20th
Fighter Group, 67th Fighter Wing, First Bombardment Division
Eighth
Air Force
History
1941 February 13: First formed as a Signal platoon at McChord Field,
Washington.
1943 Tobyhanna Army Depot,
Pennsylvania May: Ft.
Dix, New Jersey: The unit stayed there for several months training
and preparing for their transfer to England July:
Camp Kilmer. After two weeks there, they were boarded on the troop
ship Athlone
Castle, headed for the European Theater of Operation (ETO) August 17:
Arrived in Liverpool, England on 17 August 1941, and in a convoy
of trucks, took an overnight ride to Kings Cliffe Army Air Base,
just outside Peterborough, England. 1944-1945 The 1029th provided a
variety of communications services to the 20th Fighter Group, 67th
Fighter Wing, First Bombardment Division, Eighth Air Force. The 1029th was split at
one point, and Detachment A of the 1029th, was assigned to the
97th Service Group. Both units provided
services until they were disbanded on April 15, 1945 as the war in
Europe wound down. VE
Day was May 8, 1945.
Soldiers of the 1029th were reassigned to three squadrons of the
446th Air Service Group. They were to be deployed to the Pacific
and the war with Japan.
After Japan's surrender, they returned to the U.S.
Created with the assistance of Roger Montemeyor, son of the late
Technician Fifth Grade Arthur J. Montemayor, 1029th Signal
Company. Roger Montemeyor served as an officer
in the U.S. Army
Signal Corps from 1971 to
1976.