PROCEEDINGS

	IN THE CASE OF:       

	BOARD DATE:            17 OCTOBER 2002                  
	DOCKET NUMBER:   AR2002075726

	I certify that hereinafter is recorded the true and complete record of the proceedings of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records in the case of the above-named individual.  

	Mr. Carl W. S. Chun		Director	
	Mr. Kenneth H. Aucock		Analyst	

  The following members, a quorum, were present:

	Ms. Joann Langston		Chairperson	
	Ms. Margaret V. Thompson		Member	
	Mr. Richard T. Dunbar		Member	

	The applicant and counsel if any, did not appear before the Board.

	The Board considered the following evidence:

	Exhibit A - Application for correction of military 
                records
	Exhibit B - Military Personnel Records (including
	            advisory opinion, if any)

FINDINGS:

1.  The applicant has exhausted or the Board has waived the requirement for exhaustion of all administrative remedies afforded by existing law or regulations.

2.  The applicant requests that item 36 of his WD AGO Form 53-55 (Enlisted Record and Report of Separation) be corrected to show that he departed the European Theater of Operations on 7 November 1946, vice the 7 November 1945 date shown.  He states that he wants his record corrected.   

3.  The applicant’s WD AGO Form 53-55 shows that he was inducted into the Army on 30 April 1945, departed for the European Theater of Operations on     11 October 1945, arriving on the 21st of that month, and departed for the United States on 7 November 1945.  He was discharged on 20 December 1946.  His WD AGO Form 53-55 shows that he had 1 year, 1 month, and 8 days of foreign service.  His final payment worksheet shows that he arrived in the United States on 18 November 1946, and that he received foreign service pay for the period    1 November 1946 through 18 November 1946.   

CONCLUSIONS:

1.  Item 36 of the applicant’s WD AGO Form 53-55 is obviously incorrect.  The applicant had over one year of foreign service.  He did not depart for the United States on 7 November 1945, 17 days after his arrival.  He left in 1946, not 1945. 

2.  In view of the foregoing, the applicant’s records should be corrected as recommended below.

RECOMMENDATION:

That all of the Department of the Army records related to this case be corrected by showing that the applicant departed the European Theater of Operations for the United States on 7 November 1946, vice the 7 November 1945 date shown. 

BOARD VOTE:  

__JL____  __MVT __  __RTD__  GRANT AS STATED IN RECOMMENDATION

________  ________  ________  GRANT FORMAL HEARING

________  ________  ________  DENY APPLICATION

		____Joann Langston______
		        CHAIRPERSON

INDEX

CASE ID	AR2002075726	
SUFFIX		
RECON	YYYYMMDD	
DATE BOARDED	20021017	
TYPE OF DISCHARGE	(HD, GD, UOTHC, UD, BCD, DD, UNCHAR)	
DATE OF DISCHARGE	YYYYMMDD	
DISCHARGE AUTHORITY	AR . . . . .  	
DISCHARGE REASON		
BOARD DECISION	GRANT	
REVIEW AUTHORITY		
ISSUES         1.	110.00	
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