Crisp County GaArchives News.....PVT T.C.BUSH JR., WITH SUPERVISION REGIMENT IN ITALY 1945
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 May 18, 2011, 2:55 pm

CORDELE DISPATCH 1945
 PENISULA BASE HEADQUARTERS,ITALY
 PVT. THOS.C. BUSH JR. ,SON OF MR AMD MRS THOMAS AND EULA BUSH,CORDELE,GA. 
CRISP,GA. IS A MEMBER OF THE 269TH TECHINICAL SUPERVISION REGIMENT  OVERHEAD 
WHICH WAS FORMED TO SUPERVISE THE ACTIVITIES OF APPROXIMATELY 50,000 ITILIAN 
TROOPS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES OF SUPPLY TEAMS FOR THE 
PENINSULA BASE SECTION , HEADED BY LT. SOL EDWARD D. McCALL EX-COMBAT INFANTRY 
OFFICER FROM THE LONE STAR STATE THE REGIMENTAL ROSTER CONTAINS SELECTED 
PERSONNEL FROM NEARLY EVERY BRANCH OF SERVICE.
 FROM IT'S ACTIVITATION IN AUGUST 1944 UNTIL THE FINISH OF THE CAMPAIGN IN 
ITALY ,THE TECHINICAL SUPERVISION REGIMENT HAS FURNISHED,TRAINED CADRES FOR 
THE SUPERVISIONAL CONTROL OF LARGE FORCES OF THE ITALIAN ARMY,OFFSETTING THE 
RELEASE OF MANY THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS FOR FRONTLINE SERVICE. 
 WITH THE INVASION OF SOUTHERN FRANCE ,ANOTHER GREAT SUPPLY LINE CAME INTO 
BEING,AND THE FIFTH ARMY'S PENNISULAR BASE SECTION DREW ON THE ITALIAN ARMY 
FOR ADDITIONAL MANPOWER. UNDER THE TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPERVISION  
OF THE 269TH REGIMENT, FIFTY THOUSAND TROOPS FROM THE SPECIALIE AND SERVICE 
UNITS OF THE ITALIAN ARMY HAVE BEEN PERFORMING HIGHLY EFFECTIVE BEHIND THE 
LINES TASKS FOR THE VARIOUS SERVICE BRANCHES WITHIN THE PENNINSULAR BASE 
SECTION.
 MORE THAN A MILLION MAN HOURS HAVE BEEN EXPENDEDBY CADRE SUPERVISED ITILIAN 
ENGINEER UNITS ALONE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CAMPS ,HOSPITALS, ROADS AND IN THE 
NUMBER OF LUMBER MILLS AND ROCK QUARRIES IN THE RESTORATION OF VITAL PORT 
ACCOMODIATIONS ,AND OTHER ENGINEER TASKS. HIGH IN THE RICH PINELANDS OF 
SOUTHERN ITALY ,TROOPS OF THE ITALIAN ARMY HAVE WORKED SIDE BY SIDE WITH 
AMERICAN FORESTRY PERSONNEL IN HARVESTING ENOUGH TIMBER TO BRIDGE THE ATLANTIC.

Additional Comments:
PVT BUSH WAS A VETERNERIAN AFTER THE WAR .MY COUSIN MIKE MURPHY IS MARRIED TO 
HIS DAUGHTER BARBARA.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/crisp/newspapers/pvttcbus3052nw.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/

File size: 2.5 Kb