Originally Posted by Stevin

Hi Magistr,

Mind you, this form was written up when he enlisted in 1941. So they all came in as PVT and at this point. This was even before Basic Training, they had no idea where they would end up anyway. The " BRANCH: CODE 00 Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA", I come across that one with almost all of them. Don't know why they did that. Lure them with a "promise" to become an officer??? Probably not, but I wonder why I see that on nearly all the forms...

From my own research I have learned that information on this form is often incorrect. Occupation was usually a preset number of occupations that one could choose from which often did not cover the real job. Also the year of birth has been known to be faulty (whose "mistake" that would be remains often a mystery...). And indeed, I have come across a fw instances when the dependency entry was wrong as well.....

As always, nothing is infallible...