Brig. Gen. F. A. Henning, Deputy Director, Logistics Division, European Command; Franklin K. Eberhart, Chief, Quartermaster Catalog Branch, European Command; Lt. Col. E. J. Gelderman, Chief, Budget and Fiscal Section, Comptroller Branch, Quartermaster Division; W. J. Holland, Chief, Maintenance and Reclamation Section, Field Service Branch, Quartermaster Division; and Col. M. Matisoff, Assistant for Supply Operations, Munich Quartermaster Depot.

STATEMENT OF MAJ. GEN. W. H. MIDDLESWART, CHIEF QUARTERMASTER OF THE EUROPEAN COMMAND

Major General MIDDLESWART. Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, General Handy asked me to express his regrets that he is unable to be here this morning, as he is on a trip with General Eisenhower to Holland and to Bremerhaven. Major General Noce, Chief of Staff of the European Command, stated that, inasmuch as General Handy is absent it would be necessary for him to remain in Heidelberg; however, if the chairman desired, he would catch a plane and come down today.

I am glad to welcome you to a quartermaster depot, and hope that when you have completed your investigation, you will have a more complete understanding of our activities. I have asked members of my staff to make available to you, any and all information. If the data is not available here, we will see that it is furnished to you as promptly as possible. As an aid to orientate the committee, I will take about 5 minutes to high light the quartermaster's operation in EUCOM.

QUARTERMASTER RESPONSIBILITIES IN EUROPE

The quartermaster's main responsibility is to feed, clothe, and furnish gasoline and oil to the troops in Europe. We also furnish certain services, such as laundry and dry cleaning, maintenance and repair of equipment, graves registration and disposal of property after it has been declared excess, and surplus to the need of forces over here. The map you see to your right is an outline map of Germany and France, and shows the existing and planned quartermaster depots. The blue line is the Rhine River. You are now at Giessen Depot.

This depot has the responsibility for supplying nine installations and * * * troops in the area shaded, or outlined, in green. Munich Quartermaster Depot has the job of supplying eight installations and * * * troops in the area shaded in red.

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We are now building a new depot at Nahbollenbach, Germany, 35 miles west of the Rhine. When this depot is ready, it will serve the green cross-hatched area, with four posts and approximately troops. This depot will also serve all France. You will hear more about the line of communications when you are in France; however, we have, or will have, quartermaster installations and stocks located at Metz, Ingrandies, Perigueus, and La Pallice. In addition, we have, in France, strategic stocks of gasoline and oil at the points indicated by the funnels surrounded by the circles. We also have 3,000,000 rations in Cherbourg, brought in at the time of the airlift. These

agement job, and exercise real stewardship. more than is needed. Members of my staff will try to high light this need at the right spot, and we must make sure that we don't order be rock bottom, but adequate to do the job. We must have what we components-Army, Navy, and Air Force-must do an effective manAmerican taxpayer down, the Department of Defense, each of the we will withdraw shortly. I realize that to keep the cost to the Our requirements must

for you.

As for how well we are doing on common items of supplies and equipment, you committee members may have gathered many impressions; from the quartermaster picture, the cooperation of cross servicing between the Army, Navy, and Air is manifested for quartermaster type items in the following manner:

CROSS-SERVICING IN QUARTERMASTER-TYPE ITEMS

1. Subsistence is furnished the Air Force and Navy land-base personnel as well as the Army. Our job includes making up requirements; the budget, as far as the Army personnel is concerned, requisitioning, storage and issue at our depots to all three services. Subsistence is furnished the Air Force and Navy on a reimbursable basis.

2. Quartermaster procured petroleum products are supplied to the Air Force and Navy on a reimbursable basis. Military Sea Transportation Service ships are serviced at ports in Germany, with fuel through a bunkering service contract. These servicing costs are charged to occupation. In other words, paid for by the Germans.

3. Equipment is made available to the Air Force and Navy on a reimbursable basis at the request of either department.

4. Storage space available to the quartermaster of this theater is utilized by the Air Force to the extent of approximately 400,000 square feet, to preclude duplication of facilities. To somewhat reduce the drain on our national resources at home, we are buying some things in Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, and Italy. During the past year we have spent slightly over $57,000,000 for quartermaster supplies and equipment. Of this sum, 60 percent of that, or $34,000,000, came from occupation costs. Forty percent, or $23,000,000, came from appropriated funds, appropriated by the Congress of the United States. With the money from the occupation costs we have bought household, office, and troop furniture, as well as equipment for the troops, such as kitchen and mess items, and paper products. With the money appropriated by Congress, we have purchased supplies, as I indicated, amounting to $23,000,000. Of this sum, over

$10,000,000 was spent for food, mainly eggs, butter and milk, fresh fruits and vegetables. Approximately $13,000,000 was spent for blankets, mattresses, cots, sheets, pillow cases, etc. Of all these items of equipment in the last group I mentioned, they were needed to supply the increased forces, mainly the Fourth Division, the Second Armored, the Forty-third, and the Twenty-eighth, the latter just now arrived.

I will be followed by Lt. Col. Paul Flynn, who is Chief of the Requirements and Distribution Group. This group is a part of my office but, due to lack of space in Heidelberg, is physically located at Giessen.

Colonel Flynn will go over the manner in which we compute requirements and how we control and distribute our stocks in Europe. In his talk, Colonel Flynn will discuss the normal theater stocks. In addition, we are stocking France, strategic stocks equivalent to 60 days of items for combat, except for gasoline, which is 40 days for the Ground Forces and 60 days for the Air Force. Colonel Flynn.

STATEMENT OF LT. COL. E. P. FLYNN, COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE 7856TH QUARTERMASTER REQUIREMENTS AND DISTRIBUTION GROUP

Lieutenant Colonel FLYNN. We have prepared three 20-minute presentations. I shall discuss the mission, organization, and functions of the Requirements and Distribution Group, the quartermaster stock control point.

Major Whalen of my staff will discuss the manner in which we employ modern methods of machine accounting in our requirements and requisitioning operations.

Major Dean of the Munich Quartermaster Depot will discuss the management of stocks at the depot and station level.

FUNCTIONS OF QUARTERMASTER STOCK CONTROL POINT

The 7856th Quartermaster Requirements and Distribution Group is, as General Middleswart pointed out, an operational element of the Quartermaster Division, European Command, although it is located here in Giessen Germany. Frequently referred to as the central quartermaster stock control point, its major functions are shown as follows: 1. Determination of command control levels, or requisitioning objectives.

2. Determination of command requirements for every quartermaster item authorized to be issued to troops in the command.

3. Preparation of command requisitions and the submission of these requisitions to the Overseas Supply Division, New York Port of Embarkation.

4. Distribution of comand supplies received at European ports of entry at Bremerhaven and in France.

Each of these functions dovetail and they form the framework about which the group is built.

The Requirements and Distribution Group is organized as illustrated on this chart (chart II). You will note that the group has five commodity sections: Clothing and Equipage, General Supplies, Maintenance Supply, Subsistence, and Petroleum.