A good friend called and apparently a museum in the Hill Country (Museum of the Pacific) is planning on doing something about his dad and asked my friend for his dad's military entrance and exit dates. My friend has no idea. All he knows is that his dad served in the Seabees in the South Pacific during WW 2. My friend was on the road when he called and is not real comfortable searching the internet.

I tried looking it up but everything I looked at required one to access the person's service records. Is there any other way to obtain that info quickly and easily?

My friend's dad's name, by the way, was Richard Wolf Giesecke and was from Marble Falls.

Here's his draft registration Hand written on top is his discharge date. Don't see an actual date of entry. I can look more this evening or tomorrow. Camping with the family now and just taking a break from the sun to cruise through TexAgs.

Thanks! Where did you find that? In other words, how does one go about accessing it? Also, I am not seeing his draft or entry date on that card, or am I simply missing it?

I have a subscription to Fold3. That's his draft registration card. For some reason it has his discharge date hand written on it. Not going to have his entry date. I can look more this evening or probably more tomorrow evening and try to dive a bit deeper. If you know which Seabee unit he was in, you might find more info. A lot of the Seabee units have a yearbook type thing online.

Good info. I will try to find out from my friend.

Looks like he was in the 46th Naval Construction Battalion. He is listed on page 124 of the attached pdf document.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/museums/Seabee/Cruisebooks/wwiicruisebooks/ncb-cruisebooks/46%2520%2520NCB%2520%25201942-45.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjnrIPo0J_yAhXRZc0KHdQ4By8QFnoECBQQAg&usg=AOvVaw0Cy4QAwr3zcQdVGo6OAV8M

Or if you don't want to click on that shady looking link, just Google his name with 46th naval Construction Battalion and this yearbook type thing will show up.

Thanks!

By way of thank you to the History Board, one of this guy's g-g-g-uncles was named Julius Giesecke and served as an officer in the Confederate cavalry during the Civil War. He kept a journal in German during the war and it's amazing. The original is in his papers at tu, I think, but copies translated into English may be online.

His journal includes descriptions of the march out to and defeat at Glorieta Pass in New Mexico and the harrowing journey home, his eventual capture by Yanks in LA, his trip via barge as a prisoner to a POW camp in Maine, his participation with other prisoners in overpowering the crew of the barge and running it aground in N. Carolina, his evasion from Union troops and freed black slaves looking for him in the Dismal Swamp, and his journey back home to Texas.

If you can find it, it's a fascinating read.