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Ancestry/Genealogy

Sherman A1

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2. Indeed it is.

Reply to kdmorris (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 12, 2013, 05:22 AM

Jul 2013

In some cases they have been able to rebuild the records, but in far too many the records are all but lost.

When I was a teen. The NPRC was along the route to my then girlfriends home and the glow of the fire was visible from her place. At times it looked like a sunrise in the darkness.

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July 12, 1973 Fire destroys the 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center [View all] Sherman A1 Jul 2013 OP

That is just so sad kdmorris Jul 2013 #1

Indeed it is. Sherman A1 Jul 2013 #2

It was terribly sad... pipi_k Jul 2013 #3

I think the records of my grandfather's WWII service were lost in that fire. kestrel91316 Jul 2013 #4