1st Lt N J Schultz Jr. is recorded as being the Ordnance Department Liaison Officer who had the immediate dealings with the initial occupancy of the RAF Reserve Ammunition Depot, Wortley. According to US documentation making his initial visit on July 4th 1942. Leaving back to US HQ on July 15th, following the arrival of the full complement of the 65th Ordnance Company on the 13th. RAF ORB documentation recording the arrival of an advance party on July 11th, under Lt. Bell.
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The 65th Ordnance Company were the first Aviation ammunition Unit to arrive in the UK, doing so on 11th June 1943. They were set to immediate work establishing the first Aviation Ordnance Section in a General Service Depot, at Burtonwood. They were...
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Military site : non-airfield
Wortley was a Reserve Ammunition Dump in South Yorkshire, to the west of Barnsley and north of Sheffield.
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