730th Railway Operating Battalion

• Costa, Jack H. — Company A, 730th Railway Operating Battalion
• Broadle, John Joseph — Headquarters Company, 730th Railway Operating Battalion

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732nd Railway Operating Battalion

• Duran, Roberto — 732nd Railway Operating Battalion
• Hodge, Arnold — Company A, 732nd Railway Operating Battalion
• Sutliff, Nelson Harvey — Headquarters Company, 732nd Railway Operating Battalion
• Walker, Harold — Company B, 732nd Railway Operating Battalion

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733rd Railway Operating Battalion

• Coops, Samuel — Company C, 733rd Railway Operating Battalion
• Coker, Young Dempsey — Company C, 733rd Railway Shop Battalion
• Healy, Ross Edward — Company C, 733rd Railway Operating Battalion
• Kirby, Charles Alfred — 733rd Railway Operating Battalion (Attached Unassigned Detachment Patients, Station Hospital)
• Walding, Orville J. — Company A, 733rd Railway Operating Battalion

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734th Railway Operating Battalion

• Batchelder, Bertice H. — Headquarters Company, 734th Railway Operating Battalion
• Bing, Howard — Company C, 734th Railway Operating Battalion
• Dutra, Joseph Thomas — 734th Railway Operating Battalion
• Black, James D. — Company B, 734th Railway Shop Battalion
  • (Form corrected in red annotation to Company B, 734th Railway Shop Battalion)

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735th Railway Operating Battalion

• Gross, Orville C. — Engineers, 735th Railway Operating Battalion

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737th Railway Operating Battalion

• Hargis, Leo Porter — Company A, 737th Railway Operating Battalion

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740th Railway Operating Battalion

• Burkett, George R. — 740th Railway Operating Battalion
• Johnson, Walter Alfred — Company A, 740th Railway Operating Battalion
• Petersen, Orville Chris — Company B, 740th Railway Operating Battalion

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Railway Shop Battalions

733rd Railway Shop Battalion

• Coker, Young Dempsey — Company C, 733rd Railway Shop Battalion

734th Railway Shop Battalion

• Black, James D. — Company B, 734th Railway Shop Battalion 

See the application cards for this group here  

 

Beavers, Clarence R. Hq. Co.

Ford, Preston W. Hq. Co.

 

May 1944 

• 718th Railway Operating Battalion 
• Camp Clairborne 
• Camp Polk RR Vigars 
• MRS India - Harvey, M.M. Emmanuel 
• 733rd Railway Operating Battalion 

Schoppes, Smith, Wright, Guest, Garey, Gander, Adis, Griffin, Baird, Griswold, Jorgenson, Bort, Yocum, Handler, Terpoilli, Panto, Seiglo, Anderson, Fulton, Guinano, Flam, Balsiger, Little 

 733rd Railroad Operating Battalion

Roland O Dillon Feb 1945 32857414 Co B 764th Railway Shop Battalion

Martin A Doss May 1944 36764802 Co. A. 764th Railway Shcp Battalion Preston W. Ford Apr 1944 38520322 Hq Co. 733rd Railway Operating Battalion Sherman C. Frank Sep 1944 35499189 Co. A 714th Railway Operating Battalion Sherman C. Frank Oct 1944 35499189 714th Railway Oprating Battalion John E. Frazier Aug 1945 35768924 735th Railway Operating Battalion Dolphus N. Gambill Sep 1944 35417629 Co. A 714th Railway Operating Battalion Thomas S Lukasiewicz Jul 1945 36712687 Co A 743rd Railway Operating Battalion Clarence R. Beavers Apr 1944 35894739 Hq Co. 733rd Railway Operating Battalion Kenneth Bello Mar 1944 32881027 Hq Co. 743rd Railway Operating Battalion Elmer G. Piker Mar 1945 38233465 Co A 732d Railway Operating Battalion Walter L. Poole Jul 1945 34888800 Co C 724 Railway Operating Battalion Wallace C Resoff Dec 1944 399516 Co A 714th Railway Operating Battalion Miguel A Alverez Aug 1943 39835580 Hq Co. 791st Railway Operating Battalion Lewis W. Cook May 1944 33157232 Co. C. 791st Railway Operating Battalion

 

 

733 ROB Roster 1978 Reunion by Nancy on Scribd

This is the scrapbook of private William Clinton Dunham. of the 733rd ROB with 100+ photos btwn the scrapbook and manila envelope full found inside. Starts with his time spent at Camp Jesse Turner in Arkansas through his overseas time in Germany/France.

Thanks very much to his son Jerry for sharing these great photos of him with us.

733.pdf by Nancy

thanks tim

Drackert, Donald William -- Technician Five, Army Veteran  744th ROB World War II, 1939-1945 - Fort Snelling, Minnesota; Camp Shanks, New York; France; Belgium; Germany; European Theater

Edelmann, Herbert M. -- Technical Sergeant, Army Veteran  733rd ROB World War II, 1939-1945 - Pacific Theater

Eschbaugh, John Thomas -- Technical Sergeant, Army Veteran  500th Transportation Railway Grand Battalion World War II, 1939-1945 - Fort Devens, Massachusetts; Fort Eustis, Virginia

Fender, Ernest E. -- Corporal, Army Veteran  752nd  ROB World War II, 1939-1945 - United States; European Theater Digitized content includes: sound recording(s), text transcription(s)

Veterans History Project Rail vets
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/search?query=%2Brailway&start=0

733d Railway Op Bn TC ETO Card by Nancy

733d Railway Op Bn TC Card by Nancy

Thanks to Tim

Dawn daughter of Gordon Paul Dunaway writes " I have just been given my Dad's scrap books from World War II and it seems he served with the 733rd Railway .. When I saw them I knew that leaving them just in a book stuffed in a cedar chest was a crime " It would be a crime to not to share these images and history of your Dad and his unit! Thanks again Dawn.
DEXTER — Gordon Paul Dunaway, age 87 of N. Shore Rd. Dexter,passed away at his home 6:10 P.M. on Thursday April 22, 2010. He had been under the care of his family and Hospice.
Paul was born August 24, 1922 in Brownville, the son of Gordon and Reba Mitchell Dunaway. He graduated from Brownville-Glen Park High School and served in the Army from 1943 until 1946. He served in the European Theatre.Paul married Grovene Champion in 1943 that marriage ended in divorce. He married Marlene Robbins in 1994 in Pamelia. He lived on Black River Road for several years and moved to Pillar Point in 1984. Paul was the owner of Dunaway - Morgan Construction Co. of Watertown and retired in 1988. He also owned and operated Sunset Harbor Marina on North Shore Rd. Pillar Point. He wintered in Ft. Pierce & River Ranch in Florida.Paul was a member of Crescent Yacht Club, Rotary, North Side Improvement League and was an avid pilot and flyer.
He is survived by his wife Marlene, a son David Dunaway and his wife Ann of Dexter, N.Y., daughters Diane Dunaway of Chittenango N.Y., and Dawn Quint and her wife Pamela of Andover, CT., . grandsons Gerard Lapointe, CT and Kristopher Dunaway NY and great granddaughter Gabriella Clark, step-children Steven and Mary Rickett of Chaumont, Sawn and Joann Rickett of Kissimmee, Fl.,Scott and Christine Rickett of Three Mile Bay and Stuart and Donna Rickett of Chaumont. He also has step grandchildren Emmy, Mandy, Abby, Corey and Makeyla. A brother Richard Dunaway of Fair Haven, N.Y. and a step brother Robert Brown also survive. A stepsister Patty Brown predeceased him.

Sunny Lynn, James W. McUne's daughter writes .... My father served in WWII and I just found his discharge paperwork. He served in Northern France and the "Rhineland" from 1944 until 1946. He was in CO A 733 RAILWAY OPERATING BN. My father ran away from home at age 16 and joined the Army when he was underage under a fictitious name. The day before D-Day he confessed to a chaplain. He didn't talk much about the war but he said that he worked on the railroad in France. After the war they kept my father in Paris because he did not have a wife or children. He said he never had so much fun in his life than after the war. I can only imagine. He set up banquets for all of the dignitaries in Paris during the post-war period. My father was from Indianapolis, IN and he joined the Army in Chicago IL on July 14, 1943. He was discharged in March 1946. I would love to find out any information that I can on my dad's unit and what they did and where they were on D-Day.