31st Statistical Control Unit

Unit
media-20855.jpeg UPL 20855 Mel Dahlberg, Paratrooper, US Army. 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In 1943 Mel was in training to be a paratrooper. He landed in Italy near Anzio and also later jumped into France. He was called up to fight during the Battle of the Bulge. After being wounded by a grenade, he worked in the 31st Statistical Control Unit keeping track of the Eighth Air Force in England sorting records and information encoded on cards (with something akin to an early computer). He came home on the Queen Mary.

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Object Number - UPL 20855 - Mel Dahlberg, Paratrooper, US Army. 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment. In 1943 Mel was in training to be a paratrooper. He landed in Italy near...

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Unit stations

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Burtonwood

People

Mel Dahlberg

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 31st Statistical Control Unit
  • Role/Job: 8th Air Force Statistical Control Unit -records. Paratrooper (Italy, So. France, wounded in Battle of the Bulge)

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Sources

Official records shared by Aldon Ferguson of the Burtonwood Association.

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980)

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Object number: UPL 20855 - Mel Dahlberg, Paratrooper, US Army. 517th...