Jeri Steele shared this email with me.
I found "World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air
Forces Personnel from Texas, 1946." on the Nara site by accident. Thought
you might like to have it to put up on your web site.
Go to :
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/nail/search_nail.html
Click on NAIL Standard Search
Enter keywords 'Hunt County'
(Note Smith County makes too many hits and you can't put in Texas as the
index page doesn't include it!)
Click 'Submit Search' (You'll get back the same page saying it has 1 Hit)
Click 'Display Results'
Then click 'Full Results'
Then click 'Links to Digital Copies'
Then scroll down to '70' for Shelby,Sheman,Smith,Somervall, and Starr
counties
With it I was able to find the Coke and Smith County, TX, and Madison
County, GA, World War II Honor List of Dead & Mission Armed Forces.
I followed the same instructions using 'Madison County' and it brought up
the Georgia files.
Also I copied the explanations in the book for abbreviations used. I am
copying these to this email to be used with the list of the people from the
county if you so desire. It is rather lengthy but very informative. No
need for you to copy again. It would be great for these to be in all the
Texas and Georgia Archives - and all the rest of the states.
Mary Love Berryman
File Manager
Coke & Smith Counties, TX
Madison County, GA
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ARMY SERIAL NUMBER: Because of the tremendous number of individuals
who have passed through the Army, serial numbers are give to prevent
confusion. Using the name "William P. Smith" as above as an example,
it was found that at the time of writing there were 84 men of this
name in the Army, and several hundred men with the name "William Smith"
without respect to initials. In attempting to identify one of this
number much confusion could arise, and this is obviated by the use of
a serial number.
Serial numbers are assigned with great care and according to a set
of regulations. Consecutive serial numbers, for example, are not
assigned to twins since this might cause confusions of identity
between two persons with the same birth date and same general physical
characteristics.
General speaking, numbers fall into two broad categories: simple
seven or eight digit numbers (in a few cases fewer digits) for male
enlisted personnel, and prefixed serial numbers for other personnel.
Regular Army enlisted men who entered the service before the outset
of Selective Service bear seven-digit or lower serial numbers, usually
beginning with "6" or "7", as 5974426, Men who enlisted in the Army
of
the United States have eight-digit numbers beginning with "1", the
second digit indicating the Service Command of origin. For example,
the serial number 14066025 would indicate that the man enlisted in
the Army of the United States in the Fourth Service Command
(Southeastern U. S.), Men called into federally recognized national
Guard service received eight-digit numbers beginning with "2", the
third digit representing the service Command: 20107658 indicates a
National Guardsman from New England (First Service command). Men
inducted or enlisted through Selective Service were given eight-digit
numbers beginning with "3" or "4", the second digit representing the
Service Command. the prefixed serial numbers for other than male
enlisted personnel carry a designated letter: 0 - (as in O-1574257)
for male commissioned officers; W - for male Warrant officers; T-for
Flight officers of the Army air Forces; L - for commissioned
officers of the Women's Army Corps; V - for WAC Warrant officers'
A - for WAC enlisted women; R - for Hospital Dietitians, and M -
for Physical Therapy Aides.
GRADE: This is synonymous with the misnomer "rank", and the
abbreviations which may be found in this book are as follows:
GEN,General (four star)
LT G, General (one star)
COL, Colonel
LT C, Lieutenant Colonel
MAJ, Major
CAPT, Captain
1 LT, First Lieutenant;
2 LT, Second Lieutenant
C WO, Chief Warrant Officer
WOJG, Warrant Officer, Junior Grade
FL O, Flight Officer
AV C, Aviation Cadet
M SG, Master Sergeant
1 SG, First Sergeant
T SG, Technical Sergeant
S SG, Staff Sergeant
TEC3, Technician Third Grade
SGT, Sergeant
TEC4, Technician Fourth Grade
CPL, Corporal
TEC5, Technician Fifth Grade
PFC, Private First Class
PVT, Private
TYPE OF CASUALTY: This is indicated by the symbol at the far right
of each each column. An individual who was killed in action, whether
at the front or by enemy action in the rear areas, or if a prisoner
of war, whether by air bombardment of his prison camp or by being shot
while escaping, is designated "KIA." Persons who were wounded and
later died are marked "DOW: -- died of wounds. Those who suffered
fatal battle INJURIES as opposed to WOUNDS, in combat or in combat
areas, and died in a line-of-duty status, are designated "DOI" --died
of injuries. Other line-of-duty deaths, such as from sickness,
homicide, suicide or accidents outside combat areas (including
training and maneuver deaths) are listed "DNB"--died, non-battle.
Individuals who were determined to be dead under Public Law 490 are
designated "FOLD"--finding of death. Missing persons are marked with
the single letter "M".
Only those persons who died in a line-of-duty status are listed
herein. Individuals who were not in line of duty at the time of their
deaths are not so listed. Though personnel not in line of duty are
not listed, failure to find in these lists the name of a person known
to be dead should not be taken as prima-facie evidence that such
person died not in line of duty.