Help Me Decipher What Was Written On This Currency... Please Help

There was a Gabriel Santos (Santos G third name down) and a Dante Giusto Falabella (Falabella D G the last name) that served together on the USS Colorado during WWII. The other names I can either not make out or do not show on the Muster Roll for the Colorado.

The names all appear to be Hispanic and are very likely some of the Spanish speaking members of the crew. It may be that the names on the Muster Roll and the names they went by do not match as that is not uncommon among Mexicans in particular.

The Colorado served in the Pacific and certainly crossed the 180th Meridian and the Equator.

I just dug a little deep, the two names on this ship were during some major battles and many many many many people were KIA and this ship also helped in the landing on okinawa, It was a battle ship.

I have well over a hundred short snorter notes. The Navy is the only service that I encountered where names were listed in this manner -- last name followed by initials. It was not universal as I have notes signed by Navy personnel who used their full names in the usual order also.

Can you post a picture of the back?

I don't see these signatures adding much to the value. In fact, they may detract. The signatures are not very clear and hard to decipher. Signatures of high ranking officers, Pearl Harbor survivors, Medal of Honor recipients, KIAs or POWs or celebrities add value. Signatures of lower enlisted, not so much, unless connected to submarine service, UDT teams, or similar specialized service.

There may be a premium if it marked an historic event such as V-J Day, but not for an equator crossing.

Initially Davis, Heindrycks, Santora and Smith were the missing sailors. Their station received a direct hit from the enemy shore emplacements and their bodies were never found. The bodies of Dick, Martinez, Saylor and Slanton were transferred from the USS Colorado to the USS Tryon. The Uss Tryon delivered the bodies to the 4th Marine Division Cemetery on Saipan for burial.

Dick was originally buried in grave #1060 as Pick,HL. A simple spelling error. The body soon became unknown X-39 and is now buried at the Fort McKinley Cemetery, Manila, Philippine Islands, plot H, row 16 grave 141. Unfortunately the dental records do not match leading me to believe his body was mixed up with another from the crew.

Martinez was buried in grave #1055 by name. Because he had nearly perfect teeth, the Army decided there was not enough evidence to support individual identification. The body became unknown X-74 and is buried at the Fort McKinley Cemetery in plot L, row 14, grave 50. The dental records do compare.

Slanton was buried in grave #1067 by name. I can find no valid reason why his identity was changed to unknown X-76. The physical and dental characteristics all compare. He is buried at the Fort McKinley Cemetery in plot G, row 4, grave 33.

The final case is the hardest to explain. It is also the saddest of the four.

The reader should look at the table on the left at the names Sailors and Saylor. Sailors was originally buried in grave #1037 and Saylor was buried in grave #1056. Both were buried by name. There were no problems until the Army reprossessed the bodies. The body in grave #1037 (Sailors) became unknown X-70 while the body in grave #1056 (Saylor) was identified as Sailors and sent home to be buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. In plain English, the Army mixed up the bodies. X-70 is presntly buried in the Fort McKinley Cemetery plot F, row 5 grave 2.

The four cases files are being forwarded to JPAC where nothing will probably be done to correct the situation.

The the one up from last name looks like the name Saylor.... I am probably grasping at straws annoying the members of this site

Abolutely not! I, for one, wouldn't begin to know where to look for all that information.