Jackie Robinson's Official Military Personnel File
Below is a page from an Army Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) belonging to Jack Roosevelt Robinson, better known as Jackie Robinson. Robinson was the Hall of Fame baseball player whose signing by the Brooklyn Dodgers heralded the end of racial segregation in Major League Baseball. Robinson was inducted into the Army on April 3, 1942. His Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) is considered a Persons of Exceptional Prominence (PEP) file. Persons of Exceptional Prominence (PEP) records consist of military heroes, political leaders, cultural figures, celebrities, and entertainers which are now open to the public.
A page from the Official Military Personnel File of Jackie Robinson. National Archives Identifier: 57308498.
View and download Jackie’s Robinson’s Official Military Personnel File on the National Archives Catalog.
This record is located within Record Group 319: Records of the Army Staff, 1903–2009. Many of the records in this collection have yet to be digitized. We encourage researchers to visit us onsite to explore these records and learn more about the archival collections held in the National Archives at St. Louis.