Average Deployment

[Delta Tank]

To all,

What was the average deployment time for a World War II Soldier, Sailor, Airmen and Marine? If that data exist.

Mike

[LineDoggie]

Dad went overseas for Operation Torch November 1942 and came home for thanksgiving day November 1945

North Africa
Sicily
UK (Tidworth)
Normandy (D+3)
NW Europe
Ardennes
Germany (July 45 1st US unit in Berlin)

1 trip to a field hospital in January 45 for trenchfoot, back to his unit by late March

[Carl Schwamberger]

Dad deployed to England in the summer of 1943 with his B26 bomber squadron. Moved to Belgium, then France, then entered Germany as a liaison officer with 1st Army. Returned to his bomber group in April and to the US later that summer. Left active service in the early autumn, four years after entering active service as a ROTC graduate. As the son of a farmer, a only child, and a medical history he could have easily avoided service. His cousin Robert Beutler was drafted in 1944, shipped to Okinawa as a infantry replacement, was wounded the same day he stepped ashore, and spent the remainder of the war in convalescence. Another Cousin Ted Sturm entered service in 1940 & ended the war on Okinawa as a division HQ clerk, the same division Butler was wounded with. Ted Sturms brother Roger served in the Navy in the Pacific and crewed a PT boat for a while. He died in a accident while I was relatively young & I never learned his full history. Yet another cousin Mike Keller served in a armored artillery battery reaching England sometime in 1944, passed my father on the docks enroute to France in September 1944 & also rotated back in late summer 1945.

[reedwh52]

Flight crews generally rotated after x number of missions.

Ground personnel in many cases were overseas for the duration. A friend of mine (now deceased) was at sea with the Pensacola convoy on 12/7/1941. He returned to the US in May 1946.

[Richard Anderson]

According to the World War II Museum, 73% of all US service personnel served overseas and averaged 16 months there.

[Volyn]

According to the World War II Museum, 73% of all US service personnel served overseas and averaged 16 months there.

That sounds about right, my Grandfather spent 18 months overseas as an infantryman and he was wounded in the Battle of Lindern on 29 NOV 1944 near Beeck, Germany.

Rhineland
Ardennes
Central Europe
Occupation Duty - Berlin from JUN 1945 - MAR 1946

[Delta Tank]

According to the World War II Museum, 73% of all US service personnel served overseas and averaged 16 months there.

Thanks Rich!!

Mike