Military Personnel Records Center

The Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC-MPR) located at 1 Archives Dr in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, is a branch of the National Personnel Records Center and is the repository of over 56 million military personnel records and medical records pertaining to retired, discharged, and deceased veterans of the U.S. armed forces.

The Military Personnel Records Center also stores over thirty-nine million auxiliary military records to include casualty indexes, unit reports, some military pay records, and the medical treatment records of retirees from all services, as well as records for dependents and other persons treated at naval medical facilities.

The earliest records on file at MPRC are enlisted Navy records from 1885, Coast Guard records from 1898, Marine Corps records dating from 1905. Army records date from 1917, and Air Force records from 1947. Older military records, from the Spanish–American War, Civil War, and earlier periods, are maintained at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C..

In May 2011, the Military Personnel Records Center began its relocation to a new modern facility in the CDP of Spanish Lake, Missouri. A complete move from the Overland location to Spanish Lake was concluded fall of 2012.

The Military Personnel Records Center was designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, and opened in 1955 after three years of construction. The facility was designed to replace the much older Army Personnel Records Center which was an active military installation of the United States Army and housed discharged and retired Army records dating back to the Spanish–American War.

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