Same with mine as to the 1973 fire but they sent what they could..my father’s info: Sgt., Airplane Mechanic 747, 10/16/42 - 12/17/45 10th AF, 311thFG, 528th FS China-Burma-India, Asiatic-Pacific Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and WWII Victory Medal.
Someone on a 10th Air Force forum site a few years back told me my father was pictured in a book, Days of Ching Pao..I bought 4 copies of it for my siblings and myself..
Not sure if link will work, pictures of my father in WWII
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My Uncle Jack and my mother had come to the U.S. as youngsters with my Grandmother. Because the date of their entry into the U.S. had never been officially documented, when he went to enlist, the Army took my Uncle to Niagara Falls, had him cross into Canada, then walk back over the bridge into the U.S. Don't know if it's true, but that's the story we were told as kids. Jack served from 9/22/42 to 6/25/45.
My great-uncle John Holmes, who was from Canada was killed in France in WWI, in September 1918...just before the Armistace. He's buried there. He was with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. I've got a picture of him in uniform on horseback, and a photo of his grave in the British Military Cemetery in France.
My brother was in the Army and served in Vietnam '66-67 with the 25th Infantry Division...Cu Chi. My Dad was born in 1904, too young for WWI, and although he was 37 when we entered WWII, he wasn't medically eligible as he suffered from Chronic Osteomyelitis (infection of the bone). One leg was shorter than the other, and he always had an open wound that drained. Had it from the time he was a kid, but never missed a day of work on the railroad.