Looking at relatives WW2 discharge paperwork Block 6 for organization says 1791st Engineer Service Platoon hoping to get more information on this can't seem to find much other info on the form the addresses listed are for Hawaii

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service outside continental U.S is Asiatic-Pac departed 19Sep44 and arrived 1Oct44 his job was foreman construction 059 he was a master sergeant I am trying to make a shadow box for some one any info would help

Textual Reference Branch, Archives II · Answer

ConerCal01 
 Thank you for posting your request on History Hub! 
 The Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR) has custody of the Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1917- (Record Group 407) and the Records of U.S. Army Operational, Tactical, and Support Organizations (World War II and Thereafter) (Record Group 338). Military unit files among these records consist mostly of historical reports, after action reports, unit journals, and general orders. These records do not include personnel information, nor do we have a name index to these records. 
 We have searched our available finding aids for the relevant series in the abovementioned record groups for records of the 1791 st Engineer Service Platoon, U.S. Army, and located the following: 
 Record Group 407 
 Entry (NM3) 427 
 Box 15741 
 File: ENPL-1791-0.1: History 1 October 1944 &ndash; 20 May 1946 
 You may also wish to review the following U.S. Army engineer unit-related series described in our online catalog: 
 Record Group 498 
 Entry (UD) 484: Engineer Unit Histories, 1942&ndash;1946 
 The series is described in our online catalog here . 
 Record Group 498 
 Entry (UD) 494: Organizational Unit Records, 1943&ndash;1947 
 The series is described in our online catalog here . 
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