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
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Reference - 801st Timeline - Names & Hometowns - Photo gallery - Places visited - Ships sailed - Table of Organization - Weapons Contact us
Photo gallery - Okinawa - Typhoon Louise
(below) The force of the Typhoon's wind bent the battalion flagpole over parallel to the ground
(below) Typhoon wind damage to the hospital area
(below) Wind damage in the camp area