
Chester Nimitz, and Baseball Hall of Famers Ted Williams and Jackie Robinson.

About 25 percent of the holdings in each building are medical records of active duty military personnel, their dependents, and retirees, from military hospitals and clinics since 1943.Īmong the holdings are the World War II Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) of former Presidents George H.W. Each facility holds about 2 million cubic feet of records, nearly all of them personnel-related. Louis, one for former members of the military, and one for former members of the civil service. For more than four decades, they have been stored in two buildings in St. Government maintains the work records of its former employees. But there is just one place that contains personal military information about nearly every American who served in that conflict, as well as those who served at other times during the 20th century: the National Archives and Records Administration's National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. The nation is replete with World War II memorials, in small towns and big cities, including the newest one in our nation's capital.


20th-Century Veterans' Service Records Safe, Secure-and Available
