Serviceman

Mother Spracher

815thkilled in action

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Army serial number: 15394436
Rank: Sgt (29 April 1944), Sgt (3 May 1944), Sgt (4 May 1944)
Sources: macr-crew, morning-report

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

Aboard a lost aircraft

MACR 11543 · 42-102388 · 22 June 1944 · mission 34, 22 June 1944 · KIA

Morning reports

4 entries, first 29 April 1944, last 27 June 1944; grades seen: 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.

1944-04-29 815th: Fr dy to injured in action LD 4th Fld Hosp
1944-05-03 815th: 3 Fr injured in action LD 4th Fld Hosp to sk in qrs 39528260 Elliott (911)
1944-05-04 815th: Fr sk in qrs to dy FLD o & CAPT 1ST LT 2D LT
1944-06-27 815th: s/Set 37h21032 Johnston (757) I/Sgt

National Archives pages: roll 469121524 p. 707, roll 474637097 p. 780, roll 474637097 p. 782, roll 478080727 p. 217

Statements, mentions and histories

29 more statements from MACR 11543 are on the loss record.

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