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• Genealogy Quest - US Army and Navy Deaths, 28 October 1945

  On 28 October 1945 the army and navy made public new casualty lists. The report includes the names of army and navy dead. Listed here are the soldiers, sailors and marines from Illinois.

• Genealogy Quest - US Army and Navy Deaths, Wounded, Missing and Liberated, 12 September 1945

  On 12 September 1945 the army and navy made public new casualty lists. The report includes the names of army and navy dead, wounded, missing and liberated. Listed here are the soldiers, sailors and marines from Illinois and Indiana.

• Genealogy Quest - US Army Deaths and Liberated Prisoners of War, 2 October 1945

  On 2 October 1945 the war department made public a new list of casualties and of liberated prisoners of war. Listed here are the soldiers from Illinois and Indiana.

• Genealogy Quest - US Army Deaths and Liberated Prisoners of War, 20 November 1945

  On 20 November 1945 the army made public new lists of casualties and of liberated prisoners of war. Listed here are the soldiers from Illinois and Wisconsin.

• Genealogy Quest - US Army Deaths and Liberated Prisoners of War, 4 October 1945

  On 4 October 1945 the war department made public new lists of casualties and of liberated prisoners of war. Listed here are the soldiers from Illinois and Indiana.

• Genealogy Quest - US Army Deaths and Liberated Prisoners of War, 6 October 1945

  On 6 October 1945 the army made public new lists of casualties and of liberated prisoners of war. Listed here are the soldiers from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.

• Genealogy Quest - US Army Deaths and Liberated Prisoners of War, 8 October 1945

  On 8 October 1945 the war department made public new lists of casualties and of liberated prisoners of war. Listed here are the soldiers and sailors from Illinois and Indiana.

• Genealogy Quest - US Army Deaths, 23 December 1945

  The army and navy today made public new casualty lists, including a number from Illinois. Listed on this page are those men from Illinois along with their next of kin and address of record.

• Genealogy Quest - US Army Deaths, 6 December 1945

  On 6 December 1945 the War Department made public a casualty list including 264 dead. These are the dead men from Illinois and Wisconsin, along with their next of kin and address of record.

• Genealogy Today: Family Tree History, Ancestry, Free Lookups

  Free and fee-based databases, free articles.

  • Special Collections

    • WWII War Ration Books

      More than 9,000 listings.

• Geoff's 1914-1921 Search Engine

  A search tool to find records held in The Commonwealth War Graves Commission database for Commonwealth WW1 and WW2 casualties.

• In Memory by Pierre Vandervelden - The visit of Commonwealth War Cemeteries, Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France

  The visit of Commonwealth War Cemeteries, Communals Cemeteries & Churchyards in Belgium & France with data base for each cemetery.

• 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.

  • Online searchable database

• Kennethmont Second World War Memorial

  Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

• 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

  The story of the Taiwan POW Camps.

  • The Men

    Alphabetical listing of POWs.

• 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.

• Pearl Harbor - Civilian and Military Personnel Casualties

• 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.

  • Wellshill Cemetery Perth

    • Register of the Polish Casualties