Ground Crew & Support Staff
The support personnel worked with unequaled dedication to make sure planes functioned at top effectiveness and that all airmen had every tool of war and operational support to complete each mission successfully.
Working in extreme weather conditions, through snow, ice, fog, and rain, flight operations support crews prepared combat planes with comprehensive care to withstand the rigors of high-altitude combat. All base support personnel served superbly to keep the planes and flight crews in top shape.
May history honor the ordnance and armor crews, crew chiefs, welders, mechanics, photo lab technicians, flight surgeons, parachute packers, intelligence personnel, truck drivers, nurses, air traffic controllers, meteorologists, cooks, radio radar specialists, bakers, postmen, typists, quartermasters, Red Cross workers, military policemen, chaplains, and many others whose dedicated service sustained the complex organization that was the Base community of the 95th Bomb Group (H).
Horham Base Units
8th Station Complement
18th Weather Detachment
215th Finance Office
271st Medical Dispensary (Aviation)
433rd Headquarters and Base Service Squadron
457th Sub-Depot*
683rd Air Materiel Squadron
859th Air Engineering Squadron
879th Air Chemical Company (Aviation)
1029th Ordnance Company
1210th Quarter Master Company
1285th Military Police Company
1676th Ordnance Supply & Maintenance Company (Aviation)
2022nd Aviation Engineers Fire Fighting Platoon
*formed as the 64th Squadron of the 49th Service Group; in charge of the two hangars and all the major repair shops, such as sheet metal, instruments, parachutes, etc.