The Rest of the Story

This is a collection of military orders from one of my relatives in World War II. He kept them, so he had a copy even though the official storage center had a fire in 1973 that destroyed most WWII records.

To begin chronologically click here.

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Three more sets of orders completed my relative's tour. The third one was discharge from Santa Ana.

23 Sep 1945

 

05 Nov 1945

 

08 Jan 1946

20 September 1945 Assignment relief -- Positioning to Go Home

 My relative and his unit were now relaxing--with the war essentially over, they knew they would be going home soon. Some would keep up with each other, others not so much.

November, 1944, Barrackpore, India

Men affected by this order:

RANK NAME RANK NAME PFC VIOLET A MARCHETTI 1LT HAROLD D SKIPPER PFC ELIZABETH  STEVENS CPT EDMUND  PARKS CPL DANIEL L SCALI MAJ JOSEPH A STRAWN CPL DONALD T LUNDQUIST CPT EUGENE C LAMB CPL LOUIS T LUKOWSKI CPT GEORGE W R RIDDELL CPL CLYDE E DOWELL CPT VIRGIL K YENNER SGT BEN E BENACK CPT CLYDE E SHEPHERD PFC NORMAN E WISER 1LT GILMORE  KINNEY COL JOSEPH L WHITNEY MAJ FRANK E NESTER SGT MILTON O BOOTH MAJ HUGH  GRAYSON SGT THOMAS G CARLTON CPT ROBERT B ARCHER COL DOUGLAS  JOHNSTON 1LT RAYMOND W R NEUFFER LTC GERALD A BIXBY 1LT ROSS E WALKER LTC HENRY A CRAWFORD CPT FLOYD M JONES LTC GORDON K MAYHEW CPT KENNETH M JONES LTC CONNELL F ROBINSON 1LT MELVIN E MADDOX MAJ JOHN W R CREIGHTON CPT ROBERT F ELSEY JR MAJ ELMER G CARLSON CPT JOHN E MEIER MAJ BAILOR D MCCORMACK 1LT WILLIAM C RICHARDS CPT MYER M MARCUS 1LT JOHN J GRENAWALT CPT CHARLES S MARX 1LT PAUL F INGRASSIA 1LT PAUL W R FAGER PFC ROBERT F DUBENSKE CPT CARL A GEBUHR CPT JAMES W R GARDNER

A copy of Special Orders #161, Headquarters, Army Air Forces, India Burma Theater, APO 671, dtd 20 Sep 1945 

Frederick Leighton, Harlow Dodge, William Knight, Strother Kay, Karl Schwarz, Whiteman, King, Art Anderson, Graham, Bob Query, Harvey Reiber, A.P.L. Hotte, Ward, Joe Vogt, George Beck, Henri Asta, Carol Edelman, Harry Mochon, Ralph Lampau, F.M. Jones