447th Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (Semimobile)

     The following is the typewritten unit history of the 447th AAA AW Bn reproduced in PDF format directly from the record on file at the National Archives and Records Administration.  This is the raw unit history, complete with typographical errors, typewriter overstrikes and handwritten corrections.  As the unit history indicates, the battalion journal and other records were lost during the Battle of the Bulge.  However, this reconstructed history preserves well the record of an historic antiaircraft organization.  A unit roster was not appended to the narrative.

     Attached to the 28th Infantry Division for three separate periods during the war in Europe, the 447th was one of the AAA battalions slated for participation in the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach.  Later in the war, elements of the battalion were on the leading edge of the German breakthrough in the Ardennes.  Battery C was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation for its actions in the Battle of the Bulge.