Us Official Photographs

9th Engineer Command on Continent

The 9th Engineer Command whose existance was kept a secret until today is equipped with an armada of deversified machinery for use in building advanced 9th Air Force airdromes on the Continent. Bulldozer battalions of aviation engineers, who are armed to fight as well as build, began moving onto the Continent the first day of the invasion. S/Sgt. Ernest J. Pomposelli, 23, of Connellsville, Pa., shown here riding a load of steel into the air, was a coal miner in civilian life but is now a foreman mechanic with the aviation engineers. JUN 26 1944