766th Transportation Battlion Heraldic
Department of the Army Emblem
Department of the Army - Lineage and Honors
HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT 766th TRANSPORTATION BATTALION
Constituted 28 August 1944 in the Army of the United States as the 766th Railway Shop Battalion, Transportation Corps
Activated 4 September 1944 at Camp Plauche, Louisiana
Inactivated 10 February 1946 in Germany
Redesignated 16 April 1959 as the 766th Transportation Battalion and allotted to the Army Reserve
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 766th Transportation Battalion, activated 1 May 1959 at Gary, Indiana
Location changed in 1960 to East Chicago, Indiana
Inactivated 31 January 1968 at East Chicago, Indiana
Activated 15 March 1972 at Evansville, Indiana
Ordered into active military service 17 November 1990 at Evansville, Indiana; released from active military service 3 July 1991 and reverted to reserve status
Location changed 17 January 1999 to South Bend, Indiana
Ordered into active military service 7 December 2003 at South Bend, Indiana; released from active military service 3 June 2005 and reverted to reserve status
Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment
CAMPAIGN PARTICIPATION CREDIT
World War II
European-African-Middle Eastern Theater,
Streamer without inscription
Southwest Asia
Defense of Saudi Arabia
Liberation and Defense of Kuwait
Cease-Fire
War on Terrorism
Campaigns to be determined
DECORATIONS
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered SOUTHWEST ASIA 1990-1991
Army Superior Unit Award, Streamer embroidered 1993-1994
BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY:
JEFFREY J. CLARKE
Chief of Military History
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714th Chrstmas Card 1945
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745th Railway Operating Battalion Co. C 1945 photo
Source: "World War II Order of Battle", Shelby L. Stanton, 1984 Formed: 12 May 43, New Orleans, LA Inactivated: 29 Oct 45, Camp Kilmer, NJ Locations: Departed Zone of the Interior 10 Dec 43; India 11 Jan 44; Jorhat, India Aug 45; NY Port of Embarkation 28 Oct 45. Associated with: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR Meritorious Unit Commendation: 1 Mar 44-30 Sep 45, GO 6, Hq USF IBT, dtd 6 Jan 46. |
Sunday, January 31, 2010 | Labels: 745th Railway Operating Battalion, photos, Railway Operating Battalion | 8 Comments
710th Commendation Gene Bryan
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765th TRSB Hospital Train photo
Saturday, January 30, 2010 | Labels: 765th Transportation Railway Shop Battalion, photos | 0 Comments
728th The L&N’s Battalion: The Story of the 728th Railway Operating Battalion, sponsored by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company during the Second World War by David Matthew Wilkins
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735th Railway Operating Battalion - Gene Bryan
Lastly is a photo of my Dad, second from the left, in the back of a truck. I enlarged the photo and for the first time noted the man on the far left is holding a M-1 carbine rifle. I also discovered the truck's bumper is marked "735" on the left, and "ROB" on the right. The apparent garbage can with steam coming from it in the far right of the photo, was the Army's version of field dish washing. That is where they cleaned their mess kits. It was still done that way when I was in the Army from 76 to 79, while in the field. Thanks. Russ Bryan
Saturday, January 30, 2010 | Labels: 735th Railway Operating Battalion, photos | 13 Comments
735th Railway Operating Battalion WWII European Map
Saturday, January 30, 2010 | Labels: 735th Railway Operating Battalion, map, Railway Operating Battalion | 1 Comments
Army WW2 Transportation Corps Field Manual FM 55-50
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9950/m1/3/sizes/Saturday, January 30, 2010 | Labels: Field Manuals | 0 Comments
735th ROB : Diary of Joe Muia
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765th TRSB Korea 1953-54 Fantastic photos taken by Corporal Johnie F. Boulton
Thanks to his son, Steve Boulton for these photos.
Some notes on the photos of the 765th of TRSB photos from Corporal Johnie F. Boulton
These photos are from the 53-54 time frame. Dad worked on the Illinois Central in Fulton Ky. prior to the war and for a short time afterward. After the war jobs were scarce and to continue to work for ICRR would mean he would have to move. He met my mom after Korea while he was stationed in Ft Belvoir Va. And the rest is history.
The picture of the dog is the company mascot, Trooper. It was bought for a single carton of cigarettes.
The shop pictures are from inside the diesel shop. All of the engines in the shop are SW8 type engines. The engine in the back on the left is, as best as I can read is # 2021, now located at Cape Kennedy as a museum display and was used to transport the titan rockets around.
The photo of dad at the controls of switch engine #2001…. That engine is one of the 4 engines left in Korea and is now part of the Korean railway museum.
The transfer table pictures… the engines were driven on to the table then moved to the front of the repair bay it was going to be worked on then driven off the table into the shop.
Dad thought the pictures of the steam engine were of the Pershing engine but a close look of the label on the boiler where dad is squatting beside the boiler says Kawasaki.
Dad said that most of the Koreans that worked in the shop worked in the steam shop.
The picture of the injector room and it can also be seen on the left of one of the shop pictures, is where they repaired and maintained the injectors for the diesel engines.
The thanksgiving dinner spread was the company dinner in 1953.
The picture of Santa and his reindeer is December 1953.
The pictures of the electric shop, was where the power for the shops came from. I believe dad said that it was used to switch from DC power to AC power to run the machinery.
The picture of the Pusan docks is where trains were loaded and unloaded from ships. Dad said that it was the end of the dock.
The pictures of switch engine 2022, is the crew packaging the engine up in preparation to be shipped back to the states. This was in 1954.
Saturday, January 30, 2010 | Labels: 765th Transportation Railway Shop Battalion, Korean War, photos | 0 Comments
743rd Onboard newspaper 'The Convoice '
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 | Labels: 743rd Railway Operating Battalion | 0 Comments
732nd Railway Operating Battalion 1944
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