thought you might like to know: several years ago the chief archivist of the US Archives told me that at one time in the early 20th century you could take your service records home with you and not return same!
thankfully that was STOPPED!
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That's a bad sort of thing to hear, especially for genealogists. That some service records were missing at the time the microfilm project was begun is sure to make family histories incomplete or inaccurate.