After completing training the ground echelon left for overseas on 19 October 1943. After staging at Camp Shanks, New York they embarked on the and sailed on 27 October disembarking at Greenock on the Firth of Clyde on 3 November 1943. The air echelon staged for deployment at Scott Field, Illinois then flew to England under the control of Air Transport Command via Newfoundland, Iceland and Scotland.
