This appears to be an excellent new resource. I tried it out for my
great-uncle Lester PYLES who was killed at Anzio Beach by entering his name
as the only known variable, and it worked.
Sue Tilleman
List Administrator
----- Original Message -----
From: <Ndrubarts(a)aol.com>
To: <KYCLINTO-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:56 AM
Subject: Good Data Base...WW II Army including Army Air Corps
Copied from the Surry NC mail list.......
WWII Army Database Now Online - notice ARMY (which does include the Army
Air Corps, the precursor to the air force...)US National Archives has a
new
database of 9 million people who enlisted in the Army in World War
II,
though
it is not complete.
World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File.
http://aad.archives.gov/aad/title_list.jsp
When you get click the RED SEARCH BUTTON then click the pull down menu
next
tot he query box, then scroll to the (bottom?) "World War
1939-1945,"
then click submit.
check this to know about what you are looking at
http://www.archives.gov/aad/whats_new.html
then when you are done (can that be?) go back and check the OTHER
databases...!
this is a g-r-e-a-t way to back into where you should be looking for 1930
census records because it tell you where they enlisted.... and it includes
living people not just those who have passed...but remember, not complete!
amazing, 9 million and still not complete...
THERE IS NOT an all database search...it would be too much of a hog to
most
systems to do that so as a researcher, you must click each data base
and
do your searches... I suggest that you be methodical...make a list
or print out the data bases and then make a list of all the names that you
will check and be sure, when you find something (and I know you will) that
you get those full citings....