National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis, MO)
Archival Research Room
See also our Press Release on the opening.
The Department of Defense and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) signed an agreement on July 8, 2004, to make the Official Military Personnel Files a permanent series of records, transferred to NARA custody 62 years after the service member's separation from the military.
On June 11, 2005, the Archival Programs Division at the National Personnel Records Center opened the following holdings:
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Navy enlisted personnel files for individuals who were separated from the Navy between 1885 and
September 8, 1939.
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Marine Corps enlisted personnel files for individuals who served between 1906 and 1939.
- A selection of approximately 150 records of prominent individuals (Persons of Exceptional Prominence) who have been deceased ten years or more. We will add to this initial transfer of records on a regular basis.
Written requests for records will initially be processed the same as requests for other military records from NPRC. As new reference procedures are developed they will be published on this web page.
See:
"NARA ensures, for the Citizen and the Public Servant, for the President and the Congress and the Courts, ready access to essential evidence."
