Talk:Merrill's Marauders/@comment-66.68.116.24-20170703221407/@comment-15278555-20170704135742

First, yes, there was a huge fire in the 1970's at the NPRC that destroyed millions of personnel records. So it's very possible that the records you seek were lost in the fire. It was also very common that events were not recorded. The guys who were fighting the battles and moving around were not always tracked and the events recorded by the rear echelon as well as we would like.Same with the illnesses, those were commonly not reported back then because it could cause them to not be allowed to continue to fight. So sometimes the command or even the individual would keep it to themselves or just put something else like Flu.