Government Research Resources

The following data has come from various sources including Scott Burris of Army Air Forces and www.b24.net. We hope these references will help you in your research. National Personnel Records Center, Military Personnel Records This is where you obtain Service Records (201 file) located in St. Louis. Note that a fire in 1973 destroyed many…

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ArmyAirForces.com Forum Project

Welcome to the ‘project page’ for saving, and hopefully re-presenting, the entire content of http://forum.armyairforces.com, which was started back in 1998. The Heritage League role The League is generously allowing this project to operate under its non-profit auspices. This does not mean that The Heritage League is promising to do the work—or expend the funds—necessary…

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Military Research by the Heritage League

We, of the Heritage League, are dedicated to the preservation of the military records of our veterans. These documents in of themselves have no real meaning until you can see how one man’s record might connect him to units, awards and decorations. Since the loss of so many veteran’s records in the 1973 Fire at…

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The Mighty D8a Project

Under the direction of the Heritage League of the Second Air Division – USAAF, a database development effort called the “Mighty D8a Project” (D8a is read as Data) is underway. The scope of this project is huge in that missions and personnel information from some forty (40) bomb groups of the Eighth Air Force’s three…

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