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- The Military Engineer
- December, 1943, issue
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- (photographed April 2017)
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- The Military Engineer
- December, 1943, issue
- table of contents
- (photographed April 2017)
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- The Military Engineer
- December, 1943, issue
- page 597; lead article by George F. Dixon, Jr.
- Note the map which includes eastern New Guinea
- where Alton Cardinal was also active
- (photographed April 2017)
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- The Military Engineer
- December, 1943, issue
- page 629
- "Hydrographic Survey for Dock Location"
- submitted by Alton L. Cardinal
- (photographed April 2017)
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- February 21, 1940
- Draft classification notice
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- undated
- Receipt for family allowance application
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- June 1, 1942
- Promotion to Tech 4, Field Artillery
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- July 15, 1942
- Transfer to Fort Belvoir, VA
- from Camp Bowie, TX
- effective July 25, 1942
- (page 2, item 4)
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- July 20, 1942
- Travel orders for July 21-23, 1942
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- November 14, 1942
- Camouflage certificate from Engineer School, Fort Belvoir
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- October 14, 1942
- Authorization for 10 day delay en route
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- October 23, 1942
- Designation as inventorying officer
- Camp Butner, NC
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- November 9-13, 1942
- Clearance to depart Fort Belovoir, VA, for Camp Butner, NC
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- October 31, 1942
- Travel authorization from Camp Butner to Fort Belvoir
- for 2 weeks of camouflage school
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- December 17, 1942
- Certificate of Proficiency as Unit Gas Officer
- from divisional chemical warfare school
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- November 4, 1942
- Quarters assignment
- at Fort Belvoir, VA
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- November 11, 1942
- Termination of assigned quarters
- at Fort Belvoir, VA
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- December 16, 1942
- Dependency benefit discontinuation notice
- (see also document 107)
- Note grade of "Tec 4" and reason of "discharged"
- (see documents 096, also 092 and 093)
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- March 18, 1941, through October 22, 1945
- Immunization Register (including
- typhoid, yellow fever, cholera, and
- plague)
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- May 8, 1942
- Reply to request for transfer
- Canadian-Alaskan Military Highway
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- May 25, 1942
- Request for transfer to the
- Canadian-Alaskan Military Highway
- from field artillery
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- June 1, 1942
- Disapproval of request for transfer
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- June 2, 1942
- Disapproval of request for transfer,
- concurrence by commanding officer
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- October 14, 1942
- Pay and mileage voucher
- to Engineer School at Belvoir, VA
- (see also documents 92 through 96)
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- January 23, 1943
- Request to receive cash pay
- rather than direct deposit
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- August 16, 1943
- Promotion to 1st Lieutenant
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- March 31, 2944
- Assigned to Special Services
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- August 1, 1944
- Shipping ticket, personal equipment
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- February 15, 1945
- Leyte
- Assigned to Soils School for 25 days
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- February 21, 1945
- Promotion to captain
- (see also documents 072 and 082)
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- undated
- Press release from Leyte
- after promotion to captain
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- June 15, 1945
- Missing war bonds
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- September 30, 1945
- Certified free of communicable disease
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- September 28, 1945
- Relieved of duty in preparation
- for return to US
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- March 13, 1945
- Soils School travel orders
- (page 4, item 25)
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- September 22, 1945
- Memorandum: Re-entry into the United States
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- Spetember 29, 1945
- Certificate of non-indebtedness
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- October 29, 1945
- Copy of separation certification
- (no debts or property retained)
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- undated (October 29, 1945)
- Notice of officers arrival Camp McCoy
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- April 11, 1947
- Confirmation of commission at highest rank
- (See document 082)
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- February 10, 1946
- Change of status, change of address
- to draft board in Russellville, AK
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- 25 Ocotber, 1945
- Arrival at recpetion station, Fort McCoy
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- October 1, 1945
- Personnel Records Check List
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- October 3, 1945
- Movement Orders from theater
- to US for separation
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- October 31, 1945
- Leave of absence and travel
- from Fort McCoy
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- February 21, 1945
- Temporary commission as captain
- (see document 072)
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- September 30, 1945
- Officer's Pay Data Card
- back date for March 17, 1944
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- February 10, 1046
- Allotment Discontinuance
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- undated
- Receipt for allotment to purchase war bonds
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- undated, for April 1943
- Authorization of Allotment for War Bonds
- (effectively, payroll deduction)
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- October 14, 1942
- Statement of date when appointed 2nd Lieutenant
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- October 14, 1942
- Temporary appointment as Second Lieutenant
- (See also an earlier scan of this document,
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- October 14, 1942
- Diploma, OCS
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- October 13, 1942
- recorded June 24, 1946
- Honorable discharge (as enlisted person)
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- February 10, 1946
- recorded June 24, 1946
- Certificate of service (as an officer)
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- May 21, 1946
- Military record (as officer)
- photostat as recorded
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- June 27, 1946
- Certification of recording and of the copy
- of the Certificate of Service
- (copy partially visible behind certification)
- (see document 098)
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- undated
- Extract From Service Record
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- April 1, 1942
- Certificate of VA life insurance
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- March 25, 1942
- Application for VA life insurance
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- March 4, 1943
- Letter responding to concerns over deduction
- of life insurance premiums
- (see documents 039, 096, and 092-094)
- Handwritten note about payments for October and November 1942
- (see also document 108)
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- April 4, 1946
- Receipt of insurance payment
- (see document 107 and references)
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- undated
- Information card from the VA
- about National Service Life Insurance
- (see documents 103 and 105)
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- October 16, 1940
- draft registration card
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- undated
- Photograph of Arturo Repolido and Benedicta Repolido
- when Benedicta was 6 years old. No other information.
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- Operations Bulletin
- No. 26 Radial Sounding Method of Dock Location
- with example on reverse of page
- December, 1943
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- Typescript of article submitted to The Military Engineer
- carbon copy of text
- photocopy of Milne Bay map
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- Acceptance letter from The Military Engineer
- December 15, 1943
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- Manuscript letter from Arthur Handel, undated
- mailing envelope
- December 24, 1962, postmark
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- January 29, 1943
- Officer's identification card 386135
- Alton L. Cardinal, O-1104546
- These documents are official correspondence between Alton L. Cardinal
- and the government related to his individual status and assignments.
- Together, they provide a general (and incomplete) outline of his army
- service during World War II.
- (Scanned April, 2017)
- Also included are images of The Military Engineer since his short
- article is directly related to assignments in the Army Corps of
- Engineers.