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Photo Gallery - Tall Tech4 (possibly Co.B 38th Engineers)
It's difficult to identify which unit this U.S. soldier was part of as there are no division or unit badges visible. The unit history of the 38th Engineer Regiment, (renamed in England and the E.T.O. as the 38th Engineer General Service Regiment) puts their Company B in Sarsden, Oxfordshire from 17th January to 23rd February,1944, immediately before the men of the 6th Armored Division arrived there. Billets were available at Sarsden House, the hut field and in a barn loft. Some may have stayed on in the Preston's barn loft or may have gone with the rest of this company to live at nearby Over Norton Park tented camp which they were working on. The English photos were taken when the garden border plants showed little growth, possible early spring. Other photos show this man in a hotter climate. On a building behind him is what we thought was a logo resembling a smoking volcano, perhaps a clue to its location. The 38th Engineers built airstrips and airbase facilites on Ascension Island and in Africa where these other photos may have been taken. But we now think the 'logo' may just be the reflections on the uneven surface of a material behind the circular window glass, as appears to be the case in this
American Army Air Force photo. This is of a prefabricated barracks building dated 1943 and taken at Rufisque airfield near Dakar in Senegal. This was one of the places the 38th Engineers went after their time on Ascension Island, before going to England. The dates fit and the building types match exactly. Our photo shows the access point between the ends of two such buildings. Similar buildings existed on Ascension and no doubt in other places, but pairs of buildings ajoined end to end like this could definitely be found at Rufisque. Is this where our hot climate photo was taken? If you can tell us or if you recognise this man, please let us know.
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Taller of pair
of US soldiers
Sarsden, Oxfordshire
probably 1944 |
Same Tech4 soldier with 'volcano' logo,
possibly Ascension Island
or Africa
1943 or 1944, possibly earlier |
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