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Re: Vietnam Collections



Jeannine Swift wrote:

> The
> Marine Corps does not generally turn over their operational records to us
> until 50 years after a particular war has passed.  For example, we have
> only just received WWII records from them.  As we tried to explain in our
> description, we do not have Marine Corps unit records from Vietnam.


The Navy follows a similar procedure with its operational records.  Records
from 1946 to the present are held by the Operational Archives Branch of the
Naval Historical Center.  The Navy's WWII operational records were
transferred to NARA in 1996.

Wade Wyckoff


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Wade Wyckoff
Accessioning and Processing Archivist

Operational Archives Branch
Naval Historical Center
805 Kidder Breese Street SE
Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374
(202) 433-3224
(202) 433-2833 (fax)
http://www.history.navy.mil
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