From roots-in@bl-12.rootsweb.com Thu Jun 4 09:58:29 1998 Received: from bl-4.rootsweb.com (rootsweb.com [204.212.38.29]) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA25192; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:58:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bl-12.rootsweb.com (bak-12.rootsweb.com [208.226.159.132]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA24276 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:58:28 -0700 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by bl-12.rootsweb.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA21013 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:58:26 -0700 Received: from bl-4.rootsweb.com (bl-4.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.29]) by bl-12.rootsweb.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA20161 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:44:00 -0700 Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA15955 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:44:00 -0700 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA20923; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:43:59 -0700 (PDT) X-Envelope-From: Glavinski@aol.com Thu Jun 4 07:43:58 1998 Received: from bl-4.rootsweb.com (rootsweb.com [204.212.38.29]) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id HAA20912 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:43:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Glavinski@aol.com Received: from imo25.mx.aol.com (imo25.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.69]) by bl-4.rootsweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA15945 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 07:43:57 -0700 Received: from Glavinski@aol.com by imo25.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id QSCTa07259 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:43:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <544a43b7.3576b289@aol.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:43:20 EDT To: Roots-L@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: 508th AAA Gun Battalion - WWII Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 86 Sender: roots-in@rootsweb.com Individual was out of town due to serious illness in family. The following is the original posting as edited. Please contact Mr. Motes directly. I'd like to contact anyone who served with the 508th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion in New Guinea and the Phillipines during World War II. I was a gunner on a 90-millimeter anti-aircraft gun assigned to Battery D. The battalion was organized as a separate coast artillery battalion (anti- aircraft) 20 May 1943 at Camp Stewart, Georgia. It was redesignated 508th AAA Gun Battalion (Semi-mobile) 7 June 1943. We departed San Francisco Port of Embarkation 12 July 1944 and landed in New Guinea 23 August 1944. We landed in the Philippines 9 January 1945 and were at Clark Field, Manila when the war ended. We came home on the USS YORKTOWN ("The Fighting Lady"). We boarded ship at Manila Bay on Christmas Eve, 1945 and arrived in San Francisco 9 January 1946. The YORKTOWN is now a floating museum permanently moored at Patriot's Point, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. David Motes susha@strato.net.