The HISTORY of the 14th QUARTERMASTER BATTALION         ___________________ The 14th Quartermaster Battalion was originally constituted in 1941 as the 61st Quartermaster Battalion; called to active duty in 1942 and deployed to Europe where it participated in the Northern France and Rhineland campaigns. The battalion was inactivated November 1946, in Germany; then in 1947, reactivated in Japan for a short period. The battalion was redesignated 18 Nov 1948 as HQ & HQ Detachment, 14th Quartermaster Battalion, activated January 1949 at Fort Bragg, NC, ordered to Europe and stationed in Hanau, Germany. In July 1958, HHD, 14th QM Bn moved to Babenhausen, Germany with temporary headquarters in nearby Muenster. Subordinate units at the time were: 22nd QM Co, (Subs Supply) Hanau 134th QM Co (Mobile Bakery) Babenhausen 471st QM Co (Salvage) Muenster 506th QM Co (POL Supply) Hanau 3761st QM Co (Fld Maint) Hanau 7481st QM Co (Fld Maint) Wuerzburg Effective 1 Oct 1958, HHD, 14th QM Bn was detached from 2nd QM Gp (Munich) and attached to Hanau Provisional Gp (redesignated 6th QM Gp, 1 Dec 1958), with responsibility for QM support of US Army Europe's Northern Area Command. Effective 14 Sep 1961 the battalion was reorganized and redesignated 14th Quartermaster Battalion (Direct Support) with responsibility for providing QM direct support to V (US) Corps. The 14th's subordinate units were concurrently reorganized and redesignated Companies A (Babenhausen) and B (Hanau). Each company was designed with capabilities to provide petroleum supply, subsistence supply, laundry & bath, graves registration, and equipment maintenance support (for corps and divisional units in their area of operations capabilities. Company A provided direct support to the 3rd Infantry Division as well as other Corps units, operated the mobile bakery in Babenhausen, Class I and Class III supply points in Aschaffenburg, and QM clothing sales stores. Company B provided direct support to the 3rd Armored and 8th Infantry Divisions as well as other Corps units, operated the Hanau tank farm, field maintenance yard. The HHD provided command, control and typical battalion headquarters staff support (S1-4), with its own personnel, finance, and legal sections. The battalion was 100% mobile and tested its capabilities monthly through operational readiness tests and quarterly through command post and field training exercises. During this period, theater-wide equipment modernization/upgrades provided soldiers with a new gas mask (the M17 field protective mask), and the NATO standard 7.64 mm M14 rifle and M60 machine guns as replacements for caliber .30 M1 rifles, and .30/.50 caliber machine guns respectively. Effective 2 Aug 1965, as part of the COSTAR reorganization of technical services, the 14th QM Bn (DS) was redesignated 14th Supply & Service Bn (GS) (Fwd); Companies A and B were concurrently reorganized and redesignated 24th Service Co and 18th Supply Co, respectively. HHD remained in Babenhausen until 30 Jun 1967, when it was moved to Pioneer Kaserne, Hanau. Effective 2 Jun 1969 the 14th was reorganized as the 14th S&S Bn. The battalion was inactivated 13 Oct 1972 at Bremerhaven, Germany.

14th QM CO The Commanders ________________ LTC Charles A. Easton 1958 - 1961 LTC Ralph James Webb 1961 - 1962 LTC Herbert H. Price 1962 - 1963 LTC Sam Meadow 1963 - 1965 LTC Robert E. Huber 1965 - ?

-1961-



HHD 14th QM CO
Pass in review



134th QM CO
Pass in review

14th QM Barracks

The Building on the right was last the Post APO



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CW4 Perry Seman
-1961-



John Mangram
S2, 14th QM Bn
-1962-



Pfc Kunkle and the Personnal gang
-1962-



CW4 Ratzel, Pfc Fitzner and an unknown soldier
 presenting the unit crest
-1961-



SSgt Primo J. Marconi
Personnel Sgt. 14th QM Bn
-1962-



Tom Locke
Co A Bread Baker
-1961-



Tom Traficante and John Frye
GP HQ Building
-1961-



Pennington
"shorttimer"
-1961-



Ploski on the balcony,
14th QM, HQ building in the rear
-1961-



Newman, Leg and Pennington
 at the swimmbad Gasthaus
-1961-



Lt. Barbe
-1961-



S3, Sfc Young, unknown,
Msg Carrick and Cpt. Chester Peterson
-1961-



Jim Sutton
-1961-



"The Gang"
-1961-



HHD eyes right



HHD formation
July 1961



Wally Johnson field promotion
-1961-



Bob Slater on the post perimeter
-1961-



Steve Costalas sets up his 30 cal



James G. Newman



Arthur Arnst and Ken Davis



George Ullman



134th QM CO Award Ceremony






Charlie Jordan







Wally Johnson and Bill Luhrs




Jerry Katz and Jerry Marx at a downtown gasthaus




Coatalas, Cooper Slater and Newman
-1961-



A USO show at the EM club



At the Rod & Gun Club



Steve Costalas



Jerry Marx




Willie Brewster and his visiting Brother
(nice car)



Bill Luhrs (2nd from Left) and his Buddies
(Could be at the Rod and Gun club)



Wally Johnson, Steve Costalas Mrs.Butler and SFC Butler
-1962-



SGM Avila and Bill Luhrs at the EM Club



Jerry Katz, Finance



Harvy Hellams



Dan Iavagnilo and Ken Gibson



Ken Davis and Wesina dancing



Bill Luhrs - Shorttimer

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