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1898 Sociedad de Amigos de la Historia de Puerto Rico, Inc.

American Battle Monuments Commission

The ABMC is responsible for commemorating the services of the American Armed Forces through the establishment of suitable memorial shrines; operating & maintaining permanent American military burial grounds in foreign countries. Web site includes detailed descriptions of overseas cemeteries & searchable databases of war dead.

American Ex-Prisoners of War Organization

Army Air Corps - Army Air Forces Historical Association

The association participates in air shows, historical retrospect's, educational programs and seminars providing static displays of World War II Army Air Forces memorabilia. Does oral histories and publishes same.

Arnold Expedition Historical Society

Pittston, Maine.

Congressional Medal of Honor Society

Descendants of Mexican War Veterans

General Society of Colonial Wars

General Society of the War of 1812

Gold Star Wives of America, Inc.

A military widows' organization.

Jewish War Veterans of the United States

Knights of the Air 114th Aviation Company Association

Legion of Valor of the United States of America, Inc.

Legion Ville - First Training Camp of the United States Army, 1792

The Legion Ville Historical Society, Inc., The Anthony Wayne Historical Society, Inc. Includes transcriptions of West Point Orderly Books, 1792-1796.

Military Historical Society of Minnesota

Little Falls, Minnesota.

Military Society of the War of 1812

National Society of Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company

This Genealogical organization, founded in 1927, of the Women Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery is made up of lineal descendants of the 24 Founders of 1637 and for all members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company between 1638-1774. For lineal descendants of the General court of Massachusetts Bay when the Charter was granted in 1638, namely, the Governor, the Governor's Council and for the Deputies to the General Court of 1638. Also included in the Ancient and Honorable society of women descendants are lineal descendants of the Clergymen who were invited to preach an Annual Election Sermon.

National Society United States Daughters of 1812

The society requires lineal descent from an ancestor who rendered military, naval or civil service between the close of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 and the close of the War of 1812 in 1815, Military service may be in any one of sixteen recognized engagements between those dates.

Navy Lakehurst Historical Society, Inc.

New Jersey.

Order of Lafayette

American enlisted men who served in France or in French possessions during World War I or World War II, and who were commissioned later are also eligible for membership in the Order of Lafayette, as well as commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers of the French Foreign Legion. Membership in the order is also open to all recipients, regardless of rank, of the Medal of Honor or the French Medaille Militaire who served in France or French possessions during World War I or World War II, and are admitted as members without having to pay dues to the Order. All lineal descendants, male or female, of original members, or those who would have qualified as original members, are eligible for full membership in the Order on reaching the age of twenty-one years. Membership is also extended to all American military personnel who served in close conjunction with French forces in Operation Desert Storm, Kosovo, Afghanistan, or the Somali coast. Service may include liaison officers, translators, training, special operations, as well as combat.