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Fold3, an American company, generally provides free access for a limited number of days during the year, as an example 2019-2021 for a few days before and including "Memorial Day", a federal holiday in USA, the last Monday of May. (2021 free access for WW1 and WW2 records, and "Military Books" appears to have extended from c am Friday ET (Eastern Time) (being UTC−05:00; UTC = Greenwich Mean Time) to 11.59 pm ET Monday). 2020 free access for British records, including online books due to VE Day 8 May, with probable free dates 4-10 May (Monday-Sunday). However c October 2020 due to website changes, it is not clear whether Military Books are still considered British records.
'''Update'''. Following the 2021 purchase by Ancestry of the pay website Forces War Records, it appears that many/all? of the non-american records from Fold3 also now are available on Forces War Records, probably released late March 2023. From the [https://uk.forceswarrecords.com Home page], scroll to the bottom of the page and select Browse Records. Then scroll down the list of datasets to the required record set, including "Military Books", as available on Fold3, but possibly a smaller database. Forces War Records also includes a free dataset "Historical Documents Library", which however requires registration to view the books etc in it.
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