Serviceman

Charles Fickett

840thHQAsst Radio Oper.

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Army serial number: 35607099
Rank: Sgt (6 December 1943), S/Sgt (14 June 1944), S/Sgt (19 June 1944), s/sgt (23 July 1944), S/Sgt (28 October 1944)
Sources: macr-crew, morning-report

Flags. known only from an OCR crew list; name may be misread

Aboard a lost aircraft

MACR 6419 · 42-31631 · 14 June 1944 · mission 32, 14 June 1944

Morning reports

7 entries, first 6 December 1943, last 28 October 1944; grades seen: S/Sgt, Sgt, s/sgt. The clerk's sentence is quoted as the machine read it from microfilm: "fr dy to DS" is from duty to detached service, "sk in hosp" sick in hospital, "asgd & jd" assigned and joined.

1943-12-06 HQ: William R Jackson
1943-12-06 HQ: Villiam R Jackson
1944-06-14 840th: Above EM dy to MIA. FLD 0 & CAPT IST LT 2D LT
1944-06-19 840th: Above 5 EM reported as VIA dropped fr rolls. Prev rptd on strength section of M/R 18 June Wiso 377 EM Asgd Present for Dv. now corrected to read 368 EM
1944-07-23 840th: Asgd & jd per Par 1, so 135, Hq 483d Bomb Gp (H) APO 520. FLD 0 & CAPT 1ST LT
1944-09-21 840th: S/Set Fr dy to LWA not hospitalized, cause flak.
1944-10-28 840th: / Reld of dy & trfd to Repl Depot # 7, per Subj: Orders, Hq 15th AF, dtd 24 Oct We.

National Archives pages: roll 458053820 p. 129, roll 458053820 p. 195, roll 478083643 p. 27, roll 478083643 p. 35, roll 481433713 p. 514, roll 570165454 p. 2645, roll 572487240 p. 2558

Statements, mentions and histories

6 more statements from MACR 6419 are on the loss record.

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