1 Combat Crew Replacement Control Group, Headquarters Headquarters Squadron, Detachment is one of units on UK Station List made by Mr. Grinton. This and other records on WW2 History Europe was compiled from Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, Kingdom Station List, and dated September 1944.
(-) minus sign behind unit name indicates that part of unit was elsewhere.
Counties are mentioned as so called pre-1974 British counties. map co-ordinates are automatically made with Google Maps. If you have more accurate location, photos, stories or links, please sent your information to WW2 History Europe. unit is also know as member of US Army, Army Air Force. In this period, around this date of 01 mei 1944 Combat Crew Replacement Control Group, Headquarters Headquarters Squadron, Detachment were here in Cheddington, Buckinghamshire.
original station list was obtained from National Archives Records Administration (NARA) at College Park, Maryland. NARA describe it as HQ/ETO Station List, 4/30/44 and reference Box 15, 270/48/32/2. In European and Mediterranean theater US Army had 3.5 million troops there. About 1.7 million were combat troops and around 700.000 were service troops along with 592.000 army air force troops and rest were replacements, patients, overhead and staff. correct count of support- and line troops in this context is difficult.
