We know about 80% of Army records from Nov. 1 1912 to Jan. 1 1960; and 75% of all Air Force records from 25 Sep. 1947 to 1 Jan 1964 were destroyed in the fire of 1973 at the St. Louis National Personnel Records Center. So how can you obtain information on your veteran for those years?
Answer: Morning Reports
With Morning Reports researchers may be able to trace their veteran's service from their starting date to their discharge. Even if your veteran was transferred from one unit to another, which was quite common, that would be noted in the morning reports.
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- The NARA, St Louis, microfilms of Morning Reports from 1944-1946 are being digitized and will be available on line at the National Archive website: archives.govLearn more about Morning Reports from our NARA Expert Lori. If you want to go directly to the part about Morning reports, start at 17:05 - 24:14 minute mark in the podcast.
Read more at National Archives will soon offer more World War II Army records online - Ancestry.com has already uploaded Draft Registration Cards from 1948 - 1959 available online. Thanks to the NARA partnership with ancestry, both grandpa's draft card was among the 10 million. Neither was eligible to serve due to health reasons, but the information on the card has been valuable: Where was he born? Where was he working? Where was he living at the time? I only new about the farm in Buhler, KS. Clearly, Mother did not speand her first 5 years on the farm since they lived in town at least until 1940.. Mother's childhood memories were all about the farm. Now, that was a detail she left out.
Read full announcement: National Archives Expands Joint Digitization Effort with Ancesstry, 15 Jul 2024.
Kathleen Brandt
a3Genealogy
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