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Re: 388th Bombardment Group Research
I'm sure you are aware of the National Archives in College Park, MD. You can access Bomb Group records there. I have personally researched my Uncle's missions and demise ( 389th BG at Hethel) and my sister's Father-in-Law ( 2641st Special Group "Carpetbagger" co-pilot at Brindisi) missions. Unfortunately you need to go there on-site, and it takes time. It takes about 1 day just to go through the process to access the records area, and to learn what is available for what you seek. It could take days to find his records.
If the dates of service are known or at least scoped, you can narrow your search, but it still takes hours of sitting and scouring through folders and documents, trying to find crew lists on missions, etc. You also need to handle documents very carefully and can only work with limited sets of folders at a time.
You can purchase a copy card, and make copies of most items. When I was there years ago, many documents were still marked 'Secret or Classified' and one needed to get approval from the staff before copying an item.
There are professionals who offer the service of researching for you. I believe some offer on this site and others you can locate on the Web. Not sure of how they charge.
Tony
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