846th Engineer Aviation Battalion (EAB)

Landing in Normandy on July 16th, this unit had completed A-13 by July 26th, a fighter-bomber base with two PSP runways. The 846th has completed three ALGs, two S and Es, one fighter-bomber strip, and has rehabilitated 20 airfields. Operations carried them from Normandy, through France, Belgium, Holland, and into Germany where V-E Day found them working on Bremen Airfield.

Aviation Engineers in Mobile Warfare

Links

• Birch Airfield
• Airfields Constructed by U.S. Engineer Battalions in Essex