Serviceman

William G. Cays

815threturned to dutyEngineer

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Army serial number: 34721394
Rank: T/Sgt (10 May 1944), T/Sgt. (10 May 1944), T/Sgt (13 May 1944)
Sources: macr-crew, morning-report

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

Missions placed on him

mission 15, 10 May 1944 · Wiener Neustadt · Aboard, per the Missing Air Crew Report

A report lists him aboard, or his crew's history in Heroes of the 483rd dates the mission; the book is cited by page and not reproduced. The rest of his squadron's missions in his window are not placed on him by any document.

Aboard a lost aircraft

MACR 4846 · 42-29856 Patches · 10 May 1944 · mission 15, 10 May 1944 · RTD

Morning reports

2 entries, first 10 May 1944, last 13 May 1944; grades seen: 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.

1944-05-10 815th: 01 Donnell (612) S/Sgt 160-2042 Torres (612)
1944-05-13 815th: s/stt

National Archives pages: roll 474637097 p. 791, roll 474637097 p. 795

Statements, mentions and histories

20 more statements from MACR 4846 are on the loss record.

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