[Larry]

Thanks for that

I had forgotten how stupid our rules were and heard a year or two that a very well known aviation researcher had even been told that they could no longer look at aircraft record cards in case the fate of the aircraft somehow revealed personal details about the individuals concerned. The matter was politely settled when said researcher advised that it was he who had rescued the record cards from destruction and sorted them in to order in the first place, no doubt decades before the official was even born!

I only wish that in the UK we had the same determination as the USA has (as official policy) in finding its 'missing' personnel.