Finding Aids: Reference Information Paper 82 Table of Contents

A Finding Aid to Records Relating to Personal Participation in World War II: American Military Casualties and Burials

A bugler blows taps at the close of Memorial Day service at the American Military Cemetery, Margraten, The Netherlands, where lie thousands of American heroes of World War II. April 30, 1945. Record Group 111, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 111-SC-207902, [Photo No. 1348 in War and Conflict].

Contents: List of Records in Numerical Order by Record Group (RG) Number

• Preface
   
• Introduction
  • Scope and Content of this Paper
  • Military Casualty Reporting Systems in World War II
  • U.S. Army Casualty Systems and Reporting
    • Casualty Reports and Notification Telegrams
    • Letters of Condolence and Progress Reports
    • Messages of Cheer
    • "Missing Air Crew Reports" and Follow-up Letters
    • Status Determination
  • U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Casualty Accounting and Inter-Service Cooperation
  • Distribution of Casualty Status Information Outside the Casualty Branch
     
• Part I: Textual Records Relating to Casualties and Burials
  • RG 24 Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel
    • Records of the Casualty Section
    • Ships' Logs
  • RG 52 Records of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
  • RG 92 Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General
    • Correspondence
    • Records of the Memorial Division
    • Records of Missing Air Crews
    • Other Records
  • RG 112 Records of the Office of the Surgeon General (Army)
  • RG 117 Records of the American Battle Monuments Commission
  • RG 127 Records of the U.S. Marine Corps
    • Records of the Office of the Commandant
    • Personnel Records of the Adjutant and
    • Inspector's Department
    • Records of Fleet Marine Commands
    • Records of Marine Corps Aviation Units
  • RG 208 Records of the Office of War Information
  • RG 242 National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized
  • RG 247 Records of the Office of the Chief of Chaplains
  • RG 337 Records of Headquarters Army Ground Forces
  • RG 338 Records of U.S. Army Commands
    • Records of the Fifth Army Graves Registration Service
    • Historians' Background Files from "HUMEDS"
  • RG 389 Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General
  • RG 407 Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1917-
  • Reference Material on World War II Casualties and Burials
  
   
• Part II. Audiovisual Records Related to Casualties and Burials
  • Motion Pictures
    • RG 18 Records of the Army Air Forces
    • RG 56 General Records of the Department of the Treasury
    • RG 107 Records of the Office of the Secretary of War
    • RG 111 Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
    • RG 208 Records of the Office of War Information
    • RG 226 Records of the Office of Strategic Services
    • RG 242 National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized
    • Donated Historical Materials
  • Still Pictures
    • RG 26 Records of the U.S. Coast Guard
    • RG 52 Records of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
    • RG 80 General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1789-1947
    • RG 111 Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
    • RG 117 Records of the American Battle Monuments Commission
    • RG 127 Records of the U.S. Marine Corps
       
• Appendix: Casualty Statistics
  • U.S. Army Casualties
    • Army Casualties by Category
    • Army Casualties (Wounded and Dead) by Year
    • Army Casualties (Wounded and Dead) by Theater
  • U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Casualties
    • Total U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Casualties, World War
       
• Index to Publication

Note: Compiled by Benjamin L. DeWhitt. Published by the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC, 1993.

Web version prepared 1999. Additions and changes incorporated in the Web version are between brackets [] and in italics.