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Looking for any information available on CASU 31 in PONAM. I know the unit was mostly stationed in HILO, but my interest is specifically in the people who served in the PONAM detachment.

In response to Mr. Allen: From my grandfather’s fitness evals (Walter J. Smith), he was at CASU 31 starting some time before November of 1943 and is there through May of 1944. He was an Ensign {A-V(S)} listed as the Assistant Engineering Officer. There are references to him working in the...

Still on the hunt... Moved and didn't to look for a while. I found a reunion group for CASU 31, but it turned out I was to late. The organizor had passed away. I felt pretty bad about calling the widow. Always on the look out though for new sources of information. I have all of the Aircraft...

Someone from this forum pointed me in the right direction for finding more info on CASU 31 and I wanted to pass the information back in case someone else comes looking for CASU 31. Although CASU 31 was home based in HILO, it also had a presence Ponam in the South Pacific near the Bismarck Sea...

So I finally got the paperwork and it turns out I was totally wrong about which CASU he was in. Although he did a short period with CASU 1, his main unit was CASU 31, not CASU 33. The records don't say much. We have his evals and transfer dates but not much more. The search for CASU 31 has...

CASU 33 is the big hole in time as far as we can tell. We know he was in the South Pacific. I found one person from CASU 1 that says that was out of scope for CASU 1. My guess is that CASU 33 had a section that was in the South Pacific, but I cant really prove it. References to the CASU 33 unit...

So we got the response back from the SF180. Most of what we got back was from the reserves after he got out. Almost nothing from World War II from what I am told. I am waiting to see the file (being shipped to me from Detroit). I guess we got some evals, but not much more from his active service...

Nothing left to do I guess but wait for the records. They tell me it can take six months or longer. I wish I had started this search a long time ago. I have not been able to find any members of CASU 33 and only one member of CASU 1 (who did not know my grandfather). I am forced to wonder if time...

This person has great pictures from CASU-1. I have not been able to make contact with him yet, but I thought I would post it here in case anyone else went looking for CASU-1 information. Matt Genné's slideshow on Flickr

His name was Walter Junior Smith. He has to be the only Walter Junior Smith in the world. I have not been able to figure out his service ID from the paperwork we have been able to look at. I don't have custody of the paperwork (it is in Michigan - I am in Virginia). I know he enlisted in the...

:?: My grandfather (a Word War II Veteran) passed away without ever speaking of World War II. Out of respect we didn't ask, but we have always wondered about his experience. When he plassed away he left me much of his service insignias and ribbons and we have his records, but his records don't...