665 Ordnance Ammunition Company stayed at Dunham Park Cheshire on 15 august 1944

The 665 Ordnance Ammunition Company is one of the units on the UK Station List made by Mr. Grinton. This and other records on Back to Normandy was compiled from Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, Kingdom Station List, and dated 7 September 1944.
(-) minus sign behind a unit name indicates that part of the unit was elsewhere.
Counties are mentioned as the so called pre-1974 British counties. The map co-ordinates are automatically made with Google Maps. If you have a more accurate location, photos, stories or links, please sent your information to Back to Normandy. The unit is also know as member of the US Army, Army Air Force. In this period, around this date of 15 augustus 1944 the 665 Ordnance Ammunition Company were here in Dunham Park, Cheshire.

The original station list was obtained from the National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) at College Park, Maryland. The NARA describe it as HQ/ETO Station List, 4/30/44 and reference Box 15, 270/48/32/2. In the European and Mediterranean theater the US Army had 3.5 million troops there. About 1.7 million were combat troops and around 700.000 were service troops along with 592.000 army air force troops and the rest were replacements, patients, overhead and staff. The correct count of support- and line troops in this context is difficult.

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Bob Proctor

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My father-in-law, Ralph Pete Bonfield, was with the 665th Ordnance Ammunition Company. He arrived in England as a freshly minted 2nd Lt. Pete's first letter home was from England was dated 13, March 1944. He would write almost a letter per day...

My father-in-law, Ralph Pete Bonfield, was with the 665th Ordnance Ammunition Company. He arrived in England as a freshly minted 2nd Lt. Pete's first letter home was from England was dated 13, March 1944. He would write almost a letter per day before he stepped on a "Liberty Ship" bound for New York City on or about 12, November 1945. I have chronicled these letters plus a diary of events in a book "Pete's War" by Bob Proctor available on Amazon.