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Army serial number: 19190500
Rank: Sgt (22 August 1944)
Sources: macr-crew, morning-report

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

Aboard a lost aircraft

MACR 8448 · 44-6349 · 13 September 1944 · mission 91, 13 September 1944 · DED

Morning reports

2 entries, first 22 August 1944, last 18 September 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.

1944-08-22 840th: Sgt s 56.9 Above EM prom fr Sgt to gr of S/Sgt per Par 2, so 158, Hq 483d Bomb Gp (H), APO 520, 16 Aug 1.1 44.
1944-09-18 840th: S/Set Above 3 O's & 7 EM fr dy to MIA as of 13 Sept WI, are dropped fr rolls as of 16 Sept 44.

National Archives pages: roll 566195336 p. 1832, roll 570165454 p. 2637

Statements, mentions and histories

5 more statements from MACR 8448 are on the loss record.

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