Does anybody have any information or pictures about the above unit, they were based in england during ww2

Not sure if this helps, but the BU might mean Base Unit and the squadron B, is a letter, same as the base units in the states lettered their squadrons. So, maybe a training unit.

The book World War II Combat Squadrons of the United States Air Force lists a 610th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy). It was a stateside Operational Training Unit then a replacement training unit....don't think it was the same unit, just the same numbers.

Ron

Son of Ron Macdonald Flying Sgt. 59th OTU RAF (Hurris & Spits, Dieppe raid), Lt. with 346thFS/350thFG North Africa (P-39s). Shot down at Kasserine. Instructor with the 1053 BFTS Randolph, 2138 BU Craig, 2532BU Randolph, & 2543 BU Waco (AT-6s & B-25s).

My wife grandfather was in the R Opertaional Training Core (ROTC) , I think this was the same unit just not sure how he ended up in the UK in 1945. All reference point to this being a stateside training unit looks like he got seconded . He was a 2nd Lt

His place of registration was Eglin Field, Florida does the book refer to this unit in anyway does anyone know of a web page.

Sorry the 610th bombardment was never stationed at Elgin, FL. ROTC usually means Reserve Officer's Training Corps. But never heard of an ROTC unit having a unit number...but then my time was in Navy ROTC/Marine Corps option.

Some of the best clues are tucked away in attics and basements of the family...if they exist.

Ron

Son of Ron Macdonald Flying Sgt. 59th OTU RAF (Hurris & Spits, Dieppe raid), Lt. with 346thFS/350thFG North Africa (P-39s). Shot down at Kasserine. Instructor with the 1053 BFTS Randolph, 2138 BU Craig, 2532BU Randolph, & 2543 BU Waco (AT-6s & B-25s).

The 610th AAFBU was stationed at Eglin from 1 Apr 44 - 1 Aug 47 per the book, "Active Air Force bases within the United States of America on 17 September 1982", which you can see at:

http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/Annotations/airforcebases.htm

I don't see any listing for the 8th AF Sq. B (casual).

Gary

Gary

CBI Unit Lineages & History
http://www.cbi-history.com/

Thanks for advice I will move it to the right category.

The place where ordered to active duty was hqs 8th AF APO634 , i found this as a postal reference. Dates of service were 22/5/1942 to 15/10/1946, assignments and geographical locations overseas 8th air force england.

Tried searching web for a web site without success but notice that pulled in information on others in the 610th but no contact details, did fort eglin keep any pictures etc we have no photos or other information. I sit worth trying Fort eglin ?

On January 1, 1919, the war courses at the university were closed. With the demobilization of the SATC, the government established units of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) to provide a limited amount of military training in selected colleges and universities throughout the country. U.C. was designated one of these universities and the government authorized the establishment of five ROTC units --Engineering, Ordnance, Coast Artillery, Signal Corps and Infantry. Army officers were placed in charge. A Professor of Military Science and Tactics, Colonel Sidney H. Guthrie of the Coast Artillery Service, was detailed as commandant.

History does not record any significant activities concerning ROTC for the next twenty years other than the assistance provided by University ROTC units during the great flood on January 18, 1937 in Cincinnati.

With the outbreak of World War II, U.C. President Raymond Walters convinced the American Council of Education to approve a plan to extend ROTC basic units in American colleges and universities in the event the United States entered the war. A course in military medicine was approved at U.C. as an elective at the college of Medicine. After the U.S. entry into WWII, in order to arrange for Army training courses and to integrate the programs of the various colleges and schools of U.C., the Board Of Directors on January 5, 1943, appointed an Administrative Committee on War Training Programs. The Reserve Officers Training Corps, under the command of Colonel Sidney Guthrie, who had established the ROTC at the university after WWI, gave basic and advanced training courses. The varying enrollments of soldier-students reached a maximum of 2450 in the academic year 1943-44. Soldiers became the feature attraction of the annual Homecoming. A former U.C. student of the class of 1938, Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, was the pilot of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. There are no definite figures of the number of university men who served during WWII. There had bee, since 1919, a total of 6,201 U.C. men enrolled in ROTC who were trained as Army officers. Four U.C. men held the rank of General in World War II.