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Military records relating to George W Bush's National Guard service more than 30 years ago have been accidentally destroyed, the Pentagon has said.
The New York Times quoted an office of the department as saying the records were lost as staff tried to salvage deteriorating microfilm.
Critics say the current US president used family influence to join the National Guard to avoid the draft.
The White House has released some records in a bid to refute the charges.
But there was no mention of the loss of records in February when these pages were issued.
[...] The loss was announced by the Pentagon's Office of Freedom of Information and Security Review in letters to the New York Times and other news organisations, the paper said.
"The Defense Finance and Accounting Service has advised of the inadvertent destruction of microfilm containing certain National Guard payroll records," the letter, signed by the office's chief C Y Talbott, was quoted as saying.
It added that in 1996 and 1997 the microfilm records of "numerous service members" from the first quarter of 1969 and the third quarter of 1972 were ruined. Mr Bush's records from those two periods were among those lost, it said.
Military records relating to George W Bush's National Guard service more than 30 years ago have been accidentally destroyed, the Pentagon has said.
The New York Times quoted an office of the department as saying the records were lost as staff tried to salvage deteriorating microfilm.
Critics say the current US president used family influence to join the National Guard to avoid the draft.
The White House has released some records in a bid to refute the charges.
But there was no mention of the loss of records in February when these pages were issued.
[...] The loss was announced by the Pentagon's Office of Freedom of Information and Security Review in letters to the New York Times and other news organisations, the paper said.
"The Defense Finance and Accounting Service has advised of the inadvertent destruction of microfilm containing certain National Guard payroll records," the letter, signed by the office's chief C Y Talbott, was quoted as saying.
It added that in 1996 and 1997 the microfilm records of "numerous service members" from the first quarter of 1969 and the third quarter of 1972 were ruined. Mr Bush's records from those two periods were among those lost, it said.
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