Great news for researching railway units ...

WWII Morning Reports up to 1943 are now available on the NARA website and can be located through the NARA Catalog. (More Morning Reports are being added, as I have located ones for 1944, too.) 

For those wishing to research WWI Morning Reports, I recommend using them on Fold3. Why search for the Morning Reports? 

 These organizational records can tell us where all the assigned soldiers were on a specific day, and the activities being done. They tell us when and how soldiers moved from place to place. They show when there were promotions, sick for duty and when they were sent to the hospital. 

They also show if soldiers were assigned to other organizations for temporary duty, or when they were permanently transferred to another organization. At a minimum, a soldier’s name will appear upon transferring in and transferring out of an organization. Memos may also be tucked into these reports. For those of us whose Army ancestors’ personnel files burned in the fire in 1973, without leaving enough to be restored through technical means, these records are a key part of the reconstruction process. here

WW2 US Medical Research Centre 

https://www.med-dept.com/articles/ww2-hospital-trains/

http://win.goticatoscana.eu/EN/Italy_at_war/StoryOfMRS/StoryOf1stMRS.html

  

 http://www.robertsarmory.com/whitcomb.htm

 Find out more about Camp Claiborne

http://www.campclaiborne.com/

 

http://military.railfan.net/locos/

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I'm going to start working on a World War II Army rail-man killed in action death project.

How to Tell 400,000+ WWII Fallen Stories in 36 Months

Richard S provided us with a great bibliography of some of his favorite research locations and books for researching Army Military Rail units. 

The U.S. Army Center of Military History:  https://history.army.mil/index.html

 1) The Transportation Corps - Operations Overseas; Bykofsky & Larson; U.S. Army In World War II Series - The Technical Services; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. 20402; CMH Pub 10-21; Library Of Congress Catalog Card Number 56-60000 

This book provides detailed history of the U.S. Army Railroad Operating & Shop Battalions in each of the theater of war for the period 1941 to 1945. Download pdf here:

https://history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-21/CMH_Pub_10-21.pdf 

  2) The Corps of Engineers - The War Against Germany; Beck, Bortz, Lynch, Mayo & Weld; U.S. Army In World War II Series - The Technical Services - 

The Corps of Engineers; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C. 20402; CMH Pub 10-22; Library Of Congress Catalog Card Number D769.33C67, 1985 Edition 

This book provides detailed history of the actions by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineer units to repair railroads in each of the theater of war for the period 1942 to 1945. 

 Download pdf here : 

https://history.army.mil/html/books/010/10-22/CMH_Pub_10-22.pdf

All Aboard Rail Research by Nancy on Scribd

U.S. National Archives Recalls Fire That Claimed Millions of Military Personnel Files
The National Archives and Records Administration recently marked the 45th anniversary of a devastating fire at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri, that destroyed approximately 16–18 million Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF) documenting the service history of former military personnel discharged from 1912 to 1964.

https://goo.gl/juKzQj 

The guide provides information on locating military unit histories and individual service records of discharged, retired, and deceased military personnel. It also provides information on locating and replacing military awards and medals. Included is contact information for military history centers, websites for additional sources of research, and a bibliography of other publications, including related CRS reports.

Military Service Records, Awards, and Unit Histories: A Guide to Locating Sources 2018 update by Mese F. D... by Nancy on Scribd

National archives :
U.S. Army Chief of Transportation "Historical Program Files"
World War II historians should also take note of the records of the U.S. Army's Office of the Chief of Transportation (OCT), "Historical Program Files, 1940 50," which contain documentation of the role of the U.S. Army in the rail transportation system in the United States and information concerning foreign railroads during World War II. These files include records relating to army operation of all or parts of the U.S. railroad system in 1943, 1946, and 1950. A long report entitled Plan for the Possession, Control, and Operation of the Railroads by the Army, dated December 27, 1943, describes the army plan, mandated by executive order, to seize control of the nation's railroads in response to the threat of rail union strikes set to commence on December 30, 1943. The purpose of the plan was to ensure uninterrupted rail service in moving troops, war material, and equipment for the war effort. Army control of the railroads, assumed on December 27, 1943, was terminated on January 18, 1944, as the threat of strikes ceased.(21)
Other records in this file include historical reports of the Military Railway Service and the Transportation Corps, Rail Division; army technical manuals, plans, and regulations on hospital railway cars, railway kitchen cars, other troop cars, locomotive repair shops, and locomotive inspections; army field manuals concerning the Military Railway Service and the Railway Operating Battalions; copies of The Yankee Boomer, a newsletter of the Military Railway Service; reports concerning wartime traffic control and the relationships between OCT and the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Office of Defense Transportation; records of the American Association of Railroads including the scripts of The Line Behind the Lines -- The Story of Railroads in War, a series of ten weekly radio programs; correspondence concerning civilian labor recruiting due to manpower shortages; and a report entitled American Rails in Eight Countries: The Story of 1st Military Railway Service, which tells the story of supply and service in Europe during the war.
The Southern Railway System wrote a report called Well Done, which describes the efforts of Southern to teach the fine art of railroading to American soldiers who would be operating military railroads overseas. Southern trained the 727th Railway Operating Battalion and other units a total of six thousand officers and men. Also included in these records are the annual reports of the Pullman Company for the years 1942-1945 and the Railroad Retirement Board, 1942-1945.(22)
The U.S. Army Military Railway Service prepared reports on foreign railroads in Europe and Africa, including Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Libya, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal. These reports include photographs, maps, charts, and general information concerning the status of foreign railroads in 1942-1943.(23)

https://goo.gl/c3BBtt