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| image = Shoulder Sleeve Insignia, Advanced Section Communication Zone.png
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| caption = Shoulder sleeve insignia for Communications Zone, ETO
| dates = 1944 to 1945
| country = [[United States of America]]
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| battles = Normandy Landings
| notable_commanders = Brig. Gen. [[Ewart G. Plank]], Lt. Gen. [[John C. H. Lee]]
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'''ADSEC''', officially the '''Advance Section of the Communications Zone''', was a military logistics unit active in the [[Second World War]]. It was the farthest forward supply unit in the US Army's [[European Theater of Operations]] (ETOUSA)
==Creation==
ADSEC was formally activated at Bristol, England in February 1944. Upon its creation, ADSEC was attached to the [[U.S. First Army]], but from the outset was one of the ten geographic sections of the [[Communications Zone]] (Com-Z, ETO) logistics organization, and was the first Army logistical agency on the continent. ADSEC officially began operations on 6 June 1944 with the [[Normandy landings]] (D-Day).
==Mode of operation==
Because ADSEC moved with front lines, it did not have a "base" of operations and was designed to be on the move continuously. Instead, major operations always had a designated "D" day or start date, upon (or a few days after) which, ADSEC units were moved into the ''operating areas''. They stayed until about D+40, then moved on to the next "D" location, leaving [[FECOMZ]] (Forward Echelon, Communications Zone) units to take over. By the end of the war, the Com-Z comprised the United Kingdom Base, Channel Base, Normandy Base, Oise Intermediate Base, Seine Base Sections, ADSEC, the Bremen Port Command established to move materiel to the [[Pacific Ocean theater of World War II|Pacific theater]] of Operations, and the Assembly Area Command to move men to the PTO or home. The Com-Z also comprised the Delta Base and Continental Advance Section (CONAD) coming from southern France in support of the [[Sixth United States Army Group]].
==Roles==
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==End of combat operations==
After victory on 8 May 1945, all Communication Zone units, including the Advance Section, were rebranded as Theater Service Forces, European Theater (TSF/ET) as they were no longer supporting combat operations. At the end of hostilities, ADSEC was close at hand in central and eastern Germany, and sustained the Allied armies as they settled in for occupation duty. They distributed food and fuel to aid the millions of refugees.
==Insignia==
[[File:ADSEC Should Sleeve Insignia.png|thumb|upright|Embroidered shoulder patch insignia of ADSEC]]
The patch, which is actually the entire [[Communications Zone]] ETO patch, represents the Allies breaking the chains of Nazi oppression. Soldiers in ADSEC would add a tab above the Com-Z patch, distinguishing them from the other nine geographic sections of the Com-Z. The patch is similar to the ETOUSA patch,{{cn|date=May 2024}} with the addition of the blue 5 pointed star in the white six lobed field, the emblem of the [[Army Service Forces]] organization.
<ref>{{cite web |title=Shoulder Sleeve Insignia |url=https://tioh.army.mil/Catalog/Heraldry.aspx?HeraldryId=15227&CategoryId=9132&grp=2&menu=Uniformed%20Services |website=tioh.army.mil |access-date=22 May 2024}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Services of Supply]]
* [[Army Service Forces]]
* [[American transportation in the Siegfried Line campaign]]
==References==
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