Dear batter-ga;
Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting question.
Actually, the 114th Signal Radio Intelligence Company didn?t serve
with the 7th during World War II, but were only assigned to them in
the summer of 1950, well after hostilities in Europe ended:
?With the growing fear of Soviet aggression in Europe after the war in
Korea started in the summer of 1950, the 114th and its sister unit,
the 116th, were ordered to remount (on 2½-ton trucks) their
WWII-vintage intercept and communications equipment (TC-9's and
SCR-399's?) and assume a tactical role as support units for 7th Army.?
USAEUR UNITS
http://www.usarmygermany.com/Units/ASA%20Europe/USAREUR_ASAE.htm
Let?s begin with the 114th Signal Radio Intelligence Company?s
lineage, which is as follows:
?Constituted 26 April 1942 in the Army of the United States as the
114th Signal Radio Intelligence Company
Activated 13 July 1942 at Camp Crowder, Missouri.
Reorganized and redesignated 10 January 1946 as the 114th Signal Service Company
Converted and redesignated 25 October 1951 as the 331st Communication
Reconnaissance Company and allotted to the Regular Army
Reorganized and redesignated 25 June 1955 as Company A, 307th Communication
Reconnaissance Battalion.
Redesignated 1 July 1956 as Company A, 307th Army Security Agency Battalion.
Inactivated 15 October 1957 in Germany.
Redesignated 21 September 1978 as the 331st Army Security Agency
Company and activated in Germany.?
302 MI BN
http://www.nasaa-home.org/history/lineage/302.htm
During its WWII involvement (1944-1945) the Company actually served in
support of General Omar Bradley's 12th US Army Group. It was present
in the following conflicts in the European theater and was awarded the
following campaign streamers indicative of its participation. This
provides us with a very revealing and authoritative look at where the
company was during this time:
NORTHERN FRANCE 1944
ARDENNES-ALSACE 1944-1945
CENTRAL EUROPE 1945
RHINELAND 1944-1945
331ST COMMUNICATIONS RECONNAISSANCE COMPANY
http://www.asa-alpiners.com/331crc.htm
?The streamer reflects campaign participation credit and is the
campaign or service ribbon design authorized for the soldiers for that
specific conflict or operation during the period. Organizations
display the streamers on the colors for campaigns or service for which
they have received campaign participation credit as shown on the
unit's lineage and honors. The inscription is as shown on the unit's
lineage and honors/statement of service. Campaign streamers displayed
by organizations do not have the date of the campaign embroidered on
the streamer unless it is part of the name (e.g. Mexico 1916-1917).?
CAMPAIGN, WAR SERVICE AND UNIT AWARD STREAMERS
http://www-perscom.army.mil/tagd/tioh/Campaign%20Streamers/Campaign.htm
(The actual dates of the campaigns mentioned in the previous paragraph
are corroborated here)
The actual full dates of the battles can be seen here:
NORTHERN FRANCE: 25 JULY 44 - 14 SEPT 44
RHINELAND: 15 SEPT 44 - 21 MAR 45
ARDENNES-ALSACE: 16 DEC 44 - 25 JAN 45
CENTRAL EUROPE: 22 MAR 45 - 111 MAY 45
HISTORY OF THE 212TH AFA IN WWII -- 6TH AD CAMPAIGN MAP
http://members.aol.com/super6th/record/6thclmap.htm
Jay von Werlhof, who heads up the 114th Signal Radio Intelligence
Company (WWII) Association, was a member of the unit during this time.
His association can be contacted here for what would certainly be more
valuable first-hand information:
114th Signal Radio Intelligence Company (WWII)
Mr. Jay Von Werlhof
Post Office Box 474
Ocotillo, CA 92259
(619) 358-7368
SIGNAL ASSOCIATIONS
http://www.normandyallies.org/dbase-signal.htm
In a portion of an online diary published by Mr. Werlhof, he outlines
many (if not all) of the places the 114th was assigned and in some
cases offers dates as well. Here are some pertinent excerpts from the
diary to give you a small idea of what it contains. This is by far the
most detailed personal of official account I could find with regard to
the 114th?s locations during this time period:
?5:30 in the morning of 16 December 1944 when the distant crash of
artillery and the rumble of tanks ended the military stalemate along
the northwestern front. The Battle of the Bulge was on.?
?By the end of 1944, there were eight SRI Companies operating along
the West Wall, including the 113th, 114th, 116th, 117th, 118th, 129th,
135th, and 137th. In addition, there was the 113th SRI Battalion
attached to Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley's 12th Army Group.?
?Sometime after we bypassed Paris and were around Soisson or into
Luxembourg, one of the American crews at army headquarters "lost" an
Ultra decoding machine.?
?Our southernmost DF unit was at the edge of the Ardennes, and our
northernmost unit was near Eupen, giving us more than a twenty mile
coverage of the northwestern front. With this placement we were west
of the central sector of V Corps. The 9th Infantry Division was to our
north, the 2nd and 99th Infantry Divisions were to our east, and the
106th Infantry Division to our southeast. The V and VII corps were
fighting to the northeast of Eupen towards Aachen and the Roer River
dams as the main elements of General Dwight D. Eisenhower's code-named
Operation Queen. They were still within our sector but extended our
range to forty miles. All of this was soon to change.?
ONE MAN'S DECISION: WHY SHAEF FAILED TO HALT THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
http://www.asa-alpiners.com/decision.htm
The unit?s logo (not to be confused with its unit shield or unit
crest) was an original design by one of the 114th?s enlisted men and
has an interesting story of it?s own. Someone, no one knows who, send
the idea to the famous Walt Disney illustrators in 1942 and the logo
was created and submitted to the Quartermaster General and to the
Commanding General, Army Ground Forces for approval. As with all
Disney creations there is a copyright on this one too so I can?t link
directly to it but you can see the logo and read the story behind it
here:
THE 114TH SIGNAL RADIO INTELLIGENCE COMPANY LOGO
http://www.asa-alpiners.com/114logo.htm
DISNEY GOES TO WAR
http://www.skylighters.org/disney/index7.html
About the logo, Werlhof says this in his diary confirming the story above:
?One of the members of our T A Platoon was a personal friend of Walt
Disney who agreed to design the logo for our reorganized company. The
original is in the National Archives.?
ONE MAN'S DECISION: WHY SHAEF FAILED TO HALT THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
http://www.asa-alpiners.com/decision.htm
In researching your question, it turns out that the 114th Signal Radio
Intelligence Company was also variously known as:
114th Signal Company DUI
114th Signal Radio Intercept Company (114th SRI Company, and 114th SRIC for short )
114th Signal Intelligence (114TH SIGINT, for short)
And later, in the immediate post-war period and beyond, the 114th
Signal Services Company (114th SS Co.).
Looking into those unit names I found these bit and pieces of
information that you might also find interesting:
More on the 114th lineage before, and well after World War II:
HISTORY PAGE
http://www.nasaa-home.org/asa/slagle/history.html
?During World War II, the 114th Signal Radio Intercept Company was one
of several radio intelligence units allocated in support of 12th US
Army Group. SRICs were attached to the various US Armies, the 114th
being in support of First US Army. The primary mission of a Signal
Radio Intelligence unit was to intercept and record enemy radio
transmissions and to determine their locations by means of radio
direction finders.
The SRI Co typically consisted of the following elements:
Intercept Platoon
Intelligence and Analysis Platoon
Direction Finding Platoon
Wire Platoon
In the immediate post-war period, the 114th was assigned to Signal
Service Det D, Special Troops, 12th Army Group in Rüsselsheim,
Germany. Det D served as the central command-and-control element for
all signal intelligence operations conducted by the 12th Army Group
and would eventually become ASA-Europe (Nov 1945). On Jan 10 1946, the
114th SRI Company was reorganized and redesignated as 114th Signal
Service Company.?
ARMY SECURITY AGENCY, EUROPE
?THE EARLY YEARS?
http://www.usarmygermany.com/Units/ASA%20Europe/USAREUR_ASAE.htm#Early
More details (admittedly post-war for the most part) are mentioned
here, but there are some contact addresses for a members who
undoubtedly know a lot more about the company that is probably
published:
THE ASA INTERCEPTOR
http://www.asa-alpiners.com/1Q2003HTML.htm
I hope these pieces of information answer your question about the
locations of the 114th during the time frame you mentioned.
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Tutuzdad ? Google Answers Researcher
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