James E. Peppers v. The United States Army and Those Who Hold the Offices of Secretary of the Army and the Adjutant General of the United States Army

BOREMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:

James E. Peppers enlisted in the United States Army and served on active duty from September 7, 1942, until September 18, 1943. He was discharged on the latter date “under other than honorable conditions” because of “traits of character” which rendered his retention in the service “undesirable.” His was the well-known “Section VIII” or “blue” discharge under the then current Army Regulation 615-360. A Board of Officers conducted a hearing and had before it the opinion of Capt. Vincent L. Prankfurth of the Medical Corps, a neu-ropsychiatric consultant, that…