This Week In
Quartermaster History
Compiled by the
U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps Historian
Fort Lee, Virginia
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This Week In
Quartermaster History |
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| 1-7 Jan Valley Forge - 1777 |
8-14 Jan McNamara Reorganizes Army -1961 |
15-21 Jan Malmedy Massacre Grave Registration - 1945 |
| 22-28 Jan Aerial Resupply in the Korean War - 1951 |
29 Jan - 4
Feb Blizzard Destroys Theater - 1921 |
5 Feb - 11 Feb Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimages - 1930 |
| 12 - 18 Feb Allied Seizure of Marshall Islands - 1944 |
19-25 Feb 14th Quartermaster Detachment - 1991 |
26 Feb - 3 Mar QM School Established - 1910 |
| 4-10 Mar Private Watson-Medal of Honor - 1943 |
11-17 Mar Punitive Expedition to Mexico - 1916 |
18-24 Mar Civilian Conservation Corps - 1933 |
| 25-31 March City Point -Civil War - 1865 |
1-7 April Mississippi Valley Flood - 1927 |
8-14 April Bataan - LTC Kalakuka - 1942 |
| 15-21 April San Francisco Earthquake - 1906 |
22-28 April Operation TIGER - 1944 |
29 April - 5 May Depot at Yorktown - 1862 |
| 6-12 May BG Jesup "Father of the Corps" - 1818 |
13-19 May QM OCS Vietnam -1966 |
20-26 May QM Rigger School - 1951 |
| 27 May - 2 June WWII & Korean Unknown Soldiers - 1958 |
3-9 June Crosses at Normandy - 1944 |
10- 16 June Quartermaster Corps Birthday - 1775 |
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17-23 June |
24-30 June QM Heroism at Little Big Horn - 1876 |
1-7 July The 49 Star National Flag - 1959 |
| 8-15 July Gettysburg 50th Anniv - 1913 |
15-21 July National Cemetery System - 1862 |
22-28 July Mount McKinley Expedition - 1943 |
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29 July - 3 Aug |
4-11 Aug Institute of Heraldry Established - 1960 |
12-18 Aug Thomas Mifflin 1st QM General - 1775 |
| 19-25 Aug Hurricane Andrew Relief - 1992 |
26 Aug-1 Sep Great Camel Experiment - 1856 |
2-8 Sep QM Branch Insignia - 1896 |
| 9-15 Sep Red Ball Express - 1944 |
16-22
Sept William McKinley at Antietam - 1862 |
23-29
Sep Colonel Charles C. Pierce "Father of Mortuary Affairs" - 1917 |
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Sep - 6 Oct Sergeant Lumpkin WWI DSC recipient - 1918 |
7-13
October Lieutenant Colonel Batchelder Medal of Honor Civil War -1863 |
14-20
October The Quartermaster Marching Song - 1959 |
| 20-27 October Coffee in Army Rations - 1832 |
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October - 3 November Opening of the Union "Cracker Line" - 1863 |
4-10 November St Clair's Defeat in the Old Northwest - 1791 |
| 11-17
November WWI Unknown US Soldier Selected - 1921 |
18-24
November New Combat Boot -1943 |
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November- 1 December Camp Lee Construction Begins -1940 |
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December Chicago Subsistence School Opens - 1944 |
9-15 December Gander Crash Recovery - 1985 |
16-22
December Gen Goethals Reorganizes Military Supply System - 1917 |
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