467th AAA Campaigns: the Long Road

I created the following google maps tour to follow some of the 467th AAA AW Bn Battery A first Platoon sites through their tour with notes on each location.

TBD

I have a more complete an accurate google tour of the deployment data week by week and published this recently on both the Google Earth history and military communities. If you search 467th AAA in Google Earth you should find it.

To summarize, the men of the 467th AAA Battalion participated in five major battle campaigns during their eleven months in combat. They saw action in nearly every major battle across northern Europe including the morning at Omaha Beach, the breakout at St. Lo, the Battle of the Bulge, and the crossing of the Rhine River around Remagen, Germany and later into western Czechoslovakia. They finished their tour in the Munich area acting military police near and after the war ended. The Battalion earned five Battle Streamers in total as follows.

Normandy

• The 467th AAA Battalion was awarded battle participation credit in the Normandy Campaign by letter, Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, United States Army, file AG 200.6 OpGA, subject, Battle Participation Awards - Normandy Campaign (No 1), dated 16 November 1944. General Orders No. 102, War Department, Washington 25, D.C., 9 November 1945.a. Combat Zone: European Theater of Operations, exclusive of the land areas of the United Kingdom and Iceland.b. Time Limitations: 6 June to 24 July 1944.

Northern France

• The 467th AAA Battalion was awarded battle participation credit in the Northern France Campaign by letter, Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, United States Army, file AG 200.6 OpGA, subject: Battle Participation Awards - Northern France Campaign (No 1), dated 1 December 1944, as amended, letter, Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, United States Army, file AG 200.6 OpGA, subject: Battle Participation Awards - Northern France Campaign (No 2), dated, 31 January 1945. General Orders No. 103, War Department, Washington 25, D.C., 13 November 1945.a. Combat Zone: European Theater of Operations, exclusive of the land areas of the United Kingdom and Iceland.b. Time Limitations: 25 July to 14 September 1944.

Rhineland

• The 467th AAA Battalion was awarded battle participation credit in the Germany Campaign by letter, Headquarters, European Theater of Operations, United States Army, file AG 200.6 OpGA, subject, Battle Participation Awards - Germany Campaign (No 2), dated 5 February 1945. General Orders No. 118, War Department, Washington, D.C., 12 December 1945.a. Combat Zone: Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, and France east of the line: Franco-Belgian frontier to 4 degrees east longitude, thence south along that meridian to 47 degrees north latitude, thence east along that parallel to 5 degrees east longitude, thence south along that meridian to the Mediterranean coast, except the area of the Ardennes-Alsace combat zone is excluded from 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.b. Time Limitations: 15 September 1944 to 21 March 1945.

Ardennes

• General Orders No. 114, War Department, Washington 25, D.C., 7 December 1945.a. Combat Zone: Euskirchen, Eupen (inclusive), Liege (exclusive), east bank of the Meuse River to its intersection with the Franco-Belgian border, thence south and east along this border to the western border of Luxembourg, thence to Metz (inclusive), east bank of the Moselle River to Epinal (inclusive), Strasbourg (inclusive).b. Time Limitations: 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.

Central Europe

• General Orders No. 116, War Department, Washington, D.C., 11 December 1945.a. Combat Zone: The areas occupied by troops assigned to the European Theater of Operations, east of a line 10 miles west of the Rhine River between Switzerland and the Waal River until 28 March 1945, and thereafter east of the east bank of the Rhine.b. Time Limitations: 22 March to 11 May 1945.

ASSAULT LANDING

• In accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5f, section 1, WD Circular 465, 1944, the 467th AAA Battalion was designated as having participated in the Normandy Beach amphibious assault landing. Time Limitation: 6-7 June 1944. General Orders No. 70, War Department, Washington, D.C., 20 August 1945.

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