unit to arrive was the 437th Troop Carrier Group during January 1944 from Baer Army Airfield, Indiana. The group's squadrons and fuselage codes were: 83d Troop Carrier Squadron (T2) 84th Troop Carrier Squadron (Z8) 85th Troop Carrier Squadron (90) 86th Troop Carrier Squadron (5K) The 439th was a group of Ninth Air Force's 53d Troop Carrier Wing, IX Troop Carrier Command. The first aircraft arrived on 21 January. On 5/6 February 5 it was moved south to RAF Ramsbury in Wiltshire. 439th Troop Carrier Group In early February 1944 the air echelon of the 439th was ordered to Baer Field, Fort Wayne, Indiana, the aerial port of embarkation, arriving there on the 14th of the month. The ground echelon would follow by ship to England. The advance parties of the 439th and two of its squadrons, the 91st and 92nd, departed Baer Field in their C47 transports o/a 19 February 1944. Flying a circuitous route they arrived at Balderton on 21 February 1944. The remaining two squadrons, the 93rd and 94th, did not arrive at Balderton until 6 March. Skidmore and the ground echelon of the 439th TC Group and its four squadrons left New York aboard the USS George Washington, an Army troop transport, on 28 February 1944. After eleven days at sea the ship arrived at Liverpool, England on 10 March 1944. From there they traveled by rail to Balderton where they would remain until 26 April 1944. On that date the group was relocated to the aerodrome at RAF Upottery, England. The group's squadrons and fuselage codes were: 91st Troop Carrier Squadron (L4) 92d Troop Carrier Squadron (J8) 93d Troop Carrier Squadron (3B) 94th Troop Carrier Squadron (D8) The 439th was a group of Ninth Air Force's 50th Troop Carrier Wing, IX Troop Carrier Command. Intensive training with paratroops of the 82nd Airborne Division was conducted until the 439th was moved to RAF Upottery in Devon on 26 April, although all elements did not move until May. Frank Whittle's jet engine trials at Balderton 1943-1944 Jet aircraft with Rolls-Royce engines were subsequently test flown from Balderton, Nottinghamshire, during 1943-4 (notably Whittle's Meteor and Vickers Wellington W5389/G jet engine trials) and Church Broughton, Derbyshire, where concrete runways were available. This account taken from the book 'Men of Power: The Lives of Rolls-Royce Chief Test Pilots Harvey and Jim Heyworth.' It includes the following details; Jan 44 - Returned