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You may need some service person to help to decipher the
paper work here Pat....
posted by
Kabu
on June 15, 2013 at 6:42 PM
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This takes me back to my days in Air Force Procurement in a big office in the Army Records Center Building. If I were writing about then, it would be an "E" for Eldred. 
posted by
TAPS.
on June 15, 2013 at 1:57 PM
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Sounds like you've got quite the project
I'm looking forward to hearing more about Henry 
posted by
Mia890
on June 15, 2013 at 9:35 AM
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Pat
What strikes me is that, with the technology available at the time, they needed one soldier doing paperwork for everyone at sea or in the field...
posted by
Nautikos
on June 15, 2013 at 8:51 AM
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Re: Between this and the previous,
He transferred from the SS Lyon to a training post in NY - from there he and others became part of something called Task Force 126 (if I'm remembering the numbers correctly) involved in deconstructing captured V1 Missiles which Hitler's scientists had invented - the very weapons that blitzed London.
posted by
Pat_B
on June 15, 2013 at 8:16 AM
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Between this and the previous,
It does seem to show that Henry did in fact report for duty somewhere. Maybe twice, once in Boston and once in Oran. And he had a month to get there.
posted by
Ciel
on June 15, 2013 at 6:47 AM
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