1973 Fire Destroying Military Personnel Records at the NPRC
A few days ago, the VA’s own blog, VAndage Point, published a retrospective article concerning the infamous 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St. Louis. The article can be access at http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/22133/the-nprc-records-fire-of-1973/.
As the article explains, the fire “destroy 80 percent of Army personnel records for soldiers discharged...