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49. Mission and Orfanization. The mission of the <strong>Quartermaster</strong><br />

Eruck oom>any, or trooptransport dompany, is tu<br />

provide transportation for the haulin6 of carbo and for the<br />

m0Ve"t of personnel by motor transport. It is a mobile,<br />

flexible unit, and is orLanlzed into a company headquarters<br />

and three operating ulatoons. Each platoon operates 16<br />

trucks, two and one-hlf ton 6 x 6 oargo, with 16 trailers,<br />

1-ton, 2 wheel, and each platoon has suffioient equipment to<br />

perform liolited claintenanoe. The maintenance section, equip-<br />

ped with complete second yhelon equipment, operates under<br />

the company headquarters.<br />

50. Allocation and Con-.<br />

a. In the Communications Zone the TPanBpOrt€itiOn<br />

Corps assumed camruand and operational control of the truck<br />

oompanies.2 In the Combat Zone companies were allocated by<br />

army pup to armies, and Brrcdes to subordinate QOrpB and<br />

divisions, In some instances allocation or oorapanies was<br />

made direct from Lamy group to division. The <strong>Army</strong>, Corps<br />

and Division <strong>Quartermaster</strong>s norually retained oyerational<br />

oontrol over the companies, subject to the allocation and<br />

dispatch control exercised by the G-4.3<br />

b. Of the 464 Quarterblaster truck oomA,anies in<br />

the European Theater of O;rerations, 170 were allocated to<br />

the 12th <strong>Army</strong> Group. The troop basis for this allooation<br />

was as follows:3<br />

Type Unit Basis of Allocation Total Type Total<br />

Number Cwi;*anies Units in 12th Companies<br />

<strong>Army</strong> Group Allocated<br />

<strong>Army</strong> Group Hqs 1 1 1<br />

<strong>Army</strong> Hgs 1 4 4<br />

Corps Hq6 2 11 22<br />

Divisions 3 44 132<br />

Additional for<br />

new Armored<br />

Division 1 11 11<br />

Total 170<br />

cy The 12th <strong>Army</strong> Group recommended an increase of<br />

11 truck oompanies in the allocation based bn the fact that<br />

each Armorsd division required, and had attached to it, two<br />

truck companies throuehout the operation. These truok ampanies<br />

were organic in the old-type Armored divisions,<br />

During actual operations on the continent, however, the<br />

total allocation of 170 companies was never assigned to the<br />

group and serious motor t asportation shortaEes existed<br />

throuoout the operati0n.t This sane shorta,e of truck com-<br />

panies, compared with proposed allocation, was experienced<br />

throughout the European Theater, Twelve oom:.anies were on<br />

the continent by 18 June 1944 ana by the end of operations<br />

May 19L5, there was a total o 164 companies assiqned to<br />

unite in the 12th <strong>Army</strong> Group. 5<br />

- 34 -<br />

R-E-S-T-R-14 -T-E-D

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