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  | COMPANY A PROMOTIONS |  
  |  On November 28, 1942, Company A 
	issued its first Company Order and promoted 10 men to the grade of Private 
	First Class (Pfc) .  This may have been the first instance of enlisted 
	men adding a stripe since the regiment had been activated five weeks 
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  | CO A, 508TH 
	PRCHT. INF. 
	Camp Blanding, Fla.November 28, 1942
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  | Company Order)Number 1     )
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  |        1.  
	Under the provisions of Army regulations 615-5, April15, 1936. the following named Enlisted Men to be promoted to the grade
 of Private First Class.
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  |  | Hart, Floyd G. Floyd, Charles L.
 Eagerton, Haywood
 Bell, Everett W.
 Matthews, Marion E.
 Fontana, Eduardo
 Smith, Roy L.
 Koons, Charles H.
 Cheney, William L.
 Richardson, Carleton
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 |  |   |  |  |  | ARMAN L. MERRIAM 1st Lt. Co A, 508th Prcht Inf.
 COMMANDING
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