Posted by:
steve benson
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Date: October 04, 2011 04:56AM
. . . lack such basic information? (Note: While the "ancestry.com" website does have the "typed file card" information to which reference has been made as well as some other data on this Patton individual, there is no date of KIA, or of death of any kind).
Second, since it is "now up on Ancestry," when, exactly, did it go up and who put it up?
Perhaps most importantly, an examination is in order of the following nationally-comprehensive online U.S. military record for "[c]asualties listed represent[ing] only those on active duty in the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, resulting directly from enemy action or from operational activities against the enemy in war zones from December 7, 1941, to the end of the war. Casualties in the United States area or as a result of disease, homicide, or suicide in any location are not included. This is a State summary taken from casualty lists released by the Navy Department, corrected as to the most recent casualty status and recorded residence of next of kin."
Said information is available for direct online examination in:
"State Summary of War Casualties [Utah], U.S. Navy 1946, Compiled July 1946 by Casualty Section, Office of Public Information, Navy Department," under "Killed in Action, Died of Wounds, or Lost Lives as Result of Operational Movements in War Zones," alphabetized by name under "P," in "Dead" section, p. 5, at:
http://archives.utah.gov/research/guides/wwii-navy-war-casualties-utah.pdfSearch result: No name listed for "Arthur Frank Patton" or "Arthur Frank Patten" (Neither is this particular "Patton/Patten" individual listed in the document's section of "Missing in Action or During Operational War Missions").
Edited 15 time(s). Last edit at 10/04/2011 02:55PM by steve benson.