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Post by Registrar on Sept 29, 2008 22:32:19 GMT 8
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Post by Registrar on Sept 29, 2008 22:30:37 GMT 8
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Post by Registrar on Sept 29, 2008 22:26:57 GMT 8
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Post by Registrar on Sept 27, 2008 7:13:08 GMT 8
Victor,
I am impressed by how you do those “click for bigger” hot-links in your posts to the board. How do you do that?
Regards
exo
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Post by Registrar on Aug 27, 2008 11:19:33 GMT 8
What classic examples of "LESS IS MORE" !
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Post by Registrar on Aug 20, 2008 14:03:08 GMT 8
Anyone want to guess what year this was?
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Post by Registrar on Aug 11, 2008 7:34:02 GMT 8
There’s no change in course. The website has always maintained a number of separate lists: one of the men lost on Corregidor, arranged by unit,corregidor.org/taps/control/KIA_by_unit.htmlone of the men lost on Corregidor, about whose circumstance of death something is knowncorregidor.org/taps/control/KIA_by_name.htmland the other the list of ALL 503d men who died when in service of the 503d PIR or 503d PRCT, arranged alphabetically. corregidor.org/taps/control/kia_full_listing.htmThe only difference is that the internet has brought forward three men who we had never thought about before – three men who, had you asked them which unit they were when they boarded that C-47 in England bound for Algeria, for the US’s first combat jump of the war, would have told you “I’m proud I’m allowed to be one of the crowd of the 503d PIR!” They died and were buried under the name of the 503d PIR. After they were dead, someone came along and redesignated the unit to be the 509th PIR. This is not to detract from the record of the 509th in the slightest. Wat started this present issue was our project to photograph the headstones over the graves of each 503d trooper -and we found that there were more graves than the war in the Pacific had to offer. Registrar
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Post by Registrar on Aug 11, 2008 7:22:43 GMT 8
Gentlemen, Given that the men who jumped into Algeria in Nov 42 were carried on the records of the 503d as at the date of their combat jump, death, and are officially buried under the name of the 503d PIR, I consider it is proper that they be recorded in the website’s 503d Honor Roll. corregidor.org/taps/control/kia_full_listing.htmSubject to any objection consensus from yourselves. They will be identified as dying in Algeria. Regards to all Registrar
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Post by Registrar on Aug 6, 2008 7:00:25 GMT 8
I think if you continue your reading, you'll find that Army Serial Numbers were NOT always eight digits.
I suspect you will find that there was an early system of numbering, and a later one. Pre-War, there just wasn't the call for such an available series of eight digits. The large increase in Army personnel (due to measures, such as calling up the National Guard for Federal service, and the number of Reserve Officers and Selective Service Trainees, becoming available) called for new ‘boxes’ of Serial Numbers to be introduced (numbering up to 8 digits) . However, ALL military personnel already having an Army Serial Number prior to 1 July 1940, were to retain their current ASN (numbering 7 digits only) .
And Officers had a different series, of course, with the "O" prefix.
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Post by Registrar on Aug 5, 2008 23:45:59 GMT 8
I have an “E” Company, 503d PRCT trooper who is on the 503d Honor Roll at corregidor.org/taps/control/kia_full_listing.htm. Like many of his 503d PRCT Brothers, he is buried in Manila American Cemetery. He was killed during the Negros campaign. The ABMC database of the 503 PIR buried in Manila has the following: WILSON WILLIAM C, SSGT, 6661200, OH , 25-Apr-45, F 6 87, ML. A sharp eyed member, Daniel MacRaild, who is tracking Ohio men of the 503d for a book, has cross-referenced our Honor Roll entry with the NARA database and comes up with a Serial Number 15018243 which shows the same name and, to all intents and purposes, appears to be one and the same man. What’s more, the NARA S/N search doesn’t yield any result for the 6661200 number. So, the “thick plottens” as I like to say, because the Aid Station Records of the 503d PRCT from Negros for that day record that a Wilson, William C. , S/Sgt, Serial Number 6661200, died of head wounds. This tallies with the D.O.D. on his grave. So, I’d expect that the S /N on the rear of his headstone should be 6661200 – though I haven’t checked it out. (The S/N is at the base of the headstone's obverse side.) What we have here seems to be two Army Serial Numbers for the same man, or one set of records "in error." One is an informal but contemporaneous transcription of an Aid Station report, and the other is a NARA Archive data base entry. Can anyone explain the discrepancy? I wouldn't have expected that someone could have two Army Serial Numbers.
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