Tweets show preservation of burned military records
A preservation expert at the Military Personnel Records archive, in north St. Louis County, is tweeting pictures and details of her job at the National Archives in St Louis, MO.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
I read through this very carefully and admire the work being done to rescue the burnt and water damaged records. The kind of work I'd love to be doing myself. My only thought is that it is only one third of those lost that can be dealt with and the other two thirds are gone forever! A tragic loss.
Colin.
Tragic indeed. Still saddens me, but this was so nice to see. I'm glad that something can be salvaged.
Marion J Chard
Proud Daughter of Walter 'Monday' Poniedzialek
540th Combat Engineer - H&S Company
I am curious what kind of new information can / will pop up. I am happy to see they are able to restore important documents like these.
We are paratroopers. We are supposed to be surrounded.
Captain Winters in Bastogne 1944.
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