If a Field Artillery Battalion was unattached, is there any way to find out where they went? I am having trouble following my Uncle because he was in the 115th FA Bn Battery A from Tennessee. I read they were not attatched to anyone until the Pocket of Lorient with the 60th or 66th Division. Family history places him at the Battle of the Bulge, but I can not prove it. When he died they found pictures of a concentration camp. I never got to see them.

According to Stanton, Order of Battle: The 115th FA Bn was equipped with truck drawn 105mm howitzers. Organized 7 Feb. 1942 at Ft. Jackson, SC from the 1st Bn., 115th FA. Boston Port of Embarkation: 21 Aug. 1942 - (Relieved from the 30th Inf. Div. 24 Aug. '42) arrived, Iceland 31 Aug. 1942. Arrived England, 6 Nov. 1943 and landed in France 23 September 1944. It took part in four campaigns: Northern France, Alsace-Lorraine (Battle of the Bulge), Rhineland, Central Europe. It was stationed at Weiler, Germany to 20 April, 1946.

Try contacting the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA II) at College Park, MD The National Archives at College Park, Maryland and The US Army Heritage and Education Center, formally the US Army Military History Institute at Carlisle, PA The U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center (USAHEC) where I am sure you will be led to a unit history.

A little advice: take family history stories with a grain of salt. Family members mean well, and harbor the best intentions, but tend to relay facts very broardly. When I would ask where my father fought in WWII, I would get answers like "he was everywhere!" And ... "your father fought against Rommel!" It took research to discover that my father landed at UTAH beach on D+28 while Rommel was commander of Army Group B...so...yes, my father fought against Rommel, which would be the same as a German corporal fighting against Eisenhower. I hope this helps.

Greg C.

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"These are my credentials!"-Brig. Gen. Charles D.W. Canham [pointing to GI's of Company I, 13th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division] to General der Fallschirmjager Hermann Bernhard Ramcke, Crozon Peninsula September 19, 1944.

Nice job, Greg

Greg, you are right about the NARA, College Park, but the AHEC has comparatively few WW II unit histories.


Dave

antmar where in Tenn. ? find the location of the unit and go from there ......... for starts you might be amazed at what is housed in the local library, info center and local VA office(s) even for the period of WW 2

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Rip it up !

He and about 90 others (NG USA) signed up at Camp Tyson; Paris, Tennessee for the National Guard and assigned to Field Artillery. They went to South Carolina from there. I found in one Order of Battle where they were attatched to the 60th or 66th - (Can't remember - papers are at work) in 1945 - May-April. The day after Roosevelt died he suffered from "shell shock" and I have the papers that say he went to the 66th Div. Clearing Hospital - then to three to four other hospitals before landing in the U.S. and from there sent to a Convelasent Hospital. His papers did not mention Central Europe. I sent his pins and stuff to a man that took one look at him and said for me to NEVER ask him about the war. He said that the pins and the little stars that went with them showed several major battles. He listed all of that on a paper for me and I gave it to my Mom. She can not locate the paper now that had the pins attatched to it. When he died in 1999, they found the pictures of the Concentration Camp...no one had ever seen them before.

He and about 90 others (NG USA) signed up at Camp Tyson; Paris, Tennessee for the National Guard and assigned to Field Artillery. They went to South Carolina from there. I found in one Order of Battle where they were attatched to the 60th or 66th - (Can't remember - papers are at work) in 1945 - May-April. The day after Roosevelt died he suffered from "shell shock" and I have the papers that say he went to the 66th Div. Clearing Hospital - then to three to four other hospitals before landing in the U.S. and from there sent to a Convelasent Hospital. His papers did not mention Central Europe. I sent his pins and stuff to a man that took one look at him and said for me to NEVER ask him about the war. He said that the pins and the little stars that went with them showed several major battles. He listed all of that on a paper for me and I gave it to my Mom. She can not locate the paper now that had the pins attatched to it. When he died in 1999, they found the pictures of the Concentration Camp...no one had ever seen them before.

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