Online Korean War Indexes & Records A Genealogy Guide

• Korean War Casualties, 1950-1957 (about 143,000 listings; includes fatalities and non-fatal casualties - wounded) requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscripton, which also includes...
  • Korean War Prisoners of War, 1950-1954 (requires payment)
  • World War II and Korean Conflict Veterans Interred Overseas (requires payment) nearly 160,000 listings
  • Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 (requires payment) The BIRLS (Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem) Death File contains birth and death dates, and other information, for more than 14 million veterans who received benefits from the VA while they were alive.

• POW-MIA Database -- Korean War/Vietnam War (at Rootsweb)

• Korean War MIA & Aircraft Loss Databases (Department of Defense)

• National Archives (NARA) Korean War Databases
  • Korean War - Access to Archival Databases (AAD) includes Korean War casualties, wounded, prisoners of war and missing in action
  • Lists of American Casualties from the Korean & Vietnam Wars State-level lists of casualties from the Korean conflict (1951-1957) and from the Vietnam conflict (1956-1998)

• Alabama Soldiers in the Korean War, 1950-1952 (at Ancestry/requires payment)

• Oregon Korean War Deaths

General Databases with Korean War Records

• Veterans Affairs Burial Search for National Cemeteries & Burials with VA Gravemarkers (USA)

• Medals & Awards
  • U.S. Army Medal of Honor Recipients (Civil War to the present)
  • Purple Heart Recipients Database (not complete)

• Virginia Military Dead Database ongoing project

• West Virginia Veterans Memorial Database (for 20th Century Wars)