Bob Kirby, Another way to locate WW II missing and dead is to do a NAIL search at the National Archives. Go to the site, on the media box scroll down and select textual records only, and use the name of the county from which your person entered the service. After you get the search results you have to click the display results button. Among other hits, you will get a list of World War II Honored Dead and Missing. They list the person by name, rank and service number. This was done for every county in the US and in the territories. It will only display those who died or went missing while in a line of duty status. Make sure you read the introductory pages as they give the definitions of all the abbreviations, and how and why the lists were made. With that info, you should be able to get a service record, if it was not destroyed or if it is one of those rebuilt since the fire from other records. This is the NARA NAIL search site: http://www.nara.gov/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=standard.txt&id=demo&pass=& OK=OK Make sure you get all of the above url. If it is not all blue to the second OK it will not work and you will have to copy and paste it into your address bar. Good luck. Good Hunting Marianne Victory Purdy Check my genes at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mariannevictorypurdy/ On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:51:19 EST Asiltrebor@aol.com writes: > My father and his brothers all served in WWII, in the Marines, Navy, > Army and > Army Air Corp. My mother's brothers also. My father is the only > one left > alive and at 82, his memory is fading. How can I get hold of their > military > records, or at least find out what unit they were in and where they > served? > One uncle was killed flying over Burma, one served in France, 2 in > the > Pacific. One was in the SeeBees in Alaska but thats all I know. > > Thanks, > Bob Kirby > asiltrebor@aol.com >