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References
- Sources
- National Personnel Records Center, Instruction Memo 1865.20E, "Service Number Information", 14 April 1988
- Military Personnel Records Center, "Training Guide Concerning Military Service Numbers", 28 June 2009
- Notes
- ↑ "Information releasable under the Freedom of Information Act". National Archives. 23 August 2016.
- ↑ National Personnel Records Center, Military Operations Branch, "Service number index and registry of retired, deceased, and discharged military personnel" (2007)
- ↑ Department of the Air Force, TRF ORDER 1; 26 September 1947
- ↑ "Service number information". National Archives. 15 August 2016.
- ↑ "Navy Fitrep and Eval Writing Guide". Department of the Navy.
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