page_title: Transportation Corps
section_title: World War I
hierarchical_section_title: Transportation Corps / History / Early history / World War I
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Un journal publié par les soldats américains installés à Vauzelles, au Camp Stephenson. Ce journal était publié à 2500 exemplaires, puis à 3000 exemplaires, et imprimé par la société Fortin. English: The Pop Valve, Published by and for the 19th Grand Division Transportation Corps American Expeditionary Forces, Camp Stephenson, Nevers (Nièvre).
context_page_description: The Transportation Corps was established 31 July 1942 by Executive Order 9082. The Transportation Corps is a combat service support branch of the U.S. Army, and was headquartered at Fort Eustis, Virginia, but moved to Fort Lee, Virginia in 2010. It is also one of three U.S. Army logistics branches, the others being the Quartermaster Corps and the Ordnance Corps. The Transportation Corps is responsible for the movement of personnel and material by truck, rail, air, and sea. Its motto is "Spearhead of Logistics," and it is currently the second-largest branch of the Army.
  The officer in charge of the branch for doctrine, training, and professional development purposes is the Chief of Transportation. The current Chief of Transportation is Brigadier General Jered P. Helwig.
context_section_description: The American Expeditionary Force that deployed to France during World War I emphasized the need for a single transportation manager. William W. Atterbury, a former railroad executive, was commissioned as a brigadier general and appointed as the Director-General of Transportation and a separate Motor Transport Corps of the National Army was established to manage trucks on 15 August 1918. The United States Army School for Truck Drivers had been established by 9 July 1918; and the Transportation Corps of the AEF was abolished after the war,  The M.T.C. subsequently conducted Transcontinental Motor Convoys in 1919 and 1920.
caption: The Pop Valve a self-published magazine of the 19th Grand Division while based at Nevers, France in WWI
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