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Branch of Service

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Online Resources

See United States Military Online Genealogy Records for more resources. BIRLS - Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem at US Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA): National Personnel Records Center – index to veterans with files at the VA; includes vital status, service, and beneficiary status Background The Marine Corps was created in 1775. It was part of the Navy Department from 1834 until 1952, when it became a distinct branch of the military. Records of Marine Corps soldiers and officers are available at the National Archives in Record Group 127 for the years 1798 to 1904. Archives and Libraries National Personnel Records Center National Personnel Records Center Official Military Personnel Files Official Military Personnel Files Archival Veteran's Service Records National Archives Marine Corps Records Records of the United States Marine Corps RG 127 Marine Corps Muster Rolls National Archives Catalog Card Lists of Marine Corps War of 1812 Casualties, 1812–1815 NAID 7861697 Carded Medical Records of the Marine Corps, 1821-1884 NAID 655645 Card List of Marine Corps Dead Buried Overseas, 1898 - 1918 NAID 7861708 WWI Official Military Personnel Files, 1905–1998 NAID 299715 U.S. Marine Corps. Personnel Management Division. Official Military Personnel Files, 1905-1997. NAID 299715 Unit Histories - Organization Authority Record U.S. Marine Corps. 1st Marine Division. 2/1/1941-9/1947 U.S. Marine Corps. 1st Marine Division. 9/1947- U.S. Marine Corps. 5th Marine Regiment. 6/8/1917-9/18/1947 U.S. Marine Corps. 5th Marine Regiment. 9/1947-

FamilySearch Catalog

• Muster Rolls of the United States Marine Corps, 1798–1892. National Archives Microfilm Publication T1118] The records are arranged chronologically; and they give name, rank, enlistment date, date of death or discharge, and name of ship or station.
• United States, Marine Corps muster rolls, 1893-1940 T977

FamilySearch Historical Records

• United States, Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937

FamilySearch Digital Library

• The Marine Corps Reserve : a history FamilySearch Digital Library
• Marine Corps Women's Reserve in World War II FamilySearch Digital Library

Marine Divisions

• 1st Marine Division and Its Regiments
• 2d Marine Division and Its Regiments
• 3d Marine Division and Its Regiments
• 4th Marine Division, 1943-1996

Marine Regiments

• 2d Marines
• 4th Marines
• 6th Marines
• 8th Marines
• 9th Marines
• 10th Marines
• 14th Marines
• 25th Marines

Marine Corps Aviation

• Aviation History, 1912-1940
• Marine Corp Aviation History
• Marine Corps Aircraft 1913-1965
• Marine Corps Aviation in World War II a Chronology

World War I

• The United States Marines in the World War
• Officers and Enlisted Who Lost their Lives
• Officers and Enlisted Who Lost their Lives Overseas
• Recruiting Instructions, 1914

World War II

• Gordon L. Rottman.U.S. Marine Corps World War II order of battle:ground and air units in the Pacific War, 1939-1945. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002. FS Library 973 M3rg
• Marine Corps Operations Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal, vol. 1
• Marine Corp Operations, vol. 2
• Marine Corps Operations, vol. 3

For Further Reading

• Ilene Kanfer Murray. Twentieth-Century Navy and Marine Corps Records. NGS News Magazine 31 #4 (October-December 2005): 45-48.
• Notes and Suggestions Officers of the Marine Corps,1900
• United States Marine Corps. Ranks and Grades, 1775-1969

Other Record Types

• Aircraft Accidents
• Awards
• Biographies
• Bounty Land Warrants
• Casualty Records
• Prisoner of War Records
• Soldiers Home Records
• Unit Histories