291st Co B Combat Infantry 'Engineers 75th Div

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In fact, this happened a lot.  'high point' men were often transferred out of their original units to a  unit on the way back to the States in order to be sent home.

A number of high point men in the unit I studied had this happen.  At discharge, the men were asked specific information that found its way onto discharge papers, including unit designation.  So, it seems that  some of the men I studied used the most recent unit while most of the men used the unit in which they served the most time.  For my father, he used the 978th because he was sent home directly from that unit.