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Home Town Cook County
Date of Passing Oct 28, 1959
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
GENERAL 0RDERS WASHINGTON 25, D. C. 7 December 1945
No.114
UNITS ENTITLED TO BATTLE CREDITS
ARDENNES - 1. Announcement is made of units awarded battle participation.
credit under the provisions of paragraph 21b(2), AR 260-10, 25 October 1944,
in the Ardennes campaign.
a. Combat Zone.-The area forward of the line: Euskirchen-Eupen (inclusive)-
Liege (exclusive), east bank of Meuse River to its intersection with the Franco-
Belgian border, thence south and east along this border and the southern border
of Luxembourg.
b. Time limitation.-16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.
NOTE.- Battle participation credit for the campaign Rhineland will not be
accorded during this period for operations in the area defined above.
2. When entering individual credit on officers' qualification cards (WD AGO
Forms 66--1 and 66--2) or in the service record of enlisted personnel (WD AGO
Form 24), this general orders may be cited as authority for such entries for personnel
who were present for duty as a member of or attached to a unit listed at
sometime during the limiting dates of the Ardennes Campaign.
26th Quartermaster Battalion (Mobile) Convoy somewhere in Europe, 1944
26th Quartermaster Battalion
Constituted 1 May 1936 in the Regular Army as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Battalion, 26th Quartermaster Regiment.
Activated 30 December 1941 at Fort Francis E. Warren, Wyoming.
Reorganized and redesignated 1 April 1942 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 1st Battalion, 26th Quartermaster Truck Regiment.
Reorganized and redesignated 8 November 1943 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 26th Quartermaster Battalion, Mobile.
Inactivated 30 April 1946 on Okinawa.
Converted and redesignated 1 August 1946 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 26th Transportation Corps Truck Battalion.
Activated 26 December 1946 in Korea.Redesignated 25 July 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 26th Transportation Truck Battalion.
Inactivated 25 January 1949 in Korea.
Redesignated 23 November 1951 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 26th Transportation Truck Battalion.
Activated 22 December 1951 at Camp Roberts, California.
Redesignated 7 November 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 26th Transportation Battalion.
Activated 26 December 1946 in Korea.
Redesignated 25 July 1947 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 26th Transportation Truck Battalion.
Inactivated 25 January 1949 in Korea.
Redesignated 23 November 1951 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 26th Transportation Truck Battalion.
Activated 22 December 1951 at Camp Roberts, California.
Redesignated 7 November 1952 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 26th Transportation Battalion.
Converted and redesignated 1 May 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 26th Support Battalion, assigned to the 3d Infantry Division, and activated in Germany (organic elements concurrently constituted and activated).
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Ardennes Alsace Campaign (1944-45)
From Month/Year
December / 1944
To Month/Year
February / 1945
Description (Ardennes Alsace Campaign 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945) During their offensive in the Ardennes the Germans drove into Belgium and Luxembourg, creating a great bulge in the line. For some time the weather was bad, but when it cleared the Allies could send their planes to assist their ground forces by bombing and strafing the enemy’s columns, dropping paratroops and supplies, and interdicting the enemy’s lines of communications. By the end of January 1945 the lost ground had been regained and the Battle of the Bulge, the last great German offensive, was over.
