See my post # 9 regarding the 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records Center.
I’m fully aware of where and when the fire was. I had to see if my military records were destroyed (not).
My point is that records can be reconstructed through a variety of means. It is through the tenacity of interested parties AND a compassionate government with employees that actually do their jobs that justice is done.
My mother was able, after some effort, to get records of group orders that contained my father’s records of involvement in pacific nuclear tests... records our government just could not, nor would not find - conveniently.
It was that effort that later allowed the cancer and other problems that eventually killed him to be classified 100% disability.
It has nothing to do with a fire. It has to do with honor.