Berry v. United States

LARAMORE, Judge.

This is a claim by an officer of the U. S. Naval Reserve, promoted following his release from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, for active duty pay and allowances in the grades to which he was promoted from the dates of rank stated in his commission rather than from the dates on which his appointments were made by the President.

Plaintiff was commissioned an Ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve on September 2, 1941, and was immediately called to active duty. Thereafter, he was captured by the Japanese upon the surrender of Corregidor on May 6, 1942, and was liberated by American…