At the annual society convention, I presented “What’s it take to move a Division”. In that presentation, I said that copies of the slides and several references would be posted on my blog.
Here are the links.
A link to a PDF version of the slides is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UP-19H9G7_zTnDAnU2gTetkNzBn0hqrh/view?usp=sharing
An Excell spread sheet with the details of the 86th
Infantry Division move from Camp Livingston, LA to Camp Cook, CA in September
1944 is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g8V_vGiJ41DS51yzjNGCjdDvyidZtobn/view?usp=drive_link
A PDF copy of the original movement memo from the National
Archives is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wy0SBlWHBP7yZsYHh3AAJWHJGqqZ17zH/view?usp=drive_link
The Santa Fe 1944 Railroad Map can be downloaded here (Large
file 84.7 MB JPG):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zMyedt4-_J16O8d3iwzbtjeZAmyM2s5g/view?usp=drive_link
Technical Manual 55-205, Transportation in the Zone of the Interior,
1944 edition is available in PDF form as a free download from the Internet Archive
at:
https://archive.org/details/TM55-205
I hope that you learned a bit about how the gears fitted
together during WWII to move Army troops around the United States in cooperation
with the railroads.
John Barry
Phoenix, AZ
6 June 2026
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