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WWI Military Service Records: Tracing the Steps of a WWI Veteran

To request your WWI veteran’s military service records click here: Request WWI veteran military service records This article provides an overview of the archival WWI military service records which can be used to research WWI U.S. Army veterans. While it is well known that the 1973 fire destroyed many military service records of WWI army

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Navy Casualty Records in the WWII Navy Official Military Personnel File

To request your veteran’s WWII Navy military service records click here: Request WWII Navy military service records What are WWII Navy Casualty Records? In military terms, a casualty is an illness, injury or death. The decks of ships were a particularly dangerous place even in non-combat situations. During WWII, more than one-hundred thousand Navy veterans

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Dad’s Military Service: 8 Essential WWII Army Records for Archival Research

To request your veteran’s military service records click here: Request WWII Army military service records Researching WWII Army Military Service Records This article explains how to use a wide array of WWII Army military service records, and unit records at the National Archives to document the service history of individual WWII Army soldiers. Because the

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Using WWII Navy Enlistment Records to Research Your Family History

To request the WWII Navy military service records of your sailor click here: Request WWII Navy military service records WWII Navy Enlistment Records This article provides a brief overview of the enlistment documents which are found among the military service records of the WWII Navy official military personnel file (or O.M.P.F.). The WWII Navy enlistment

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Locating Photos of Individual WWII Navy Veterans

To request your WWII Navy veteran’s service records click here: Request WWII Navy Military Service Records WWII Navy Veteran Photographs For those conducting research of an ancestor who was a WWII Navy veteran, finding a period photograph is a top priority. Luckily, almost all of the WWII Navy official military personnel files (or O.M.P.F.) for

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The WWII Navy Brick: Naval Personnel Record Keeping During WWII.

To request your navy veteran’s service records click here: Request a WWII Veteran’s Navy military service records Individual record keeping presented a particular challenge for the Navy in WWII. Operating aboard ships where space was at a premium and tracking navy personnel in constant motion all over the globe required an inventive solution. By WWII,

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WWII Navy Military Service Records (O.M.P.F.’s) at the National Archives

To start researching your WWII Navy Veteran today click here: Request WWII Navy Military Service Records WWII Navy Military Service Records This article provides an overview of the military service records which are maintained in the official military personnel file (O.M.P.F.) of WWII Navy veterans. These WWII era military service records which are maintained at

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