Sgt Weiser's identification can be stated in one long sentence
at the bottom of the third document:
Report of Death
dated 14 January 1946
His identification took place in the absence of
any physical evidence.
There were no Identification Tags ( ID tags ) found on his remains,
The inability to create a dental chart because of the status of his
remains,
and
The condition of his remains were such
that fingerprints could not be taken.
________________________________________________
Following the
ROSTER OF BURIALS
YOKOHAMA CEMETERY #1
is his
Report of Interment [ Reinterment ]
dated 20 October 1945.
His initial designation as Unknown was changed to
UNKNOWN X-9
at
United States Armed Forces ( USAF ) Cemetery Yokohama #1
_____________________________________
The third document, Report of Death, is dated 14 January 1946.
His status as Missing in Action was changed to
Killed in Action
8 January 1946
_________
Next is
CASE HISTORY OF UNKNOWNS
7 FEBRUARY 1946
from Capt Samuelson's IDPF.
Sgt Weiser's name is not included in the
list of the crew members the top of the page.
However, his name does appear with the
crew members who died at
Nishihara Village.
This paragraph is highlighted with a white asterisk.
As with the previous document, his status as
Missing in Action
would be changed to
Killed in Action
8 January 1946
( Same date as in Report of Death)
_______________________________
Next is a document from Headquarters Eighth Army,
Office of the Quartermaster
dated 24 April 1946.
This requests that records and
the grave marker for Unknown X-9
be corrected to read
WEISER, Charles R.
At the lower left corner, outlined in blue,
is a list of four enclosures.
They are:
A letter either to or from the Americal Division
Two versions of the Report of Interment
and
A sketch of where his remains were recovered.
_______________________________________
The last document on this page is the
Report of Restorage
dated 25 March 1948
Typed in the upper right corner is CH# 045 ( Case History 045 ).
Highlighted are the words:
Identified: Record of Burial obtained by Japanese
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Wes Injerd wrote that the Japanese kept
very good POW records on index cards.
In one of the documents in
Case
History 045
is the sentence :
" the Hachioji police knew that two men
had parachuted in the vicinity of Ongata "
These were Sgt Evans and Sgt Weiser.
My guess is that they removed Sgt Weiser's ID tags
and turned them over to the
Japanese military.
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