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Tag: National Personnel Records Center

New Information from a Visit to the Archives

August 25, 2014

I visited the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis on Friday. There wasn’t much to see. The file mostly contained my correspondence from 20 years ago. But there was some new information about Babe’s war injury. … More New Information from a Visit to the Archives

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Hope for Families Seeking Info from the Personnel Records Center

January 31, 2012

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote a story about the renewed efforts, with painstaking work and new technology, to restore some of the records that were burned. … More Hope for Families Seeking Info from the Personnel Records Center

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Letters from an Everyman in WWII Frank D. "Babe" Mauro Born, Oct. 9, 1924 Died, May 4, 1945

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