Back to Normandy - Recently Added Listings - 959 Field Artillery Battalion (USA) https://www.backtonormandy.org/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:10:59 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun) stayed at Barton Stacey Hampshire on 23 may 1944 https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/support-troops/artillery/support7635/182714-st-66142.html The 959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun) is one of the units on the UK Station List made by Mr. Grinton. This and other records on Back to Normandy 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 Back to Normandy. The unit is also know as member of the US Army, Army Air Force. In this period, around this date of 23 mei 1944 the 959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun) were here in Barton Stacey, Hampshire.

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.]]>
fredvogels Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:00:00 +0100 https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/support-troops/artillery/support7635/182714-st-66142.html
959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun) stayed at Barton Stacey Hampshire on 31 may 1944 https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/support-troops/artillery/support7635/182716-st-66144.html The 959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun) is one of the units on the UK Station List made by Mr. Grinton. This and other records on Back to Normandy 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 Back to Normandy. The unit is also know as member of the US Army, Army Air Force. In this period, around this date of 31 mei 1944 the 959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun) were here in Barton Stacey, Hampshire.

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.]]>
fredvogels Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:00:00 +0100 https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/support-troops/artillery/support7635/182716-st-66144.html
959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun), Advance Detachment stayed at Barton Stacey ... https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/support-troops/artillery/support7635/182717-st-66145.html The 959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun), Advance Detachment is one of the units on the UK Station List made by Mr. Grinton. This and other records on Back to Normandy 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 Back to Normandy. The unit is also know as member of the US Army, Army Air Force. In this period, around this date of 23 mei 1944 the 959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun), Advance Detachment were here in Barton Stacey, Hampshire.

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.]]>
fredvogels Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:00:00 +0100 https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/support-troops/artillery/support7635/182717-st-66145.html
959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun), Headquarters stayed at Barton Stacey Hampshire on ... https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/support-troops/artillery/support7635/182719-st-66147.html The 959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun), Headquarters is one of the units on the UK Station List made by Mr. Grinton. This and other records on Back to Normandy 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 Back to Normandy. The unit is also know as member of the US Army, Army Air Force. In this period, around this date of 31 mei 1944 the 959 Field Artillery Battalion (4.5 Inch Gun), Headquarters were here in Barton Stacey, Hampshire.

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.]]>
fredvogels Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:00:00 +0100 https://www.backtonormandy.org/the-history/support-troops/artillery/support7635/182719-st-66147.html