Your request has been completed

[bigwheelzip]

Received an E-mail response today from the NATIONAL PERSONNEL RECORDS CENTER. After some members here suggested my husband could send for USMC service info on his late uncle who died in service, he made an unsuccessful attempt to get copies of some of his service records.
He reapplied, and today, a couple of years later, got an E-mail with his uncle's entire service record as a PDF attachment. It is so much more info than he asked for, or could possibly have hoped for. From the uncle's parents permission form to join at his 17th birthday, to his commanders condolences to parents and widow, and everything in between, totalling 137 pages.
Hubby and I thank the helpful folks here on the Forum who put him on the path to rediscover his beloved uncle, Godfather, and namesake, gone 62 years now.

Sent from my motorola one 5G using Tapatalk

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

My brother got our great grandfathers service records on the first try. It was almost 225 pages! Of both his Civil war enlistments he being captured at Winchester Verginia in early 63' and Paroled home from POW camp dying of failed kidneys.

It also included pension payment records and my great grand mothers' application for survivor's benefits 4 days after his death in 1912.

They are not very expensive and add so much to your families' heritage!

Ivan

My favorite Uncle was a Marine from 1956 to 1969, Knowing him all my life, I do not want the truth of all his antics to be revealed in front of God and everybody! ITB

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

My wife had an uncle (fluent in German, Russian, Ukranian and French) who was in military intelligence in 1946 in Germany, loved life and was reported as a suicide, his record when reported to the family decades later is very terse and looks nothing like the all the other WWII era records. Like someone made something up one day on a typewriter. After many letter writing campaigns and a parade of congressmen, the death of his last of six siblings who all said he would never take his own life, we finally accepted that we will never know what really happened for sure.

 

[Tom Kent]

Bigwheelzip, I see your uncle was in either the 5th Marines or the 6th Marines by the braid he wears. I started out in the 6th Marines at camp Lejeune.

 

[Rudi]

That's cool! You may be able to get his awards as well.

 

[Golddollar]

I don't know about other states, but in PA at the Common Pleas Court for each county therer are records of discharge papers recorded by veterans. My maternal grandfather was a World War I veteran who served in France, but his records were destroyed in the St. Louis fire. Luckily, Pawpaw had the foresight to record his dischage and service record at the Jefferson County courthouse. I called up there, told them I was looking to get my grandfather's service record so I could join the VFW Auxiliary, and they mailed his record to me. Thanks to the courthouse records I am now a Life Member of the VFW Auxiliary.