Description

21st Engineer Aviation Regiment
Corps of Engineers, North Africa and Mediterranean Theater • World War I & World War II •
32 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview
A thumbnail history of the “Old 21st,” this unit history traces the Regiment’s lineage back to its World War I service as a Light Railroad outfit at St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne, its 1940 reactivation as an Aviation Engineer regiment under Brig. Gen. Donald A. Davison, and its World War II campaign building airfields across French Morocco, Tunisia, and Italy, closing with battalion and company narratives, recreational activities, and awards. This listing is for a digital download of a scanned copy of the original photo-illustrated volume.

Campaigns: World War I — St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives (1918); World War II — the North African landings at Casablanca and Port Lyautey; the Tunisian Campaign; airfield construction supporting the invasions of Sicily and Italy; the advance to the Foggia Plain bomber fields in Italy.

Commanders: Brig. Gen. Donald A. Davison (first Commanding Officer, 1940–1943); Col. Dwight F. Johns; Col. Russell M. Herrington; Col. William F. Cassidy; Col. Gilbert M. Dorland.

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents
Foreword
Ancient History of the 21st (World War I)
Regimental Commanding Officers
From Wheatfields to Airfields (Current History)
Regimental Headquarters & Service Company
First Battalion
Second Battalion
Third Battalion
The Bulldozers
Regimental Orchestra
Extra-Curricular Activities and Awards

“Largely deserted but standing forever as monuments to 1st Battalion, 21st Engineer Aviation Regiment, are 121 airstrips from Casablanca, French Morocco, to the Italian Adriatic coast.”
— History of the 21st Engineer Aviation Regiment