War Department
US Army Air Forces
SPECIAL ORDERS

NAMES BEGINNING WITH O

Special Orders were created for every personnel action of the War Department. (US Army and US Army Air Forces). Unfortunately, most of the day to day actions were done at an organizational level and those records were only maintained for a short time. However, transfers between corps of the Army, officer appointments, officer promotions, special training, retirements, and other special assignments were done by the War Department. These records were placed in bound volumes and kept in military libraries until later discarded. We have found a number of these that include sets of the years: 1917, 1918 (Nov-Dec), 1921, 1924, 1926, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1938 (Jun-Dec), 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1945, and 1946 (Jan-Jun). These volumes clearly contain some of the information lost in the tragic 1973 fire in the Defense Personnel Records Center.

We have indexed a few thousand of the Air Service, Army Air Corps, Army Air Forces names, but it will be a long time before they are all indexed. We will continue to add more as time permits. Please contact us for additional details.

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NAME	SERIAL NUMBER	ORDER DATE
OAKES, ORVILLE L	O-274959	SEP 1938
OBERRENDER, GRAAF R		DEC 1918
O'BRIEN, FRANK E	O-354568	OCT 1938
O'BRIEN, FRED F		DEC 1918
O'BRIEN, GASTON		NOV 1917
O'BRIEN, JOHN E	O-735100	JAN 1946
O'BRIEN, JOHN J JR		DEC 1917
O'CALLAHAN, FRANK T		NOV 1918
OCKER, WILLIAM C		OCT 1917
OCKER, WILLIAM C		NOV 1917
O'CONNELL, FRANK L		NOV 1917
O'CONNELL, JACK J		JAN 1921
O'CONNELL, JACK J		FEB 1921
O'CONNELL, JOHN J		AUG 1917
O'CONNELL, JOHN J		SEP 1917
O'CONNELL, ROBERT J	O-668749	JAN 1946
O'CONNER, JAMES E		NOV 1918
O'CONNOR, JEREMIAH J		NOV 1918
ODELL, HENRY A		OCT 1917
ODOM, THETUS C		JUN 1938
O'DONNELL, EMMETT JR		AUG 1936
O'DONNELL, EMMETT JR		NOV 1936
O'DONNELL, EMMETT JR		DEC 1936
O'DONNELL, EMMETT JR		AUG 1937
O'DONNELL, EMMETT JR		SEP 1937
O'DONNELL, EMMETT JR		NOV 1937
O'DONNELL, EMMETT JR		DEC 1937
O'DONNELL, EMMETT JR		JUN 1938
OFFERS, MELVILLE	O-23267	MAR 1942
OFFUTT, JARVIS J		NOV 1917
OFFUTT, JARVIS S		DEC 1917
OFSTHUN, SIDNEY A		MAY 1938
OGLESBY, JAMES W JR		DEC 1917
O'HANLY, ROBERT E		SEPT 1921
OHMAN, NILS O		SEP 1938
O'KEEFE, RICHARD J		JUN 1938
OLA, GEORGE J	6848192	SEP 1938
OLDFIELD, CHARLES B		DEC 1921
OLDFIELD, CHARLES B		MAR 1921
OLDFIELD, CHARLES B		APR 1921
OLDFIELD, CHARLES B		SEP 1938
OLDFIELD, LEE		DEC 1917
OLDS, ROBERT		MAY 1938
OLDS, THAYER S		JUN 1938
OLDYS, ROBERT		JUL 1917
OLDYS, ROBERT		SEP 1917
OLDYS, ROBERT		OCT 1917
OLIVE, JAMES F JR		JUN 1938
OLIVE, RYLAND W		NOV 1918
OLIVER, CLARENCE		NOV 1917
OLIVER, HERMAN G		NOV 1918
OLIVER, JOHN R		AUG 1917
OLIVER, WILLIAM P		NOV 1918
OLMSTEAD, CLARENCE M		NOV 1918
OLMSTED, ROBERT S		SEPT 1921
OLMSTED, ROBERT S		APR 1921
OLSEN, EUGENE F		NOV 1917
OLSON, ABRAHAM D	O-319215	OCT 1938
OLSON, JEROME C		AUG 1917
OLSON, NORMAN O		NOV 1918
OLYPHANT, ROBERT M JR		JUL 1917
O'NEILL, ARTHUR J		NOV 1918
O'NEILL, EDWARD		JUNE 1921
O'NEILL, JAMES T	O-708937	JAN 1946
O'NEILL, RAYMOND E		MAR 1921
O'QUINN, CLAUD A	O-359545	SEP 1938
ORBISON, W F		NOV 1917
ORDWAY, LUCIUS P		DEC 1917
ORDWAY, LUCIUS P JR		JUL 1917
ORDWAY, LUCIUS P JR		AUG 1917
ORDWAY, LUCIUS P JR		OCT 1917
ORLADY, HORACE		NOV 1917
O'ROURKE, BERNARD T		NOV 1917
O'ROURKE, BERNARD T		DEC 1917
O'ROURKE, JOHN F		OCT 1917
O'ROURKE, JOHN J		AUG 1917
ORTH, ROBERT C		JULY 1938
ORTLOFF, WILLIAM F	O-715304	JAN 1946
ORTMAYER, ANDREW C		AUG 1917
ORTMAYER, ANDREW C		SEP 1917
ORUM, PATRICK C	6826273	AUG 1938
OSBORN, FRANK C		OCT 1917
OSBORN, JOHN W	O-371862	OCT 1938
OSBORN, RALPH A	O-23180	JAN 1946
OSBORN, ROY W		OCT 1938
OSBURN, CHARLEY J	1056833	JULY 1938
OSGOOD, JAMES W		OCT 1917
OSTERLUND, LOYAL Y		NOV 1917
OSTERMAN, FREDERICK J		SEP 1917
O'SULLIVAN, JOHN R		DEC 1918
O'TOOLE, JAMES A		APR 1921
OTT, FREDERICK W		JUN 1938
OTT, LENWOOD H		NOV 1917
OTT, RODERICK N		MAR 1921
OTTO, LEONARD F	O-830519	JAN 1946
OVERACKER, CHARLES B JR		JUN 1938
OVERING, GLENDON P	O-369672	JUN 1938
OVERING, GLENDON P	O-22347	MAR 1942
OVERLEES, MILO H		NOV 1918
OVITT, SPAULDING W		OCT 1917
OVITT, SPAULDING W		NOV 1917
OWEEY, WALTER B		NOV 1918
OWEN, EUGENE M		JUL 1917
OWEN, JESSE D		OCT 1917
OWEN, RICHARD L		DEC 1918
OWENS, RAY L		APR 1921