Access to WWII U.S.N. Service Records: How to Obtain a WWII Navy O.M.P.F. (Official Military Personnel File)
To request a Navy O.M.PF. please visit Golden Arrow’s ordering page here: Request a WWII Navy O.M.P.F. Military Service Record The WWII Navy O.M.P.F. or ‘WWII Navy official military personnel file’ is essential for researching veterans who served in the Navy during WWII. In this post, we will examine why the WWII Navy O.M.P.F. is useful for your research, what kinds of records you can expect to find in your...
How to Obtain a World War II Casualty Service Record (WWII WW2 IDPF)
To request a WWII casualty Service Record I.D.P.F. click here: Request a WWII casualty record I.D.P.F. If you are researching a veteran who became a casualty during WWII then you will need to ensure that you can access the WWII I.D.P.F. (Individual Deceased Personnel File) of your K.I.A. veteran. The WWII I.D.P.F. casualty record is an essential tool for researching K.I.A. veterans because it contains a wealth of valuable...
WWI Casualty Records: The WWI Individual Deceased Personnel File (WWI I.D.P.F.)
To start researching a WWI Casualty Record click here: Request WWI Veteran Burial File Casualty Records When a WWI veteran was killed or died in action during the pre-WWII period from 1915 through 1939, a WWI I.D.P.F. or ‘burial file’ was created. This post will examine how the WWI I.D.P.F. can be useful for research purposes, what kinds of records you will find in your veteran’s file, and also how you can access...
First to Fight: Charles F. Sexton, 35th Fighter Squadron WWII A.A.F.
Today we are sharing the service story of WWII Staff Sergeant Charles Sexton. Like many Army and Air Corps veterans of WWII, Sexton’s military service records were lost in the 1973 fire. Sexton’s family knew very little about his service during WWII and had only his discharge papers and a single letter that Sexton had written during the war. Using archived records, the research specialists at Golden Arrow Research were able to...
Using 20th Century Military Service Personnel Records to Research Your Family History
To get started with your research please visit Golden Arrow Research: Research a Veteran Most of us have relatives who served in the military at some point in the past. For those of us wanting to pursue genealogical research, the military records created during our ancestors’ time in the service can provide a wealth of information. This includes not only documentation of the individual veteran’s military service but also a number...
WWII Era Navy Military Service Records: An Overview
To request your veteran’s Navy service records please visit Golden Arrow Research: Request a WWII Navy Service Record. This post is an introduction which touches briefly on some of the more common elements of WWII Navy Service Records (sometimes referred to as WWII Navy O.M.P.F.’s or official military personnel files). WWII era Navy Service Records are fairly standardized. The record keepers who were charged with...
