- My father, Robert King was with the 774th TD battalion. He was also the president of the 774 reunion group for a number of years in the mid eighties. I am pretty sure this group kept him going for the last few years of his life. He passed away on December 1st, 1989. My mom died on July 28, 2004. My husband and were able to attend several of the reunions and learned more about his time during the war in those few days than in all the years before. I still have his unit history and original patch.