Only the 5th floor of ARPERCEN on Page Blvd. caught fire. That is the floor that digested WW2 personnel files. From what I was told they just bulldozed the whole floor into waiting dumpsters. However if a person knows of a veteran who served in the military during these periods there is the second basement under the old building and the only way to get to them is with a veteran's name so if the original file was lost the link went with it yet they have similar copies in many unexpected places. Government ease is a whole new language Dan Quoting metronycancestry@aol.com: > Someone distorted this post by saying th building was burnt to the ground. > Which is not true. Some records were destroyed in a fire > and some were reconstructed. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John <john-nospam@austin.rr.com> > > At 02:00 AM 3/17/2017, you wrote: >> I may be wrong, but I have a fuzzy recollection of St. Louis holding >> medical records for those who served in WWII. > > All records on military personnel serving from WWI and later have > been sent to the National Personnel Records Center in St Louis. > (Earlier records are held in the National Archives in Washington DC). See: > > https://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel > > Note the link on that page about the Fire of 1973, which destroyed > 80% of the records for Army soldiers discharged from 1912 through 1960. > > Regards, > John Clavin > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYC-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message