Serviceman

Russell C Waters

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Army serial number

20480250

Rank

Sgt (14 October 1943), Sgt (22 October 1943), Sgt (20 January 1944), Sgt (8 February 1944), 2LT (24 May 1944), 2LT (14 June 1944), Sgt (26 July 1944), 2LT (31 July 1944), Sgt (31 July 1944), 1LT (21 August 1944)

Hometown

Tabot SD; TABOR SD; Tabor SD

Also written

Russell Waters

Sources

483bg-record, assoc-roster, morning-report · service record at 483bg.org

Awards

From the general orders indexed by the Army Air Corps Library and Museum.

Morning reports

10 entries, first 14 October 1943, last 31 July 1944; grades seen: 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.

• 1943-10-22 815th: Set reld of atchd to Sn fr Go Hg and asgd to $g special as per MOS at Cp Hq
• 1943-10-14 HQ: Above 6 EX Trfd Gp Hq at 0600
• 1943-10-22 HQ: trfd 815th Sq this Gp and placed on Specl Dy with Hq (929) 37133181 Lofland Burl G. (929) Pvt Asgd and id fr 395th Bomb Gp
• 1944-01-10 815th: Set 37089300 smoot dy to 10 day fur Breuer, Christian J. (683)
• 1944-01-20 815th: Fur to dy ( 10 days )
• 1944-02-08 815th: FLD o & CAPT to OFFICER LT
• 1944-02-08 816th: Sgt520A Trfd fr 815th Bomb Sq this Gp to Gp Hq Duty per MOS H 345
• 1944-05-04 HQ: SET 52 Dy to Hosp 0800 OFFICERS PRESENT AND ABSENT
• 1944-07-26 HQ: Dy to TD 65 days) San Sperito Rest Camp OFFICER FLD 0 $ CAPT IST LT
• 1944-07-31 HQ: TD San Sperito Rest Camp to dy

National Archives pages: roll 453519128 p. 608, roll 453519128 p. 646, roll 453519128 p. 782, roll 461010974 p. 693, roll 461010974 p. 711, roll 463205991 p. 553, roll 463205991 p. 597, roll 474604896 p. 1000, roll 481399312 p. 743, roll 565963497 p. 1946