Exerpt from a page on the 225th searchlight batalion website:http://www.skylighters.org/mainmenu.html
http://www.skylighters.org/history/coastart/index.html
When the coast artillery regiments were broken up in 1943; normally, the regimental headquarters being redesignated as an antiaircraft artillery group headquarters, its 1st Battalion becoming a separate Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion, the 2nd Battalion becoming a separate Antiaircraft Artillery Automatic Weapons Battalion, and the 3rd Battalion becoming a separate Searchlight Battalion.
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From an AA Insigna link on the Skylighters site i found this story on the 355th AAA Searchlight Battalion
355th AAA Searchlight Battalion
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Towards the Fall and early Winter of 1944, with the bitter fighting for the Gothic Line and Apennines taking numerous temporary replacements, the 355th lost many personnel to front-line units. The 355th AAA Searchlight Battalion was formally inactivated on December 20, 1944, and its assets were transferred to several engineer units, including the 255th Engineer Combat Battalion and 1108th Engineer Combat Group. With the cessation of hostilities in Europe, the 1108th Group, assigned to the XXIV Corps, was deployed to the Pacific for the invasion of Japan.
So it looks like the 355th AAA Searchlight Battalion was one of the two SL Batalions that were converted to engineer units of the 1108, becoming the 255th ECB. I havent found which SL Bat became the 337th ECB yet but i`m still diggin.
M1, help me out here, i cant find anything about the 1008th going to the pacific but if they did maybe we can find the "dohdoh birds".
Thanks to all so very, very much.
I've just secured Vol 1,2 and 3 of Engineer History Mediterranean Theater 5th Army. Winning bid........$53USD. Pretty darned good price considering I've seen them selling for bewteen $550 and $850.. I can't wait to get them and dig in.
You're all making me a very happy woman. I'm definitely gaining ground in my research.