Serviceman

Detroit Whitney

817th

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Army serial number: 35163882
Rank: Sgt (24 January 1944), S/Sgt (23 February 1944), S/Sgt (29 February 1944), T/Sgt (9 June 1944), T/Sgt (22 July 1944)
Sources: macr-crew, morning-report

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

Aboard a lost aircraft

MACR 7097 · 44-6267 · 18 July 1944 · mission 51, 18 July 1944

Morning reports

5 entries, first 24 January 1944, last 22 July 1944; grades seen: S/Sgt, Sgt, T/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.

1944-01-24 817th: Fr hosp to dy
1944-02-23 817th: fr duty to hosp (LD) OFFICER FLD o & CAPT 1ST LT
1944-02-29 817th: fr hosp (LD) to duty
1944-06-09 817th: fr duty to DS Isle of Capri Rest Camp
1944-07-22 817th: Papamanoli, John E S/Sgt FLD 0 & CAPT IST LT

National Archives pages: roll 461010974 p. 840, roll 463205991 p. 731, roll 463205991 p. 743, roll 478080727 p. 344, roll 481431546 p. 817

Statements, mentions and histories

14 more statements from MACR 7097 are on the loss record.

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