2TAF Mobile Air Traffic Control Unit

[Allan125]

"2TAF Mobile Air Traffic Control Unit"

I have been asked to post this by Ray Hobbs - He can be reached via this forum or his e-mail address is ray.hobbs(at)sympatico.ca - replacing the (at) of course!! Can anybody help him please?

I have an uncle who served in the RAF during the Second World war. He was a driver and part of Maintenance Unit #3, attached to the 2nd Tactical Air Force. His early duties, a few weeks after D-Day was to drive in a Mobile Air Traffic Control Unit, which followed the Canadian Army in Northern Europe. The role of this unit was to set up on captured airfields to assist damaged allied planes to land without going over the Channel.

The unit appears to have been relatively self-contained, with one Officer, one NCO (my uncle) and six or seven other rankers.

Do you have any information on such units associated with the 2nd TAF? If so, could you please provide me with a that information, or suggest a direction in which I could go to find out more? With many thanks

Ray Hobbs

Hamilton, Ontario

Canada PS: Although I am a Canadian, and my uncle's unit worked with the Canadian Army, he was RAF, as was his unit.