My grandfather's records were in there. We found out when he died.

Through his entire life, he always told us that he was "The company clerk, like Klinger" during his time in WW2. When he died we found his discharge papers, which among other things listed his two medals for valor. As far as we know, they don't give medals for valor for processing paperwork.

Sadly, we will probably never know what he did to earn those medals, as anyone who might have been around then would be nearly 100 years old or more, and as the article says, the records went up in smoke.