Dogdaddy:-
Our Army did the same thing except we called them "Limited Service
Men" (men not physically suited for combat service) for example we
did the following:-
D-Day beach traffic wasn't the only problem. Increasing numbers of PWs
jampacked cages. Immediate help was imperative. Late in the afternoon,
June 6, 1944, the 302nd MP Escort Guard Co., composed of 57 percent
limited service men, came ashore. The unit suffered casualties in men and
equipment before relieving 1st Inf. Div. MPs of their stockade responsibility.
Several days later, the 595th took charge of three beach evacuation pens
while the 301st was busily occupied with PWs in another sector. Supposedly,
these were Com Z units.
Cos. C and D, 783rd MP Bn., directed beach traffic on D plus 4, and the entire
battalion, along with the 713th, followed Armies thereafter.
Through a foolproof evacuation system, Military Police scraped up the PWs,
by handfuls or by thousands, dispatched them to the rear, clearing Army
areas for future captures.
Provost Marshals and MP units perfected a chain of evacuation that withstood
countless heavy loads thrown at it. When the haul of prisoners was unusually
large, tactical units assisted in escorting and guarding.
But the bulk of the work fell to a small number of MP escort guard companies,
most of whom had handled prisoners before in Zone of Interior camps. Broken
into sections, companies like the 142nd, 430th, 483rd, 554th, and 620th MP EG,
picked up PWs at division collecting points and escorted them to enclosures.
Here, Advance Section EG companies attached to the Army PWs, accepted
and moved prisoners to forward Com Z enclosures
Sgtleo