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Langford Lodge (USA AF)

2211th Quartermaster Truck Company, Aviation

  • Activated at Langford Lodge 20 January 1944 as an element of United States Strategic Air Forces
  • Unit Data Card indicates stationed in “England” from 20 January 1944 activation until disbanding on 20 May 1945
  • At Eccles, Norfolk, 24 July 1944

Langford Lodge (USA AF)

1947th Quartermaster Truck Company (Colored)

  • Arrives at Liverpool, England 17 August 1942 (sailed from New York Port of Embarkation 5 August 1942) as 759th Quartermaster Truck Company (Colored)
  • Arrives at Langford Lodge 17 August 1942 as subordinate element of 7th Air Depot Group
  • Redesignated 19 September 1942 as 1947th Quartermaster Truck Company, Aviation (Colored)
  • At Bemberbridge, Lancastershire, 16 June 1943

Langford Lodge (USA AF)

1694th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Company, Aviation

  • At Langford Lodge (no date given)
  • Assigned to Eighth Air Force 26 August 1942
  • At Sudbury, Derbyshire, by 5 September 1944
  • Unit Data Card indicates arrived 9 September 1944

Nutts Corner (USA AF)

1404th Army Air Force Base Unit

  • Activated 18 July 1944 at Nutts Corner Airport, Nutts Corner by General Orders 1, European Division Air Transport Command, 18 July 1944
  • Disestablished at Nutts Corner 18 October 1944 by General Orders 9, European Division Air Transport Command, 18 October 1944
  • Formed from Station No. 2, European Wing, Air Transport Command

Langford Lodge (USA AF)

1253d Military Police Company, Aviation

  • Arrives at Liverpool, England, 21 August 1943 (sailed from New York Port of Embarkation either 14 or 19 August 1943)
  • At Toome 23 August 1943 until 6 October 1944
  • At Langford Lodge; element of 8th Air Force Composite Command
  • At Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, by 1 October 1944
  • Unit Data Card says arrived Little Waldon, Essexshire, England 8 October 1944
  • Detachment at Greencastle from 1 October 1944

Langford Lodge (USA AF)

1195th Military Police Company, Aviation

  • Sailed from New York Port of Embarkation 1 October 1943 on Aquitania (arriving in “England” 9 October 1943)
  • Arrives at Langford Lodge 9 October 1943 (sailed from New York Port of Embarkation 3 October 1943); element of 8th Air Force Service Command
  • Disbanded at Langford Lodge 25 February 1944

Langford Lodge (USA AF)

1145th Military Police Company, Aviation

  • Sailed from New York Port of Embarkation 11 July 1943 on Aquitania
  • Arrives at Firth of Clyde 15 July 1943 (sailed from New York Port of Embarkation 1 July 1943)
  • At Langford Lodge (reported while still embarked 1 July 1943); element of 8th Air Force Composite Command
  • At Langford Lodge 15 July 1943 to 20 June 1945 according to Unit Data Card
  • At Little Stoughton, England, by 26 January 1944

Toome (USA AF)

1110th Signal Company, Service Group

  • Sails from New York Port of Embarkation 15 November 1943 on Queen Mary
  • At Toome [no date given]; element of 8th Air Force Composite Command [Unit Data Card says stationed in “England” from 20 November 143 to unspecified date]
  • At Willingale, Essex, by 29 September 1944

Toome (USA AF)

1056th Quartermaster Company, Service Group, Aviation

  • Sailed from New York Port of Embarkation 17 July 1943 on Block Island; Unit Data Card says in Northern Ireland from 26 July 1943 to unspecified date
  • Arrives at Toome 26 July 1943 (sailed from New York Port of Embarkation 10 July); element of 8th Air Force Composite Command
  • At Troston, Suffolk, by 1 October 1944
  • Detachment at Greencastle from 21 August 1943 to 4 October 1944

Langford Lodge (USA AF)

984th Military Police Company, Aviation

  • At Langford Lodge 26 January 1944; element of 8th Air Force Service Command
  • At Baverstock, Wiltshire, by 28 June 1945

1038th Signal Company, Service Group — see 38th Signal Company

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