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The Air Defense Artillery is the branch that specializes in anti-aircraft weapons (such as surface-to-air missiles). In the US Army, these groups are composed of mainly air defense systems such as the PATRIOT Missile System, Terminal High Altitude Air Defense, and the Avenger Air Defense system which fires the FIM-92 Stinger missile.
The Air Defense Artillery branch descended from Anti-Aircraft Artillery (part of the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps until 1950, then part of the Artillery Branch) into a separate branch on 20 June 1968. On 1 December 1968, the ADA branch was authorized to wear modified Artillery insignia, crossed field guns with missile.
The 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery battalion was an all-African-American mobile anti-aircraft artillery unit of the US Army during the Second World War. Comprising fewer than 1,000 soldiers, including support staff, it is credited with having destroyed 88 German warplanes, 68 of which were fully confirmed kills and 19 partially confirmed kills. [1]
32nd Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade; 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States) 38th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States) 56th Air Defense Artillery Brigade; 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States) 108th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States) 111th Air Defense Artillery Brigade; 164th Air Defense Artillery ...
5th Battalion, 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment; 5th Battalion 52d Air Defense Artillery (United States) 184th AAA Battalion (United States) 188th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (United States) 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion; 452nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion (United States) 602nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion
the 19th Anti-aircraft Artillery Group. Corps Field Artillery Groups included the 196th, the 202nd, the 411th, the 422nd or the 472nd with the 2d, 70th, 83rd armored, 252nd, 280th, 349th, 695th armored, 753rd, 754th, 755th, 774th, 777th, 787th and 808th artillery battalions.
As the Battle of the Bulge progressed, the 184th was moved to a position on the Meuse River, where in addition to its normal anti-aircraft role, it was prepared to provide field artillery support as well. Returning to Antwerp in early 1945, the 184th was able to earn more victories against V-1s than any other AAA unit in the region.
For the Battle of Okinawa, the group was under the command of the 53d Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade of the Tenth United States Army and was responsible for air defense of the area surrounding Yontan & Kadena Airfields. Following the end of the war, the group returned to the United States and was decommissioned on December 5, 1945. [2]