Hi Don, I really appreciate your help! If you could look at the 9th IR I'd be very grateful.
As for the archives, it's like something Kafka-esque:
In order to request a record, you need the service; service number; Social Security Number; branch of service; dates of service; date and place of birth to secure a record. However, if you are not next of kin, the records you can secure only extend to service number; branch of service and dates of service. After going round this loop for a couple of minutes, I found this
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80% of records of army personnel discharged November 1, 1912 to January 1, 1960 were destroyed in the fire of 1973. No duplicate copies of these records were ever maintained, nor were microfilm copies produced. Neither were any indexes created prior to the fire.
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