Certification of Military Service

In 1973, a fire at the National Personal Records Center in St. Louis Missouri destroyed many World War Two service records including apparently Felix A. Cizewski's. For veterans like my father, the Records Center is using alternate record sources to reconstruct certain basic service data which usually verifies military service and provide a Certification of Military Service. This Certification can be used for any purpose for which the original discharge document was used, including the application for veterans benefits.

Veterans, families, and family history researchers not be discouraged by the fire and should go to the National Archives web site for instructions and forms to see if their records were among those that survived the fire or at least obtain the reconstructed Certification of Military Service.

The one I obtain for Felix A. Cizewski is reproduced here:
Certification

Cizewski, Lovetere, Musbach, & Robinson
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