History
Originally the Company was Company F of
the 30th Medical Regiment. On 28 February 1944, the 417th Collecting
Company was redesignated 417th Ambulance Company, motor, in the
Louisiana Maneuver Area. After that it moved back to Camp Berkeley,
Texas to prepare for assignment overseas. It left the United
States on 19 July 1944 and arrived in England on the 26th. Little time
was wasted and the Company arrived on mainland Europe on 19 August 1944,
were it was attached to the US 7th Army.
In February 1945 the unit was
temporarily deactivated, only to be redesignated 417th Motor Ambulance
Company and attached to US 9th Army from 25 April 1945. It was
deactivated in Europe in February 1946.
There is one casualty of the Company
buried
in the Netherlands.