IX Engineer Command

Dedicated to:
THE AVIATION ENGINEERS

....IN....MEMORIAM....

FOREWORD

.........OUT OF WAR COMES SOMETHING GOOD AND USEFUL REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOME CYNICS MAY THINK. THAT SOMETHING IS A CLOSE COMRADESHIP AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE VALUE OF TEAMWORK..........
.........THROUGH MANY MONTHS OF LIVING, DYING AND TOILING TOGETHER FOR THE FREEDOM OF DEMOCRACY, MEN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES HAVE LEARNED THAT USEFULNESS.................................
....... MEMORIES OF THOSE MONTHS WILL BE PUNGENT IN THE MINDS OF EVERY MAN FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. FUTURE HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS WILL FORCE THESE MEMORIES IN THE BACKGROUND BUT THEY WILL NEVER ERASE THEM...
.........TO THE MEN OF THE 925th ENGINEER AVIATION REGIMENT THIS BOOK IS GIVEN AS A MEMENTO OF WORLD WAR II WITH A HOPE THAT IT WILL HELP TO REMEMBER FOR WHAT THEY FOUGHT AND---
"LEST WE FORGET"

		CONTENTS The Staff and Company Officers Travelogue The Men Who Made It Possible Engineering Awards and Decorations Pictorial Attached Units Off the Record
WHEN THE UNITED STATES ARMY WAS FIRST ORGANIZED UNDER GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON CERTAIN EXPERTS FROM THE ARMIES OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WERE SENT TO THE UNITED STATES TO SUPERVISE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF THE SERVICE. THE FRENCH ARMY SENT WITH ITS GROUP, ENGINEER OFFICERS, WHO WERE ALLOWED TO SELECT AN EMBLEM FOR THE CORPS. THE GATE TO THE CITY OF VERDUN WAS FINALLY CHOSEN AS A FITTING EMBLEM. THIS GATE IS SHOWN ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE TOGETHER WITH THE “CASTLE” WHICH TODAY SIGNIFIES THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS. PHOTOGRAPHED IN 1945 AT VERDUN. FRANCE.

THE DIFFICULT WE DO AT ONCE.......
.......THE IMPOSSIBLE TAKES A LITTLE WHILE LONGER.