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| 14 Aug 2005
Posted on 08/14/2005 8:02:56 AM PDT by hombre_sincero
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To: hombre_sincero
I did this a few months ago and received it within 2 weeks.
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posted on
08/14/2005 9:36:33 AM PDT
by
bfree
(PC is BS)
To: bill1952
My uncle was shot down also, surviving over a year in a POW camp. Try the link below. Perhaps you will find information the way I did for my uncle. There may be other groups with web sites now.
www.303rdbg.com
If you like, send me a Freepmail with info and I will take a quick look for you.
To: hombre_sincero
Had mine recorded at the county courthouse when I got out of the Army. Can always get a notarized copy there if I really need one. So now I have three sources: from storage (forget it; it'd take a major archaeological expedition to dig it out and find it there), from the county courthouse (forget it; it's a major bureaucratic PITA), or from this site (much better, thank you!).
Actually, I think I've only needed to come up with a copy of my DD214 once during the last twenty years (to buy a gun in California, of all things!).
BTW, when I was in the Army, there was an old sergeant in a unit nearby who had served in WWII, was honorably discharged, but who had gotten drafted again during the Korea War because of a selective service snafu. Since he couldn't find his DD214 and thus couldn't prove he had ever served, he was drafted back into the Army to serve in Korea. Supposedly, this was not an uncommon occurrence. This particular fellow ended up making a career of it and served another 20 years.
So it's always good to have access to your DD214!!!
To: PeteB570
No wonder I couldn't find my records. No nothing on me.
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posted on
08/14/2005 11:49:33 AM PDT
by
TAquinas
(Demographics has consequences.)
To: hombre_sincero
Thank you, I need a copy haven't seen it in years.
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posted on
08/14/2005 12:03:15 PM PDT
by
The Mayor
( Pray as if everything depends on God; work as if everything depends on you.)
To: hombre_sincero
I scanned mine and saved it as a jpeg. Most employers accept it if it is sent electronically. (I'm looking for work right now, and have sent many copies this way).
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posted on
08/14/2005 12:21:00 PM PDT
by
wyattearp
(The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
To: hombre_sincero
Boy, I've had to go through the process before and it's a mess. They told me they didn't know if they had the records because thet had a FIRE that destroyed a bunch of records. Incompetent boobs.
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posted on
08/14/2005 12:32:47 PM PDT
by
dljordan
To: LibWhacker
This is so strange.
I remember my Father sitting at dinner saying the same thing. - They tried to draft him during the Korean conflict, but couldn't.
I never knew about such papers when I was a child, but I suppose that is how he proved his service.
He was quite indignant about it, as I remember.
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posted on
08/14/2005 8:05:10 PM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: dljordan
That would have been the fire at the Federal Records repository in St. Louis in 73?
80% or so of the records stored there are gone.
Maxwell AFB has a LOT of (missing) stuff for airmen, but it takes forever.
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posted on
08/14/2005 8:10:33 PM PDT
by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: hombre_sincero
It’s been 7 years since this was first posted. There must be at least one Freeper out there looking for his DD-214. So, time for this to go...
BTTT
To: hombre_sincero
![](http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0521407.jpg)
USS Tracy (DD-214)
USS Tracy (DD-214/DM-19) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only ship named for Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Franklin Tracy.
Tracy was laid down on 3 April and launched on 13 August 1919 by the William Cramp and Sons' Shipyard, sponsored by Mrs. Frank B. Tracy, and commissioned on 9 March 1920, Commander Lawrence P. Treadwell in command.
Displacement 1,215 Tons, Dimensions, 314' 5" (oa) x 31' 8" x 9' 10" (Max)
Armament 4 x 4"/50, 1 x 3"/23AA, 12 x 21" tt..
Machinery, 26,500 SHP; Geared Turbines, 2 screws
Speed, 35 Knots, Crew 114
Laid down by Cramp, Philadelphia on April 3 1919.
Launched August 12 1919 and Commissioned March 9 1920.
Reclassified High Speed Minesweeper DM-19 June 30 1937.
Decommissioned January 16 1946.
Stricken February 7 1946.
Fate: Sold May 16 1946 and broken up for scrap.
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