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Advance Section, USAREUR Com Z
Communications Zone
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Advance Section, Com Z (ADSEC)
 
1956
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, Dec 9, 1956)
Verdun Air Section To Get New Field

French forces will join U.S. troops Dec 16 to mark the opening of the new Verdun Army Airfield.

The Verdun air section has long anticipated the move to new quarters and less antiquated flying facilities for Advance Section L19s, L20s and helicopters.

The new air terminal, officially named Verdun-Rozelier, will feature a modern administration building, and two spacious hangars, replacing the one small hangar and offices at the former locale, a French flying club.
 
1957
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, April 15, 1957)
The Advance Section, Com Z, headquartered at Verdun stretches from Giessen in Germany to Sommesous east of Paris. Recently, the area of responsibility for ADSEC expanded into Germany with the addition of the Quartermaster depots at Giessen and Nahbollenbach.

At a later date, other depots in Germany will be added to the ADSEC command.

ADSEC is the forward section of the Line of Communications (LOC) across France. The ADSEC supply system is decentralized, with each technical service depot in the east (West Germany) having a counterpart in France. The Giessen QM Depot in Germany has its double in Metz. The Rhine Engineer Depot in Kaiserslautern has an ADSEC counterpart in Toul.

The main Army airfield serving ADSEC is the newly constructed Verdun Army Airfield (with a 2,460-foot runway; 33,000 square feet maintenance hangar; and large storage warehouse). Before the airfield was completed, the aviation section used the Verdun municipal airfield for its L-19's.

ADSEC CG until very recently was Brig Gen William R. Woodward.
 
1958
(Source: STARS & STRIPES, July 30, 1958)
Advance Section

The Communications Zone is divided into the following major subordinate commands:
 
  Advance Section Verdun  
  Base Section Poitiers  
  Seine Area Comd Paris supports US elements of international headquarters in and around Paris and Fontainebleau
  Orleans Installation Orleans supports Com Z Headquarters

CG of the Advance Section is Brig Gen Robert J. Fleming. The Hqs is located in Verdun, France.

The mission of ADSEC is to supply the 7th Army and USAFE in Germany.

The command supervises a vast network of depots and communications stretching across northeastern France and into Western Germany. The purpose of the supply depots in France is to provide wartime support of the 7th Army and USAFE.

The depots in ADSEC serve as backup for like depots in Germany -- Toul Engineer Depot backs up the Engineer Depot in Kaiserslautern; the Metz QM Depot supports the Giessen QM depot in Germany...

Advance Section was originally set up in Paris in 1950 as part of the major effort of organizing a new, more secure line of communications through France to replace the Bremerhaven line of communications which had been established during the early days of the Occupation Period.

ADSEC units employ 16,000 French workers. In Verdun, site of the headquarters and other activities, one of every five working adults is employed by the US Army.
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