WWII Enlistment File New at NARA - World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File - 9 million records The NARA website says: "This series has records on about nine million men and women who enlisted during World War II in the United States Army, including Army Reserves and the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. NARA scanned War Department microfilmed punch cards on enlistments to support the reconstruction of the military personnel records at its National Personnel Record Center. Because of the microfilm's poor condition, approximately 1.5 million records could not be scanned. Also, the file has no records for Army officers, members of other services or enlistments for other time periods. In general, each record has the serial number of a soldier, person's name, state and county of residence, place of enlistment, date of enlistment, grade, branch, term of enlistment, place of birth, year of birth, race, education, civilian occupation, marital status, and component. These records present unique searching challenges." WWII Army Serial Number Records can be found here: http://aad.archives.gov/aad/title_list.jsp Pull down the Subject search menu to "World War 1939-1945," select, and click submit. Thanks to Joe Beine for sending notice of this database to the APG list. A simple search for McQueen gets 13 matches, Mc Queen 651 (MacQueen 1, Mac Queen 26). A sample record for Roosevelt Mc Queen: Column Title Value Meaning Notes ARMY SERIAL NUMBER 34452044 NAME MC#QUEEN#ROOSEVELT###### RESIDENCE: STATE 46 NORTH CAROLINA RESIDENCE: COUNTY 165 SCOTLAND PLACE OF ENLISTMENT 4625 FT BRAGG NORTH CAROLINA DATE OF ENLISTMENT DAY 16 DATE OF ENLISTMENT MONTH 09 DATE OF ENLISTMENT YEAR 42 GRADE: ALPHA DESIGNATION PVT# Private GRADE: CODE 8 Private BRANCH: ALPHA DESIGNATION BI# Undefined Code BRANCH: CODE 00 General Officers of the line whose signature contain the insertion - "United States Army" FIELD USE AS DESIRED # TERM OF ENLISTMENT 5 Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law LONGEVITY ### SOURCE OF ARMY PERSONNEL 0 Civil Life NATIVITY 46 NORTH CAROLINA YEAR OF BIRTH 13 RACE AND CITIZENSHIP 2 Negro, citizen EDUCATION 0 Grammar school CIVILIAN OCCUPATION 306 GEOGRAPHER MARITAL STATUS 1 Single, with dependents COMPONENT OF THE ARMY 7 Selectees (Enlisted Men) CARD NUMBER # BOX NUMBER 0801 FILM REEL NUMBER 3.223 Valorie http://valoriez.blogspot.com
Thank you so very much for listing this! With this information we were able to find an elderly relative's "missing" military record (which burned in the St. Louis fire) and will now be able to get him medical help!! ----- Original Message ----- From: <valoriez@zimres.net> To: <McQUEEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 12:44 AM Subject: [McQUEEN] McQueens in the WWII Database > WWII Enlistment File > > New at NARA - World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File - 9 > million records > > The NARA website says: > > "This series has records on about nine million men and women who enlisted > during World War II in the United States Army, including Army Reserves and > the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. NARA scanned War Department microfilmed > punch cards on enlistments to support the reconstruction of the military > personnel records at its National Personnel Record Center. Because of the > microfilm's poor condition, approximately 1.5 million records could not be > scanned. Also, the file has no records for Army officers, members of other > services or enlistments for other time periods. In general, each record > has the serial number of a soldier, person's name, state and county of > residence, place of enlistment, date of enlistment, grade, branch, term of > enlistment, place of birth, year of birth, race, education, civilian > occupation, marital status, and component. These records present unique > searching challenges." > > WWII Army Serial Number Records can be found here: > http://aad.archives.gov/aad/title_list.jsp > > Pull down the Subject search menu to "World War 1939-1945," select, and > click submit. > > Thanks to Joe Beine for sending notice of this database to the APG list. > > A simple search for McQueen gets 13 matches, Mc Queen 651 (MacQueen 1, Mac > Queen 26). A sample record for Roosevelt Mc Queen: > > Column Title Value Meaning Notes > ARMY SERIAL NUMBER 34452044 > NAME MC#QUEEN#ROOSEVELT###### > RESIDENCE: STATE 46 NORTH CAROLINA > RESIDENCE: COUNTY 165 SCOTLAND > PLACE OF ENLISTMENT 4625 FT BRAGG NORTH CAROLINA > DATE OF ENLISTMENT DAY 16 > DATE OF ENLISTMENT MONTH 09 > DATE OF ENLISTMENT YEAR 42 > GRADE: ALPHA DESIGNATION PVT# Private > GRADE: CODE 8 Private > BRANCH: ALPHA DESIGNATION BI# Undefined Code > BRANCH: CODE 00 General Officers of the line whose signature contain > the insertion - "United States Army" > FIELD USE AS DESIRED # > TERM OF ENLISTMENT 5 Enlistment for the duration of the War or other > emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or > otherwise according to law > LONGEVITY ### > SOURCE OF ARMY PERSONNEL 0 Civil Life > NATIVITY 46 NORTH CAROLINA > YEAR OF BIRTH 13 > RACE AND CITIZENSHIP 2 Negro, citizen > EDUCATION 0 Grammar school > CIVILIAN OCCUPATION 306 GEOGRAPHER > MARITAL STATUS 1 Single, with dependents > COMPONENT OF THE ARMY 7 Selectees (Enlisted Men) > CARD NUMBER # > BOX NUMBER 0801 > FILM REEL NUMBER 3.223 > > Valorie > http://valoriez.blogspot.com > > > ==== McQUEEN Mailing List ==== > Please don't post private information about living people > without permission. All posts are archived. Search by keyword: > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=MCQUEEN > Threaded archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MCQUEEN > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >