IX Engineer Command

was in accordance with staff planning which had taken place long before the war's end.

In reviewing their part in the campaign, aviation engineers may well be proud of their record. They have pioneered a new field in the combined operations of a new type of warfare. Their work has proven the effectiveness of speed, mobility, and efficiency in the field of mass construction methods.

Any appraisal of their successful completion of their mission would have to include the men and services that made it possible for the aviation engineers to live and work. In this category would go the so-called "forgotten men", the men who were behind the scenes --- those who supplied, those who rendered technical and administrative services, those who provided morale and spiritual assistance --- all those, and others who are a part of the command and without whom the organization could not have functioned. Included among these were the 902nd Engineer Air Force Headquarters Company; the 395th Signal Aviation Company; the 1294th Military Police Company; the 1052nd Quartermaster Company's Detachment A; the 126 and 160 Army Postal Units; the 319th Station Complement Squadron; the First Platoon of the 32nd Special Service Company; the 8th, 43rd, 68th, 76th, 82nd, and 86th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squads; the 1193rd Engineer Base Depot; the 752nd Engineer Parts Supply Company's Detachment A; the 208, 209, 215, 218, and 220 Medical Dispensaries (Aviation); and the American Red Cross.