| A | B | C | D | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Year | Month | Grandpa | Context | Campaigns |
2 | 1942 | June | June 30: Registered for the draft (Source: Draft Card) | ||
3 | July | ||||
4 | August | ||||
5 | September | September 24: Physical examination at CCNY (VA C-File) September 26 - Date of enlistment at CCNY (VA C-File) | |||
6 | October | ||||
7 | November | ||||
8 | December | ||||
9 | 1943 | January | January 4: AAF Weather School established in Grand Rapids, MI (Source) | ||
10 | February | ||||
11 | March | March 22: Date of entry into active service (DD214) | |||
12 | April | ???? - Dental services in Miami Beach, FL | |||
13 | May | May 8: Private in 901 TG, FLT 13-B in Miami Beach, FL (VA C-File dental record) | May 1: - 21st Weather Squadron activated at Bradley Field, Connecticut (Source: Unit History) - 21st Weather Squadron assigned to Flight Control Command (Source) May 10: 40th Mobile Communications Squadron activated at Bradley Field, Connecticut (Source: Unit History) | ||
14 | June | June 21: 21st Weather Squadron assigned to Weather Wing, Flight Control Command (later Army Air Forces Weather Wing) (Source) | |||
15 | July | July 20: Graduated Army Air Force Weather School in Grand Rapids (Class #43-23). Assigned to 4th Weather Squadron at Barksdale Field, LA (Morning Reports for January 1940 - July 1943/ Roll 157 (1 of 4) - Pg 568) | July 10-17: 21st Weather Squadron headquarters located at Camp Kilmer, NJ (Source) July 17: 21st Weather Squadron assigned to Eighth Air Force (Source) July 25: 21st Weather Squadron assigned to VIII Air Support Command (Source) July 28: 21st Weather Squadron headquarters located at Welford Park, England (Source) | ||
16 | August | August 14: Transferred from Barksdale Field, LA to New Orleans AAB (Morning Reports for August 1943: Roll 335 (1 of 3) | August 16: 40th MCS Headquarters moved to Sunninghill Park (Source: Unit History) August 17: Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission | ||
17 | September | September 1: 21st Weather Squadron headquarters located at Sunninghill Park, England (Source) | |||
18 | October | October 20: Duty to furlough for 15 days at New Orleans AAB w/ 4th Weather Squadron (Morning Reports for October 1943/ Roll 470 (3 of 3) - 15) | October 14: Second Schweinfurt raid - AKA Black Thursday October 15: AAF Weather School in Grand Rapids closed (Source) October 16: 21st Weather Squadron assigned to Ninth Air Force (Source) | ||
19 | November | November 1: In New Orleans. Transferred in grade to 3rd Weather Squadron (Morning Reports for November 1943/ Roll 257 (1 of 2) - Pg 676) (1 Nov 43: His squadron, the 4th Weather Squadron (out of Maxwell Field, AL), previously under the command of the 4th Weather Region, Atlanta, GA is transferred to the 3rd Weather Region, San Antonio, TX. This is a bureaucratic move that does not seem to involve him going anywhere.) November 3: Appointed Corporal at New Orleans AAB (Morning Report: November 1, 1943) (4th Weather Squadron?) | |||
20 | December | ||||
21 | 1944 | January | |||
22 | February | February 3: Authorized to wear AAF Technician Badge - Weather Observer (Morning Reports for February 1944: Roll 201 (4 of 4) - 25) February 15: He is attached to the Hq and Hq Detachment, Army Services Forces, Transport Corps at New Orleans AAB, likely for upcoming movement to another location. February 29: Transferred from New Orleans AAB to ORD #3 at Seymour-Johnson Field, NC (as of 25 Feb 44). ORD #3 is Overseas Replacement Depot No. 3. | |||
23 | March | March 1: His higher command (3rd Weather Region, San Antonio, TX) formalizes his new assignment to ORD #3 at Seymour-Johnson Field. March 14: He is released from attachment to unit at ORD #3 at Seymour-Johnson Field, NC for movement to NY Port of Embarkation/Camp Kilmer, NJ. March 17: Transferred from Seymour Johnson Field, NC to Camp Kilmer, NJ. 716th Training Group, Flight B, Section III (Morning Reports for March 1944/ Roll 445 (4 of 4) - 18) (He is attached to the New York Port of Embarkation at Camp Kilmer, NJ pending shipment overseas (likely to Europe). | March 16: On March 16th 1944, Greenham Common's role changed to accommodate troop transport aircraft of the 438th Troop Carrier Group. The group undertook solid training at the base and became fully operational in April that year with the Douglas C-47 Dakota transport aircraft. (Source) | ||
24 | April | April 6: Departure for European Theatre of Operations (DD214) April 15: Arrival in European Theatre of Operations (DD214) April 18: SO#109 Trans reld fr Sq R 17th RCE AVN to HQ 21st Weather Sq (Morning Report) April 23: SO#67 Trans to Detachment ZA (Morning Reports) April 25: Assigned to Headquarters, 21st Weather Squadron per a verbal order from the Commanding Officer on April 24, 1944, and officially joined the unit at 1600 hours (4:00 PM) on April 25, 1944, at APO 696 (likely in England at that time) (Morning Reports) | April 30: 21st Weather Squadron, Detachment ZA at Greenham Common (Source) | ||
25 | May | May 31: 21st Weather Squadron, Detachment ZA at Greenham Common (Source) | |||
26 | June | June 6: Detachment ZA 40th MCS attached to 53rd Troop Carrier Wing (Source) June 17: Detachment ZA (VA C-file Dental Card) | June 6: D-Day Allied invasion of France, a date determined by weather forecast prepared with help of 18th WS and 21st WS personnel in England. On that date, three 21st WS observers (Sergeant Charles J. Staub, Corporal Warren F. Wolf, and Staff Sergeant Robert A. Dodson) parachuted and glided in, with elements of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Division, behind German lines at Normandy in the pre-dawn darkness. Some 20 other 21st WS weathermen, assigned to air support parties with the infantry, waded ashore with the assault troops or landed behind the beaches in gliders. By the close of the Normandy campaign, thirty 21st WS mobile detachments were on the continent and by war’s end; 21st WS became AAF Weather Service’s most decorated unit of WW II. (Source: Air Force Weather: Our Heritage) Detachment YW at Greenham Common? (Source: E-mail from Al Mongeon) | ||
27 | July | July 23: Detachment ZA at Station 486 Greenham Common (Morning Report) July 25: Detachment ZA at Greenham Common (Morning Report) | Northern France Campaign July 25-Sept 14, 1944 | ||
28 | August | ???? - Dental treatment in Greenham Common August 15: Detachment ZA at Station 486 Greenham Common (Morning Report) | |||
29 | September | September 10: HQ preparing for overseas move (Morning Report) September 12: HQ depart Ascot, Sunninghill Berkshire for Far Shore (Morning Report) September 13: At Southhampton Port, boarded LST 75 (Morning Report) September 15: Arrive Utah Beach, Depart for Chantilly (Morning Report) September 16: Arrive Chantilly (Morning Report | September 15: 21st Weather Squadron headquarters located at Chantilly, France (Source) | ||
30 | October | October 12: Detachment ZA at Greenham Common England (Morning Report) | Rhineland Campaign Sept. 15, 1944- March 21, 1945 | ||
31 | November | November 16: Detachment ZA still in Greenham Common England (Morning Report) November 22: Furlough to duty 8 Nov in Greenham (Morning Report) November 28: Duty to Furlough 1 Nov - Det "ZA" Greenham Common, England (Source: Morning Report) November 29: Furlough to Duty 8 Nov. - Det "ZA" Greenham Common, England (Source: Morning Report) | |||
32 | December | ||||
33 | 1945 | January | |||
34 | February | February 10: GO#23 dated 2 Feb 45, Meritorious Service Unit plaque (Morning Report) February 10: Meritorious Unit Citation (Morning Report) | |||
35 | March | March 4: Received tetanus & typhoid vaccines (Source: DD214) March 9: Detachment ZA depart Greenham Common, Arrive Voisenon 16 Feb 45 (Morning Report) March 10: Various HQ and Detachment personnel begin to leave for leave centers for 7 day furloughs (Morning Report) March 26: Received smallpox & typhoid vaccines (Source: DD214) March 28: Detachment ZA at Melun (Morning Report) ???? - Dental treatment in Mileu, France | Central Europe Campaign March 22-May 11, 1945 | ||
36 | April | April 6: Dachau liberated | |||
37 | May | May 8: V-E Day | |||
38 | June | June 6: HQ moved to Schweinfurt then Bad Kissingen (Morning Report) | June 6: 21st Weather Squadron headquarters moved from Chantilly, France to Bad Kissingon, Germany (Source: Unit History) | ||
39 | July | July 1: Transferred from Detachment ZA to Detachment ZQ (Source: Morning Report) July 5: Detachment ZQ in Schweinfurt (Source: Morning Report) July 16: From serving in Detachment ZQ to Detached Service in Seine Base Section, Paris for 60 days. (Source: Morning Report) | |||
40 | August | August 14: 21st Weather Squadron assigned to US Air Forces in Europe (Source) | |||
41 | September | September 2: Received ASR score 62 (Source: DD214) | September 1: Detachment B in Namur (Source: Morning Report) September 2: V-J Day September 5: Detachment ZQ in Schweinfurt (Source: Morning Report) September 10: Detachment ZQ in Schweinfurt (Source: Morning Report) September 14: Detachment ZQ in Schweinfurt (Source: Morning Report) September 17: Detachment B in Namur, Belgium (Source: Morning Report) | ||
42 | October | October 3: Transfer fr ZQ to B (Morning Report) October 15: SO#288 Trans in grade to 40th Mobile Comm Sq while remain on TDY w/present org eff 17 Oct 45 (Morning Report) | |||
43 | November | November 3: - Detachment ZQ in Schweinfurt (Source: Unit History) November 17: 21st Weather Squadron headquarters located at Wiesbaden, Germany (Source) November 25: Detachment C renamed to Base Weather Station Furth, Germany (Source: Morning Report) | |||
44 | December | December 3: Unit released from assignment, fr Bad Kissengen to Calais staging area in Marseille (Morning Report) December 12: Depart via troop ship Mormacport (Morning Report) December 24: Debark at HRPE to CPH VA, unit inactivated (Morning report, DD214) | December 11: 21st Weather Squadron headquarters located at Wiesbaden, Germany (Source: Unit History) | ||
45 | 1946 | January | January 3: Date of separation at Fort Dix (Source: DD214) |