Unit: | 859 Co TC |
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Service location: | France |
Broad unit type: | Transportation Corps |
Type: | Transportation Companies part of Transp Corp |
Camps: |
Camp: AEF Date: 1919-01 |
Responsibilities: | The Transportation Corps were stevedore companies responsible for loading and unloading the vast war materials that arrived at the ports of Brest, St. Nazaire, Bordeaux, Havre, and Marseilles. Each company had 250 African American soldiers and three white officers. |
Date demobilized: | 1919-08-00 |
Place demobilized: | Camp Lee |