World War II Records
For a comprehensive overview, see:
Selected Finding Aids Related to
NARA's World War II Holdings
Selected NARA Resources:
- African Americans During World War II, Photographs
- America on the Homefront: Selected World War II Records, Records from NARA's Regional Archives in Boston
- Captured German Records, Description of Records on Microform
- Captured Nazi recordings, List of speeches and broadcasts in the collection
- Electronic Records related to WWII
- Finding Information on Personal Participation in World War II, a brochure on some of NARA's relevant records, and how to get started.
- Holocaust Era Assets
- Japanese American Internment and Relocation Records in the National Archives
- Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs)
- Nazi War Criminal Records (Interagency Working Group)
- Philippine Army and Guerrilla Records
- Philippine Archives Collection
- Records Relating to World War II Era Refugees
- Records of Military Agencies Relating
to African Americans from the Post-World War I Period
to the Korean War,
Reference Information Paper
- Records Holdings Relating to World War II in NARA's Pacific Region (Laguna Niguel, CA), originals and microfilm
- Records Relating to Personal Participation in World War II: The "American Soldier" Surveys, A finding aid
- Search WWII Electronic Records in the Access to Archival Databases (AAD)
- Search WWII Documents Online through the Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
- World War II Casualty Lists
- World War II Records in the Cartographic and Architectural Branch of the National Archives, a reference information paper
- World War II Draft
Registration: Using the
Archival Research Catalog (ARC) for
Ohio men born between April 28, 1877 and February 16, 1897,
whose surnames began with "Aa" and "Ab"
- World War II, Photographs
- WWII: Sound Recordings from 1937-1945
Other Resources:
- World War II Dead Buried in American Battle Monument Commission Cemeteries, Missing in Action, or Buried or Lost at Sea