582nd

Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion
Notes: Originally activated as 561st Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion on 9 March 1943; Reactivated as 582nd Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion on 15 January 1944.
Activated: 15 January, 1944, ++Frattamaggiore, Italy++
Notes: Formed from personnel of the 560th, 561st, 562nd SAW Bns
Subordinate to: XII Air Support Command
Assigned to: 64th Fighter Wing
Attached Units: (Units and/or Personnel)
US:
593rd SAW Bn. 12 March 1944
594th SAW Bn. 8 April 1944
849th Signal Intelligence
2691st SAW Bn.
British:
12 F.U.
90 W.O.U.
329 AMES (Air Ministry Experimental Stations)
332 AMES
871 AMES G.C.I. Unit
886 AMES G.C.I. Unit
887 AMES
6037 AMES
6038 AMES
6041 AMES
6043 AMES
8015 AMES
8035 AMES G.C.I. Unit
14027 AMES G.C.I Unit, Microwave Radar
15051 AMES
Commanders:
Battalion Commander:
15 January 1944 - 24 June 1945, Lt. Col. Wilbert A. Speir
24 June 1945 - (?), Maj. Emil O. Lindner
Equipment: 1944, authorized; SCR-270; SCR-527, 3 each; SCR-584; SCR-602-T6, 12 each

Headquarters & Plotting Company:
Captain Milton A. Taylor, 15 January 1944 - 15 July 1944
Lt. Joseph C. Killian, 19 August 1945

Lightweight Radar Reporting Company: Captain William H. Fraiser Jr. 15 January 1944
Equipment: SCR-584

Ground Observer Company: Captain Eldon E. Evans, 15 January 1944

Reporting Company: Captain Lew E. Merrill, 15 January 1944
Departed: 1 June 1944, Frattamaggiore, Italy
Arrived: 19 June 1944, Orbetello, Italy
Departed: 18 - 21 July 1944, Orbetello, Italy
Arrived: 18 - 21 July 1944, Santa Maria Air Field, Italy (Staging Area)
Boarded Transport: 20 August 1944
Arrived: 9 September 1944, St Tropez, France (disembarked at Blue Beach, Beau Vallon, France)
Proceeded: to bivouac area 6 miles from St. Tropez, France
Relocated: L. W. Reporting Company and Reporting Company moved into quarters at Golf Hotel, Beau Vallon, France
Departed: 24 November 1944
Arrived: 26 November 1944, Roseries Aux Salines, France
Relocated: 17 January 1945, Nancy, France (in the Dormitory of the City University)
Relocated: 2 April 1945, Edenkoben, Germany
Relocated: 29 April 1945, Schwabisch Hall, Germany
Notes: 24 June 1945, The 593rd SAW Battalion dissolved and personnel transferred to 582nd.

Radar Teams (Click)
Causalities (Click)
Awards (Click)

Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Naples-Foggia (Ground) 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944
Northern France 25 July – 14 September 1944
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945
Rome-Arno 22 January – 9 September 1944
Southern France 15 August - 14 September 1944
Assault Landing: Salerno 9 – 10 September 1943
Assault Landing: Southern France 15 – 16 August 1944
Notes: Unit history shows Assault Landings in North Africa, The Invasion of Pantelleria, Landing at Gela, Sicily, The Invasion of Italy at Salerno, Anzio Beachhead and Invasion of Southern France
Occupation Credit: 2 May – 31 October 1945 Germany
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 as 157th ACWG
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard

Walter J McClelland