Serviceman

Gebhardt

Play his story on the map built from his record

Known so far only from the squadron morning reports: a surname, an Army serial number and the clerk's spelling. A roster name has not yet been matched to him.

Army serial number

6926360

Rank

Col (3 January 1944), Cpl (12 January 1944), Cpl (20 September 1944), Cpl (25 September 1944), Cpl (5 October 1944), Cpl (6 October 1944)

Sources

morning-report

Morning reports

12 entries, first 2 December 1943, last 30 October 1944; grades seen: Col, Cpl. 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.

• 1943-12-02 HQ: Pfc 6 03
• 1944-01-03 HQ: (612) I/Sgt Above 2 EM from dy to fur (9 days)
• 1944-01-03 HQ: (911) Cp15-1 33342 485 Fiel
• 1944-01-12 HQ: / Above 2 EM fr fur to dy (9 days) 1
• 1944-01-12 HQ: Above 2 EM fr fur to dy (9 days)
• 1944-02-28 HQ: John F. Gedney
• 1944-07-01 840th: Set 11 Reduced to gr of Pvt per Par 2, so 120, Hq put; 483d Bomb Gp (H), APO 520.
• 1944-09-20 840th: S/Set Dy to fur (5 days )
• 1944-09-25 840th: Fur to dy.
• 1944-10-05 840th: Above 8 EM prom fr yr of Cpl to Sgt per Par 6, 80 203, Hq 483d Bomb Gp (H), APO 520, dtd I Oct Wise
• 1944-10-06 840th: Prev rptd M/R 5 Oct like prom fr gr of Cd to Set per Par 6, $0 203, Hq 483rd Bomb Gp (H), APO 520, dtd 1 Oct Wis is hereby deleted per Par 7, so 207, Hq 483d Bomb Gp (H), APC 520, dtd
• 1944-10-30 840th: Cpl 5r Dy to hosp (ID), 4th Fld Hosp.

National Archives pages: roll 458053820 p. 247, roll 461010974 p. 853, roll 461010974 p. 855, roll 461010974 p. 876, roll 461012976 p. 741, roll 466076292 p. 285, roll 481433713 p. 483, roll 570165454 p. 2643, roll 570165454 p. 2652, roll 572487240 p. 2515, roll 572487240 p. 2520, roll 572487240 p. 2562