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Post by connie on Jun 16, 2010 17:22:36 GMT -5
Just curious...
I believe that the Service Battery for the 590th Field Artillery Battalion drew was drawing ammunition from a dump in Liege for those few days in December that led up to the onset of Battle of the Bulge.
Does anyone have any clue about the exact location of this ammunition dump?
Connie
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Post by eucmh on Nov 18, 2015 1:09:10 GMT -5
Soumagne (BE)
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Post by connie on Nov 19, 2015 10:49:18 GMT -5
Thank you!!!
This is the first time I have seen a more specific name for the location of the ammunition dump. I just checked the map and see that Soumagne is east of Liege. Is there anything there to mark the fact that an ammunition dump was once there?
Connie
offspring of a 590th veteran
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Post by eucmh on Nov 19, 2015 17:43:14 GMT -5
well this was the main 1st Army depot in preparation for the offensive (Dec 1944) in the Roer River valley and the Roer Dams. The depot was along the railroad (Liege - Aachen) and was over a kilometer long.
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Post by connie on Nov 19, 2015 19:16:56 GMT -5
Thank you! This may be common knowledge to you. But I have not seen this fact mentioned in any of the places I have looked. You obviously have a better grasp of the larger picture. The First Army was, of course there before the 106th Infantry Division became part of it.
It means something to me-- and will to others, I am sure--to be able to know the location of the Ammunition Dump that men in the Ammunition Train for the Field Artillery units were driving to daily for the days they were in position before they were cut off of the Ardennes Offensive/ Battle of the Bulge. My father, who was at the time the Motor Officer for the 590th Field Artillery Battalion's Service Battery did not make this run. But he mentioned that the men of the Ammunition Train did. He, however, only gave the general vicinity of the dump as Liege. It's good to know exactly where.
Connie
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