ENLISTED RECORD AND REPORT OF SEPARATION
HONORABLE DISCHARGE
Last Name, First Name, Middle Initial: GREEN, LESLIE H. This was typed over and is difficult to read.
ARMY SERIAL NO. XX-XX-XXX
GRADE: CPL 1 JUN 46 [There was a story, either from him or someone else, that his promotion to corporal was revoked. That’s not what this document says.]
ARM OF SERVICE: MD. I do not know what this means.
COMPONENT: AUS [Army of the United States]
ORGANIZATION: EM 1 DET 1976 SCO [IDK what this means]
DATE OF SEPARATION: 28 DEC 46
PLACE OF SEPARATION: SEP CTR FORT DIX NJ
PERMANENT ADDRESS FOR MAILING PURPOSES: 10 TUDOR ST BINGHAMTON NY [the street address is typed over]
DATE OF BIRTH: 22 DEC 46 [This is, er, incorrect]
PLACE OF BIRTH: BINGHAMTON NY
ADDRESS FROM WHICH EMPLOYMENT WILL BE SOUGHT: SEE 9 (the Tutor St address)
COLOR OF EYES: BRN
COLOR OF HAIR: BLK
WEIGHT: 190 LBS.
NO. DEPENDS: 1 [If he’s not counting himself, I have no idea to whom this might be referring.]
RACE: NEGRO
MARITAL STATUS: SINGLE
U.S. CITIZEN: YES
CIVILIAN OCCUPATION AND NO.: STUDENT X-02
MILITARY HISTORY
DATE OF INDUCTION: 25 MAY 45
DATE OF ENLISTMENT: [blank, as it usually is when someone is drafted]
DATE OF ENTRY INTO SERVICE: 25 MAY 45
PLACE OF ENTRY INTO SERVICE: SYRACUSE NY [place of induction center]
SELECTIVE SERVICE DATA: Registered – YES
LOCAL SS BOARD NO. 453
COUNTY AND STATE: BROOME NY
Home Address at time of entry into Service: SEE 9
Military Occupation and No. SURGICAL TECH 861
Performs a variety of nonprofessional surgical and medical duties in rendering surgical care and treatment to patients.
Prepares operating room and surgical equipment for use, cleaning and washing equipment, and sterilizing linen, equipment, and instruments. Assists operating personnel, preparing patient for operation, assisting in the administration of hypodermic injections and anesthetics, and handing instruments and materials to surgeon.
Assists in transporting patients to and from operating rooms, gives first aid treatment, changes dressings and bandages, treats minor injuries such as cuts, bruises, and boils, and performs other duties in the preoperative and postoperative care and treatment of surgical cases.
Military Qualifications and Date: M 1 RIFLE MKM [marksman]
Battles and Campaigns: NONE
Decorations and Citations: ARMY OF OCCUPATION MEDAL [awarded for military service of thirty or more consecutive days of duty in one of the occupied territories after World War II.; WORLD WAR II VICTORY MEDAL
Wounds Received in Action: NONE
Latest Immunization Dates: Smallpox OCT 46, Typhoid OCT 46, Tetanus OCT 46, Other- none
Service Outside Continental U.S. and Return. Date of Departure [Date ship left loading port] 10 FEB 46. Destination: ETO [European Theater of Operations]. Arrive [Date ship arrived at port of destination] 19 FEB 46. Date of Departure: 22 OCT 46. Destination: USA. Arrive: 10 NOV 46
Total Length of Service, 0 Years, 10 Months, 6 Days for Continental Service. 0 Years, 9 Months, 10 Days for Foreign Service
Highest Grade Held: CPL
Prior Service: NONE
Reason and Authority For Separation: AR 615 – 365 RR 1-1 [Demobilization, is the Army Regulation concerning Army forces reduction after the war.]
Service Schools Attended: NONE
Education (Years): 8 Grammar, 3 1/2 High School, 0 College
PAY DATA.
Longevity For Pay Purposes: 1 year, 7 months, 16 days
Mustering out Pay: $300
Soldiers Deposits: $100
Travel Pay: $12.65 [amount received to get home]
Total Amount, Name of Disbursing Officer: $271.65, JM BARRETTE, LT COL FD
Insurance Data: 130.12 [very difficult to read except for $6.40 monthly premium]
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Remarks Lapel Button Issued. 12 days lost under AM 107 (?), ASR Score 2, SEP 45. [ASR is the number of ‘points’ earned determined when a soldier is shipped home.]
Recommended for further military training. {But this never happened.]
I wanted to get more details about his actions in Europe. However, a fire at the National Archives in 1973 destroyed most of what I sought.
The fact that, when he died in 2000, he had kept a September 1946 Newsweek article that referred to an October 1946 Ebony article about black soldiers in Berlin suggests that he was stationed in that city for a time.
The only other document I could find was his draft card, issued on his 18th birthday. Oddly, the person listed who would always know his address was not his mother but an aunt, Mrs. Mary Smith, whom I do not know, though I suspect she is a relative in his stepfather McKinley’s family.
Less Green would have been 97 tomorrow.