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Official Military Personnel Records

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Selected Military Personnel Records in ARC

• Sample Case Files of Members, Battle Mountain Sanitarium, 1907 - 1934
• Official Military Personnel Files, 1912 - 1998

For information on other Military Personnel sources at the National Archives, please see:

• Research in Military Records

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• Sample Case Files of Members, Battle Mountain Sanitarium, 1907-1934
  42 multi-page documents have been digitized from this series. These are sample case files for veterans treated at the Battle Mountain Sanitarium in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The case files contain application forms, roster cards, medical treatment reports, ward records, personal property inventories, transfers from other veteran's hospitals, and sometimes correspondence. The service dates of the veterans extend from the Civil War to World War I. These materials are held by  NARA's Rocky Mountain Region (Denver, CO).

  Search Hint: To retrieve the 42 multi-page digitized documents:

  1. Go to http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/.
  2. Press the Yellow search button to go to the Archival Descriptions Search screen.
  3. To search only for archival descriptions that have digital copies, click the Digital Copies search button at the top of the ARC pages.
  4. Enter Battle Mountain Sanitariumin the Keywords box.
  5. Select the limit results radio button for 100.
  6. Press the Go button.
  7. When hits are returned for your search, view the full result of your hit by selecting the Title link.

  From the Collection:

  
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  ARC Identifier: 292649, Title: "Roster card for Jacob Forsyth, 10/12/1923"

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• Official Military Personnel Files, 1912-1998
  93 documents have been digitized from 7 personnel files of the Army, Marine Corps, and Navy. 50 documents are from the personnel files of General Douglas MacArthur, General Benjamin O. Davis, Audie Murphy, and Elvis Presley from the official United States Army Personnel files among the Records of the Army Staff Record Group 319; 24 documents are from the personnel file of Gregory Boyington from the Official Military Personnel Files among the Records of the United States Marine Corps Record Group 127; and 19 documents are from the personnel files of Richard Evelyn Byrd and John F. Kennedy of the Official Military Personnel Files of the Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel Record Group 24. These materials are held by NARA's National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis, MO).
  

  Search Hint: To retrieve the 93 digitized documents:

  1. Go to http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/.
  2. Press the Yellow search button to go to the Archival Descriptions Search screen.
  3. To search only for archival descriptions that have digital copies, click the Digital Copies search button at the top of the ARC pages.
  4. Leave the Keywords box empty.
  5. Select the limit results radio button for 100.
  6. Select the box marked Descriptions of Archival Materials linked to digital copies
  7. Select the Location filter marked NARA's National Personnel Records Center (Military Operations Branch)
  8. Press the Go button.
  9. When hits are returned for your search, view the full result of your hit by selecting the Title link.

  From the Collection:

  
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  ARC Identifier: 299792, Title: "Acknowledgement of service obligation signed by Elvis Presley on March 24, 1958, to indicate that he understands that his total service obligation (both active and reserve) is 6 years, 03/24/1958"

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