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Originally Posted by Enfield
You guys should have read the 1933 Animal Management published by the British Ministry for War. It would have covered how to check for that.
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I just tried to find that on-line, with no joy. I
did find a site discussing the US Army Veterinary Corps in WW2, mostly from the administrative end. However, it struck me that if I wanted to create a clandestine unit operating near or behind the front whose presence would not be closely questioned by my own troops, with a few trucks of odd equipment, whose activities would not be too closely monitored ...
Food Inspection Team - a couple officers, 3-4x as many enlisted men, a couple jeeps (or more modern equivalent), a couple trucks with lab equipment and a generator. Ostensibly, to test meat bought locally for use by troops.
Refrigeration Company - To set up and run a refrigerated store room. Company-sized (probably operated as separated platoons) - but who would question their presence? Or know what disassembled refrigeration equipment looks like? "We have orders from Corps to set up here. Please don't touch those tanks, they are rather delicate. We'd rather
not feed the Regiment spoiled meat."
I, of course, keep picturing a company of troops armed with Mr. Freeze backpack-mounted ice weaponry...
Veterinary Deatchment - Divisional Vet and assistant teams to look after animals, many in Italy. You could wander around a while, asking directions to a unit not quite in the area...
Uncle Ted