Genealogy Resources
Military Records: World War II
- Gawne, Jonathan. Finding Your Father's War: A Practical
Guide to Researching and Understanding Service in the World War
II US Army. Drexel Hill, PA: Casemate Publishing, 2007. A
how-to-guide for researching the wartime career of an
individual.
- Behind Barbed Wire: Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany.
Des Moines, Iowa: Traces, 2004.
- POW
Research Network Japan. A group of Japanese researchers,
curious about the fates of Allied POWs in Japan's WWII labor
camps, have compiled an online database of more than 3,500
soldiers who died at the camps. Members of the network combined
their own work with long-forgotten records in the National Diet
Library. It has a chart, organized by camp, with names of POWs
who died. You also can see a country-by-country list of those
who are buried in the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Hodogaya,
Yokohama, or listed on the cemetery's cremation memorial.
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Records About Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II,
created, 1988 - 1989, documenting the period 1942 - 1946 -
NARA Record Group 210
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Records of Duty Locations for Naval Intelligence Personnel,
created, 1942 - 1945, documenting the period 1942 - 1945 -
NARA Record Group 38
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Records of World War II Prisoners of War, created, 1942 -
1947, documenting the period 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946 - NARA
Record Group 389
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Wars/ International Relations: World War II. NARA
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World War II Army Enlistment Records, created, 6/1/2002 -
9/30/2002, documenting the period ca. 1938 - 1946 NARA
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World War II Registry. The
Registry combines four distinct databases that can be searched
for names of those whose service and sacrifice helped win the
Second World War. The Registry includes the names of Americans
who are:
- Buried in
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) overseas
military cemeteries.
- Memorialized on ABMC Tablets of the Missing.
- Listed on
official War and Navy Department Killed in Service
rosters now held by the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA).
- Honored
by public enrollment in the Registry of Remembrances.