Description

904th Engineer Air Force Headquarters Company — Reproduction Platoon
Army Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater • World War II •

56 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview:
Memories is a wartime photo album put together by the men of the Reproduction Platoon of the 904th Engineer Air Force Headquarters Company, the mapmaking and printing unit serving Army Air Forces headquarters in the Mediterranean. It opens with the August 1945 orders awarding the company the Meritorious Service Unit Plaque, then follows the platoon in captioned snapshots from MacDill Field in Florida to the bivouacs of Casablanca, across Algeria and Tunisia, and up the length of Italy from Taranto and Foggia to Naples, Sorrento, Milan and the Swiss border. Along the way are pictures of the platoon at work on negative layout and platemaking, the March 1944 eruption of Vesuvius, and daily life in camp. It closes with a roster of the platoon’s men and their home addresses. This is a digital download of a scanned copy of the original album.

Campaigns: French Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy (Taranto, Foggia, Naples, Milan)

Commanders: Not named in the album

Unit newspaper: unknown

Table of Contents
Meritorious Service Unit Plaque Citation
MacDill Field
Casablanca and French Morocco
La Senia, Orleansville and Algiers
Bizerte, Tunisia
Taranto and Foggia
Reproduction Work: Negative Layout and Platemaking
Manfredonia
Naples, Vomero and the Eruption of Vesuvius
Sorrento and the Road to Amalfi
Milan and the Swiss Border
Platoon Roster with Home Addresses

“Superior performance of duty in the accomplishment of exceptionally difficult tasks.”
— Orders No. 90, Headquarters Army Air Forces, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 16 August 1945