Great find, Mr/Ms Webber: This is a printed, not a computer generated list, but regardless, this list, dated 1946, broken down by county of origin within state, gives name, rank, service number and status (such as KIA) of both dead and missing through Jan 31, 1946. The number will help access other records. For more information, read the pages listed as 'Foreward', which precede the county pages, probably for each state. The service numbers fall into various series. They are decidedly not social security numbers - that change didn't come until 1969 or 1970. Most numbers are numeric, of varying lengths. There was no incentive before computers to worry about all numbers being the same length. A number such as O-123456 or O-123456-L is, I believe, a reserve officer, last name beginning with L, from at least the 1930s. The O is a letter, if you need to type it in at some other site. ----- Original Message ----- From: <HMWEBBER@aol.com> To: <DEKENT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 7:36 AM Subject: [DEKENT] WWII Casualties > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JRB.2ACE/1171 > > Message Board Post: > > The National Archives and Records Administration has placed on the Internet a > list of military casualties which occurred during World War II. The database > is scanned images of a computer printout made in 1946. Go to: > > http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/index.html > > and scroll to World War II Army and Army Air Force Casualty List or World > War II Navy Marine and Coast Guard Casualty List > > > > ==== DEKENT Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the DEKENT list, use > DEKENT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM or DEKENT-D-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM if you > are on the Digest list. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >