Often we see clients who have had military records lost and sometimes those records are attributable to the fire in St. Louis, but more often or not, the records do still exist and need to be requested from another location. The following may clear up what was lost in the great fire and what form to submit for the military records request:<\/p>\n
A fire at the NPRC in St. Louis on July 12, 1973, destroyed about 80 percent of the records for Army
\npersonnel discharged between November 1, 1912, and January 1, 1960. About 75 percent of the
\nrecords for Air Force personnel with surnames from “Hubbard” through “Z” discharged between
\nSeptember 25, 1947, and January 1, 1964, were also destroyed.<\/p>\n
What Was Lost:<\/p>\n
Exactly what was lost in the fire is difficult to determine, because there were no indices for the exact Often we see clients who have had military records lost and sometimes those records are attributable to the fire in St. Louis, but more often or not, the records do still exist and need to be requested from another location.…<\/span><\/p>\n
\nrecords involved. The records were merely filed in alphabetical order for the following date groups:
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