Chemical Depot Companies

FUSA Chemical Section, devoted maximum attention to supply and to the needs of the chemical mortar battalions. It also meant the provision of supply support and tactical advice for the smoke generator units which were heavily employed by TUSA, especially in its river crossings. As a result of experience in these tasks, the TUSA Chemical Section found that the one chemical depot company attached could not handle all supply requirements. It recommended that two such companies be assigned, and more important still, that CWS should have far more transportation for the depot company, the smoke generator, and the mortar units. The CWS could not operate its own supply system, which it did with very little help from other supply services, and at the same time shift men and equipment in a fast-moving war without greatly Increased transportation. The chemical section suggested addition of a truck company to the Army for CWS... 

The 751st and 758th Chemical Depot Companies, Aviation, arrived in December 1942 the 753d Chemical Depot Company, Aviation, and the 875 th Chemical Company, Air Operations, reached the theater in February 1943. 

Headquarters Detachment, 60th Chemical Depot Company, Capt. George W. Brown, commanding, debarked on Omaha on D plus 4 (10 June) and on the following day set up operations of a FUSA CWS dump at Mosles. The advance party of another detachment joined the 33d Company on Utah on the next day. The whole company was... 

The needs of gas warfare readiness, therefore, set the pattern for prewar CWS planning for service units. The prescribed standard for a wartime situation, in which the existence or at least the imminence of gas warfare was taken for granted, called for the assignment of a chemical depot company, decontamination company, laboratory company, impregnating company (as the processing company was then called), and maintenance company to each field army, with additional... 

The 43d Chemical Laboratory Company, activated at Edgewood Arsenal on 26 August 1942, was ordered to Hawaii in December of 1943. Upon its arrival it was assigned to theater headquarters (Central Pacific Area) and stationed at Schofield Barracks, where the theater chemical officer, Colonel Unmacht, had laboratory facilities (manned by 8th Chemical Depot Company personnel) already in operation. The 43d took over the existing laboratory functions, added its own equipment, and set to work. The immediate tasks were predominantly within the intelligence portion of the mission—the study and descrip-... 

In contrast to the role of the 8 th as a theater headquarters supply element was that of the 6th Chemical Depot Company, a unit which operated many installations without ever permanently establishing itself at any of them. It was a depot company on the move, following American combat forces from England to Germany by way of North Africa, Italy, and France. 

From the spring of 1942 until the summer of 1943 seventy-five CWS troop units composed of Negroes were activated at various installations throughout the country. The seventy-five units consisted of the following 12 chemical mairitenance companies (aviation), 7 chemical depot companies (aviation), i chemical company (air operations), 20 chemical decontamination companies, 3 chemical processing companies, 30 chemical smoke generator companies, and 2 chemical service companies. Forty-one of those companies were eventually assigned to duty overseas. ... 

The 706th Chemical Maintenance Company (Aviation) was redesignated as 769th Chemical Depot Company (Aviation) as of 20 December 1943. 

There is a table for each type of unit in Table 9 except for chemical depot companies and chemical base depot companies which are combined in one table. 

Appendix H-8—Chemical Depot Companies and Chemical Base Depot Companies... 

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