765th Transportation Railway Shop Battalion in the Korean War By Dave Kaufman
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734th ROB History pt 1 MRS journal vo4 no1 Jan 1957 : Rough road to Munchen - Gladbach
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Great list from Wikipedia page for the Military Railway Service units - 1st 2nd and 3rd MRS
Great list from Wikipedia page for the Military Railway Service units - 1st 2nd and 3rd MRS
List of Railway Grand Divisions and their sponsors
Unit Sponsor Date of Activation
701st New York Central Railroad 01/11/1943
702nd Union Pacific Railroad 10/15/1942
703rd Atlantic Coast Line Railroad 08/01/1943
704th Great Northern Railway 11/30/1942
705th Southern Pacific Lines 05/19/1943
706th Pennsylvania Railroad 08/06/1943
707th Southern Railway 06/10/1943
708th Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 04/06/1943
709th Association of American Railroads 03/15/1944
710th Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 12/14/1943
774th None (Organized in Italy) 1944
List of Railway Operating Battalions
Unit Sponsor Date of Activation
711th Training Battalion. Built and maintained the 50 mile Claiborne-Polk Military Railroad 05/01/1941
712th Reading Railroad 10/25/1942
713th Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 04/15/1942
714th Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway 10/31/1942
715th Illinois Central Railroad 10/31/1942
716th Southern Pacific Lines 12/21/1943
717th Pennsylvania Railroad 12/01/1943
718th Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway 12/14/1943
719th Texas and New Orleans Railroad 09/01/1943
720th Chicago and North Western Railway 08/26/1943
721st New York Central Railroad 04/14/1943
722nd Seaboard Air Line Railroad 12/14/1943
723rd Union Pacific Railroad 12/28/1943
724th Pennsylvania Railroad 12/28/1943
725th Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 02/17/1943
726th Wabash Railroad 06/26/1943
727th Southern Railway 03/15/1942
728th Louisville and Nashville Railroad 01/11/1943
729th New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 01/11/1943
730th Pennsylvania Railroad 05/15/1942
731st Union Pacific Railroad Did not Activate
732nd Great Northern Railway 01/12/1944
733rd Central of Georgia Railway 11/23/1943
734th Texas and New Orleans Railroad 02/23/1944
735th ARR/Erie Railroad 02/10/1944
736th New York Central Did not Activate
737th New York Central 09/30/1944
738th Chicago Great Western Railway Did not Activate
739th Lehigh Valley Railroad Did not Activate
740th Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 12/14/1943
741st Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad 01/12/1944
742nd Pennsylvania Railroad Did not Activate
743rd Illinois Central Railroad 01/12/1944
744th Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 12/21/1943
745th Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 05/19/1943
746th Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad 05/04/1944
747th Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Did not Activate
748th Texas and Pacific Railway 05/12/1943
749th New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad 02/23/1943
750th St. Louis – San Francisco Railway 03/21/1944
751st Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Did not Activate
752nd Boston and Maine Railroad 05/04/1944
759th Missouri Pacific Railroad 09/01/1942
761st Railway Transportation Company 07/22/1942
770th None 08/09/1942
790th None 07/08/1943
791st No sponsorship (activated at Andimeshk, Iran) 07/01/1943
List of Railway Shop Battalions
Unit Sponsor Date of Activation
753d Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway 04/15/1942
754th Southern Pacific Lines 10/25/1942
755th Norfolk & Western Railway 11/30/1942
756th Pennsylvania Railroad 01/11/1943
757th Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad 06/10/1943
758th Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway 04/06/1943
760th No sponsorship 06/16/1942
762d No sponsorship 10/15/1942
763d Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad; Lehigh Valley Railroad 07/27/1943
764th Boston & Maine Railroad 10/25/1943
765th Erie Railroad 05/01/1944
766th Association of American Railroads 07/17/1944
Note: The 760th and 762d were RSB (Diesel); all others were RSB (Steam).
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2nd Military Railway Service HQ Boyd W. Stone
Thanks to Don Stone for this great indformation on his grandfather, Maj. Boyd W. Stone, Sr., of the 2nd MRS
In 1943 our Dad was drafted into the Army. Soon after, Gramps volunteered for the Army (Gram’s reaction to this decision is still echoing off the buildings on Ashland Ave. in St. Louis) and was commissioned a Captain in the 2nd Military Railway Unit, Headquarters Company. The 2nd Military Railway Unit was to be in charge of all railway transportation in northern France after the D-Day invasion. After training at a post that no longer exists outside of New Orleans, the unit went to England to await D-Day.On D+11 (eleven days after June 6, 1944) an advance party of 2nd MRS personnel (inlcuding Gramps) went into France through the Normandy beachhead. Some days thereafter Gramps was shot by a sniper, becoming the first casualty in his unit, and was medically evacuated back to England. His wound was the equivalent of his 3rd Purple Heart (I say “equivalent” because he wasn’t awarded “wound stripes” for his injuries in WW I because he didn’t go to a hospital).
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