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[Com-Z]

On 10/23/2022 at 6:52 PM, Yuri Bezmenov said:

William J. Ricketson, US Army, WWII, I believe the sleeve patch is related to Occupied Europe?

Yuri, like my avatar, he wears the patch of the Communications Zone, the Com-Z, the massive Services and Supply side of the ETO.  Numbering over 930,000 men and women by V-E day, the Com-Z was created in May 1942 to receive and coordinate the Operation Bolero buildup of men and materiel in Great Britain to feed, clothe, house, and arm the 3 million US Army soldiers coming to that Theater, and everything else the Army required not directly connected to combat.  Read more here about logistics - 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Service_Forces   Army Service Forces - Wikipedia
The patch grew out of the Services of Supply round patch, a blue star in a white field surrounded in red.  I attach a pic of both patches here - you can see the SOS emblem at the heart of the Com-Z effort to "break the chains of Nazi tyranny."

[Yuri Bezmenov]

20 minutes ago, Com-Z said:

Yuri, like my avatar, he wears the patch of the Communications Zone, the Com-Z, the massive Services and Supply side of the ETO.  Numbering over 930,000 men and women by V-E day, the Com-Z was created in May 1942 to receive and coordinate the Operation Bolero buildup of men and materiel in Great Britain to feed, clothe, house, and arm the 3 million US Army soldiers coming to that Theater, and everything else the Army required not directly connected to combat.  Read more here about logistics - 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Service_Forces   Army Service Forces - Wikipedia
The patch grew out of the Services of Supply round patch, a blue star in a white field surrounded in red.  I attach a pic of both patches here - you can see the SOS emblem at the heart of the Com-Z effort to "break the chains of Nazi tyranny."

 

Thanks for the info. I guess Railway Operating Battalions would fall under Com-Z? His specific unit was the 718th Railway Operating Battalion, Headquarters Company. From what I have been able to gather, he arrived in England then went to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and finally Germany. 

[Com-Z]

31 minutes ago, Yuri Bezmenov said:

 

Thanks for the info. I guess Railway Operating Battalions would fall under Com-Z? His specific unit was the 718th Railway Operating Battalion, Headquarters Company. From what I have been able to gather, he arrived in England then went to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and finally Germany. 

Yes sir.  Below is a graphic of the Technical Services within the Com-Z; Rail was part of the Transportation Corps.  The Com-Z also had geographic sections; several in Britain before the invasion, and ten by V-E day.  The famous ADSEC was just one of those - the ADvance SECtion of the Com-Z.  Here are those ten sections too.

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No not a Japanese Army Pilot or Navy Pilot but an American, a Bomber Crewman  Nisei Herbert Seijin Ginoza, flew with the 15th Air Force in Italy, ship badly damaged over Vienna, February 1945, captain flies ship east to gain Soviet front line area, but ship gets ready to go down so everybody bails out over Hungaria, got out alright, but he lands on the German side of the Front the rest of the crew get scattered over into Soviet held territory, and thus Ginoza is made prisoner .

 

More on Ginoza

https://discovernikkei.org/en/resources/military/15827/