| DATE |
LOCATION |
UNIT |
| March/April
1943 |
Fort
Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah
|
119th
AAA Bn, HQ Battery |
| April
1943 |
Camp
Haan, Riverside, CA
Basic Training |
. |
| . |
Camp
Irwin, Barstow, CA |
. |
| . |
Camp
Roberts, Paso
Robles, CA
Camp
Roberts Museum
The 119th was never AT Camp Roberts. They were
bivouacked across from it.
|
. |
| . |
Estrella
AAFB, Paso
Robles, CA |
Attached
to 4th Air Force |
| . |
Camp
Cooke, Lompoc, CA (now Vandenberg AFB)
departed March 18, 1944
|
. |
| March
23, 1944 |
Camp
Shanks, New York, NY
the 119th shipped out in late March or early April
aboard the RMS
Mauretania
|
. |
| April-June
1944 |
Scarlet
Fever then measles/pneumonia/appendicitis |
. |
| June
6, 1944 |
Operation
Overlord, D-Day |
. |
| July
1944 |
Atlantic
City furlough, Hotel Traymore |
. |
| August
1944 |
Camp
Stewart, Hinesville, Georgia (~50 miles SW of Savannah) |
574th
AAA Bn, Battery A |
| November
1944 |
Camp
Kilmer, New Jersey |
. |
| . |
RMS
Queen Elizabeth to Greenock, Scotland |
. |
| . |
Codford,
England |
. |
| mid
January 1945 |
departed
from Southampton for France
(landed near Omaha Beach) |
. |
| January
1945 |
through
Luxembourg to Liege, Belgium
Battle of the Bulge |
. |
| . |
Nancy,
France
hospitalized with pnuemonia |
. |
| March
1945 |
Rhine
River, Ruhr Valley (Bavaria)
spoke with General Patton while guarding bridge |
. |
| April
10, 1945 |
Ambushed
at Urbach, Germany |
. |
| . |
. |
. |
| May
18/19, 1945 |
Innsbruck,
Austria
VE Day (May 20, 1945) waiting to go to Japan |
. |
| May
1945 |
Wegshide,
Germany w/ 3rd Army (40-50 miles from Munich) |
. |
| June/July
1945 |
Prisoner
Train from Munich to Brussels |
. |
| July
1945 |
Utenhoching,
Germany |
489th
AAA Bn, HQ Battery |
| August
6/9, 1945 |
Atomic
bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
. |
| August
15, 1945 |
Japan
surrenders! (VJ Day) |
. |
| January
1946 |
Furlough
to Pontresina, Switzerland |
. |
| March
1946 |
Camp
Phillip Morris, Le Havre, France (near Barfleur) |
. |
| March
1946 |
Camp
Kilmer, New Jersey |
. |
| March
15, 1946 |
Fort
Lewis, Tacoma, WA |
. |
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