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From: dan hogan <>
Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] Military records
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 13:32:48 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <c77.12181570.338c8926@aol.com>


This is correct, there was a fire at the National
Archives building in St. Louis, MO where most of the
WW2 records were kept. I cannot find my dad's records
on Ancestry nor anywhere else. I did find my
grandfather's WW1 enlistment record on Ancestry quite
easily.

Dan Hogan


--- wrote:

> FYI, a large number of the records from WW2 were
> lost in a fire.
> This might be part of the reason records can't be
> found on Ancestry.
> Last year I requested my father's records and the
> gov't reconstructed minimal
> information. No actual records were available for
> the years my father was
> in the army. I gather a large number of WW2
> records were lost. all I got
> was an affidavit that he had served.
> Erica

Dan Hogan


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