24th Antiaircraft Artillery Missile Battalion (Nike-Ajax)

Activated 1 Jun 55 at Fort Banks. Lineage includes 1st BN, 504th Coast Artillery (later the 214th AAA Gun BN) in European Theater, WWII, and 2-5th Coast Artillery. As 24th AAA Gun BN served in Korean War.Redesignated as 3d Missile BN, 5th Artillery and inactivated 1 Sep 58 at Bedford, MA and lineage consolidated with 5th Artillery, 26 Aug 60.

UNIT LOCATIONS:

HHB Ft Banks Jun 55-Dec 57 Bedford Dec 57-Aug 58
Radar Sect Danvers Jun 58-Aug 58
Btry A Nahant Oct 55-Dec 56  S. Lincoln Dec 56-Aug 58
Btry B Reading Oct 55-Dec 56 Bedford Dec 56- Aug 58
Btry C Blue Hills Oct 55- Aug 58
Btry D Needham Oct 55- Aug 58

 

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