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132ND ARMORED ORDNANCE MAINTENANCE BATTALION
10th Armored Division • World War II •

56 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview:
This 1945 history of Company “C,” 132nd Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion, was written by the men themselves, with each section contributing its own chapter, and printed in Innsbruck, Austria, shortly after VE Day. It opens with a foreword by company commander Capt. Howard V. Donohoe and follows the company from its activation at Camp Perry, Ohio, in 1942 through Tennessee Maneuvers, the voyage to Cherbourg, and nine months of combat maintenance with the 10th Armored Division under Patton’s Third Army and the Seventh Army: the Moselle crossing, the Battle of the Bulge, the capture of Trier, the Rhine crossing at Worms, and the drive into Bavaria. Section accounts cover the automotive platoon, kitchen, evacuation, artillery, service, maintenance, supply, small arms and instrument repair crews, and the book records 11,816 completed jobs, including 247 medium tanks repaired. It closes with a home-address roster of the men, officers, men who left the company overseas, and Bronze Star and Purple Heart lists. This is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original booklet.

Campaigns: Lorraine (Moselle crossing, Metz); Ardennes – Battle of the Bulge (Bastogne, Luxembourg); Seventh Army front (Saar–Lorraine); Saar–Moselle and Trier; Rhineland (Kaiserslautern, Rhine crossing at Worms); Central Europe (Heidelberg, Crailsheim, Ehingen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen)

Commanders: Capt. Howard V. Donohoe (Company Commander); Lt. Sheldon Moyers; Lt. John H. Williams; Lt. Harold J. Fuller; Lt. John F. Liberty; WOJG Harold S. Wood

Division newspaper: The Tigers’ Tale

Table of Contents
Foreword
“Now It Can Be Told”
Some Interesting Figures
Headquarters Section, Automotive Platoon
The “Mess”
Evacuation Section
Company Maintenance Section
Artillery Section
The Service Section
First Maintenance Section
Second Maintenance Section
Third Maintenance
Supply Section
Small Arms Section
Instrument Repair Section
Company Headquarters
“Home Sweet Home” (Roster with Home Addresses)
Men Who Have Left the Company Overseas
Officers
Bronze Star
Purple Hearts
Acknowledgements

“They typify the American Civilian Army whose initiative and ingenuity enables it to win against all odds.”
— Capt. Howard V. Donohoe, Foreword, July 1945