WW-II: Illinois, TEC5, 562 SIG ACFT WNG BN.
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Army Unit: "562nd Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion"

"SAW" = 'Signal Aircraft Warning'
Formed: 1941
Organized: 4 July 1942, Drew Field, Tampa, Florida
Activated: September 1942
Subordinate to: XII Air Support Command
Landed: D-Day (Operation Torch) 8 November 1942, Casablanca
Area of responsibility: The Moroccan coast from 80 miles south of Casablanca to the Spanish Moroccan border. Operated radars in French Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Sicily, Italy.
Relocated: 15 October 1943, Italy
Note: By December 1943, augmented the Coast Artillery Surface Warning Platoons
Subordinate to: 62nd Fighter Wing, XXII Tactical Air Command
Reconstituted: 21 September 1944, Leghorn, Italy
Relocated: 9 October 1944, Rosignano, Italy
Relocated: 8 November 1944, Castiglioncello, Italy
Equipment: 1942, four (4) SCR-270, three (3) SCR-516, four (4) SCR-602
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Central Europe 22 March – 11 May 1945
Naples-Foggia (Ground) 9 September 1943 – 21 January 1944
North Appennines 10 September 1944 – 4 April 1945
Rhineland 15 September 1944 – 21 March 1945
Rome-Arno 22 January – 9 September 1944
Sicily (Ground) 9 July – 17 August 1943
Allotted: 24 May 1946 to National Guard
Redesignated: 24 May 1946 as 155th ACWG
Notes: Participated in the invasion of North Africa in November 1942
Invasion of Sicily in 1943
Invasion of the Italian mainland that same year
North Apennine mountains in December of 1944,
Ordered to France to replace the 555 SAW which had been overrun and destroyed by German forces in the Battle of the Bulge

Headquarters Company
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Company A
Rouvo Di Puglia, Italy

Redesignated: 1 June 1944, 6529th Signal Radar Reporting Platoon, (Provisional)

SOURCE [link]:
http://www.mobileradar.org/army_units_562_599.html