US WWII Supply Depots ETO

Some of the earlier sites were primarily USAAF depots, which were allocated AAF Station numbers from August/September 1942 replacing the earlier ad-hoc system. I'll include these where available as I go.

All the best,
PB

Audit updated yet again.
I found the US Army Station List for Northern Ireland which included a good number of depots in their various names.

TTFN,
PB

Paul

Would forward ammunition depots be considered part of the list, 521 Braybrooke for example?
Located here.

Chris

I've included the early AAF depots as they were established as part of a wider US Army system, but as yet I'm not including the later Air Force Service Command sites, mainly because they only had station numbers and not the coded identifiers of the rest.

I have KML folders in hand of all 8AF and 9AF stations which does cover them though, and a write-up on Braybrooke is also in progress.

All the best,
PB

I'd be very interested in your Braybrooke write up Paul as apart from the station number and location I've not found out anything else about it.

Chris

Can I ask which Balmoral the list is referring to?
And would it be fair to say Glasgow was the only one in Scotland?

the_historian;42859 wrote:

Can I ask which Balmoral the list is referring to?
And would it be fair to say Glasgow was the only one in Scotland?

Sadly the original QM Corps listings don't specify, but as all the other Q-111 sub-depots are in Northern Ireland, I'd suggest it was Balmoral, Lisburn.

Regards the Glasgow Depot, the QM Corps History records:

On 22 March 1943 OCQM requested 150,000 square feet of shed space at Liverpool, 100,000 square feet at Bristol, and 50,000 square feet each at Newport and Glasgow.

Liverpool, Barry, and Hilsea depots, located near port complexes which the OCQM would normally have avoided in an orderly situation, became general depots overnight. The Quartermaster branch depots, opened at Stowmarket, Exeter, Lydney, and Glasgow, were far removed from the sites which OCQM wanted in south-western England.

A series of conferences between the interested U.S. and British agencies held in May 1943 produced an understanding whereby the American technical services were granted conditional use of shed space behind major port areas at Liverpool, Bristol, Cardiff, and Glasgow.
Supplies were not to be permanently stored there, and assigned space was subject to withdrawal on seventy-two hours' notice. If the sheds had to be cleared, the labor force, civilian and military, ordinarily employed by each service would assist in the emergency clearance and remain to help the British.

The Glasgow depot seems to have been primarily intended for the recipt of materiel arriving from the USA by ship, prior to forwarding it to depots in the US base areas. US troops embarking on overseas operations via Glasgow (Operation Torch for example) were issued new equipment at the Glasgow Depot prior to boarding the transport ships.
Otherwise, there was no additional requirement for US Army depots in Scotland.

All the best,
PB

Many thanks for that, Paul. I'm always interested in expanding my knowledge of the wartime infrastructure in Scotland.

Hi,
I am doing some research currently and found a U.S. Quartermaster Gasoline Supply Company facing the old U.S. Cemetry at Lisnabreeny on the hills above Belfast.

Have just put the piccies on my website.

Take a look at the Balmoral Golf Club website for some of their history. There was an AA Battery there and comment is made of one of the soldiers being killed in an accident when a gun misfired during an air raid