Where was Easy Company 101st Airborne Division based out of in the UK during World War 2?

Answer 1

Easy Company in EnglandE/506th P.I.R, 101st A.B. Div. was stationed in Aldbourne, England, from Sept. 17, 1943 to May 31, 1944. On May 31 E Co. was moved to Upottery, & was there until June 5, 1944, when they boarded their C-47's for D-Day.

Here is more input:

• Note that many people get the spelling of Upottery wroing. It has a single 'p'. Even Ambrose got this wrong. Upottery (aka Smeatharpe airfield) is about 10 miles NE of Honiton in Devon. The runways and hardstandings still exist, as do some of the base buildings (control tower, mess buildings) but sadly the land is private property and the owner (farmer) is not particularly welcoming.

• Smeatharpe is in East Devon, South-West England. I was up there today and walked the runways, all a bit Erie and nostalgic.

• Easy company was stationed ijn aldbourne and the stables have now been shipped from here in aldbourne to the us and later this month there are people from here going to erect these.

• Easy Company settled in near Hungerford, Berkshire

"E" Company AKA "Easy" Company, 506, 101st Airborne Division was based in the outskirts of Aldbourne, England, in white wooden one story barracks until June 1944. The 506 along with other Regiments of the 101st Division including A and E companies were moved to different airfields as marshalling areas in preperation for the Normandy invasion, set at that time for 5 June 1944. A and E companies were sent to Upottery airfield as their marshalling area, This was NOT their home. Upottery was the take off field for A and E companies for the Normandy Invasion which, after adverse weather on the 4th of June was postponed to 6 June 1944, take off date 5 June 1944. Actual jump 01:14 AM 6 June 1944.

"Currahee," (Donald R. Burgett,) published and copyright 1967, Houghton Mifflin Publishers, 25 years before BoB, explained and described the Stables in Aldbourne billited by A Company 506. Steve Ambrose 'mistakenly' placed E company in the Aldbourne Stables in his book BoB. Ambrose completely ignored the historical fact recorded in "Rendezvous With Destiny" Raport and Northwood, copyright 101st Airborne Div. 1948, that A Company, 506 lived in the Aldbourne Stables for eleven months prior to the Normandy Invasion.

A Company along with other companies of the 506 did take off from Upottery, England 5 June 1944 for the parachute jump into Normandy. After the battles in Normandy were over the 101st Airborne Division returned to England. A Company returned to the Aldbourne Stables 13 July 1944. Easy Company returned to the white wooden one story barracks in the outskirts of Aldbourne 13 July 1944. A few weeks later the 101st again went to the airfield marshalling areas from which they took off for the Holland jump. The 101st Airborne Division fought in Holland for 72 continuous days. The 82nd Airborne Div. was relieved from Holland two weeks before the 101st Airborne Division. The 101st moved into barracks in Mourmelon, France, until the "Battle of the Bulge," began.

Answer 2

Headquartered at Aldbourne, England - arrived September 15, 1943.

Later, replacement troops arrived at Town of Hungerford on an estate called Denford Park before going to the front lines.

On D-Day, the 101st Division boarded airplanes at Merryfield Airport .