Marine Corps · SSN history

943 Photographic Chief

Appendix B identifies SSN 943 as Photographic Chief in the earlier Army and June 1944 tentative-manual columns, with no title listed for June 1945. It suggests SSNs 043 and 152 as alternatives requiring individual qualification review, not an automatic split or conversion.

Codes named in this history

Codes without a directory match

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

Documented history

Photographic Chief

June 1945 is the manual’s publication date. The entry gives no effective date for a conversion or for the end of SSN 943.

  • Appendix B covers specialties deleted for Marine Corps use or fundamentally changed; this entry does not specify which applied to SSN 943.
Source extraction notes

Predecessor title from the June 1944 tentative-manual column: Photographic Chief. Suggested conversions/remarks: 043, 152. 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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