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In 1973 The National Personnel Records Center had a major fire that burned Army and Airforce Records.  The fire destroyed approximately 16-18 million Official Military Personnel Files. Below is the description by NPRC of the records destroyed by the fire.  Former employees of the NPRC, that were their at the time of the fire, tell us that small numbers of other record from other Branches of the military were also destroyed or suffered water damage as a result of the fire.

Branch	Personnel and Period Affected	Estimated Loss
Army	Personnel discharged November 1, 1912, to January 1, 1960	80%
Air Force	Personnel discharged, September 25, 1947, to January 1, 1964 (with names alphabetically after Hubbard, James E.)	75%

No duplicate copies of the records that were destroyed in the fire were maintained, nor was a microfilm copy ever produced. There were no indexes created prior to the fire. In addition, millions of documents had been lent to the Department of Veterans Affairs before the fire occurred. Therefore, a complete listing of the records that were lost is not available.

If your file burned up in the fire, we should be able to locate other records, such as unit records in order to prove your military service.