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Is it true that almost all World War I military records kept at the St. Louis National Personnel Record center were lost in a fire?

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Is it true that almost all World War I military records kept at the St. Louis National Personnel Record center were lost in a fire?

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The 1973 fire destroyed [many but not all] U.S. Army personnel records created from 1912 to 1963, but it did not damage U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps personnel files. See NARA article for details.