October 6, 2000
Robert J. Shirkey
Dear Bob,
Hope this finds you doing well.
It looks like I will have to put closure to my request to get a copy of the teletype transferring you to Clark Field.
Enclosed is my FOIA appeal to the Military Personnel Records center in St Louis, Missouri, dated August 22, 2000, and their response indicating your records were among those lost in the fire there July 12, 1973.
I really find it rather odd that many of the records needed on personnel assigned to Roswell in 1947 were amongst those lost in that fire.
We gave it our best shot. If you have any other ideas, please let me know, as I know you would have liked having a copy of those orders transferring you from RAAF to Clark Field.
Sincerely,
Dennis G. Balthaser
