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The 2nd 90mm Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion was a United States Marine Corps antiaircraft unit that was active during the 1940s & 1950s. Originally formed during World War II as the 9th Defense Battalion , the battalion took part in combat operations on Guadalcanal , Rendova , Munda Point , and Guam .
It was capable of firing a 3.5 in × 23.6 in (90 mm × 600 mm) shell 62,474 ft (19,042 m) horizontally, or a maximum altitude of 43,500 ft (13,300 m). The 90 mm gun was the US Army's primary heavy anti-aircraft gun from just prior to the opening of World War II into 1946, complemented by small numbers of the much larger 120 mm M1 gun.
86th Light Anti-Aircraft Battalion (attached from Luftwaffe) 7th Panzer Division; 12th Infantry Division; 32nd Infantry Division; 263rd Infantry Division; 525th Heavy Anti-Tank Battalion; 2nd Artillery Command 501st Artillery Headquarters; 32nd Artillery Survey Battalion; 2nd Battalion, 38th Heavy Artillery Regiment; 2nd Battalion, 39th Heavy ...
M3 90 mm Gun: American 90 mm antiaircraft/antitank gun; M5 3-inch gun: American 76.2 mm antitank gun; M7 3-inch gun: American 76.2 mm antitank gun used in the M10 tank destroyer; M8 4.5-inch rocket: American artillery rocket; M1 75 mm pack howitzer: American 75 mm mountain gun; M18 recoilless rifle: Late-war American 57 mm recoilless rifle
Rocket artillery T34 Calliope: 114 mm/183 mm 4.5 in/7.2 in Rocket artillery United States: T40 Whizbang: 180 mm (7.2 in) Rocket artillery United States: Field artillery 75 mm gun M2/M3/M6: 75 mm (2.95 in) Field gun United States: Copy of a British weapon QF 2.95-inch mountain gun: 75 mm (2.95 in) Mountain gun United Kingdom: Used in the Philippines
194th Tank Battalion; 267th Field Artillery Battalion; 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion; 291st Engineer Combat Battalion (United States) 313th Military Intelligence Battalion (United States) 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion; 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (United States) 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment
2nd Battalion, 35th Artillery (155mm towed guns) 1st Battalion, 75th Artillery (8" Self-Propelled Artillery) 6th Battalion, 10th Artillery (175mm Self-Propelled Artillery - converted to M110 A2 8" Self Propelled Howitzers in early 1979) 3rd Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery (Charlie Company- HQ in Sweinfurt) 5th Battalion, 2nd Air Defense ...
The division also had support units, including the 2nd Ordnance Maintenance Battalion, [8] 2nd Supply Battalion, the 48th Armored Medical Battalion, and a band and military police platoon. The military police and band were tasked with headquarters defense of base operations under the banner of the 502d Adjutant General Company (502d AG).