Think she was at Utah Beach 4 days after D-day name then was Frances Selma Fleisig and was a 2nd Lt in the WAAC
Think she was at Utah Beach 4 days after D-day name then was Frances Selma Fleisig and was a 2nd Lt in the WAAC
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We suggest that you request a copy of your mother Frances Selma Fleisig’s Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). OMPFs and individual medical reports for officers of the U.S. Army who were separated from the service after June 1917 and before 1960 are in the custody of NARA's National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis. In many cases where personnel records were destroyed in the 1973 fire, proof of service can be provided from other records such as morning reports, payrolls, and military orders, and a certificate of military service will be issued. Please complete a GSA Standard Form 180 and mail it to NARA's National Personnel Records Center, (Military Personnel Records), 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138-1002. Veterans and next of kin of deceased veterans also may use eVetRecs to request records. See eVetRecs Help for instructions. If there is any information requested by the form that you do not know, you may omit it or provide estimates (such as for dates), but the more information you provide, the easier it will be to locate the correct file if it survived the fire. For more information see Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF), Archival Records Requests.
Archival OMPFs may also be requested by visiting the Archival Research Room at the National Archives at St. Louis. Please see the linked web pages for more information. Please email stlarr.archives@nara.gov for further assistance prior to making an appointment.
For a complete copy of a personnel file, in Section II, on the line for "Other" (Specify), write "Complete copy of every page of personnel file - not an extract."
Please see NARA’s Veterans’ Service Records webpage for additional information.
After obtaining information about her U.S. military unit designation from his OMPF, we may be able to direct you to additional, potentially relevant resources.
We searched the National Archives Catalog and located 18 series pertaining to the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) generally but may not necessarily include information about your mother. Please contact the National Archives reference units associated with these records specifically if you wish to obtain more information.
If you know or learn which specific unit your mother was attached to, please contact the National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference (RR2R) at archives2reference@nara.gov for more information.
Plus, we located Muster Rolls and Rosters, 11/1/1912 - 12/31/1943 and Morning Reports, ca. 1912 - 1946 for Army units that may include rosters and morning reports of her unit if known or later identified. For more information about these records, please contact the National Archives at St. Louis (RRPO) at stl.archives@nara.gov. Rosters for units serving in World War II from 1944 - 1946 were destroyed in accordance with Army disposition authorities. For more information, please see Access to Morning Reports and Unit Rosters | National Archives.
Please note that the 1916-1939 rosters also are available on FamilySearch.
In addition, we suggest that you search the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) websites for more information about WAACs overall.
We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your family research!
Sincerely,
Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR)
[RR2RR 25-00087-LP]
Thank you for posting your question on History Hub!
We suggest that you request a copy of your mother Frances Selma Fleisig’s Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). OMPFs and individual medical reports for officers of the U.S. Army who were separated from the service after June 1917 and before 1960 are in the custody of NARA's National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis. In many cases where personnel records were destroyed in the 1973 fire, proof of service can be provided from other records such as morning reports, payrolls, and military orders, and a certificate of military service will be issued. Please complete a GSA Standard Form 180 and mail it to NARA's National Personnel Records Center, (Military Personnel Records), 1 Archives Drive, St. Louis, MO 63138-1002. Veterans and next of kin of deceased veterans also may use eVetRecs to request records. See eVetRecs Help for instructions. If there is any information requested by the form that you do not know, you may omit it or provide estimates (such as for dates), but the more information you provide, the easier it will be to locate the correct file if it survived the fire. For more information see Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF), Archival Records Requests.
Archival OMPFs may also be requested by visiting the Archival Research Room at the National Archives at St. Louis. Please see the linked web pages for more information. Please email stlarr.archives@nara.gov for further assistance prior to making an appointment.
For a complete copy of a personnel file, in Section II, on the line for "Other" (Specify), write "Complete copy of every page of personnel file - not an extract."
Please see NARA’s Veterans’ Service Records webpage for additional information.
After obtaining information about her U.S. military unit designation from his OMPF, we may be able to direct you to additional, potentially relevant resources.
We searched the National Archives Catalog and located 18 series pertaining to the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) generally but may not necessarily include information about your mother. Please contact the National Archives reference units associated with these records specifically if you wish to obtain more information.
If you know or learn which specific unit your mother was attached to, please contact the National Archives at College Park - Textual Reference (RR2R) at archives2reference@nara.gov for more information.
Plus, we located Muster Rolls and Rosters, 11/1/1912 - 12/31/1943 and Morning Reports, ca. 1912 - 1946 for Army units that may include rosters and morning reports of her unit if known or later identified. For more information about these records, please contact the National Archives at St. Louis (RRPO) at stl.archives@nara.gov. Rosters for units serving in World War II from 1944 - 1946 were destroyed in accordance with Army disposition authorities. For more information, please see Access to Morning Reports and Unit Rosters | National Archives.
Please note that the 1916-1939 rosters also are available on FamilySearch.
In addition, we suggest that you search the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) websites for more information about WAACs overall.
We hope this is helpful. Best of luck with your family research!
Sincerely,
Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR)
[RR2RR 25-00087-LP]