Description

A History of the 547th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (Mobile)

Mission Accomplished – January 10th, 1943, to September 2nd, 1945

Printed By Graphischer Grossbetrier A. Bagel, Düsseldorf Germany     196 Pages scanned

Contents:

Dedication

Lt. Col. George T. Stillman, Commanding

Forward
By Lt. Col. George T. Stillman

Editorial Staff

Training Phase
     Activation
     The Men Arrive
     Training Begins
     Camp Irwin
     Back to Camp Haan
     Camp Ibis
     Muroc Army Airfield
     Camp Irwin Again
     Back to Camp Haan
     P.O.E. Bound

Combat Phase
     It’s Really Rough in the ETO
     By Picerno & Greenstein

HQ Battery
     Captain Millard J. Dilg, Commanding
     Goodby Broadway

Medical Detachment

“A” Battery
     Out of the Frying Pan . . . 
     Saarlautern

“B” Battery
     Over the Waves
     Baker Battery Firsts

“C” Battery
     E.T.O. Bound
     France — at Last
     Metz
     Lisdorf
     To the Rhine
     With the 2nd Armored
     The Ruhr Pocket

“D” Battery
     Crossing on the Mauretania
     England
     France
     Germany
     The Ruhr

Post-Combat
     If It Isn’t One Thing . . . 
     Military Government
     Railway Security
     All Work and no Play Makes Jack a . . . 

Awards and Decorations

Roster of Enlisted Men and Officers
     Officers
     Headquarters Battery
     Medical Detachment
     Battery A
     Battery B
     Battery C
     Battery D