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transferred to Camp Swift, Texas on 28 August 1944. It moved to Camp Callan, California, on 20 December 1944 before returning to Camp Swift on 28 January 1945. The regiment staged at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey on 27 February 1945 before departing from the New York Port of
Embarkation on 7 March 1945. It arrived in France eleven days later and was attached to the
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Support Command. The lineage of the battalion and the regiment itself was continued by the 980th Quartermaster Battalion of the command.
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