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Military Related Websites
Sebastiaan Vonk's great Netherlands website dedicated to what he's learned about World War Two. This great young man has adopted the grave of a soldier of the 80th Division who was killed in World War Two.
225th AAA Searchlight Battalion
The Skylighters Website is dedicated to the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion. The Skylighters were the 800-odd men of the four batteries of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion. After training at Camp Davis, North Carolina, the 225th arrived in England just before New Year's Day 1944, and became part of the antiaircraft defense of England. In mid-June, the Skylighters landed on Omaha Beach and formed part of the defense of Normandy. Thereafter, for most of their dash across France and the Low Countries, the 225th were attached to the 9th Air Force's 422nd and 425th Night Fighter Squadrons, who flew the deadly P-61 Black Widow interceptor against the Luftwaffe. In their role with the night fighters, the 225th received partial credits on the downing of 36 enemy planes and V-1 buzz bombs. In addition, the battalion's 36 General Electric searchlights were used to put up over 4,000 light canopies that saved countless planes as well as pilots and aircrews that were lost or disabled in night combat in the ETO. Skylighters radar sets were used to vector the Black Widows to their targets time and time again. At war's end, the 225th began training for deployment to the Pacific, and served for a while as part of the Army of Occupation. Following the surrender of Japan, Skylighters began rotating back home, and by December 1945 the unit was disbanded.
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