DPMO
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
DPMO, DPMO Glossary: Acronyms used in POW/MIA accounting efforts
DPMO, The Department of Defense Strategy To Recover and Account for Missing Personnel, 16 October 2006
DPMO, Frequently Asked Questions
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, Service Personnel Not Recovered Following World War II (the complete list of all American World War II MIAs)
JPAC
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC)
JPAC Public Affairs, JPAC Overview Fact Sheet
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, US-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, What is Personnel Accounting?
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, Archival Research Directorate
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, Basic Research Information for Family Members of Unaccounted-for Americans
The Service Casualty Offices
US Army Human Resources Command, Army Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Operations Center, Reference: Terms
US Navy Casualty Assistance
US Navy Casualty Assistance: POW/MIA Activities Branch
US Marine Corps Casualty Assistance Section
US Marine Corps Casualty Assistance Section, Repatriation Section
Air Force Missing Persons Branch, Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC)
US Department of Veterans Affairs, American Prisoners of War (POWs) and Missing in Action (MIAs), April 2006
WWII Links:
Family Support
American WWII Orphans Network (AWON):
National Alliance of Families
Gold Star Siblings
American Gold Star Mothers
State and Local Casualty Listings
The National Archives, World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel
The National Archives, State Summary of War Casualties from World War II for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel
US Navy casualty list Dec 12, 1942 (from Brooklyn, New York)
Phyllis A. Heller, Shelby County, Iowa Soldiers Who Died in World War II
Jeffrey C. Weaver, Virginia World War II Deaths
Jerry Ferrin, World War II Casualties, Comanche County, Kansas
Tami Ramsey and Rhonda Smith, WWII Deaths in Pulaski County, Virginia
In Memoriam: Men from Wabash County, Indiana Who Died in WW II,
Links to the Past On-line Genealogy and History Library, Milwaukee Casualties of the Jewish Faith in World War II;
Milwaukee County World War II Wounded and Missing in Action; Milwaukee County World War II Casualties
Indiana Soldiers and Sailors
Honored Texans: World War II Casualties;
Honored Texans: World War II Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
Lakewood Public Lilbrary, More than Names: Lakewood War Casualties: World War I - World War II - Korea - Vietnam
Honor Roll: Residents of Jefferson County, NY who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War II
In Victory's Joy: Saginaw Mourns 407 Dead (WWII)
Combs &c. in WWII: Dead and Missing
Camden NJ St. Joseph's Parish WWII War Memorial
Belleville Sons Honor Roll: World War II MIA-POW
Richard Gardner
Golden's Missing Heroes (February 2, 2007)
YourHub.com: Golden (Colorado)
Chad N. Proudfoot
West Virginians in Exercise Tiger
West Virginia Veterans Memorial
West Virginia Department of Culture and History
Government Historical Records
The National Archives, Military Resources: World War II
The Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, United States-Russia Joint Commission on POWs and MIAs and the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office Joint Commission Support Division Documents Databases
MIA Research: General
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, Service Personnel Not Recovered Following World War II (the complete list of all American World War II MIAs)
The National Archives, World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel
The National Archives, State Summary of War Casualties from World War II for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel
The National Archives, World War II Army Enlistment Records
The National Archives, Records of World War II Prisoners of War
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, World War II Accounting History
Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, World War II Accounting History & Research
All POW/MIA: Advocacy and Intelligence Index for POWs-MIAs Archives
Ted Darcy Casualty Research & Database
( wreck1@localnet.com )
UDT-SEAL Association
UDT-SEAL Obituary Records
Purple Hearts of World War II
In Memory - Earlier Wars (US military women who were World War II MIAs)
American Battle Monuments Commission, Burial Listings
National World War II Memorial
Library of Congress, Virtual Services Digital Reference Team, A Guide to World War II Materials
World War II US Navy Armed Guard
Veteran Wireless Operators Association
Army Air Forces Historical Association
Special Forces Roll of Honour
On Eternal Patrol - Lost Submariners of World War II
MIA Research: European Theater of Operations (ETO)
Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum
Eighth Air Force Historical Society
Mighty Eighth Cross Reference
359th Fighter Group Association
303rd Bomb Group (H)
392nd Bomb Group: The Missing Aircrews; Roll of Honor
The Rohna Survivors Memorial Associaton
The Sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville
Honor Roll: 487th Bomb Group
Official Home of the 450th BG Association: Missing Air Crew Reports
USAAF Honor Rolls 1941-1945 MTO
S.S. Paul Hamilton Personnel Lost at Sea - 20 April 1944
Allied World War II Casualties in the Netherlands Remembered
USS Corry (DD-463): The Destroyer that Led the Normandy Invasion
Stalag Luft I Online
US 7th Armored Division Association, 7th Armored Division Overseas Deaths: Counts by Unit
457th Bomb Group: A Memoriam to Crewmen Killed in Action
Final Destination Slovakia: Western Allies Air Forces Story over Slovakia 1944/45:
MIA Project of US Army 99th Infantry Division Association:
http://www.99div.com/. In their December 2007 newsletter is their article "Finding MIAs is important endeavor."
Szolnok Air Museum
Aircraft M.I.A. Project (AMIAP)
70th Infantry Division Association
MIA Missing in Action Organization
Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum
Kathryn Shenkle
Arlington National Cemetery: Major Glenn Miller
Wessex Archeology
Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea: A Scoping Study (February 2008)
Lonesome Polecat II Memorial
D-Day: Normandy 1944: US Airborne in Cotentin Peninsula
Rebecca Grant
"Twenty Missions in Hell"
airforce-magazine.com: online journal of the Air Force Association (April 2007)
(The missions flown again the Leune Werken synthetic fuel plant, in Merseburg, Germany)
John L. Frisbee
"Lest We Forget" (Stalag Luft IV)
airforce-magazine.com: online journal of the Air Force Association (September 1997)
8th Air Force Fighter Groups: Littlefriends.co.uk
Eugene E. Eckstam
Exercise Tiger News Letter (January 6, 1996)
Exercise Tiger: The Slapton Sands Sherman Tank Memorial Website
MIA Research: Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)
National Park Service, USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor Casualties (includes names of civilians killed during Pearl Harbor attack):
Pacific Ghosts: Project PRIAM
MIA "Missing in Action" in the Pacific Registry
Center for Research: Allied POWs under the Japanese
Wake Island POWs at Zentsuji
POW Research Network Japan
Ted Darcy and Ray Emory
Finding America's Missing
Ken's Men: website of WWII's 43rd Bomb Group (H), 5th AAF:
USS Oklahoma Survivors & Family Association and USS Oklahoma Memorial Website:
Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society
Missing in Action: Lt. Eloise M. Richardson
475th Fighter Group Personnel Roster
National Park Service, American Memorial Park: Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan
Mackenzie J. Gregory, US Balao Class Submarine USS Lagarto, found after 60 years in the Gulf of Siam
American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor
Center for Research Allied POWs Under the Japanese
307th Bombardment Group: The Long Rangers
"Chief Seattle A B-17 Flying Fortress of the 435th Bomb Squadron. the "Kangaroo" Squadron of the 19th Bomb Group, Crashed on 14 August 1942"
Tarawa the Aftermath - The story of Tarawa and Betio before and after the 1943 assault by the Second Marine Division.
USS Indianapolis CA-35: Still at Sea
USS Yorktown CV-5 History: The Fighting Lady
The Battle of Midway June 3 - 6, 1942: United States Carrier Air Groups
Known Circumstances and/or Dates of USS Bennington World War II Casualties
Commander, Submarine Force, US Pacific Fleet
WWII Lost Boats 1941-1945
(found under History-WWII Subs Lost)
Commander, Submarine Force, US Pacific Fleet
USS GRUNION (SS 216): July 30, 1942 - 70 Men Lost
Killed in Action, WW2: Bernard R. Yglesias (the B-29 "City of Atlanta")
Marines and Corpsmen of Tarawa and Guadalcanal
MIA Research: China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater
US Army Air Forces: China-Burma-India
Old China Hands: Dedicated to sharing information related to the experiences of the men and women serving their country in the China-Burma-India theater of war during World War II
308th Bomb Group Tribute website
MIA-308-374th:
The Hump Flyer Tribute
Center for Research Allied POWs Under the Japanese
341st Bomb Group Tribute website
"The Last Resort" Yangkai Air Base
CBI World War II MIA and KIA in crash of C-47B # 43-48308 17 May 1946
The Famed Flying Tigers
Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation
China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC)
Hump Monument in Nanjing, China
"President Jiang Inscribes for WWII American Pilot"
People's Daily Online, October 21, 2002
"The Flying Tigers Hold High Honor in China"
China Pictorial
September 21, 2005
"Monument to Flying Tigers Erected Near Chengdu"
Xinhua News Agency
July 14, 2004
"Missing US World War II Planes Discovered in China"
China Daily
January 4, 2002
"United States Army Aircrew: August 7, 1945" (The Franken B-24, #44-41293)
Arlington National Cemetery Website
Martin L. Mickelsen
"The Tragedy of Mission 19 to Haiphong"
Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America
"Wartime US plane wreck found in Himalayas (17/09/04)"
China Tibet Information Center
"Last Flight Home"
National Informatics Centre, Changlang District Unit, Changlang-792120, Arunachal Pradesh, India
The Cemetery of World War II, Jairampur, India
American Military Cemeteries
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery (an independent website)
"A soldier's final resting place: American military cemeteries overseas"
Cambridge American World War II Cemetery and Memorial, Madingley, Cambridgeshire, England
In Honored Glory: The American Military Cemetery Henri-Chapelle, Belgium
National Park Service
West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II
Military History of World War II
US Marine Corps History and Museums Division, Marines in World War II Commemorative Series
US Army Center of Military History, Online Bookshelves: World War II
US Army Center of Military History, United States Army in World War II. The War In the Pacific, Okinawa: The Last Battle
Naval Historical Center, Naval Armed Guard Service in World War II
Air Force Historical Foundation
Michel Thomas Poirier, Results of the American Pacific Submarine Campaign of World War II
Army Quartermaster Museum, Fort Lee, Virginia, "Tragic History", Quartermaster Review, January-February 1946
USAAF Nose Art Research Project: Named Planes of the USAAF during World War II
"Opening Session of the 17th Plenum of the US-Russia Joint Commission on Prisoners of War/Missing in Action" (November 14, 2000):
Library of Congress, Revelations from the Russian Archives: World War II: American POWs and MIAs
Paul Cole, POW/MIA Issues: Volume 2: World War II and the Early Cold War (RAND Monograph Report)
Paul Cole, POW/MIA Issues: Volume 3: Appendixes (RAND Monograph Report)
US Army Center of Military History (CMH)
US Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA)
(see especially http://www.afhra.af.mil/questions/topic.asp?id=1146)
Air Force History Office
National Museum of the United States Air Force
Naval Historical Center
United States Marine Corps History Division
ReiseNett, World War II Maps
Destroyer History Foundation
Richard Rhodes
"The Toughest Flying In The World"
AmericanHeritage.com: American Heritage Magazine
August/September 1986
American Airpower Heritage Museum
MIA Recovery
MIA Recoveries: Private investigator searches for MIA aircraft and crewmember remains.
The BentProp Project (Palau expeditions)
The BentStar Project
Pacific Wrecks Database
The 2008 Radford University Field School in Archaeological and Geophysical Survey (Guadalcanal expedition)
Yap Island Missing Air Crew Project
Aviation Media
Skycontrol.net: Aviation & Aerospace News Magazine:
Frontier India Defence and Strategic News Service (FIDSNS):
US Merchant Marine
American Merchant Marine at War, "US Merchant Marine Casualties During World War II"
American Merchant Marine at War, "US Naval Armed Guard Casualties of World War II"
Glider Pilots
WWII Glider Pilots Roll of Honor
Miscelleaneous World War II Links
Valor Tours, Ltd.: WWII tours of battlefields, WWII sites, cemeteries - world wide:
Contact:
Vicky Middagh
Valor Tours, Ltd.
10 Liberty Ship Way
Sausalito, CA 94965
Tele: 415-332-7850
1-800-842-4504
Fax: 415-332-6971
US Army Air Forces Forum:
The Greatest Generations Foundation: Remember Those Who Served
University of Texas Libraries, U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project
(Courtesy of the the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin)
Korean Conflict and Cold War:
Korea-Cold War Families of the Missing
Coalition of Families of Korean and Cold War POW/MIA's
Korean War Veterans Association: POW/MIA Program
Korean War MIA Family Outreach Project
Army Quartermaster Museum - Fort Lee, Virginia,"Operation GLORY", Condensed from Graves Registration Division,
Korean Communications Zone (KCOMZ), Historical Summary, Jul-Dec 1954
Department of Defense, United States of America 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration
Vietnam War:
The Virtual Wall
Southeast Asia MIAs Family Outreach Project
Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, The Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War Missing-in-Action Database
"Memorial Affairs Activities - Republic of Vietnam" (Compiled by the Mortuary Affairs Center (MAC), Fort Lee, Virginia - March 2000)
Multiple Conflicts:
Gathering of Eagles
Veterans History Project
Florence Cannon, "Our Honored Dead", The Quartermaster Review, May-June 1952
The Memorial Day Foundation
National Memorial Day Concert
US Memorial Day: History and Information on US War Memorials
US Congress
US House of Representatives
US Senate
Other Useful Links:
Cyndi's List of Genealogical Websites
Cindy Riney
Tips for Locating WW II Air Crew Members
Patriotic Icons
US Army Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO)
US Department of State
Websites of US Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions
US Department of State
Diplomatic List Spring 2007 (names of foreign diplomats assigned to the United States)
Michael S. Smith
"Missing in Action"
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
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