[Genealib] [REFSHARE-L] FW: Servicemembers Missing From WWII Now Listed InElectronic Database

[Dusty Gres]

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DATABASES :
HISTORY: WORLD WAR II :
UNITED STATES: MILITARY: SOLDIERS:
Servicemembers Missing From WWII Now Listed In Electronic Database


U.S. Department of Defense
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Release
Servicemembers Missing From WWII Now Listed In Electronic Database
<http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=10965>


Servicemembers Missing From WWII Now Listed In Electronic Database


           The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
announced today that an electronic database listing the names of
servicemembers still unaccounted for from World War II is now available for
family members and researchers.

            This new listing will aid researchers and analysts in WWII
remains recovery operations. Prior to this three-year effort, no
comprehensive list of those missing from WWII has existed.

            This database, listing nearly 78,000 names, was compiled by
researchers from DPMO and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command. They used
hard-copy sources including The American Graves Registration Service Rosters
of Military Personnel Whose Remains were not Recovered from the National
Archives II repository in College Park, Md., and The World War II Rosters of
the Dead. Once transferred into electronic formats, they used computer
programs to compare the two lists and determined possible discrepancies
among the entries. These differences were then resolved using additional
sources from the National Archives and thousands of personnel files from the
Washington National Records Center.

            After more than three years of research and coordination to
transfer information into an electronic format, efforts to gather more data
on unaccounted-for WWII servicemembers continue. New names and information
will be added as historical documents and personnel files are located. The
names of servicemen whose remains are recovered and identified in the future
will be removed as families accept the identification and inter their loved
ones in cemeteries of their choice.

            This WWII database, along with databases listing the missing
from the Korean War, Cold War, Vietnam War and Gulf War, are available on
DPMOs Web site at

http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo

For additional information on the Defense Departments mission to account for
missing Americans, visit the DPMO Web site or call

(703) 699-1169


World War II
<http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/worldwarii.htm>


WORLD WAR II

History
Fact Sheets
MIA List
60th Anniversary



Service Personnel Not Recovered Following World War II
<http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/WWII_MIA/INDEX.HTM>

The list of unrecovered service personnel from WWII was compiled using two
historical sources:

  Rosters of Military Personnel Whose Remains Were Not Recovered, 1951-54;
American Graves Registration Service, 1954, Record Group 92, National
Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.

  The World War II Rosters of the Dead (All Services): Department of the
Army Microfiche Reference No. 601-07; 1 May 1983; Joint POW/MIA Accounting
Command.

Entries on this website were created by corroborating names and service
numbers appearing in both sources.  In cases where discrepancies appeared in
the spelling of a name or other detail, researchers employed a third source
relevant to the service person's branch of service to resolve the
discrepancy.


Buried at Sea Personnel are not enumerated in this table.
To view the Buried at Sea Personnel click on the button below. [on the web
page linked above.]

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