Arthur J. Iacofano WWII Primary Record Search Follow-Up - 28 April 2026

Scope

This follow-up continues HIR-20260423-025 after the 24-27 April NARA AAD, Company B Morning Report, Fort Bliss/Muroc/replacement, and Company H/Camp Carson public NARA passes. It tested whether any remaining public-access lane could now produce a new Arthur-specific primary artifact before the task moves back to human/account/archive request work.

Repository guardrails followed:

  • No 01_people/ record was updated from proposed military evidence.
  • No files in 05_raw/ were edited manually.
  • One new public NARA primary artifact was ingested as a proposed source after the supplemental serial-number/object pass.
  • HIR-20260423-025 remains open because its acceptance condition requires every lane to be fulfilled by a preserved artifact/source record or closed by a documented negative/archive/access response.

Public Searches Run

Broad web searches checked exact and variant identifiers:

  • "35066128"
  • "Arthur J. Iacofano" WWII
  • "Arthur Joe Iacofano"
  • "Iacofano" "35066128"
  • "Iaciofano" "35066128"
  • "Iacofajo"
  • "Arthur Iacofano" "Selective Service"
  • "Arthur Iacofano" "BIRLS"
  • "Arthur Iacofano" "Indiantown Gap"
  • "Iacofano" "175th Infantry"
  • "Arthur Iacofano" newspaper 1943

NARA Catalog proxy searches checked:

  • "Arthur Iacofano"
  • "Arthur J. Iacofano"
  • "Arthur Joe Iacofano"
  • "Iacofajo"
  • "Iaciofano" "35066128"
  • "Iacofano" "Indiantown Gap"
  • "35066128" "Indiantown"
  • "Iacofano" "BIRLS"
  • "Iacofano" "Hospital Admission"

Candidate NARA Catalog results from the Iacofano/Indiantown and 35066128/Indiantown searches were checked against record JSON and extracted text endpoints. An additional serial-number object pass found one new Arthur-specific primary artifact in NARA Army General Orders:

Findings

New Public Primary Artifact Found

The supplemental public NARA object pass located a new Army General Orders image from the Army General Orders series, NAID 483340445, object 483340572. The page places the order under Headquarters, 29th Infantry Division, APO 29, U.S. Army, dated 27 December 1944. Paragraph 3 awards the Expert Infantryman Badge to named enlisted men; Arthur appears as Iacofano, Arthur J., serial number 35066128, grade Pvt, under the Company E heading.

This is useful award/organization evidence, but it does not replace the still needed Selective Service, OMPF, SGO/hospital, discharge, county-recorded discharge, final-pay, or full Morning Report continuity lanes.

The only exact NARA Catalog proxy hit for "Arthur J. Iacofano" remains the already-ingested Camp Haan transfer-order file-unit context, NAID 473867825. No new public Catalog hit surfaced for Arthur's Selective Service card/Form 102, OMPF, SGO hospital-admission card, Indiantown Gap separation record, final-pay voucher, VA/BIRLS locator, or discharge paper.

Candidate Hits Not Separately Ingested

Additional extracted-text hits for serial number 35066128 appeared in large NARA PDF objects under July 1944 Roll 228, May 1944 Roll 367, July 1944 Roll 287, and two Army/Army Air Force roster file units. These were not separately ingested in this pass because they were either OCR-only false/near hits, lacked durable Arthur-specific page context, or appeared to duplicate already-ingested Camp Carson/Company H roster and furlough-correction material in alternate PDF packaging. The exact object IDs remain useful for a later exhaustive NARA artifact-normalization pass, but the durable new source from this pass is the FICHE_1298 General Orders image.

History Hub / 29th Division Clue

A public search result for a NARA History Hub thread titled 175th Uncle MIA June 19, 1944 Company B exposed an Iacofajo | Arthur | J | 35066128 | Pvt line in a Company B/175th context. The direct History Hub URL currently redirects to the general NARA contact page from the agent environment, so this was not captured as a source artifact.

Treat this as clue-only:

  • It is secondary/forum context, not an original record image.
  • It appears to repeat the same Iacofajo/Company B/175th clue already preserved in Tony Iacofano's narrative and in the primary NARA Morning Report source trail.
  • It strengthens the case for the 29th Division Association/member-gated lane, but does not replace the required Morning Report, Form 102, OMPF, SGO, or discharge-paper artifacts.

Current Access Reality

Official reference pages rechecked on 28 April 2026:

  • NARA Selective Service: WWII registrants born 17 February 1897 through 31 July 1927 are in the NARA St. Louis WWII Selective Service holdings. NARA says the complete WWII draft card series is scanned at Ancestry, while SSS Form 1/Form 102 copies can be requested from St. Louis. This remains the top lane for Arthur because his reported birth in 1922 is in scope and Form 102 may explain the 14 June 1943 vs 28 June 1943 date tension.
  • NARA OMPF: archival OMPF requests for pre-1960 separations need name, service number, branch, birth details, and service dates; fire-affected Army records benefit from place of discharge, last unit, and place of entry. Arthur's known package is ready for a complete-copy or fire-reconstructed-file request.
  • NARA Morning Reports: Army Morning Reports through 1968 are archival, but written requests for archival Morning Reports are not accepted; access is via the St. Louis Archival Research Room or an independent researcher. This keeps the remaining full Company B continuity pull as a human/researcher lane.
  • NARA auxiliary records: final pay vouchers and SGO admission records are alternate reconstruction sources after or alongside an OMPF/fire response.
  • Cuyahoga County / Ohio discharge path: recorded discharge papers are non-public for 75 years except through authorized-party or redacted-copy access, so a full county-recorded discharge packet remains a human or authorized-party request.
  • 29th Division Association: the WWII Morning Reports page remains restricted to current dues-paying members, so Association holdings remain a membership/contact lane.
  • Euclid Public Library NewsBank: the Plain Dealer historical archive is available through the library access path, but requires library/card/session access for the search and image capture.

Remaining Action Order

The most practical next moves are still:

  1. Search Ancestry collection 2238 for Arthur's WWII draft card; request SSS Form 1 and SSS Form 102 from NARA St. Louis if the classification ledger is not obtained online.
  2. Ask family for full scans of the WD AGO/discharge pages shown or implied in Tony Iacofano's WWII narrative.
  3. Submit the NARA/NPRC complete archival OMPF request, explicitly asking for every page plus any fire-reconstructed/alternate-source material.
  4. Search account-gated Fold3/Ancestry/library SGO hospital-admission-card collections by serial number 35066128.
  5. Use a St. Louis researcher or 29th Division Association member route for the remaining full Company B/175th Morning Report continuity window.

No canonical person record should be updated from these military sources until the relevant proposed sources are reviewed and accepted by the user.