Showing posts with label World War II pt 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War II pt 2. Show all posts
With the M.R.S. in the European theatre and France and England - Railway Age vol 117 No.14
Herr Goebbels was wrong: the American railroads did the impossible by carrying fabulous wartime traffic
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Online World War II Indexes & Records A Genealogy Guide Online World War II Indexes & Records - USA
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
Training at Camp Clairborne
Training at Camp Clairborne -thanks Mark Metz
From August 1941 and July 1942 the 711th Railway Operating Battalion with help from the 91st and 93rd Engineer Battalions, constructed a 47.66 mile railroad in Louisiana between the Missouri Pacific Railroad which served Camp Claiborne, LA and the Kansas City Southern Railway that served Camp Polk, LA. Known as the Claiborne – Polk Military Railway (C&P) it became the primary Army owned and operated facility for “technical” training of Military Railway Service (MRS) units. Informally known as the Crime and Punishment, the line afforded the Army total flexibility for tactical training in basic railroad operations.
Ultimately, a total of six Railway Operating Battalions (ROB) and the two Railway Shop Battalions (RSB) would conduct"technical" training on the C&P. Units conducting "technical" training on the C&P included the 711th ROB (Training Battalion), 712th ROB (RDG & CNJ), 714th ROB (Omaha Road)( both "basic & technical), 718th ROB (NYC), 725th ROB (C,RI,&P)(both "basic &"technical"?), and the 752nd ROB (B&M). Also, training, both "basic & technical", on the
C&P were the 760th RSB ( ? ) & 762 RSB (Alco), the MRS’ two diesel shop battalions. Five additional battalions, the 715th ROB (IC), 719th ROB (T&NO), 759th ROB (MP)*, 754th RSB (SP)**, and 755th RSB (N&W) were activated and conducted basic training at Camp Claiborne but transferred to commercial training facilities for technical training.
C&P TECHNICAL TRAINING TIMELINE
711th ROB Arrived August 10, 1041 to help build and operate the C&P
C&P completed and "golden spike" driven July 10, 1942 (July 11per 711th).
Deployed for Iran October 21, 1942
759th ROB Assigned September 1, 1942
Assumed operation of C&P October 21, 1942
Reassigned Camp Jesse Turner, AR, December 10, 1942*
714th ROB Assigned October 31, 1942
Deployed to Alaska RR March 15, 1943
725th ROB Assigned March 24, 1943 to November 29, 1943
712th ROB Assigned December 1, 1943 to March 1944
718th ROB Assigned February 22, 1944 to June 24, 1944
752nd ROB Assigned July 4. 1944 to December 16. 1944
770th ROB Assigned November 28, 1944 to August 7, 1945
714th ROB Assigned May 26, 1945 to January 4, 1946
760th RSB Assigned June 15, 1942 to September 29, 1942
762nd RSB Assigned October 15, 1942 to December 31, 1942
* The 759th "technical" training was split between Camp Claiborne and Camp Jesse Turner, AR.
Today Camp Claiborne is a forest of mature trees interlaced with decaying roads and building foundations. While a short segment of the C&P continues in service at Fort Polk, the balance of the right of way is trackless but with use of topographic map and back roads can be located at many locations. Still inscribed in the Camp Claiborne enginehouse foundation are the initials C, RI, & P RR from the 725th ROB. Otherwise with the exception of a plaque by the still existing main gate, little marks the existence of this once thriving military base and even less of the C&P training railroad.
Transportation Corps : railway-operating battalion Field Manual 55-55
War Department field manual; FM 55-55.
1945
Explains the organization and operation of the railway-operating battalion upon a railway operated by the Military Railway Service. Its purpose is to assist military railway officers in the training and operation of their units and to guide command and staff officers charged with their employment.
read it
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