) as subordinate units.

On 25 September 1961 the Battalion was reorganized as a Direct Support (DS) Battalion with Company A and Company B, Direct Support. The 510th, 531st, 568th and the 3762 QM Companies were deactivated.

The 109th Transportation Company was activated on 4 June 1951, at Hammelburg, Germany.

Redesignated as Light Truck Company on 5 June 1953 it was reorganized as Medium Truck, Petroleum on 20 October 1953.

The unit moved from Hammelburg to Krabbenloch Kaserne in December 1951, to Flak Kaserne in March 1955 and then to Coffey Barracks in November 1961. The 109th served well during World War II earning for itself a Meritorious Unit Citation Streamer in the European Theater and 8 Campaign Silver Bands.

The peacetime mission of the 35th Quartermaster Battalion is as follows:
Operate a field bakery in Ludwigsburg; three Class I Supply Points, one in Ludwigsburg, one in Karlsruhe and one in Heilbronn; an ECS 702 Troop Issue Account in Karlsruhe, two Self Service Stores at Ludwigsburg and Karlsruhe; Supply II and IV Supply Expendables from a Self Service Supply Center; post, carry and station property through an ECP-256, all located in Ludwigsburg; operate 5 Clothing Sales Stores, one each at Stuttgart, Goeppingen, Crailsheim, Heilbronn and Karlsruhe and a Clothing Sales Van; distribute petroleum products from two Supply Points, one each in Ludwigsburg and Karlsruhe; maintain designated Reserve Points; conduct line haul of petroleum from PDC pipeheads to Class III Supply Points of the 2nd Quartermaster Group using attached 109th Transportation Company (Med Trk)(Petrl); make local deliveries of petroleum to Quartermaster Gas Stations, mess halls, unit motor pools and other facilities. The Battalion also operates a field maintenance activity in Ludwigsburg with off-site typewriter repair in Karlsruhe and Patch Barracks; when requested, provides Laundry and Bath support and Graves Registration instruction.

(1) CORRECTION: per Alfred Aya (see email below), should be 512th Quartermaster Company. Per STATION LIST, there was a 510th QM Company in 1960, and no 512th. It is possible that the 512th was replaced by the 510th at some point (maybe GYROSCOPE).