All branches. The St. Louis Archives housed the personal files of inidividual soldiers. Some of the same information can be obtained through the Archives at College Park, MD, where they house the records of the various units. If you know the unit, they may be able to find the order that presented an award to a soldier.
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Medical records of dependents were retired to the National Records Holding area Saint Louis. The military medical records went from installation to installation with the soldier, and then would be in the St. Louis National Archives with the personnel records.
The address of the Youth Services Outreach is: 1301 Olive Street, St. Louis, 63103 2325
The records, if they exist, are in the National Archives. See the related link below to connect to the website of the NARA and find information as to how to go about obtaining a copy. The reason there is a question whether the records might still exist is that there was a fire in 1974 at the warehouse in St. Louis (caused by careless smoking) where many service records were stored, which destroyed a goodly percentage of WWII service records, and some from WWI as well. But it doesn't hurt to ask, and I understand they are "reconstructing" records these days if someone asks. Also, if they were lost in the fire, and if your ancestor lived to get home, there is a chance that the VA MIGHT have a copy.
The odds are that your father's PERSONNEL records were destroyed in a fire at the Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO, July 1973. But your father's Discharge Documents are invaluable toward accurate, historic research for facts.
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Obtain a copy of your military records from the National Personnel Records Centre in St. Louis. Included will be intake and discharging units.
In 2010, less than 1% of the American population was serving on active-duty in the military, with only 0.0003% of them U.S. Marines. It is likely impossible to determine how many of America's current (as of June 2015) population of 310 million have served in the U.S. military as the 1974 fire in the St Louis records center destroyed much of the WW2-Korea-Vietnam records.
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Free military records can be accessed by most veterans and their nex-of-kin. These informations are held by the National Archives in St Louis, Missouri.