Id card Italian Service Unit

[maraiuta]

Hi everyone, I never write here, but I hope you'll want to help me anyway.
I have the document I attach to you, can you kindly help me understand which department or unit this soldier is in? In which city was the department based?
I know that it belongs to an Italian ISU soldier, but I have no experience of the American "home front" to understand which unit it is.

Thanks for your help.

Maraiuta

[Julia]

Hello. Just wondering if you ended up getting any further details on your post. I have a very similar card and also keen to learn more about it.  

[aznation]

SOURCE:  https://gaic.info/resources/internee-records/#:~:text=An Internment Serial Number (ISN) was issued,Ethnicity of internee%2C in this case German

 

INTERNMENT SERIAL NUMBERS (ISN) —Identifying World War II Internees

When people were arrested and interned, the government agency that did the arrests issued each of them an Internment Serial Number. While the system used for identification was similar, slight variants helped identify the prisoners’ ethnicity and origins. Below are some examples.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) arrested civilian internees from the continental U.S. For example, a number like ISN-18-6-G-19-CI has the following components:

ISN – Internment Serial Number

18 – immigration district from which internee originally came (Seattle in this case)

6 – the number of the state the internee comes from, alphabetically arranged, with Alabama #1, etc.

G – ethnicity of internee, in this case German (J – Japanese I – Italian)

19 – the consecutive internee number assigned by the INS in each district

CI – civilian internee

Internees arrested by the War Department outside of the continental U.S., but in its possessions or territories, had similar serial numbers, except for one additional letter, at the beginning of the second section.
For example: ISN-HG-12-CI

HG – the first letter indicated where the internee came from; the second his ethnicity.
A – Alaska H – Hawaii P – the Philippines

An X was added at the beginning of the second section, when an internee was taken from a foreign country.
For example: ISN-XG-21-CI

X=arrest outside of U.S.

[aznation]

SOURCES:

 

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/italian-service-units-of-boston.htm#:~:text=The ISU units allowed US,Italy or becoming US citizens.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Service_Units#:~:text=The Italian Service Units or,them to the United States.

 

https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2020/07/21/the-italian-service-units-of-world-war-ii-in-boston/#:~:text=The Italian Service Units worked with both,with Italian Service Unit insignia and badges

 

 

[aznation]

SOURCE:  NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) - Morning Reports

 

Noted below you can see Harold W. Whitman's officer service number and his organization at the time, as well as the fact he's being reassigned to the Prisoner of War Camp with what appears to be his primary duty of Commanding Officer.

 

The Quartermaster Service Battalion (ISU) or Italian Service Unit is where Alfredo Palermo was assigned to undoubtedly load and/or unload materials for the U.S. Military and that card was his identification and ISN or Internment Serial Number assigned to him as an Italian POW.

 

[aznation]

I believe I'm getting all this correct but if not someone can chime in.  Thanks...Matt