American Railway Operation Battalions in ETO During …rogersda/umrcourses/ge342/Railroads WWII...
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American Railway Operation Battalionsin ETO During World War II
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The USATC in WW IIOrganization
est July 1942
N. AfricaItaly
S. France
MiddleEast
Europe
Railway Grand Division250-450 miles of rail
Railway Shop Battalion
Railway Operating Battalion
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Recruiting for the USATCin WW II
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The need for the MRSSupply Problems• Patton’s Third Army
– required an average of 350,000 gal/day• The Red Ball Express
– consumed 300,000 gal/day itself• 28 Aug – Patton’s fuel allocation falls 100,000 gal short• 31 Aug – No fuel arrives, Patton grinds to a halt• Increased use of larger caliber artillery adds to supply problems
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The need for the MRSRailway Infrastructure Destroyed
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Railway Infrastructure Destroyed
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Operation Overlord was sustained by rail and pipelines constructed by Allied Engineers, extending inland from the Normandy beachhead, the French Port of Cherbourg, and Vannes and St. Nazarre on the south shore of Brittany
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U.S.-BUILT WORLD WAR I LOCOMOTIVES at the roundhouse in Cherbourg.
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American flat cars being unloaded from an LST onto a specially constructed rail pier head
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American LST lower bow ramp equipped with rails for unloading railroad rolling stock
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Positioning LST on temporary quay for unloading rail cars
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Flat cars rolled onto panel track; note bumpers of English design
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Transition ramp for taking rail cars from LST hold onto sections of panel track
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Allied rail support system extended all the way across northern France by Mid-September 1944, just three months after D Day.
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By VE Day in May 1945 the Allied rail system extended in Germany, mostly on restored right-of-ways.
The solid lines indicate rail lines restored prior to mid February 1945 while the dashed lines indicate those restored between mid February and May 1, 1945
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References
http://home.att.net/~rwy720th/
http://homepages.tesco.net/~martyn.witt/milrly/mil_rly_hist_e_0.htm#top_of_page
http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/car-floats/dday-landings.html