steveno
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my uncle's headstone has "6835 QM Remount Depot" and "BSM-PH" on it. what would a remount depot have done and what do the letters mean? he was wounded at Anzio
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BSM would indicate the Bronze Star Medal; PH is Purple Heart.
As to the 6835 QM Remount Depot, a bit of Googling came up with this link.
Office of Medical History
Alk8944
US Veteran
Remount refers to horses. The Army was still maintaining the remount program well into WWII. Camp/Ft. Robinson NE was part of the remount system.
As an aside, the majority of "Wild Horses" in the American West are directly traceable to the Army Remount program. Many "blooded" horses were released by the Gov't. with the expectation they would breed and later be rounded up for the remount system. While there are some which can be traced back to Spanish horses which became feral during the 1528-1846 period, the majority came from the remount program and are "Feral", not "Wild"!
The letters stand for (per a search):
BSM - Bronze Star Medal
PH - Purple Heart
Your Uncle was Bronze Star winner who was wounded during his service as a result of enemy action. He did something pretty heroic to earn the Bronze Star! Here is a link to look him up and find out more about what he did: List of Bronze Star Recipients
Let us know what you find out.
From BaldEagle's link:
"European Theater
The Army Veterinary Service concerned with remount activities in the European theater evolved about the 6835th Quartermaster Remount Depot, which was the successor organization to the 1/2-6742d Quartermaster Remount Depot (Overhead) (55, 56). It may be recalled that the latter originated with the 6742d Quartermaster Remount Depot (Overhead), in the Mediterranean theater, when it was divided into two parts; subsequently, this one part-including its own veterinary detachment-was transferred as a Seventh U.S. Army unit to Southern France, arriving at Marseilles on 20 October 1944. With the 600 to 700 mules and horses which were obtained in Italy and had accompanied the movement of the organization, remount depot operations were set up first at Is Surtille on 17 November 1944; a month later, these operations were moved to Chaumont, France. Through May 1945, the 6835th Quartermaster Remount Depot had received and processed 1,800 animals and had issued more than 750 of these, mostly mules, to the 513th Quartermaster Pack Troop. In the spring of 1945, the organization was designated to purchase 700 horses from the French in the European theater's Normandy Base Section area for transshipment to the Mediterranean theater, however, it turned out that no purchases were actually made (57)."
This would have been the unit your Uncle was assigned to during his service in the ETO.
As an aside, the majority of "Wild Horses" in the American West are directly traceable to the Army Remount program. Many "blooded" horses were released by the Gov't. with the expectation they would breed and later be rounded up for the remount system. While there are some which can be traced back to Spanish horses which became feral during the 1528-1846 period, the majority came from the remount program and are "Feral", not "Wild"!
The letters stand for (per a search):
BSM - Bronze Star Medal
PH - Purple Heart
Your Uncle was Bronze Star winner who was wounded during his service as a result of enemy action. He did something pretty heroic to earn the Bronze Star! Here is a link to look him up and find out more about what he did: List of Bronze Star Recipients
Let us know what you find out.
From BaldEagle's link:
"European Theater
The Army Veterinary Service concerned with remount activities in the European theater evolved about the 6835th Quartermaster Remount Depot, which was the successor organization to the 1/2-6742d Quartermaster Remount Depot (Overhead) (55, 56). It may be recalled that the latter originated with the 6742d Quartermaster Remount Depot (Overhead), in the Mediterranean theater, when it was divided into two parts; subsequently, this one part-including its own veterinary detachment-was transferred as a Seventh U.S. Army unit to Southern France, arriving at Marseilles on 20 October 1944. With the 600 to 700 mules and horses which were obtained in Italy and had accompanied the movement of the organization, remount depot operations were set up first at Is Surtille on 17 November 1944; a month later, these operations were moved to Chaumont, France. Through May 1945, the 6835th Quartermaster Remount Depot had received and processed 1,800 animals and had issued more than 750 of these, mostly mules, to the 513th Quartermaster Pack Troop. In the spring of 1945, the organization was designated to purchase 700 horses from the French in the European theater's Normandy Base Section area for transshipment to the Mediterranean theater, however, it turned out that no purchases were actually made (57)."
This would have been the unit your Uncle was assigned to during his service in the ETO.
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Hodgin
US Veteran
Never heard of remount depot but found this on google.
Office of Medical History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Remount_Service
Office of Medical History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Remount_Service
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does this make any since to you computer experts? I sure doesn't to me and I wonder why they would make this information difficult to get to
I have had absolutely no luck in getting anywhere with the instructions or results. I'm using Windows 7 if that makes a difference.
Steve, the problem is with your PC. It is a Restricted version...
Before following the numbered instructions after this paragraph you should first ensure that the Microsoft Windows default file, "winsock.dll" ( http://www.americanwarlibrary.com/winsock.dll) resides in your c:\windows folder... and that only ONE copy of winsock.dll resides on your entire harddrive. Continue reading...
This is a 2-paragraph reply that includes a solution to your problem which is with your computer and not the software...
1/2. The War Library military-access software works on ALL versions of Windows from Win 1.0 to the present, and all UnRestricted bit formats from 8-bit to 1024-bit (current). It sounds like you were lured into purchasing a Restricted-mode, 64-bit-only version of Windows. This is common in Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sony (Toshiba), Samsung (Acer), Compaq and Gateway which primarily sells service assistance and upgrades.
2/2. It was not Microsoft's intent that the PC manufacturers named above remove or disable a primary Windows operating feature solely to resell that function as an upgrade when the user would inevitably realize some software programs won't run. See your Options below...
OPTION ONE: Install the free VirualBox software ( https://www.virtualbox.org). Then install a non-restricted version of Windows (3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, XP, 7, 8, etc) in the Virtual Box platform on your hard drive.
OPTION TWO: Purchase Windows Ultimate directly from Microsoft so that your PC will operate in the multi-platform mode that Microsoft intended it to operate: Get Windows - Microsoft Windows
Cordially,
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I have had absolutely no luck in getting anywhere with the instructions or results. I'm using Windows 7 if that makes a difference.
Steve, the problem is with your PC. It is a Restricted version...
Before following the numbered instructions after this paragraph you should first ensure that the Microsoft Windows default file, "winsock.dll" ( http://www.americanwarlibrary.com/winsock.dll) resides in your c:\windows folder... and that only ONE copy of winsock.dll resides on your entire harddrive. Continue reading...
This is a 2-paragraph reply that includes a solution to your problem which is with your computer and not the software...
1/2. The War Library military-access software works on ALL versions of Windows from Win 1.0 to the present, and all UnRestricted bit formats from 8-bit to 1024-bit (current). It sounds like you were lured into purchasing a Restricted-mode, 64-bit-only version of Windows. This is common in Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sony (Toshiba), Samsung (Acer), Compaq and Gateway which primarily sells service assistance and upgrades.
2/2. It was not Microsoft's intent that the PC manufacturers named above remove or disable a primary Windows operating feature solely to resell that function as an upgrade when the user would inevitably realize some software programs won't run. See your Options below...
OPTION ONE: Install the free VirualBox software ( https://www.virtualbox.org). Then install a non-restricted version of Windows (3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, XP, 7, 8, etc) in the Virtual Box platform on your hard drive.
OPTION TWO: Purchase Windows Ultimate directly from Microsoft so that your PC will operate in the multi-platform mode that Microsoft intended it to operate: Get Windows - Microsoft Windows
Cordially,
Reference Desk
The American War Library
16907 Brighton Avenue
Gardena CA 90247-5420
The American War Library: America's largest online mili-vet Personnel Registry
Fone and Fax 1-310-532-0634
The Bronze Star may have been awarded on its own, in which case there will be a citation for the issuance somewhere in his files. It may also be that he earned a Combat Infantryman Badge, in which case the Bronze Star was issued in parallel. I don't know all the details, but we finally discovered this in some obscure papers while trying to get the Bronze Star indication put on my Dad's stone. He was awarded it for service in WWII, but there was no citation, and the actual medal was never presented.
We knew it was "legal", as he was a senior command officer, and would not have worn it if not authorized, but proving it to the Army was a challenge. Once that was done, they sent letters of apology with the medal, properly engraved. Twenty-two years too late.
We knew it was "legal", as he was a senior command officer, and would not have worn it if not authorized, but proving it to the Army was a challenge. Once that was done, they sent letters of apology with the medal, properly engraved. Twenty-two years too late.
We have a Remount Road
We have a Remount Road in N. Chas, SC that ends at what was the Army Depot until the 70s. It adjoins the Naval Weapons Station (Sub Nukes) which has also become inactive. Both of these huge facilities have been the BUSIEST 'inactive' reservations since. My MIL worked at SPAWAR which is on the old army depot. They are responsible for having big ships supplied and ready to go war. The company I worked for acquired the depot's housing and headquarters building. I had my office in that building for years (bombproof). There was a vault across the hall from me that had the cryptographic equipment. The mounts were still imbedded in the floor.
Of course Remount used to be a dirt road way back into the woods, I remember it being a two lane road, then it became four. We lived about a mile away. Now the area has gone trashy.
We have a Remount Road in N. Chas, SC that ends at what was the Army Depot until the 70s. It adjoins the Naval Weapons Station (Sub Nukes) which has also become inactive. Both of these huge facilities have been the BUSIEST 'inactive' reservations since. My MIL worked at SPAWAR which is on the old army depot. They are responsible for having big ships supplied and ready to go war. The company I worked for acquired the depot's housing and headquarters building. I had my office in that building for years (bombproof). There was a vault across the hall from me that had the cryptographic equipment. The mounts were still imbedded in the floor.
Of course Remount used to be a dirt road way back into the woods, I remember it being a two lane road, then it became four. We lived about a mile away. Now the area has gone trashy.
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