WWRM - World War II Families for the Return of the Missing

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

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/tfr/tfrhome.html

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)

http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/WWII_MIA/INDEX.HTM

The National Archives, World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel

http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/army-casualties/

The National Archives, State Summary of War Casualties from World War II for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel

http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/navy-casualties/index.html

The National Archives, World War II Army Enlistment Records

http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=3360&cat=all&bc=sl

The National Archives, Records of World War II Prisoners of War

http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=644&cat=all&bc=sl

Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, World War II Accounting History

http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/worldwarII/worldwar_history.htm

Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office, World War II Accounting History & Research

http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/research/other_analytical_products.htm

All POW/MIA: Advocacy and Intelligence Index for POWs-MIAs Archives

http://www.aiipowmia.com/

Ted Darcy Casualty Research & Database

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/people/visitors/darcy/index.html

( wreck1@localnet.com )

UDT-SEAL Association

UDT-SEAL Obituary Records

http://www.bigislandforum.org/teams/search.htm

Purple Hearts of World War II

http://hometown.aol.com/medalcol/purple_hearts_of_world_war_ii.htm

In Memory - Earlier Wars (US military women who were World War II MIAs)

http://www.nooniefortin.com/earlierwars.htm

American Battle Monuments Commission, Burial Listings

http://www.abmc.gov/wardead/index.php

National World War II Memorial

http://www.wwiimemorial.com/

Library of Congress, Virtual Services Digital Reference Team, A Guide to World War II Materials

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/WW2/WW2bib.html

World War II US Navy Armed Guard

http://www.armed-guard.com

Veteran Wireless Operators Association

http://www.vwoa.org/

Army Air Forces Historical Association

http://www.aafha.org/

Special Forces Roll of Honour

http://www.specialforcesroh.com/browse.php

On Eternal Patrol - Lost Submariners of World War II

http://www.oneternalpatrol.com/

MIA Research: European Theater of Operations (ETO)

Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum

http://www.mightyeighth.org/word/index.php?page_id=11

Eighth Air Force Historical Society

http://www.8thafhs.org

Mighty Eighth Cross Reference

http://mighty8thaf.preller.us/

359th Fighter Group Association

http://www.359fg.org/

303rd Bomb Group (H)

http://www.303rdbg.com/contact.html

392nd Bomb Group: The Missing Aircrews; Roll of Honor

http://www.b24.net

The Rohna Survivors Memorial Associaton

http://www.rohna.org/

The Sinking of the S.S. Leopoldville

http://www.history.com/minisites/leopoldville/viewPage?pageId=264

Honor Roll: 487th Bomb Group

http://www.487thbg.org/kia.shtml

Official Home of the 450th BG Association: Missing Air Crew Reports

http://www.450thbg.com/real/html/macr.shtml

USAAF Honor Rolls 1941-1945 MTO

http://www.geocities.com/raf_112_sqdn1/usaaf_honor_rolls_19421943_mto.html

S.S. Paul Hamilton Personnel Lost at Sea - 20 April 1944

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/2670/HAMILTON-001.htm

Allied World War II Casualties in the Netherlands Remembered

http://www.basher82.nl./

USS Corry (DD-463): The Destroyer that Led the Normandy Invasion

http://www.uss-corry-dd463.com/

Stalag Luft I Online

http://www.merkki.com/

US 7th Armored Division Association, 7th Armored Division Overseas Deaths: Counts by Unit

http://www.7tharmddiv.org

457th Bomb Group: A Memoriam to Crewmen Killed in Action

http://www.457thbombgroup.org/KIA/KIA.html

Final Destination Slovakia: Western Allies Air Forces Story over Slovakia 1944/45:

http://www.airwarsk.sk

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

http://www.repulomuzeum.hu/ENGLISH.htm (In Hungarian and English)

Aircraft M.I.A. Project (AMIAP)

http://www.samoloty.ow.pl/amiap/ (In Polish and English)

70th Infantry Division Association

http://www.trailblazersww2.org/

MIA Missing in Action Organization

http://www.miakia.org/

Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum

http://www.ww1.org/

Kathryn Shenkle

Arlington National Cemetery: Major Glenn Miller

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/historical_information/glenn_miller.html

Wessex Archeology

Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea: A Scoping Study (February 2008)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2251377/Aircraft-Crash-Sites-at-Sea-a-Scoping-Study-project-report

Lonesome Polecat II Memorial

http://www.lonesomepolecat.com/

D-Day: Normandy 1944: US Airborne in Cotentin Peninsula

http://www.6juin1944.com/assaut/aeropus/en_page.php?page=casualties

Rebecca Grant

"Twenty Missions in Hell"

airforce-magazine.com: online journal of the Air Force Association (April 2007)

http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2007/April%202007/0407twenty.aspx

(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)

http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1997/September%201997/0997valor.aspx

8th Air Force Fighter Groups: Littlefriends.co.uk

http://www.littlefriends.co.uk/

Eugene E. Eckstam

Exercise Tiger News Letter (January 6, 1996)

http://museum.dva.state.wi.us/Res_NHDpicI72.asp

Exercise Tiger: The Slapton Sands Sherman Tank Memorial Website

http://www.shermantank.co.uk/

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):

http://www.nps.gov/archive/usar/phcas.html

Pacific Ghosts: Project PRIAM

http://www.pacificghosts.com.au/priam/

MIA "Missing in Action" in the Pacific Registry

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/mia/registry/usa.html

Center for Research: Allied POWs under the Japanese

Wake Island POWs at Zentsuji

http://www.mansell.com/pow_resources/wake-list.html

POW Research Network Japan

http://homepage3.nifty.com/pow-j/e/index.html

Ted Darcy and Ray Emory

Finding America's Missing

http://www.spiritone.com/~pazuu/pow-mia/FindingAmericasMissing.pdf

Ken's Men: website of WWII's 43rd Bomb Group (H), 5th AAF:

http://www.kensmen.com/

USS Oklahoma Survivors & Family Association and USS Oklahoma Memorial Website:

http://www.ussoklahoma.com

Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society

http://www.powtaiwan.org/

Missing in Action: Lt. Eloise M. Richardson

http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/mia.html

475th Fighter Group Personnel Roster

http://www.475thfghf.org/Roster.htm

National Park Service, American Memorial Park: Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan

http://www.nps.gov/amme/index.htm

Mackenzie J. Gregory, US Balao Class Submarine USS Lagarto, found after 60 years in the Gulf of Siam

http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/macslog/USBalaoClassSubmarineUSSL.html

American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor

http://www.west-point.org/family/adbc/

Center for Research Allied POWs Under the Japanese

http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html

307th Bombardment Group: The Long Rangers

http://www.307bg.org/

"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"

http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/usaaf/chiefofseattle.htm

Tarawa the Aftermath - The story of Tarawa and Betio before and after the 1943 assault by the Second Marine Division.

http://tarawatheaftermath.com

USS Indianapolis CA-35: Still at Sea

http://www.ussindianapolis.org/crew.htm

USS Yorktown CV-5 History: The Fighting Lady

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/8791/cv5hist.html

The Battle of Midway June 3 - 6, 1942: United States Carrier Air Groups

http://www.centuryinter.net/midway/appendix/appendixfour_us_carrier_airgoups.html

Known Circumstances and/or Dates of USS Bennington World War II Casualties

http://www.uss-bennington.org/stz-ww2_casu_list.html

Commander, Submarine Force, US Pacific Fleet

WWII Lost Boats 1941-1945

http://www.csp.navy.mil/

(found under History-WWII Subs Lost)

Commander, Submarine Force, US Pacific Fleet

USS GRUNION (SS 216): July 30, 1942 - 70 Men Lost

http://www.csp.navy.mil/ww2boats/grunion.htm

Killed in Action, WW2: Bernard R. Yglesias (the B-29 "City of Atlanta")

http://hometown.aol.com/foxroam/yglesias.htm

Marines and Corpsmen of Tarawa and Guadalcanal

http://webpages.charter.net/ocotillo/index.htm

MIA Research: China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater

US Army Air Forces: China-Burma-India

http://www.usaaf-in-cbi.com/

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

http://www.oldchinahands.org/

In the Hands of God: A Tribute to the Crew of the 'Poco Moco', MIA/KIA, August 6, 1945: http://www.paulmartinart.com/pocomoco.html

308th Bomb Group Tribute website

http://www.usaaf-in-cbi.com/308th_web/index.htm

MIA-308-374th:

http://zalusky.us/mia-308-374th.html

The Hump Flyer Tribute

http://www.usaaf-in-cbi.com/humpflyer/humpflyer.htm

Center for Research Allied POWs Under the Japanese

http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html

341st Bomb Group Tribute website

http://www.usaaf-in-cbi.com/341st_web/index.htm

"The Last Resort" Yangkai Air Base

http://www.usaaf-in-cbi.com/resort/resort.htm

CBI World War II MIA and KIA in crash of C-47B # 43-48308 17 May 1946

http://www.miac47burmawwii.org/index.html

The Famed Flying Tigers

http://www.chinaexpat.com/article/2007/10/01/dali/famed-flying-tigers.html

Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation

http://www.sinoam.com/

China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC)

http://www.cnac.org/

Hump Monument in Nanjing, China

http://www.cnac.org/humpmonument02.htm

"President Jiang Inscribes for WWII American Pilot"

People's Daily Online, October 21, 2002

http://english.people.com.cn/200210/21/print20021021_105436.html

"The Flying Tigers Hold High Honor in China"

China Pictorial

September 21, 2005

http://french.hanban.edu.cn/english/NM-e/142991.htm

"Monument to Flying Tigers Erected Near Chengdu"

Xinhua News Agency

July 14, 2004

http://french.hanban.edu.cn/english/culture/101256.htm

"Missing US World War II Planes Discovered in China"

China Daily

January 4, 2002

http://french.hanban.edu.cn/english/2002/Jan/24743.htm

"United States Army Aircrew: August 7, 1945" (The Franken B-24, #44-41293)

Arlington National Cemetery Website

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/aircrew-08071945.htm

Martin L. Mickelsen

"The Tragedy of Mission 19 to Haiphong"

http://usaaf-in-cbi.com/308th_web/msn_19p1.htm

Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America

"Wartime US plane wreck found in Himalayas (17/09/04)"

http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/xw/t158007.htm

China Tibet Information Center

"Last Flight Home"

http://www.tibetinfor.com/english/news/2003-2-8/News0200328142437.htm

National Informatics Centre, Changlang District Unit, Changlang-792120, Arunachal Pradesh, India

The Cemetery of World War II, Jairampur, India

http://www.geocities.com/nicchg/interest.html#ww2cemetery

American Military Cemeteries

Arlington National Cemetery

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/

Arlington National Cemetery (an independent website)

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/

"A soldier's final resting place: American military cemeteries overseas"

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3723/is_200305/ai_n9254705

Cambridge American World War II Cemetery and Memorial, Madingley, Cambridgeshire, England

http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cambridgeshire/MadingleyUSACemetery.html

In Honored Glory: The American Military Cemetery Henri-Chapelle, Belgium

http://www.in-honored-glory.info/

National Park Service

West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II

http://www.nps.gov/archive/prsf/places/ww2memo.htm

Military History of World War II

US Marine Corps History and Museums Division, Marines in World War II Commemorative Series

http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/indepth/extContent/usmc/index.htm

US Army Center of Military History, Online Bookshelves: World War II

http://www.history.army.mil/online/Bookshelves/WW2-List.htm

US Army Center of Military History, United States Army in World War II. The War In the Pacific, Okinawa: The Last Battle

http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/

Naval Historical Center, Naval Armed Guard Service in World War II

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq104-1.htm

Air Force Historical Foundation

http://www.afhistoricalfoundation.org/index/

Michel Thomas Poirier, Results of the American Pacific Submarine Campaign of World War II

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/history/pac-campaign.html

Army Quartermaster Museum, Fort Lee, Virginia, "Tragic History", Quartermaster Review, January-February 1946

http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/mortuary/tragic.htm

USAAF Nose Art Research Project: Named Planes of the USAAF during World War II

http://www.usaaf-noseart.co.uk/contents2.htm

"Opening Session of the 17th Plenum of the US-Russia Joint Commission on Prisoners of War/Missing in Action" (November 14, 2000):

http://www.nationalalliance.org/wwii/17plen.htm

Library of Congress, Revelations from the Russian Archives: World War II: American POWs and MIAs

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/wora.html

Paul Cole, POW/MIA Issues: Volume 2: World War II and the Early Cold War (RAND Monograph Report)

http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR351.2/

Paul Cole, POW/MIA Issues: Volume 3: Appendixes (RAND Monograph Report)

http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR351.3/

US Army Center of Military History (CMH)

http://www.history.army.mil/

US Air Force Historical Research Agency (AFHRA)

http://www.afhra.af.mil/

(see especially http://www.afhra.af.mil/questions/topic.asp?id=1146)

Air Force History Office

http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/index.htm

National Museum of the United States Air Force

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/

Naval Historical Center

http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html

United States Marine Corps History Division

http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Home_Page.htm

ReiseNett, World War II Maps

http://www.reisenett.no/map_collection/historical/history_ww2.html

Destroyer History Foundation

http://www.destroyerhistory.org/

Richard Rhodes

"The Toughest Flying In The World"

AmericanHeritage.com: American Heritage Magazine

August/September 1986

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1986/5/1986_5_66.shtml

American Airpower Heritage Museum

http://www.airpowermuseum.org/index.php

MIA Recovery

MIA Recoveries: Private investigator searches for MIA aircraft and crewmember remains.

http:www.miarecoveries.org For more information email Clayton Kuhles at info@miarecoveries.org

The BentProp Project (Palau expeditions)

http://www.bentprop.org/

The BentStar Project

http://www.bentstarproject.org/

Pacific Wrecks Database

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/

The 2008 Radford University Field School in Archaeological and Geophysical Survey (Guadalcanal expedition)

http://rufsi.asp.radford.edu/html/field_school.html

Yap Island Missing Air Crew Project

http://www.missingaircrew.com/

Aviation Media

Skycontrol.net: Aviation & Aerospace News Magazine:

http://www.skycontrol.net

Frontier India Defence and Strategic News Service (FIDSNS):

http://frontierindia.net

US Merchant Marine

American Merchant Marine at War, "US Merchant Marine Casualties During World War II"

http://www.usmm.org/casualty.html

American Merchant Marine at War, "US Naval Armed Guard Casualties of World War II"

http://www.usmm.org/armedguard.html

Glider Pilots

WWII Glider Pilots Roll of Honor

http://www.pointvista.com/WW2GliderPilots/RollofHonor.htm

Miscelleaneous World War II Links

Valor Tours, Ltd.: WWII tours of battlefields, WWII sites, cemeteries - world wide:

http://www.valortours.com/

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

valortours@msn.com

US Army Air Forces Forum:

http://www.armyairforces.com/

The Greatest Generations Foundation: Remember Those Who Served

http://www.tggf.us/

University of Texas Libraries, U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ww2latinos/

(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

http://www.koreacoldwar.org/

Coalition of Families of Korean and Cold War POW/MIA's

http://www.coalitionoffamilies.org/new/default.asp

Korean War Veterans Association: POW/MIA Program

http://www.kwva.org/pow_mia/index.htm

Korean War MIA Family Outreach Project

http://home.att.net/~koreanwarmias/

Army Quartermaster Museum - Fort Lee, Virginia,"Operation GLORY", Condensed from Graves Registration Division,

Korean Communications Zone (KCOMZ), Historical Summary, Jul-Dec 1954

http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/korea/op_glory.htm

Department of Defense, United States of America 50th Anniversary of the Korean War Commemoration

http://korea50.army.mil/

Vietnam War:

The Virtual Wall

http://www.VirtualWall.org

Southeast Asia MIAs Family Outreach Project

http://SEAMIAs.com

Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, The Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War Missing-in-Action Database

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pow/powhome.html

"Memorial Affairs Activities - Republic of Vietnam" (Compiled by the Mortuary Affairs Center (MAC), Fort Lee, Virginia - March 2000)

http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/mortuary/MA-Vietnam.htm

Multiple Conflicts:

Gathering of Eagles

http://gatheringofeagles.org/

Veterans History Project

http://www.loc.gov/vets//

Florence Cannon, "Our Honored Dead", The Quartermaster Review, May-June 1952

http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/mortuary/Honored_Dead.htm

The Memorial Day Foundation

http://www.memorialdayfoundation.org/info.asp?id=3485

National Memorial Day Concert

http://www.pbs.org/memorialdayconcert/

US Memorial Day: History and Information on US War Memorials

http://usmemorialday.org/

US Congress

US House of Representatives

http://www.house.gov/

US Senate

http://www.senate.gov/

Other Useful Links:

Cyndi's List of Genealogical Websites

http://www.cyndislist.com/

Cindy Riney

Tips for Locating WW II Air Crew Members

http://www.450thbg.com/real/html/search.shtml

Patriotic Icons

http://www.patrioticon.org/index.php

US Army Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO)

http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/index.htm

US Department of State

Websites of US Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions

http://www.usembassy.gov/

US Department of State

Diplomatic List Spring 2007 (names of foreign diplomats assigned to the United States)

http://www.state.gov/s/cpr/rls/dpl/spring/

Michael S. Smith

"Missing in Action"

Encyclopedia of Death and Dying

http://www.deathreference.com/Me-Nu/Missing-in-Action.html

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