My Dads name was John Edward Witherspoon born in Oklahoma City,OK on may 16 1947
I'm trying to find some information regarding the places and people he served with.
I never had a good relationship with him, my parents divorced when i was 4 and I never saw him much after that. We dint talk much...the vietnam talk was definatly out of the equation.
And of course he died prematurely from a heart attack when I was still young.
I need as a sort of closure to go and visit the places he was, where he risked his life, where his freinds died, where he was forced to become a man.
Unfortunatly this is all the information I can provide, I dont know any of his combat brothers, I dont know where he was stationed.
I would recommend you to begin with contacting NARA, after first reading the info in their below subpage regarding military records. As you are "next of kin", you have a right to retain copys of your fathers military records. What you should ask for, are copys of:
1) Your fathers DD-214.
2) Your fathers so called "201-file".
In the above, you will find Everything regarding your fathers service, e-x-c-e-p-t his medical records, which are kept separate. But everything else regarding your fathers military service, will be in the above 2 copys.
