Ancestry/Genealogy

Sherman A1

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7. The personnel record center is in St. Louis

Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:23 AM

Mar 2012

a division of the National Archives, it is where his records were likely sent for storage, hence the likely place to start looking. If you can find the unit(s) to which he was assigned you can likely do a search on them and find what types of aircraft they operated (might be as easy as Wikipedia in that case).

Was he a bomber pilot (B17's, B24's, B25's, B26's and alike) a fighter pilot (P38's, P40's, P39's, P47's, P51's, etc), transport pilot, recon pilot or such.

Fold3 is an internet based records sight such as Ancestry and such which you can use to for research. Here is a link. http://www.fold3.com/

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So my Pop Pop was with the Army Air Force and Flew during WWII, and I don't recall [View all] LaydeeBug Mar 2012 OP

You can get his service records from NARA kdmorris Mar 2012 #1

Here is a link Sherman A1 Mar 2012 #2

Yep...I was very disappointed pipi_k Mar 2012 #3

I would try Sherman A1 Mar 2012 #4

Was on Ancestry.com pipi_k Mar 2012 #6

You are off to a good start there Sherman A1 Mar 2012 #8

I feel more confused than when I started...I have no idea what an F3 is, or why I should look there LaydeeBug Mar 2012 #5

The personnel record center is in St. Louis Sherman A1 Mar 2012 #7