765th T.R.S.B. (Transportation Railway Shop Battalion) The mission of the
765th is to provide command and control, administration and logistic support,
discipline, and training to soldiers assigned/attached to the U.S. Army
Aviation Logistics School,
The battalion's rich
history spans three wars and its heritage in both transportation and aviation
has produced a distinguished lineage and honors. In World War II, the 765th
was born on
With the outbreak of
hostilities in
In the 1960's, as the
Vietnam Conflict began to intensify, the 765th was once again called upon to
serve its country and on 1 March 1963, was re-designated
as Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 765th Transportation Battalion,
and was reactivated on 26March 1964, at Fort Benning, Georgia as an aircraft maintenance unit. In
The 765th
Transportation Battalion was reactivated
The Battalion's motto
of "STRAIGHT ARROW", a legacy of its
Top photo: L-to-R Robert Ballard, Capt Bill Griffin and Al Arvia Korea 1952 Deactivation June 2006 *** photos here
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According to Les "The picture you forwarded of No. 965 IS the same
locomotive. It has had a variety of numbers during its past; 8341 (in WWII),
6779 (upon arrival in Korea), then changed to 101, to 765 when restored/rebuilt
by the 765th Transportation Shop Battalion, and finally back to its present No.
101, when turned over to the Korean National Railroad in the 1950's. In 1959 she
was donated by the Korean Government as a gift to the American people for
assisting in the Korean War, and now resides at the National Railroad Museum in
Green Bay, Wisconsin. One of the past directors of the Museum told me in 1994
that No. 101 is "one of their treasures". It served in three wars, and is the
only surviving steam locomotive of its type in the world.
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