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Japanese-American Internee File, 1942 - 1946

From the National Archives. Personal descriptive data about Japanese-Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Each record represents an individual internee and includes the internee's name, relocation project and assembly center to which assigned, previous address, birthplace of parents, occupation of father, education, foreign residence & more.

Kennethmont Second World War Memorial

Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Les D

From Journal Officiel de la R

Livre Memorial Des Deportes De France

Database of French people sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Natzwiller, Oranienburg Sachsenhausen...)

Military Death Certificates, 1941-1953.

Utah State Archives Series 3769. These are death certificates for United States soldiers killed overseas during World War II and the Korean War whose bodies were sent to Utah for reburial. Even though these certificates were filed long after the date of death, it was necessary by law to obtain a death certificate before burial. They were issued by the Federal Security Agency to be filed at Utah's Bureau of Vital Statistics and they were accompanied by a federal health permit number which allowed shipment and burial in the United States.

Never Forgotten

This is the story of the Japanese prisoner of war camps on the island of Taiwan (Formosa) during the Second World War and of the men who were interned in them.

Pacific Wrecks - Missing In Action (MIA) in the Pacific

At the end of the war, 78,750 Americans were listed as Missing In Action (MIA), plus thousands more counting all Allied nations. Pacific Wrecks maintains profiles on known Pacific Missing In Action (MIA) cases. It includes resolved, pending and known cases awaiting attention. This is an ongoing project, with a goal to one day include all Pacific aircraft losses and MIA cases.

Philippine Army and Guerrilla Records

From the US National Archives & Records Administration.

Polonica In Scotland

A guide to World War Two Polonica including, Memorials, Tableaux, Plaques & other physical manifestations of the Polish presence in Scotland. It also includes Pre-War items as well as information on Post-War Polonica.

Regia Marina Italiana / The Italian Royal Navy in World War Two

Scotland's War Dead | Second World War

To mark the 69th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, BBC Scotland has gathered data on the thousands of Scottish men and women who lost their lives during the Second World War. This data, collected using the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's (CWGC) online search tool, provides details on 21,740 Scots killed between 1939 and 1947.

SJCPL - Service Notes

From the Saint Joseph County Public Library, Indiana. Searchable index to the Service Notes column that ran in the South Bend Tribune from World War II through the Vietnam conflict.

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration - World War II Records

US Submarine Men Lost During WWII

The only compilation of a basic genealogy record, and other data, of each one of the known US Submarine men lost during WWII.

USS Henry R. Mallory

A website dedicated to the men who were killed on February 7, 1943 when the USS Henry Mallory was torpedoed by a German U-Boat in the Mid Atlantic while en route to Iceland.

Volksbund Kriegsgräberstätten

The German Military Grave Registration Service. Maintains 2 million war graves in over 640 cemeteries. Assists in grave identification and restoration. Provides assistance in determining the fate of German war dead.

World War 2 Memorial

Currie, Midlothian, Scotland.

World War II Burials and Memorializations

Online searchable database of the 176,399 names of those American service personnel buried at ABMC cemeteries, those Missing in Action and those buried or lost at sea. Note that there were 405,399 US casualties in World War II.

World War II Casualties: Table of Contents

From the U.S. National Archives. State Summary of War Casualties from World War II for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel. Organized by state, then divided into Dead (Combat), Missing, Wounded, Dead (Prison Camp) and Released prisoners, and sorted alphabetically therein.

World War II Prisoners of War File, ca. 1942 - ca. 1947

From the National Archives. Records identify World War II U.S. military officers and soldiers and U.S. and some Allied civilians who were prisoners of war (POWs) and internees.