APO identification needed about a pilot

[Flyingkag]

Thanks guys!

I agree with you about the APOs having therically just 3 or 4 digits.

BUT...on several letters that pilot sent to his mother in USA as he was in England in july 1944, he gave that APO in his letters or Vmail:

APO 16296 c/o postmaster NY

he sent them from "somewhere in England" and his mother received them and answered him...and he received the answers!

So what??? Is it maybe a postal adress in New York and not in ETO?

I know that APO is a postal adress and not a unit, but my hope is that if I identify the place (adress) where the pilot was on that time I should then identify in which squadron he had been transfered!

Thanks for help, guys.
Mathias