I'm a bit confused since you mention both your dad and grandfather. I'm assumign you're looking for your grandfather's WWII records. Regardless, since he was in the Army Air Corps his records may have been transferred to the Air Force when it became a separate branch of the armed forces. You might start with the Air Force Personnel Center at Randolph AFB TX. http://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/

I'm not absolutely sure the Air Force maintains personnel records from that long ago but I suspect they do. If nothing else, if he received any medals or awards they should have those records. Keep in mind that back then servicemembers had a service number to identify them rather than their social security numbers. It might help expedite things if you have any old papers that might have his service number on it.

Also, the department of Veteran's Affairs may have records of his service.

Good Luck

I have been researching my tree for a few years now. Joined ancestry.com and they have a very extensive amount of resources from census, ship logs, military records and just about everything else you can imagine. they even show you the actual record. nice thing about using them is that they also connect you to other family trees that cross, so you can use and even contact people that have the same family members crossing. you have to pay to join, but I found that it was more than worth it.

I have a leg up on this. My family has a genealogy book that has a great deal of our family history. To be more specific, we have traced our line back to Merriweather Lewis (brother). I remember dad paid someone to have the book updated to include our family.

I asked mom for the necessary info to do a records request. Marines for Granddad and Air force for Dad.

I love doing the genealogy on my family. I have been at it since my mom past away in 1999. I have connected with family I never would have guessed was family and found family that we had lost track of. As of right now my sister and I go to our family genealogy reunions every year so we can up date our info and get new info. There is a couple who has worked on our tree for years and finally put the info into books, right now there are 4 books {4 different lines to my dads side, but all 4 lines join together in several places}. I have found the Dalton Gang in a branch from our line and in Lone's line I can trace it all the way to George Washington's sister who married into his line.

But when you really come down to it we are all related, since the only two people on earth in the beginning was Adam and Eve.

But it is fun to see how far you can make it back to and gathering the info more times than not you can find info on what a person was like, what they did for a living and even if the had any kind of reputation for doing wrong. Love getting the stories about people's life as they were growing up.

Always an adventure
Froggie