Serviceman

George H Swerer

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Army serial number

0744426

Rank

1st Lt (10 May 1944), 1LT (14 June 1944), 1LT (6 July 1944)

Hometown

DENVER CO; Denver CO

Also written

George Swerer

In the book

Heroes of the 483rd, p. 14, 214, 265

Sources

483bg-record, assoc-roster, heroes-book, morning-report · service record at 483bg.org

Crews

• Lamar P. Bentley Crew · 840th
• Louis Theodore Seith Commanding Officer · 840th
• Ray H. Whitaker Crew · 840th

Awards

From the general orders indexed by the Army Air Corps Library and Museum.

Morning reports

4 entries, first 25 February 1944, last 25 September 1944; grades seen: 1st Lt. 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.

• 1944-02-25 840th: 2nd Lt F 1 Promoted fr 2nd Lt to 1st Lt. off 21 Feb 44, per Par 15, so 44, WD, Wash. DC, dtd 21 Feb 44.
• 1944-05-10 840th: IWA not hospitalized cause flak, 10 May 44.
• 1944-09-16 840th: 1st It
• 1944-09-25 840th: Capt SK.

National Archives pages: roll 463205991 p. 788, roll 474640174 p. 72, roll 570165454 p. 2635, roll 570165454 p. 2652

Death notice

Listed in the Association's TAPS column, newsletter 201703, page 2: 1/18/17, reported by William H Gibson.

Photographs naming him

• Newsletter 201703, page 2 photograph · view at 15thaf.org

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Statements, mentions and histories

15 2-8-17 GUY VENIER (OBIT) PINKSTON, GLEN R 816 1-19-17 GUY VENIER (OBIT) SOLOW, ROBERT I 815 2-6-17 GUY VENIER (OBIT) SWERER, GEORGE H 840 1/18/17 WILLIAM H GIBSON STANEK, EDMUND E 817 2-1-17 GUY VENIER (OBIT) STOVAL, GEORGE 840 2/20/17 SHERYL NORTON THATCHER, JAMES M 816 12/19/16 LEMOYNE TH