462nd AAA AW BN – History of the 462nd AAA AW BN (PDF)

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History of the 462nd Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (Mobile)
1 September 1942 to 8 May 1945          98 Pages scanned
Printed in England by William Clowes & Sons Ltd. London

Attached to 2nd Infantry Division

Editor’s Note – John R. Mott
Dedication to the fallen soldiers

Lt. Col. Norman R. Stultz, Commanding

Contents:
     Commendations
     Battalion Officers
     Introduction
     Training – Travelling – Combat
     Training in the United States (Camp Haan)
     Travelling (S.S. Goethals)
     Scotland, Wales and England (Angle, in Pembrokeshire, South Wales)
     Invasion (Omaha Beach June 11th)
     Normandy Breakthrough
     Paris
     A Quiet Sector (Ardennes)
     Battle of the Bulge
     The Rhine and the Remagen Bridgehead (March 9th)
     Leipzig – Czechoslovakia – VE Day

Decorations of this Battalion

Rosters (6 June, 1944 — 8 May, 1945)

Map  – The Big Picture