Marine Corps · SSN history

455 Diver's Helper, Marine

Appendix B identifies SSN 455 as “Diver's Helper, Marine” in the September 1942 AR 615-26 and supplements column, and suggests SSN 454 as a possible replacement. This was not an automatic conversion: each affected Marine's Qualification Card had to be reviewed against the job specifications before a replacement was assigned.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

  • 454 stated by the source. No directory or archive record matches.

Documented history

Diver's Helper, Marine

June 1945 is the manual's publication date. No effective date is given for the suggested change from SSN 455 to SSN 454.

  • The June 1944 tentative-title and June 1945 present-title entries are blank; the reference to SSN 454 does not establish a fixed successor.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the AR 615-26 column: Diver's Helper, Marine. Suggested conversions/remarks: 454. The table gives no row-level effective date. June 1945 is the manual publication date, not an effective conversion date.

Source documents (1)

Reviewed September 24, 2026 against references 3 and 4.

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