SUSTAINER: History of the 520th Transportation Battalion (AM&S)(GS) From
1967 - 1969
Written By: SP6 Stuart L. Mullendore
Headquarters and Headquarters Company
20th Transportation Company (ADS)
605th Transportation Company (ADS)
357th Transportation Company (ADS) Re-named 165th Transportation Company (ADS)
539th Transportation Company (AGS)
56th Transportation Company (ADS) Transferred from 765th Transportation Battalion (Correction from jperchetti -- Thanks)
The 520th Transportation Battalion, Aircraft Maintenance and Supply, General
Support, evolved as a result of the United
States Army's rapid advancement in transportation techniques and emphasis on
air mobility in the post World War II years.
Originally constituted on 23 February 1943, as Headquarters and Headquarters
Detachment, 1st Battalion, 520th
Quartermaster Truck Regiment, the battalion began training which eventually
led it to campaigns on the beaches of Normandy
and northern France, through the forests of central Europe and the Rhineland,
and finally, to the Republic of Vietnam. Activated on 25 June 1943, the 520th
set up operations at Camp Ellis, Lewiston, Illinois. At Camp Ellis, the battalion
was reorganized
and redesignated, on 25 January 1944, as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment,
520th Quartermaster Battalion,
Mobile. On 6 November 1945, having deployed and served in the European Theater,
Department of the Army inactivated the
organization and reduced it to a pencil entry on the books.