User talk:Jay fraser4/101st Coast Artillery Battalion (Anti-Aircraft)

Date Created: 12 October 1940 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108th_Cavalry_Regiment#Lineage Date activated: unit entered active federal service Feb. 10, 1941 source: http://www.georgiaguardhistory.com/2020/02/february-1942-georgia-guard-soldiers.html

Date ended 528th consolidated with 101st AAA Automatic Weapons Battalion 19 July 1946 250th, 950th, and 101st consolidated with 214th Artillery 1 July 1959 a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System to consist of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Gun Battalions, the 3rd Automatic Weapons Battalion, and the 5th Detachment. source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/214th_Field_Artillery_Regiment

Motto: Come What Will Source: Come what will: A military history of the 101st AAA Automatic Weapons Battalion, 15 October 1940 to VJ Day 1945 Unknown Binding – January 1, 1966 by Lindsey P Henderson (Author)

Significance The 101st Separate Coast Artillery Battalion, Antiaircraft was a Georgia National Guard battalion that was activated to activated to federal service and combat ready for anti-aircraft defense on the eve of the bombings of Pearl Harbor. Within two months of the US entrance into the war, the 101st sailed on the RMS Queen Mary to Sydney Australia, made their way by Train to Brisbane, and landed by Boat in Port Moresby, Papua to aide in the months long battle of Port Moresby. 101st defended the 3 mile airstrip from almost daily bombings from the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service. The 101st went on to participate in the battle of milne bay and other bases in New Guinea.

JBF4 04:06, 2 November 2020 (UTC)jay b fraser