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The fire was in 1973 at a National Archive facility.
National Archive fire

I would try this site:

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/s...67_Family_Research_Packet_8.5x11_r22.pdf

It explains that most of the Navy records still exist, those in the Army were the ones that were lost in the fire. I just sent in for my father's WW II navy records. I know that he was on a LSM in the Pacific and that he enlisted as a 17 year old. I would like to know more.

My Dad was a tin can sailor on this tin can, a gunner on a 40mm.

https://destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/ussevans/

One of the best lines in all of literature comes from John Milton, the closing line from Sonnet 19:

They also serve who only stand and wait.

The meaning is different from this application, but those who wore the uniform, regardless of battle experience, if any, still signed up for the possibility of going into harm’s way.

They all deserve the utmost respect.




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My dad was stateside the entire war. First he was on a sub chaser doing convoy escort out of GA and FL. They'd escort a fleet of cargo ships half way across the Atlantic, meet up with a convoy coming this way, and escort them back to FL.
Later he trained for flying blimps, also doing coast patrol, watching for u-boats. He trained in NJ then was sent to GA. Later he was transferred to Tillamook, OR. There's now a naval air museum in the 1 remaining blimp hangar in Tillamook.

Here he is manning a radio on a blimp. He was a chief at this time.


I don't know where this was taken but it's one he was on.