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To: franksolich
That's about it. Of course after D-Day when we were boots on ground in Europe, we started disbanding Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Battalions as we found the Luftwaffe pretty much kaput.

I have read several stories about men being transferred from the US Army Air Corp to infantry and armor units.

The whole USAAF unit wasn't disbanded, they were given new T-O & E's, which made them appear to have excess personnel.

The men were then transferred to Theater 'RepoDepo's', and subsequently to combat arms units. Not to say AAA wasn't considred a combat arm.

"Infantry Division'" in the Shoshonean linguistic group means 'meat grinder').

8 posted on 06/04/2009 1:32:32 PM PDT by investigateworld ( Abortion stops a beating heart.)
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To: investigateworld
we started disbanding Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Battalions as we found the Luftwaffe pretty much kaput

Where'd you hear that?

14 posted on 06/04/2009 1:46:46 PM PDT by wbill
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