Archivist Marta O’Neill was standing inside a warehouse-sized storage bay
at the cavernous National Personnel Records Center, just off interstate 270
in north St. Louis County.
Nearly 60 million individual military personnel records are stored at the
site, but this storage bay is unique. It houses only B-files: the 6.5
million records salvaged from the 1973 fire at the center’s old facility on
Page Avenue. That fire destroyed the records of 18 million veterans who
served in World War I, World War II and the Korean War.
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