USAAF Individual Deceased Personnel Files

Human resources command? What the goddamned hell is THAT?

(cunning bump!!)

You mean management-speak hasn’t penetrated into deepest Suffolk? 😀
I thought they were ALL at it. What do the UK aremed forces call Personnel these days? I got really peeved when someone in the UK software industry used the phrase “we’ll have to put some more resource on this” to which I replied “you mean people? Which ones?”

Wasn’t it the PBI in World War 1?

Rob / Kansan

I have just recieved three such files, which were ordered nearly a year ago, and I need to pay $30.20 to the US Army Human Resources Command either by a cheque or money order in US Dollars.

My Building Society can’t do either in US Dollars, so can anyone here who has had dealings with the above reccomend the best/cheapest bank etc. to go to where theey can do cheques or money orders in US Dollars?

I hope this isn’t too off topic for ‘Historic’ but the crew did lose their lives in 1944, and I doubt anyone with the relevant experience would see it on ‘GD’.

Cheers

Geoff.

Hi Geoff,

Not in connection with the above, but my family occasionally send money orders from British banks (birthday presents, y’know) in US Dollars. (e.g. my Dad uses his local Natwest) I think all the big clearing banks do it, but it’ll cost you between five or ten quid, I think.

Note. Make sure they write the date in the format 5 October 2005 (ie write the moneth as a word) because as you know the USA reverses the day and month (today it’s 10/4/05 in the USA and 4/10/05 in the UK) and US banks *can* get stroppy about dates they don’t understand – in my experience a bank here (which admittedly is in the boonies) refused to pay in a money order with a date they thought was in the future. Had to turn the accent up full for that one!! 😀

Rob / Kansan

Human resources command? What the goddamned hell is THAT?

(cunning bump!!)