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Searchable Web
Based Databases
American POWS: Data
base of POWS. Fairly comprehensive but confusing to navigate:
select people, select POWs in proper theater, THEN under options,
click on search in order to enter request.
American Battle Monuments Commission:
Searchable database listing graves of US Casualties.
Australian
2/30th Battalion, 8th Div - includes extensive nominal rolls
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Search for places of commemoration for Commonwealth forces who
perished in both World Wars.
The Austrailain War Memorial:
Searchable data base for ALL military veterans
Luftwaffe Archives &
Records Reference Group For research on the German Air Force,
1933-1945.
Singapore
Malay Volunteers- learn the history & Units of the Malay
Volunteers- fast growing web site
Merchant
Marine as POWs- Complete
list of all Merchant seaman held by the Japanese (and Germans)
The German Wargraves
Commission
Deutsche
Dienststelle (WASt) Next-of-kin notices of German Wehrmacht
who were killed in action
Cannock
Chase German Military Cemetery
Link to
British Sources and further information: Part of a cooperative
"Wartime Memories" Excellent Resource!
The Navy Memorial Foundation:
A source for information about men lost at sea and pages honoring
Navy vets. Soon setting up a separate section for POWS.
Defenders of Hong
Kong: An outstanding compilation of every man who
fought to save Hong Kong. The rosters are extraordinary.
US Navy -Crewmen and aviators
KIA on air craft carriers, Killed at Pearl Harbor and on the
USS Gambia Bay.
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