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© USAAF Units Stationed at Bures & Wakes Colne |
This information was
obtained direct from the USA. (BAA) indicates units
with Black or African-American soldiers I note from your list of USAAF units
at Bures that none were there before the autumn of 1943 - and most had
been and gone a year later. This period coincides with the Ninth Air
Force's Bomb Groups' operations from Essex airfields before they moved
south and, later, into France. This, and the site's APO postal reference
that you found, would suggest Bures served the Ninth Air Force, and
not the Eighth. Logistically, that would probably mean muntions deliveries
being limited to Essex airfields - there being no 9th AF bases in Suffolk.
But there may have been exceptions based on geographical convenience.
Notes:- It
is clear to see from the Bures records, three different types of units were stationed
here:- 1st May reference:-149 NY is the Army Post Office (APO) assigned to that unit. The 149 is a sequentual number assigned by the U. S. Armys Adjutant General, and NY indicates New York. All units in the European Theatre of Operations (U. S. Army) had NY as their base Post Office. In this case, APO 149 NY was assigned to all units belonging to the IX Air Force Service Command, whose Headquarters was at Sunninghill, England. This command controlled all Air Depots and Service units in the Ninth Air Force. Most of those units moved to France and Germany as the war progressed. Wakes
Colne also housed three similar units, in addition to an "Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Group".(AAA) There were 3 other Ordnance Battalions,
Ammunition based in the UK. February - March
1945 1330th, Engineer General Service Regiments-
Redesignated as battalions at Camp Clairborne, Louisiana. Acknowledgement to |