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40 years ago today: St. Louis fire destroys millions of military records

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On July 12, 1973 , a massive fire broke out in a St. Louis archive center that housed most of the Army and Air Force Personnel records from World War I through the Korean War. The fire destroyed up to 18 million records of veterans that served from 1912 through 1963. Flames engulfed the 6th [...]

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