The 135th Anti-Aircraft Gun Battalion was part of the XIII Corps, and it fought in Europe. They fought from the Netherlands to the Elbe River, within 50 miles of Berlin. The XIII corps was disbanded in September, 1945.
The US volunteers were known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. It is actually a battalion, and was joined by the George Washington Battalion and the John Brown anti aircraft battery. It formed a part of the 15th International Brigade fighting to preserve the Spanish government against forces backed by Germany and Italy. See the following link.
In later interviews Rod Stieger talked about his service in the navy. He was a crewman on a destroyer escorting the Doolittle Raid task force. He was an anti-aircraft gunner.
The stripes were to identify Allied Aircraft to Allied Anti-Aircraft Units so that the aircraft carrying the Allied Airborne Forces would not be shot down by their own anti-aircraft units as they were at Sicily. The only Airborne operations between Sicily & Normandy was at Salerno. There the entire Fifth Army was simply ordered not to fire their weapons on a particular night. Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections
Someone who asks a pointless/stupid question? no... it's not the above, but it is in WW1 that Archie was the British name for what in WW2 was called Flak: Anti Aircraft Fire.
Hanoi Jane (Fonda) wasn't your everyday "normal" protester during the war. She ACTUALLY sat on the seats of AAA (Anti-Aircraft Artillery) IN HANOI; her infamous photograph was taken of her sitting on an anti aircraft gun. That picture was posted world wide back in those days. As stories grow by their telling over time, it was alleged that she even witnessed those guns in action (shooting at US aircraft as they approached their targets).
391st Anti-Aircraft (AW) Battalion
Owen B. Augspurger has written: 'World War II history of the 102nd Antiaircraft Battalion (AW)' -- subject(s): Regimental histories, United States, United States. Army. Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, 102d, World War, 1939-1945
Anti-Terrorism Battalion's motto is 'Vigilia Aeternus'.
The 495th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion's shoulder patches were First Army or Third Army.
I have a chronology of where the 495th A-A-A Gun Battalion served during WW 2. Please feel free to e-mail me if you desire such information. Richard V. Horrell WW 2 Connections.com
Actually, it is not really called anti-aircraft. It is Anti-Aircraft Artillery, which is the name of artillery (guns) that are designed to destroy aircraft.
Anti-Aircraft Command was created in 1939.
Harry Fritz Ter Braak has written: 'Ack ack' -- subject(s): Regimental histories, United States, United States. Army. 120th anti-aircraft artillery battalion, World War, 1939-1945
Anti-Aircraft gun
The root word "anti" means against, so this term means anything that repels aircraft. The anti-aircraft guns drove the enemy planes away.
Coast-watchers , radar , anti-aircraft artillery and aircraft as interceptors .
This is a rank for an enlisted soldier. It stand for technician fifth grade. He would have been assigned to Alpha Battery, 559th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion. It was a light mobile anti-aircraft unit with 40mm boffors or guns in addition to quad fifty caliber mounted machine guns.