This itinerary for the 16th Photo Tech Unit is what I’ve managed to piece together so far:
March 1944: Groups called the 1st Photo Lab and the 1st Photo Tech landed in England. These would form the basis of the 9th Photo Tech Group (Provisional), whose six teams would eventually become the 16th and 17th Photo Tech Units.
[uncertain date]: at Chalgrove, then at Middle Wallop, the teams became attached to the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group.
June 6, 1944: D-Day
June 30, 1944: Team 1 in operation on the Continent
July 4, 1944: Team 1 moved to Le Moley, France
July 1944: the three teams were merged
November 11, 1944: Reorganized into the 16th and 17th Photo Tech units, which operated jointly
March 22, 1945: Left Belgium [unclear when they went to Belgium]
March 26, 1945: The entire outfit arrived at Voegelsang, a Hitler youth camp taken by the 9th Infantry Division
April 2, 1945: the outfit headed for the Rhine and Limburg, Germany
April 12, 1945: went to Eschwege, Germany
WWII's 16th Photo Tech: A Project. By Theresa Everline. 
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