Pvt Swartzendruber was transferred from, 82nd Airborne HQ to Company F, 508th PIR on 5 August 1944.

He was listed in Company F Morning Reports as having been wounded in action in Holland on 1 October 1944 and was evacuated to a field hospital.

Harlan was returned to the United States under Evacuation Order Number 104, see image 1 at left.  His name and ASN appears on the 7th line from the bottom on image 2.

 He had been assigned to the Detachment of Patients in Hospital Plant Number 4149, the 188th General Hospital in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.  That installation had just been activated in April. 1944 and consisted of a series of Nissan huts, one of which housing the kitchen appears here.

The hospital ship was the RMS Queen Elizabeth which arrived in New York, NY on 17 September 1944.  As noted in the evacuation order, patients were transferred to a hospital after debarking in the U.S.

Pvt Swartzendruber was transferred to an unknown hospital on 1 October and on 8 October was promoted to Corporal. 

On 25 November 1944, Cpl Swartzendruber was transferred to the Parachute Replacement  Regiment, Parachute  School, Fort Benning, GA.