Well he was a labor foreman, so it was possibly work related? Appendicitis is another possibility though, since that was major surgery at the time...
Very good. Interesting to note there is a typo there, which is not unusual - "25th Div" instead of 26th. He arrived in the ETOUSA on 27 March...
Okay, so he was admin, typing reports and so forth, which makes sense. You should be able to work back to find when he entered the unit. There...
You couldn't find him in the 195th FA? That's odd. At no time between September 1944 and mid-July 1945?He should at least be noted as joined. No,...
Nevermind, turns out the XX Corps Artillery History is available online at XX Corps Go to Documents and scroll down.
Okay, yes, his time with the various Seventh Army units was all after VE Day with the Army of Occupation. I think you can assume that his wartime...
Okay, that makes more sense. He was inducted at Fort Benjamin Harrison, which was actual a Finance Replacement Training Center, then was...
The Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (SSI) is the correct designation for the cloth shoulder unit insignia, which originally date to World War II. Until...
Hard to make sense from that? Do you have any dates? 195th FA Group as of 1 June 1944 was assigned to Third Army and attached to XX Corps. 15th...
You may want to post his full discharge information. There may be other information there that will give clues, for example the date of his entry...
Yep, it is the one thing I miss about moving away from Fairfax. A couple of things. What you are looking for, G.O. 9 of the 101st Infantry, is...
You're close. He was assigned to the 101st Infantry as an infantryman, thus the CIB. However, that is General Orders No. 9, by the 101st Infantry....
Yep.
Yes. See:...
When did he enter service? That can tell us whether he was drafted or enlisted. As of 5 December 1942, there was no "enlistment" in the Army, men...
ITEM is the World War II standard phonetic alphabet for the letter "I". In the modern NATO STANAG it is INDIA. See: WWII Phonetic Alphabet | Saco
No, Anzio was a separate campaign, covering units in the beachhead between 22 January and 24 May 1944. At the beginning of that period, the 1st...
Those weren't GIs, they were British - their version of the Ghost Army.
One! :D J, which indicates "local time" if ZULU Time is Greenwich or 0. Running East it is: +1 - A +2 - B +3 - C +4 - D +5 - E +6 - F +7 - G +8...
The Morris Swett Digital Collection is the online repository of the Field Artillery School.. You will be able to find most of the FA publications...
