[Milsurplus] what is 407th MM Ord Company" ?
Hubert Miller
Kargo_cult at msn.com
Sat Jan 23 22:09:48 EST 2021
Thanks for the replies with the information !
So he was, after the Luftwaffe ceased to be a great menace, assigned to the "instrument
section" of the "armaments platoon" of the Medium Maintenance company which traveled
with the armored column.
I asked him once about souvenir collecting. Apparently when moving, there was no chance
to stop for say, some leisurely stripping of aircraft or vehicles. Like at a large Italian airfield
they passed in North Africa. The company did find some ME-262 parked at an autobahn
airfield near Munich, but they got their butts chewed for stripping out instruments; the
planes were wanted intact for study. I asked him what the best assignment would be, in
terms of access to "souvenirs", and he said the combat engineers. I suppose that job had
an element of its own risk too, like booby trap bombs and building pontoon bridges under fire.
-Hue Miller
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