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The Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR) has custody of the Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1917- (Record Group 407) and the Records of U.S. Army Operational, Tactical, and Support Organizations (World War II and Thereafter) (Record Group 338). Military unit files among these records consist mostly of historical reports, after action reports, unit journals, and general orders. These records do not include personnel information, nor do we have a name index to these records.
General orders, as referenced above, do include information about the official bestowal of medals on individual service personnel. However, these records are arranged by unit, thereunder by date and thereunder by general order number. We need this information in order to search our records. If you have a copy of his discharge certificate, this information might be included therein.
We have searched our available finding aids for the relevant series in the abovementioned record groups for records of the 101st Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AW) Battalion, U.S. Army, and located the following:
Record Group 407
Entry (NM3) 427
Boxes 13704-13705
The 101st AAA (AW) Battalion (formerly the 101st Coastal Artillery Battalion) was redesignated as the 101st AAA (AW) Battalion – Air Transportable on September 15, 1944.
Copies of most of the monthly rosters from 1912-43 and 1947-59 for U.S. Army units (including Army Air Corps) are in the custody of the National Archives in St. Louis, MO. Please contact them for access to these records. The address is the National Archives in St. Louis, 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138-1002 and the email address is stl.archives@nara.gov. Rosters for units serving in World War II from 1944-46 were destroyed in accordance with U.S. Army disposition authorities during the early postwar period.
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Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR) [25-08286-PBB]
