563d Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion (Mobile)

     The following is a PDF reproduction of the unit history published by the 563d AAA AW Bn upon return to the United States.  Arriving in France in late October 1944, the battalion moved to Belgium one week before the Battle of the Bulge.  Later, the battalion was among the AAA units defending the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen.  The organization received credit for participation in the Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace and Central Europe campaigns.    

     The author or authors of the unit history are not identified.   The narrative often fails to give dates for the events chronicled.  However, the statistical summary at the end of the volume provides a timeline.