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Post by EXO on Jul 28, 2007 9:32:24 GMT 8
Here's another little 503d mystery. In the Abbott/Calhoun/Lindgren list of deaths, www.corregidor.org/taps/control/kia_full_listing.htmStanley KROPIEWNICKI is DOD 4 June 1945, and there's a note added to his listing that his body was not recovered. He's given as being of "A" Company. If the body was never recovered, then he'd be listed on the walls of the missing at the Manila Cemetery, which he is not. These listings are meticulous, based on the official databases, and can be relied upon. That he isn't listed as a MIA surely means his body was (eventually) recovered and that he must have been privately interred. So there's the possibility that the Casualty List of deaths has an error concerning him - and we can't propagate the error. Hence my caution. But wait, there's more. In Periodic Report No 56 (041500 June 45 to 051500 June 1945), there is reference to an "E" Co man, who they are ill mannered and do not name, and who was "one of the KIA yesterday" and whose body was not recovered. Are we dealing with the same man? If it is KROPIEWNICKI, I think we cannot sustain the "body not recovered" entry in the list.
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Post by Jim Mullaney on Jul 28, 2007 9:36:00 GMT 8
According to my records PFC Stanley Kropiewnicki served in "A" Company.
I wrote in my diary the following;
Monday June 4, 1945.
Rain and cold all day - coldest day yet. . "G" Company has one KIA and one WIA even though there is very little advancement up mountain.
"A" Company and "E" Company loose two KIAs.
Never saw such rain before. Nearly impossible to move up trail,...
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As I recall available transport was far down the trail to the nearest muddy road. The wounded, of course, had to be gotten out first.- then the dead. Some of the KIAs were not moved down the mountian for a day or two. Perhaps that is why PFC Kropiewnicki was listed as not recovered.. "A" Company was having the same problems as we were...
Sorry I cant be of much help. Some of the scribbling in my M-105-A Signal Corps Message book is smeared and almost un -readable. At that time I was keeping the diary in the yellow message book...
Jim Mullaney
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