9th394th Signal Company, AviationPlaque

IX Air Force Service
1943
Hollis 1943 Posters Gann
Sgt, Jess Hollins Camp Pinedale, Fresno, California. February. Left to right: Cpl.. Mitchell, Cpl. Stein, & Cpl. McGrew.

Background: Tar paper shacks used by Japanese-Americans in transit to internment. Just prior to Pinedale being made an Army base, it was the Pinedale Assembly Center for the relocation of the Japanese-Americans.
Poster work of Sgt. Joe Scarnati in his barracks with Cpl. M. Wendt. February. Sgt. M. Gann
September, 1944
LeMans


First standing building, Le Mans, France. Left to right::
Sgt. Jess Hollins, French citizen, Cpl. M. Wendt.



1945
Nuremberg Nuremberg Nicw
August. Cpl. Leo Schanzer inspect wreckage of Nazi planes at the 9th Air Force airstrip, Nuremberg, Germany. Soldier Field Stadium, Nuremberg, Germany, October, Left to right: Sgt. Jess Hollins, Sgt. Milton Gann,  & Cpl. Leo Schanzer. The stadium is the size of three major league baseball fields. Sgt. Jess Hollis, October, French Riviera, Nice, France.
Photos & captions based on notes from the collection Jess Hollins. Photos © Jess Hollins; used with permission. who holds the copyright on them
The 394th Signal Company has been reactivated and is now the 23 COMBAT COMMUNICATIONS SQUADRON (Air Force Reserve Command )

Summary of the 394th in WWII service
from the Air Force Historical Research Agency:

Lineage: Constituted as 394 Signal Company, Aviation, on 17 Jan 1943. Activated on 1 Feb 1943.

Assignments:.Western Signal Aviation Unit Training Center, 1 Feb 1943; IX Air Force Service (later, European Air Materiel) Command, c. 19 Jan 1944; Erlangen AB, Germany, 15 Sep 1947;

Stations:. Camp Pinedale, CA, 1 Feb 1943; Camp Kilmer, NJ, 13 Dec 1943-8 Jan 1944; Ascot, England, 19 Jan 1944; Criqueville, France, c. 17 Jun 1944; La Cambe, France, 14 Jul 1944; Feugeres, France, 9 Aug 1944; Le Mans, France, 27 Aug 1944; Criel, France, Sep 1944; Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, c. 30 Apr 1945; Erlangen, Germany, c. 15 Aug 1945-10 Nov 1947.

Campaigns:. Normandy; Northern France.






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