On July 12, 1973, a fire broke out at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri. The fire destroyed service records for veterans of the Air Force and Army. According to VA, 80% of the records for veterans discharged from the Army between November 1, 1912 and January 1, 1960 were destroyed in the fire. | Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick LTD

A 1973 fire destroyed over 22 million military records at The National Personnel Records Center in North County. It is the second largest national archives building in the country. Find out what revolutionary methods scientists are using to recover those records. | via Living St. Louis | Nine PBS

In this episode of theSITREP, Paul and Mike cover how to get military records, from the National Personnel Records Center, and what NPRC is with Scott Levins, Director of NPRC in St. Louis. Listen to the entire audio podcast version here: https://feeds.transistor.fm/thesitrep. | U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs