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Very cool, man the guns boys shoot straight and true. The saying of the AAA bn attached to the 69th infantry division that my father was protected by.
The 461st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion had a brilliant battle record. Landing on Omaha Beach, France, on D-Day plus 7 – June 13, 1944 – it moved all the way to the Elbe River by April 25, 1945, distinguishing itself in many historic battles. Only that period when the battalion was attached to and supporting the Fighting 69th Infantry Division is chronicled here.
On 11 March, 1945, at Blankenheim, Germany, the 461st was attached to and spent the rest of the war with the 69th Infantry Division, and was assigned the mission of protecting the Divisional Field Artillery Battalions.


http://www.69th-infantry-division.co...ories/461.html

461st AAA AW Bn (Mbl)

*** ME 210 (German airplane)
**** ME 109's (German airplanes)



The American 90 mm family of guns served as primary heavy anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns, playing a role similar to the renowned German 88 mm gun. They were the US's primary anti-aircraft guns from just prior to the opening of World War II into the 1950s when most AAA was replaced by missile systems. As a tank gun, it was the weapon featured on the 90mm Gun Motor Carriage M36 and Heavy Tank M26 Pershing, as well as a number of post-war tanks.

90_mm_M3_gun 90_mm_M3_gunand here
http://www.olive-drab.com/idphoto/id...s_90mm_aaa.php


Edited by Locksley (04-25-2009 12:31 AM)
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The 455th AAA AW Battalion

Ft. Stewart, Georgia was the site of Andrew Scalf’s induction into the Army and his basic training. He was stationed at Ft. Stewart until the entire 455th Anti Aircraft Artillery, Automatic Weapons group "shipped out" for Glasgow, Scotland in September of 1943. During this journey, their transport ship, the USS General George Simmonds, had to detour to Hailfax, Nova Scotia because of mechanical problems. At Nova Scotia, the entire 455th boarded the luxury liner, HMS Queen Elizabeth, and steamed into Glasgow, Scotland.
From Scotland, the 455th AAA boarded trains and traveled to installations in Watton, England. There, they would establish AAA around the airbases in East Anglia.




The 455th remained in England from September
1943 until the end of June 1944. In July, the
455th landed on Utah Beach and joined the
European mainland campaign.



ANDREW JAMES SCALF:
A TRUE TENNESSEE VOLUNTEER



Andrew James Scalf was born on April 7, 1921. He grew up in the beautiful East Tennessee mountains. There were rolling fields of hay and cattle grazing all around. The Scalf family resided in a typically large American-looking white farmhouse. The family consisted in the father, (William), the mother (Vesta), a sister (Mable) and a brother (Andrew). As a young man, Andrew was called Andy. When he went into the army, his friends called him Andrew. He was six feet two inches tall and weighed around 175 pounds. Andrew had brown-black hair and very dark brown eyes. Everyone said he was so handsome that the girls stood in line for Andy just to look their way. It is also said that he made everyone feel comfortable around him.
Andrew grew up doing the typical things all boys did then. He played baseball, "ran around with the boys," had lots of girlfriends because he was extremely outgoing, teased everyone, and liked everyone he met.

He attended the Liberty Church and the Liberty School, which were located near the Scalf Farm. In 1930, Andrew’s sister became very sick. His father had bought one of the few cars in the area at that time. On the way to the doctor’s office to take his sick daughter, the car had a flat tire and Andrew’s sister, Mable, died in the car alongside the road. She was only twelve years old when she died. After Mable’s death, Vesta (Andy’s mother) worried and watched over him so very much... He was her last child and she was so careful with him.
At a very young age, Andrew married Ruth Jones, who was a neighbor girl. A daughter, Brenda, was born in 1941. In October of 1942, Andrew decided that he was needed by his country and in the true Tennessee tradition, volunteered... to go into the army. The whole world was being threatened by Hitler, and he wanted to do what he could to help.


Ft. Stewart, Georgia was the site of Andrew Scalf’s induction into the Army and his basic training. He was stationed at Ft. Stewart until the entire 455th Anti Aircraft Artillery, Automatic Weapons group "shipped out" for Glasgow, Scotland in September of 1943. During this journey, their transport ship, the USS General George Simmonds, had to detour to Hailfax, Nova Scotia because of mechanical problems. At Nova Scotia, the entire 455th boarded the luxury liner, HMS Queen Elizabeth, and steamed into Glasgow, Scotland.
From Scotland, the 455th AAA boarded trains and traveled to installations in Watton, England. There, they would establish AAA around the airbases in East Anglia.

Andrew wrote many letters home.


The 455th remained in England from September
1943 until the end of June 1944. In July, the
455th landed on Utah Beach and joined the
European mainland campaign.

http://www.455thaaa.com/template.php...ame=andrew.htm


This website is dedicated to all of RABBS of the 455th Anti Aircraft Artillery. Most particularly to Andrew James Scalf, KIA in Gerderath Germany 27 Feb 1945, and to the other 455th men who now are on eternal leave in cemeteries overseas. Andrew is buried in Margraten, The Netherlands American Cemetery. View a FLASH tribute.






The 455th Anti Aircraft Artillery unit started its journey at Ft. Stewart, Georgia in 1942 and ended at the war's end in Germany in 1945. These men went overseas…… first to England where they stayed for almost a year. Much of the website comes from Norfolk, England where they spent this time. Their journey took them over the English Channel to Utah Beach…Normandy…..in July of 1944. From there, they covered many countries including France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, and finally to Germany where the war ended.


http://www.455thaaa.com/

THE RABBS

http://www.455thaaa-rabbs-tribute.freeola.net/

of the war in Europe, a new threat, the German 650-mile-per-hour (mph) jet-propelled airplanes, especially the Me163 Komet and the Me 262 Stormbird, appeared, hastening the obsolescence of the antiaircraft artillery fire-control systems based on primitive radars and searchlights that had been designed to cope with 450-mph propeller-driven aircraft.

Antiaircraft artillerymen in WW II certainly did not get the glory that the armor and the infantry did, but their courage and pivotal role in the victory was just as important. AAA men fought to the last ditch on Bataan; then, racked with malaria and dysentery, marched off to the hell holes the Japanese called prisoner-of-war camps. When enemy planes shrieked down North Africa's "Stuka Valley," scattering infantrymen to the shelter of foxholes, the antiaircraft artillerymen ran to man their 40mm guns. They could never stop V-2 rockets, but they shot down better than 80-percent of V-1 "buzz bombs" headed for Antwerp and London. Antiaircraft gunners saved the beleaguered beachhead at Anzio by shooting down so many enemy planes that the Germans suspended daytime air raids. They drove M-16 half-tracks onto Omaha Beach and shot up German pillboxes and gun emplacements. General Omar Bradley said his troops never would have made it off that bloody beach without them. They defended the seaports, airfields, and railheads that sustained Allied armies in their drive across Europe. They guided countless Allied bombers and fighters return home after raids against the Reich. When the chips were down at the Battle of the Bulge, they used their 90mm guns to stop onrushing Tiger tanks. They went "island hopping" across the Pacific with MacArthur and Nimitz, with frequent stopovers at "exotic isles" like Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, and Okinawa. They defeated kamikaze attacks and everything else the Japanese could throw at them. Their weapons were machine guns, 40mm cannon, and large-caliber flak guns. Their arsenal also included radars, searchlights, and barrage balloons. But most of all, it was the character and skill of the men themselves that proved the most formidable weapon of all.


AAA Units in the ETO


http://www.skylighters.org/otheraaa/index.html
AND HERE


http://www.skylighters.org/links/index.html

Edited by Locksley (04-25-2009 01:06 AM)

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HEROS every last one of them.

YEP our Greatest Generation , they are all leaving us now and we will miss them all.

Honors to the Fighting 69 TH Infantry Division U.S. Army .

http://www.69th-infantry-division.com/

My father
http://www.69th-infantry-division.co...e/photoa3.html
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Honorable dead from DAD,s Division



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SINCLAIR KIRK L JR
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Quote by

mr.big
16 Point



very

Most of the WWII soldiers never talked about their
service in the war. They kept it to themselves and
this is how it ususally comes out.

Congrats


bout the only thing he ever told me was,,he didn`t care if he never fired another shot,,and would never lay down to sleep anywhere except in his bed in Jackson County,,,
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civilian occupation ;farm hand general

military occupation; AAA Automatic Weapons Crew 601;rifle marksmanship;

Normandy;Northern France;Rhineland;Central Europe

wounds recieved in action ;none

highest grade;PFC

3 years 3 months 7 days paid 300$ plus 16.15$ travel pay

EAME Thearter Ribbon w/4 Bronze Stars per WD GO #33/45;Good Conduct Ribbon;

no days lost under AW107 ASR score Sept 45 81 Lapel button issued

Varnie Clyde Cantor born Oct 1,1920 died Sept 16 2006
Momma has a picture of him standing at the entrance of the cave they said Hitler was hiding in,,I need to get a copy of that..
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Cool Mr. Big ,it looks like your grandfather had to do some MP duty also.
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By the end of the of the entire Normandy Campaign, nearly 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or missing.


That's almost 3 times the number of people who live in Chattanooga, just in that single campaign.

Unbelieveable carnage, incredible bravery.
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