GI Trail NI - discover the path the GI's took in Northern Ireland.

Follow the GI Trail and learn about the American GIs in Northern Ireland during World War 2. Re-trace their footsteps and relive the exciting past of the American GI's.

Langford Lodge (USA AF)

1947th Quartermaster Truck Company (Colored)

  • Arrives at Liverpool, England 17 August 1942 (sailed from New York Port of Embarkation 5 August 1942) as 759th Quartermaster Truck Company (Colored)
  • Arrives at Langford Lodge 17 August 1942 as subordinate element of 7th Air Depot Group
  • Redesignated 19 September 1942 as 1947th Quartermaster Truck Company, Aviation (Colored)
  • At Bemberbridge, Lancastershire, 16 June 1943