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527 Heavy Antiaircraft Fire Control NCO

For SSN 527, Heavy Antiaircraft Fire Control NCO in the June 1944 tentative manual, Appendix B suggests reclassification to SSN 596. This double-asterisk recommendation required individual Qualification Card and job-specification review, rather than an automatic conversion or split.

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

Documented history

Heavy Antiaircraft Fire Control NCO

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date; no calendar effective date is given for this reclassification.

  • The single-asterisk suggestions, SSNs 594 and 596, apply to the separate earlier title Antiaircraft Fire Director Operator, not to Heavy Antiaircraft Fire Control NCO.
  • The June 1945 Present Title column is blank for SSN 527.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Heavy Antiaircraft Fire Control NCO. Suggested conversions/remarks, as printed: *594, *596, **596. The double-asterisk suggestions apply to Heavy Antiaircraft Fire Control NCO; the single-asterisk suggestions apply to the separate AR 615-26 title Antiaircraft Fire Director Operator. Only the double-asterisk alternatives are assigned to this event. These are suggested reclassifications subject to individual Qualification Card and job-specification review, not automatic or present-day equivalents. The table gives no row-level calendar effective date. June 1945 is the manual publication date, not an inferred individual conversion date.

Source documents (1)

Reviewed September 24, 2026 against references 3 and 4.

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