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How do you find an individual service record for navy personnel that served in World War 2?
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∙ 11y ago
There are two good places. First depending on what information you have, you can contact the military personnel records in St Louis. MO. Second, you can contact the National Archives website and there will be a link to get those records.
Navy personnel records from this period were fortunately saved from the '73 fire and are very complete. These are usually packed with information on the service member-duties, stations, and sometimes even a period photograph. Because the records center is deluged with requests they can often take months and months to turn around a request for a service record/personnel file. Your best bet is to Google: "military research service". A private firm will be able to get you the service record within a week or two for about the same price as the records center will charge you.
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You can research a soldier's records by reseaching the records of the unit he served in, if you know the unit. The National Archives(NARA) located in College Park, MD, has records for the units. If you are searching for a General Order(the Army's version of a memo) that issued a soldier his Bronze Star Medal, then you can research these files and possibly locate it.
I collected the entire GO's for my Dad's artillery battalion. These memo's have names of soldiers who earned Good Conduct Medals and Driver's Certificates and the Purple Heart. Then there are other reports, such as Operational Reports, that will give details about the unit on a montly and daily basis which is valuable info.
The NARA library is a very modern facility and is free to use. You can catch a free shuttle bus from the National Archives on the Mall in DC. Then you have to register and watch a video on the rules and regulations and they issue you an ID.
NOTE: No books or folders or pens are allowed in the library. They issue you any paper you need and you can only use a pencil.
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∙ 13y agoFirst try the National Archives. www.nara.gov
There was a fire in 1973 that destroyed many WWI and WWII service records. If the one you want was burned, but the individual lived to get home, there is a CHANCE that the VA may have a copy of the service record.
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