Army Units

1st
  Aircraft Warning Company
Notes: First of four Air Warning Units activated by the U.S. Army
Notes: The First Signal Aircraft Warning Company of Hawaii, was activated at Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii on 14 April 1940. Redesignated 15 February 1942 as Signal Aircraft Warning Regiment of Hawaii. On 17 April 1942, Became 515th Signal Aircraft Warning Regiment. On 1 April 1943, split into 580th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (Special) and the 581st Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion.
Equipment: SCR-268 (1941)
  Radar Battalion
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
North Solomons 22 February 1943 – 21 November 1944
Assault Landing: Rice Anchorage 5 July 1943
  Signal Aircraft Warning Training Battalion
Activated: 1 May 1943, Drew Field, Tampa Florida
Notes: 2 October 1943, Officer Training School discontinued
Relocated: From Maastrict, Netherlands to Munchen-Gladbach, Germany (Moenchengladbach)
 

Signal Aircraft Warning Training Regiment
Organized: 30 December 1943, Drew Field, Tampa Florida
Note: Personnel largely came from 1st Signal Aircraft Warning Training Battalion

 

  Radar Calibration Detachment
Activated: 23 April 1943, Orlando, Florida
Note: Test unit that could combine all elements required for complete calibration of ground radar stations.
Myitkyina, Burma
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Burma 29 January – 15 July 1945
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Northern France, 25 July – 14 September 1944
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945
Occupation Credit: 2 May – 31 October 1945 Germany
  Aviation Battalion
Company B, Air Surveillance Target Acquisition Platoon
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:

Meritorious Unit Commendation—1 January – 31 December 1968
2nd
  Interceptor Command
Seattle, Washington, 1942
Notes: Filter Room, Control Room
  Aircraft Warning Company
Notes: First of four Air Warning Units activated by the U.S. Army
Equipment: SCR-268 (1941)
 

Signal Aircraft Warning Training Battalion
Located: 1943, Drew Field, Tamp Florida
Notes: 8 August 1943, the personnel of the 2nd Signal AW Battalion were transferred to, and became the 588th SAW Training Battalion

Headquarters Company
Companies A - H
Administration Department
Preliminary Operational Training Information Center Department
Preliminary Operational Training Telephone & Telegraph Department
Preliminary Operational Training Radar Department
Preliminary Operational Training Radio Department



 

Radar Calibration Detachment
Activated: 20 August 1943, Mitchel Field, New York

 

  Air Combat Control Squadron, Amphibious
Notes: Marine unit ?? (Ref E011652-multi.pdf, page 1760, dated 13 March 1944)
 

Signal Radar Maintenance Team or Unit
Fort Ord, California 1950
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
North Appennines 10 September 1944 – 4 April 1945
Northern France, 25 July – 14 September 1944
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945


  Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion
Point Bolo, Okinawa June 1945
Equipment: SCR-270-D
3rd
 

Signal Aircraft Warning Training Regiment
1943

 

  Aircraft Warning Company
Notes: First of four Air Warning Units activated by the U.S. Army
  Radar Calibration Detachment
Activated: 20 August 1943, Mitchell Field, New York
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Bismarck Archipelago 15 December 1943 – 27 November 1944
Leyte 17 October 1944 – 1 July 1945
North Solomons 22 February 1943 – 21 November 1944
  Signal Radar Calibration Detachment
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Leyte 17 October 1944 – 1 July 1945
Southern Philippines 27 February – 4 July 1945
Philippines Presidential Unit Citation 7 December 1941 – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
  Signal Radar Maintenance Team
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Occupation Credit: 15 September 1945 – 5 March 1946 Japan
4th
  Aircraft Warning Company
Activated: 1 August 1940, March Field, California, as 4th Operations Company (Aircraft Warning)
Notes: First of four Air Warning Units activated by the U.S. Army
Mission: To control all Aircraft Warning facilities in 4th Fighter Command
Subordinate to: 1940, 4th Fighter Command
Note: Company also provided personnel for operation and supervision of commanding general's operations board, which summarized aircraft movement and other vital statistics through all areas in command.
Redesignated: 1 August 1941, Signal Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Aircraft Warning Service, 4th Interceptor Command.
Redesignated: 1 August 1941, Signal Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Aircraft Warning Service, 4th Fighter Command.
Relocated: June 1942, Oakland, California
Inactivated: 31 march 1944
  Signal Aircraft Warning Training Battalion
Activated: 5 July 1942, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
 

Signal Aircraft Warning Training Regiment
Note: Unit was formerly the 4th Signal Air Warning Training Battalion. Unit was absorbed by the 5th Training Regiment.
Disbanded: 10 July 1944

 

 

Ground Observer Platoon
Activated: September 1944, Biak, Netherlands East Indies
Note: Account of observers being slipped into Mindoro Island, Philippines by LST and PT-Boat. Established, helped Filipino Guerrillas. Men were coming ashore with their equipment when discovered immediately by the Japanese. They had to destroy their radar and radios and run for their lives.

 

5th
  Signal Aircraft Warning Training Battalion
Activated: 5 July 1942, Drew Field, Tampa Florida, Headquarters Aircraft Warning Unit Training Center
 

Signal Aircraft Warning Training Regiment
Formed: 10 July 1944, absorbed the 4th Signal Air Warning Training Regiment

 

  Radar Calibration Detachment
Saipan Island, Tinian Island, Mariana Islands
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Eastern Mandated (Ground) 31 January – 14 June 1944
Ryukyus 26 March – 2 July 1945
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
Occupation Credit: 15 September 20 December 1945 Japan
  5th Battalion 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Equipment: TSQ-32/MPQ-49
Notes: Used in Support of Chaparral/Vulcan system
6th
 

Signal Aircraft Warning Training Battalion
Note: 1943, Aircraft Warning School, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida

 

  Signal Detachment
Shellingford AS, England
Notes: Part of (see) 32d AAA Brigade which had Air Defense responsibility for SAC bases {Ted Clark}.
 

Radar Calibration Detachment
Activated: 20 August 1943, Mitchel Field, New York

 

  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Northern France, 25 July – 14 September 1944
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945
Occupation Credit: 2 May – 31 October 1945 Germany
  6th Battalion 56th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Equipment: TSQ-32/MPQ-49
Notes: Used in Support of Chaparral/Vulcan system
Redesignated: 5th Battalion 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
7th
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Occupation Credit: 4 June – 15 August 1945 Germany
8th
  Radar Calibration Detachment
Activated: 23 July 1943, Mitchel Field, New York
Notes: See 8th Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
  Radar Maintenance Service Detachment No. 1
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Air Offensive, Japan 17 April 1942 – 2 September 1945
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Bismarck Archipelago 15 December 1943 – 27 November 1944
Leyte 17 October 1944 – 1 July 1945
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Ryukyus 26 March – 2 July 1945
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
Notes: Unit also shown as 8th Radar Calibration Detachment
9th
  Radar Calibration Detachment
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Air Offensive, Japan 17 April 1942 – 2 September 1945
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
 

Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Fort Custer, Michigan
Subordinate to: 22nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Occupation Credit: 15 September - 5 January 1946 Japan

10th
  Radar Calibration Detachment (Signal)
Activated: 16 November, Army Air Base, Fort Dix, New Jersey
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Air Offensive, Japan 17 April 1942 – 2 September 1945
Leyte 17 October 1944 – 1 July 1945
Luzon 15 December 1944 – 4 July 1945
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 7 December – 10 May 1942 or 17 October 1944 – 4 July 1945
Occupation Credit: 20 December 1945 - 20 January 1946 Japan
  Signal Radar Maintenance Team
Redesignated: 18 September 1944, Willimington Communications Repair Detachment
Mission: Performed Third and Fourth Echelon maintenance of ground radar and ground VHF Fighter Control Equipment.
Commander:
Lt. Christos M. Manitsas
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Occupation Credit: 2 May – 20 May 1945 and 4 June – 4 September 1945 Germany
11th
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Northern France 25 July – 14 September 1944
U.N. Defensive 27 June – 15 September 1950
U.N. Defensive 16 September – 2 November 1950
CCF Intervention 3 November 1950 – 24 January 1951
First U.N. Counteroffensive 25 January – 21 April 1951
CCF Spring Offensive 22 April – 8 July 1951
U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive 9 July – 27 November 1951
Second Korean Winter 28 November 1951 – 30 April 1952
Korea Summer-Fall 1952 1 May – 30 November 1952
Third Korean Winter 1 December 1952 – 30 April 1953
Korea Summer 1953 1 May – 27 July 1953
Meritorious Unit Commendation 1 February – 25 October 1953
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation 19 September 1950 – 31 July 1952
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation 11 September 1950 – 27 July 1954
Occupation Credit: 20 May – 14 August 1945 Germany
Notes: U.N. Defensive 8 – 15 December 1950
  Signal Radar Maintenance Team
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Occupation Credit: 30 September – 31 October 1945 Germany
12th
 

Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Northern France 25 July – 14 September 1944
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945
Occupation Credit: 20 May – 15 August 1945 Germany

13th
 

Radar Calibration Detachment
Activated: 25 January 1946, Bad Kissingen, Germany

 

  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Ardennes-Alsace 16 December 1944 – 25 January 1945
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Northern France 25 July – 14 September 1944
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945
Occupation Credit: 2 May – 14 August 1945 Germany
14th
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Northern France 25 July – 14 September 1944
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945
U.N. Defensive 27 June – 15 September 1950
U.N. Defensive 16 September – 2 November 1950
CCF Intervention 3 November 1950 – 24 January 1951
First U.N. Counteroffensive 25 January – 21 April 1951
CCF Spring Offensive 22 April – 8 July 1951
U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive 9 July – 27 November 1951
Second Korean Winter 28 November 1951 – 30 April 1952
Korea Summer-Fall 1952 1 May – 30 November 1952
Meritorious Unit Commendation 1 February – 25 October 1953
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation 11 September 1950 – 27 July 1954
Occupation Credit: 20 May – 14 August 1945 Germany
Notes: U.N. Offensive 15 September 1950
15th
 

Observation Battalion
Italy WWII
Equipment: SCR-584

 

16th
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Korea Summer-Fall 1952 1 May – 30 November 1952
Third Korean Winter 1 December 1952 – 30 April 1953
Korea Summer 1953 1 May – 27 July 1953
Meritorious Unit Commendation 1 February – 25 October 1953
Occupation Credit: 15 August – 30 October 1945 Germany
  5th Battalion, 16th Artillery
Vietnam 1971
Equipment: AN/MPQ-4
  Air Traffic Control Battalion (Corps)
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Army Superior Unit Award—1 April 1984–1 July 1985
18th
  Air Support Control Squadron
Note: Ref E011652-multi.pdf, pg 1761, dated 1 April 1944
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Western Pacific (Ground) 15 June 1944 – 2 September 1945
19th
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Air Offensive Japan 17 April 1942 – 2 September 1945
  Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group
  2d Battalion 19th Artillery
Radar Section, Headquarters & Headquarters Battery
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Valorous Unit Award — 6 May 1969
23rd
  Artillery Group
Camp Surveillance Radar Sections
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Valorous Unit Award — 23 September – 25 October 1971
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar Detachment
Constituted: February 1951,
Activated: March 1951, Fort Sill, Oklahoma
Deployed: Korea
Deactivated: October 1951, in Korea
Redesignated: May 1958, 26th U.S. Army Artillery Detachment
Activated:  June 1958, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Assigned: Special Weapons Support Command in June 1960
Assigned: November 1963, 5th U.S. Army Artillery Group, Germany
Inactivated: February 1967, in Germany
Activated: November 1976, in Germany
Reorganized and renamed: March 1988, 26th U.S. Army Field Artillery Detachment
Assigned: 570th USAAG
Relocated: from Paderborn to Sennelager, Germany
Inactivated: May 1992 in Sennelager
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation
27th
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar Detachment
Korea
28th
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar Detachment
Korea
29th
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar Detachment
Korea
30th
  Fighter Control Squadron (Detachment)
Orlando, Florida 1942
Mission: One: To provide personnel to operate Control Room. Two: Operate and maintain VHF radios for communications with aircraft. Three: Operate and maintain the VHF Direction Finders.
Commander:
1942 Capt. Stuart O. Van Slyke
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar Detachment
Korea
31st
  Fighter Control Squadron
New Orleans, Louisiana 1942
Mission: One: To provide personnel to operate Control Room. Two: Operate and maintain VHF radios for communications with aircraft. Three: Operate and maintain the VHF Direction Finders.
Commander:
July 1942 - 12 September 1942 Captain Stuart O. Slyke
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar Detachment
Korea
32d
  Anti Aircraft Artillery Brigade
Shellingford AS, England
Notes: Provided Air Defense and support with the Air Force for SAC bases. The OIC was an Army Warrent Officer, and the NCOIC was an Air Force Master Sergeant (see 6th Signal Detachment) {Ted Clark}.
Equipment: Three (3) TPS-1D's
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar Detachment
Korea
34th
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar Detachment
Korea
See: 234th Field Artillery
35th
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar Detachment
Korea
36th
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive 9 July 27 November 1951
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation 19 September 1950 – 31 July 1952
Notes: U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive actual dates 4 August – 28 October 1951
37th
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive 9 July 27 November 1951
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation 19 September 1950 – 31 July 1952
Notes: U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive actual dates 4 August – 28 October 1951
38th
  Field Artillery Counter-mortar Radar
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive 9 July 27 November 1951
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation 19 September 1950 – 31 July 1952
Notes: U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive actual dates 4 August – 28 October 1951
2nd Battalion 38 Infantry
Vietnam
39th
  Signal Aircraft Warning Detachment No. 39
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 416)
Notes: Personnel and equipment transferred to 596th SAW Bn
40th
  Aircraft Warning Detachment
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 416)
Redesignated: Battalion HQ & HQ Company, 595th SAW Battalion
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:

New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
41st
  Signal Aircraft Warning Detachment No. 41
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 416)
Notes: 16 May 1944, personnel and equipment transferred to HQ Detachment, 597th SAW Battalion
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
42nd
  Signal Aircraft Warning Detachment No. 42
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414)
43rd
  Signal Aircraft Warning Detachment No. 43
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414)
44th
  Signal Aircraft Warning Detachment No. 44
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
New Guinea 24 January 1943 – 31 December 1944
Disbanded: 16 May 1944 (583rd Unit History, page 414)
48th
 

Signal Aircraft Warning Detachment
Located: Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Relocated: January 1945, Departed for port of embarkation

 

51st
  Signal Radar Maintenance Unit
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive 9 July – 27 November 1951
Second Korean Winter 28 November 1951 – 30 April 1952
Korea Summer-Fall 1952 1 May – 30 November 1952
Third Korean Winter 1 December 1952 – 30 April 1953
Korea Summer 1953 1 May – 27 July 1953
Meritorious Unit Commendation 1 February – 25 October 1953
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation 28 July 1951 – 11 March 1953
Occupation Credit: 15 August – 27 December 1945 Germany
Notes: Actual Campaign dates U.N. Summer-Fall Offensive 29 July – 27 November 1951
52d
  Signal Detachment (Radar Maintenance, Type E)
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Third Korean Winter 1 December 1952 – 30 April 1953
Korea Summer 1953 1 May – 27 July 1953
Meritorious Unit Commendation 1 February – 25 October 1953
Notes: Actual Campaign dates Third Korean Winter 12 March – 30 April 1953
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