When the USAT James Parker steamed out of the Port of New York, life took on a number of dramatic and notable changes.  One of these changes was the fact that the men would be served only two meals a day due to the limited mess facilities available.  The following sitting assignment was published under the title "HEADQUARTERS U.S.A.T. JAMES PARKER" as the ship set sail on its 19th voyage.  The seating arrangement went into effect on 29 December 1943, the first morning at sea.  Breakfast was to be served in two sittings at 0730 and 0815 while dinner was to be served at 1700 and 1745.  The assignments remained in effect during the entire 12-day voyage.
     2nd Lt. George Gurwell, whose name appears on page 2, kept this set of documents and they were provided from his estate to us by his daughter, Sue Talley. . Note that the column titled "FATE" is a handwritten notation made by Mr. Gurwell regarding what became of each of these officers during the Normandy campaign.  

LEGEND:  Star (_*)  denotes men who survived.  Trfd-Transferred, unit not stated. 505-Transferred to 505th PIR, OSS-Transferred to OSS, Hosp-evacuated to hospital, States-(presume evacuated to U.S.), PW-Prisoner of War, MIA-Missing In Action, KIA-Killed In Action, DOW-Died of Wounds, Dash (-) indicated Unknown

NOTE - This list was based on Lt. Gurwell's best knowledge and is not 100% accurate.

View the memorandum in original yellowed form and in color corrected form (files are PDF format).  Note that images for pages 1 and 2 are partially repeated with overlap due to oversized paper