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The E-Mail Newsletter of the Army Security Agency Alpiners Reunion Group
Serving veterans of the SIS, ASA and INSCOM who were stationed in Germany or Austria

Volume 5 – Number 2
March 1, 2009
Ralph R, Thadeus, Editor
(Scheyern 53-56)
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ASMN

William Moloney (Bad Aibling 62-64) responded to the TAPS notice about Joe Bean mentioning that Bean was his Trick Chief in BA. Moloney would like to get in contact with anyone who served with him in BA. He can be reached by e-mail to bill_moloney@msn.com. (That’s an underscore between his first and last names)

The Army has a kind of neat program going on honoring veterans and the families of current service members. It is a Certificate of Appreciation made out in the recipients name and signed by the Army Chief of Staff. It is a free service and full information can be obtained from the web site http://www.freedomteamsalute.com

TAPS

Norm Galloway (Nottau 58) passed away on January 30th as reported by Mike Reilly (Nottau 56-57). Norm had just celebrated his 75th birthday on the preceding December 17th and had spent 40 years married to his wife Shelly. Norm was a 988R.

Supporting Member Col. John R. Yurich (Scheyern 47-48) passed away on February 2, 2009, as reported by his wife Joyce Ann. He was buried at the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holy, Michigan, on February 9th. Besides his wife, John is survived by 9 children, 15 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

A BIT OF HISTORY (CONTINUED)

As the onset of WW-II approached the T/O of the 2nd Signal Service Company began to increase. On July 1, 1941, the strength of the Company was 135 EM and 3 Officers. Most of the increase was within the Washington DC area and the Presidio operation had been discontinued.

On December 27, 1941, the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) became a division of the Operations Branch, OCSigO (Office of the Chief Signal Officer), but a few days later the Army Communications Service was created, and the SIS remained there throughout the war.

The SIS itself was broadly organized into these units in January, 1942:

The COMINT (Cryptanalytic) Unit B was divided into:

(Note the command relationship between Section B-6, Traffic, and the 2nd Signal Service Company – the unit intercepting the traffic.)

Further expansion of this structure was directed by the MIS (Military Intelligence Service) in April 1942. The MIS was created when the War Department was reorganized in March 1942. This action profoundly affected the SIS and military intelligence in general. By this general reorganization the old War Department arrangement, with chiefs of arms and services existing alongside the General Staff was swept away. The offices of the chiefs of infantry, cavalry and field artillery (and others) were abolished. The CSO and the OCSigO remained but they were now made subordinate to a huge new CONUS command, the Services of Supply, soon to be renamed the Army Service Forces (ASF). Its chief for the duration of the war was Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, a veteran Army engineer. Thus the Signal Corps lost its direct access to the Chief of Staff, and the SIS was placed under yet another layer of control.

Source: NSA publication titled “A History of U. S. Communications Intelligences during World War II: Policy and Administration, Series IV, Volume 8” dated 1997, Robert Louis Benson, Author.

Our thanks to Bob Zikowitz who did the research and previous publication of this information in his 2nd Signal Service Battalion quarterly newsletter.

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