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You might want to try again on those records.
In the 1970's there was a big fire in the records center in Missouri. It was said that many records were destroyed. The fire was on the front page of the Wash. Post and the NY Times. Soon thereafter, 30 years after WWII, a certain judge suddenly added to his biography that he had won 5 medals in WWII.

When I discovered this sudden addition I was suspicious to say the least. Circa 1995 I contacted the Federal Records Center and they told me that they had been able in the years since the fire to reconstruct from other sources many of the records that had been destroyed. So you should not rule out the possibility that those records *NOW* are available even though in the past you were told that they had been destroyed. [Incidentally I got a letter from the Records Center that he never won the medals.]