Posted by bc on February 23, 2021 at 18:11:51 from (24.255.129.137):
In Reply to: WWII oral history posted by Ultradog MN on February 22, 2021 at 03:07:12:
Hello KD. They were open over a year ago and you could search online from what I remember. They have a form that lists all the records they have by units. I will go look now. Well I looked and now I'm not sure what they have available cause they cut staff hours. Look under the research tab. They had a whole bunch of oral histories available. A section on the battle of the bulge and D-Day but I didn't see the unit histories I mentioned.
If you are wanting his personnel records that has to go through the records center. They had a big fire there years ago in St. Louis and a bunch of records were lost. There is a form you can go on as a relative and get them. Not sure of the charge now but may be 25 or 50 bux. Took them a month or two or more back in the day to send them but is probably longer. If his records were burned then you may only get his DD form 214 discharge record which will have a lot of info in it regarding rank, awards, etc. After WWII and when I was in during the Vietnam war, they always told everybody to go file their DD form 214 with their local county register of deeds when they got out. You can probably go get that tomorrow if you are nearby his post war home. They will sharpie over his SS number if on there but probably not for WWII as they were given a serial number.
At some point they will release them for public search for ancestry research purposes like they do the census. My wife does that and I don't remember if they have released the 1940 census records yet or not. I know you can find civil war personnel records on line but they didn't have much back then except for a monthly muster report.
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