Army Anti
            Aircraft Artillery Patch477th Signal Air Warning SectionSignal Corps Crossed Flags

477th Antiaircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion (Colored) (Semimobile)

LEFT Anti-Aircraft Artillery Command Patch; RIGHT: Signal Corps Insigia

477th Signal Air Warning Section

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Studying maps in the operations section, Oro Bay, New Guinea, November 15, 1944.

Campaigns

New Guinea

Chronology

1942

November 10: Activated at Camp Stewart, Georgia as Separate Coast Artillery Battalion Antiaircraft Artillery-Automatic Weapons (Semimobile)

1943

April 30: Redesignated from Coastal Artillery

Aug 23: Left the US San Francisco Port of Embarkation

Sept 7: Arrived Australia

1944

Jan. 11: Arrived New Guinea

1945

Aug 45: Location at the end of the war: Oro Bay, New Guinea

Oct 11: 45 Arrived at Philippine Islands.

1946

January 20: Deactivated in the Philippine Islands.


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