Beginnings - Home: the 801st - Aviation Engineers - Birth of a battalion Gowen Field - Full strength - Snake River Bivouac - Return to Gowen - Shipping out The Azores - Strategic crossroads - Coming ashore - Building an air base - Mission accomplished - Home for 30 days Geiger Field Shipping out again - The LSTs - USS Pondera Okinawa - Going ashore - The last weeks - The road home - Epilogue
Dad's story collection
Reference - 801st Timeline - Names & Hometowns - Photo gallery - Places visited - Ships sailed - Table of Organization - Weapons Contact us
Photo gallery
Please note: these pages contain a number of scans or photographs and may require some time to download.
Personnel:
Battalion officers
Headquarters & Service Company
Company A
Company B
Company C
Dad (and some buddies)
Places:
Gowen Field (Boise, Idaho)
Snake River Bivouac (Idaho)
Azores
Azores - Runway construction
Geiger Field (Spokane, Washington)
Okinawa - Built by the 801st
Okinawa - Outside the camp
Okinawa - Typhoon Louise
Maps
The Azores shortcut to Africa and Europe
Courses of the 801st across the Pacific Ocean
Document scans
Honorable Discharge
Induction leave
Meritorious Service Unit Award memo