Online World War II Indexes & Records
A Genealogy Guide Online World War II Indexes & Records - USA
- World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File This database contains records of aboout 9 million men and women who enlisted in the United States Army, including the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC, later WAC). Although incomplete, the records contain data for a majority of the enlistments in the US Army during World War II, including each person's serial number. Also available online at Fold3/formerly Footnote (easier to search):
- Ancestry's World War II Records Collection
(requires payment) includes...
- U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945
- World War II & Korean War Veterans Buried Overseas
nearly 160,000 listings -- Title of the records in this database: "Register, World War II Dead Interred in American Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, and World War II and Korea Missing or Lost or Buried at Sea"
- U.S. World War II Navy Muster Rolls, 1938-1949
- U.S. Navy Cruise Books Index, 1918-2009
- U.S. Marine Corps Muster Rolls, 1798-1958
- U.S. World War II Cadet Nursing Corps Card Files, 1942-1948
- American Jewish Historical Society WWII Jewish Servicemen Cards, 1942-1947
- World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946; and WWII Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
- World War II Young American Patriots, 1941-1945
- World War II Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Casualties, 1941-1945
- World War II Japanese-American Internment Camp Documents, 1942-1946
- WWII U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Muster Rolls, 1939-1949
- A subscription also includes the WWII draft cards listed next...
- U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
- World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
(requires payment) from the Fourth Registration, referred to as the "old man's registration," conducted on 27 April 1942 -- for men born on or between 28 April 1877 and 16 February 1897. Digitized WWII fourth registration draft cards are presently available at Ancestry for the following states: Alaska, Arkansas (partial), California (partial), Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana (partial), Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York (partial), Ohio (partial), Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.
- Ancestry also has WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1898-1929 for North Carolina (requires payment)
- World War II Draft Cards - Fourth Registration at FamilySearch
(includes index and digitized images of the draft cards) for Arkansas,
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York City (the Bronx, Kings County/Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and
Staten Island), Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas,
Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
- FamilySearch also has: Georgia World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1942 for individuals born between 1897 and 1929
- World War II Documents and Records at Fold3 (formerly Footnote)
(requires payment) includes...
- Interactive USS Arizona Memorial
- WWII Hero Pages
- WWII Photos
- WWII Documents and Records including: Submarine Patrol Reports, Missing Air Crew Reports, Pearl Harbor Muster Rolls, Naval Press Clippings, Army and Navy JAG Files, and more
- Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 (included with an Ancestry subscription/requires payment); The Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) 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.
- Casualties and MIA...
- Service Personnel Not Recovered Following World War II (MIA) database of missing WWII service members from the Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
- World War II Casualties for Army & Army Air Forces Personnel (scanned documents listed by state)
- World War II Casualties for Navy, Marine Corps, & Coast Guard (scanned documents listed by state)
- Missing Air Crew Reports, WWII
(at Fold3) from NARA Microfilm Publication M1380; includes over 16,000 case files of Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs) and related records of the US Army Air Forces, 1942-1947 (searches are free; requires payment to view the images of the records)
- American Battle Monuments Commission - World War II Section records of casualties buried in American military cemeteries overseas
- Pearl Harbor...
- Pearl Harbor Muster Rolls (at Fold3)
- Pearl Harbor Casualty List
- Pearl Harbor Muster Rolls (at Fold3)
- Access to Archival Databases (AAD) from the US National Archives - included are some WWII related databases such as...
- World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File (see description above)
- World War II Prisoners of War File, ca. 1942 - ca. 1947
- World War II Prisoners of the Japanese - Data File
- Japanese-American Internee File, 1942-1946
- American Merchant Marine Databases includes: Names of WWII Merchant Marine Killed, Names and Fates of WWII Merchant Marine POWs, Names of U.S. Naval Armed Guard Killed and Wounded
Lots more here http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwartwo/index.html
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