942nd Engineer Topographic Battalion

Battalion
A B-17 Flying Fortrerss (serial number 44-6873) of the 305th Bomb Group at Namur, Belgium. Image by William Polley, 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion, 8th Air Force. Written on slide casing: '468192, Namur, Belgium.' media-387683.jpg FRE 5925 A B-17 Flying Fortrerss (serial number 44-8673) of the 305th Bomb Group at Namur, Belgium. Image by William Polley, 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion, 8th Air Force. Written on slide casing: '468192, Namur, Belgium.' Roger Freeman Collection

Associated the unit Polley was with according to the caption information.

Object Number - FRE 5925 - A B-17 Flying Fortrerss (serial number 44-8673) of the 305th Bomb Group at Namur, Belgium. Image by William Polley, 942nd Engineer Aviation...

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Unit stations

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Ascot

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High Wycombe

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Swindon

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People

William C Conway

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 942nd Engineer Topographic Battalion
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant

William E Joseph

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 942nd Engineer Topographic Battalion
  • Service Numbers: 37356022
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Photographic Topographer
Private First Class Charles Parks and William "Bill" Polley swap hats with an Etonian schoolboy. Image by William Polley, 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion, 8th Air Force. Associated caption: 'Hat exchange a "NoNo"- Charles Parks & Bill Polley, Yanks. taken while stationed at "Pinetree", 8th AF Headquarters High Wycombe. 4/30/44-1/15/45.'

William E Polley

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 942nd Engineer Topographic Battalion

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)

942nd Engineer Topographic Battalion: Gallery (2 items)

A B-17 Flying Fortrerss (serial number 44-6873) of the 305th Bomb Group at Namur, Belgium. Image by William Polley, 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion, 8th Air Force. Written on slide casing: '468192, Namur, Belgium.'

Object number: FRE 5925 - A B-17 Flying Fortrerss (serial number 44-8673) of...

American students, part of the Training With Civilian Agencies program, at a County College in the United States, post war. Image by William Polley, 942nd Engineer Aviation Topographic Battalion, 8th Air Force. Associated caption: 'Post war & back to "Jolly Olde" as part of TWCA Training With Civilian Agencies 10/1/45-1/8/46. Yank education students visiting a County College with instructor Dr Thouless of Cambridge University.'

Object number: FRE 6991 - American students, part of the Training With...