← BACK TO VBC BLOG This Day in History: The National Personnel Records Center Fire in St. Louis 17 million veterans' files burned up in the devastating St. Louis National Archives fire of July 12-16, 1973, the greatest loss of historical records in history. The Military Personnel Records Center after the July
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