72 Quartermaster Base Depot stayed at Bromborough Cheshire on 18 november 1944

The 72 Quartermaster Base Depot is one of the units on the UK Station List made by Mr. Grinton. This and other records on WW2 History Europe was compiled from Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, Kingdom Station List, and dated 7 September 1944.
(-) minus sign behind a unit name indicates that part of the unit was elsewhere.
Counties are mentioned as the so called pre-1974 British counties. The map co-ordinates are automatically made with Google Maps. If you have a more accurate location, photos, stories or links, please sent your information to WW2 History Europe. The unit is also know as member of the US Army, Army Air Force. In this period, around this date of 18 november 1944 the 72 Quartermaster Base Depot were here in Bromborough, Cheshire.

The original station list was obtained from the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) at College Park, Maryland. The NARA describe it as HQ/ETO Station List, 4/30/44 and reference Box 15, 270/48/32/2. In the European and Mediterranean theater the US Army had 3.5 million troops there. About 1.7 million were combat troops and around 700.000 were service troops along with 592.000 army air force troops and the rest were replacements, patients, overhead and staff. The correct count of support- and line troops in this context is difficult.

 

Mitch: I was researching some old military photos and from your site, I discovered that the 72nd QM Depot was located at Bremborough, Cheshire, circa 1944. The sign in rhe photo shows some additional units, including 29th Infantry Division, 941st (?) QM, and 4276th QM Battalion. Thank you for your research! In the same area. Mitch Oates, Columbia SC, USA