55TH ORDNANCE AMMUNITION COMPANY, US ARMY
IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2

visits since 21 August 2007

The 55th Ordnance Ammunition Company was located in the Townsville area. Some of their activities included:-

• furnishing a detachment of thirty men for Port Moresby,

• handling ammunition at the Townsville wharves and

• operating the Kangaroo Trans-shipment Depot or Kangaroo Ordnance Depot, at Kurukan on the road to Cairns just north of Townsville.

The 55th Ordnance Ammunition Company was reinforced by a small detachment of the 59th Ordnance Ammunition Company.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Bob Bartlett for his assistance with this web page. http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bartlett47/

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This page first produced ??  ??? 2007

This page last updated 21 August 2007