A number of those records, supposedly destroyed in that fire, John, were discovered in the 1990's and I may be recalling the decade of the discovery wrong.
I have been recently working on the award of a Bronze Star Medal to a World War II veteran, a recipient of two Purple Hearts and the Combat Infantryman Badge, truly a member of Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation." The Combat Infantryman Badge made this soldier eligible for a Bronze Star that had never been awared. His records were available at the Personnel Center and we are waiting the outcome of that effort.
I'll need to see if Vic would like this to proceed and it may come to no end if we do and his record is lost. If we proceed, I'll report the outcome fully here, if that is acceptable.
I may be judging it wrong but it seems as if a service record would be a nice compliment to this pistol and its capture certificate. It might tell where the service member served and may offer a small guess as to where the pistol was obtained.
At this point, the certificate tells us that Private First Class Fox was a member of Company K, 238th Infantry Regiment. That regiment was part of the 26th Infantry Division, also called the "Yankee Division." It was part of Patton's 3rd Army and was involved in the relief of Bastogne.
But, it's easy to prattle along on material not directly related to the luger pistol, I find. :-))
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