WD AGO Form 100 for Walker, Harry J., Army Serial Number 36,980,866. Family-held original in the Walker Family Archive.
Transcription
Military occupational assignments include PVT Basic Training INF. (521) and T/SGT Rifle N.C.O. (745). The Army summary describes service as a platoon sergeant in the European Theater of Operations, supervising several squads of men in attacking and holding enemy positions during 1945 and maintaining the M-1 rifle under combat conditions.
Family-held original · Direct evidence
The Separation Qualification Record contains the strongest surviving description of Harry’s Army duties.
WD AGO Form 100. Full family-held original photograph. The physical condition of the record is preserved in the web presentation.Assignment detail. “T/SGT RIFLE N.C.O. (745).”
As a platoon sergeant in the European Theater of Operations, Harry supervised several squads of men in attacking and holding enemy positions during 1945 and maintained the M-1 rifle under combat conditions.
Interpretive transcription of Harry’s WD AGO Form 100
Evidence level: Direct
This language appears in Harry’s own Army qualification record. It supports his combat leadership at platoon level during 1945. It does not, by itself, identify the exact dates or places of every action.
EvidenceDocumentedSupported by identified documentary evidence.
