National Personnel Records Center

A fire at the facility burned from July 12–16, 1973, destroying about one-third of its 52 million official military personnel files.

CPR also houses personnel documents that date back to the mid-nineteenth century, although the bulk of the collection covers the period from 1900 to present.

The Civilian Personnel Records Center was located on Winnebago Street in downtown St. Louis, Missouri, and was known as "NPRC-CPR".

[7] The National Personnel Records Center presently hosts fourteen tenant agencies of the United States federal government.

[8] These include the Department of Veterans Affairs and the FBI, as well as liaison offices with all of the U.S. armed forces with the exception of the United States Coast Guard.