| The
Flag of The United States - a wonderful and comprehensive site
maintained by Duane Streufert. At this site you will find just about anything
you ever wanted to know about the American Flag, including the history
of Flag Day, proper folding, glossary of terms, wonderful links and resources
and so much more. http://www.usflag.org/ LINK
UPDATED 9/16/01
Operation
Just Cause is a non-funded assembly of persons from around the
world, united in their desire to achieve the fullest possible accounting
of Americans missing and unaccounted during the Vietnam war and all wars.http://www.ojc.org/
The
Wall on the Web was developed by the former Vietnam Veterans Home
Page Platoon Guide, Chris Shepard, as an interim capability pending the
development and fielding of a fully-searchable database. That search capability
now exists at "No Quarter". http://grunt.space.swri.edu/thewall/thewallm.html
No
Quarter . . . "The a VietNam Casualty Search Page". This site is
a non- commercial, not-for-profit, advertising-free site. http://www.no-quarter.org/
Women
Veterans - a history of their past: by Captain Barbara A. Wilson,
USAF (Ret), MA, MBA. I highly recommend this wonderful website, full of
information on Women Veterans as well as Female POW/MIA's. I spent an hour
just wandering her site looking at her wonderful graphics, military posters
and reading what she has compiled on women in the armed services. http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/index.html
THE
KOREAN WAR PROJECT Web site is a general-purpose resource and includes
comprehensive information about veterans of every war since World War II.
One of the site’s highlights is its database-search capability, which can
help people track down information on those who were enlisted, taken prisoner,
killed, left missing or wounded. The information in the site’s databases
is free but is not complete for all wars. Still, in many cases users can
search by name, address, division of service and even by unit number, among
others. Another area of the site offers to assist in obtaining military
records and yet another offers to send a CD-ROM database filled with information
on Korean War casualties.
The site is run by Ted and Hal Barker, self-taught Internet consultants
and sons of a Korean War POW. The Barkers’ vast site has links to a variety
of other sites that are more closely targeted to the Korean War. These
include a guest book, a “looking for” section, areas for personal histories,
veteran’s groups, travel logs, and a lengthy historical treatment of the
battle at Heartbreak Ridge.
The
50th Anniversary of the Korean War Web site contains a time line,
a section for personal reminiscences focusing on POWs and a relatively
small (but free) directory of Korean War veterans.
With
over 16 million listings, the American
War Library claims to contain the largest military veteran registry
and locator database anywhere. The site’s mission is, in the words of one
of its representatives, “to collect the names and locations of every American
who ever served in any service in the United States military, dating back
to the Revolutionary War.” The American War Library declined to say exactly
how it populated its vast database but said the information comes from
hundreds of sources, including people who have visited and registered with
the site. (Presumably the database also draws from other publicly available
sources like the National Personnel Records Center database). There are
three pricing plans for the use of the database: $5 for one day unlimited
access, $15 for 30 days of unlimited access and $39.95 for one year of
unlimited access.
The
The
National VETS Archives tracks more than 12,000 outfit reunions
and offers a search service to assist in locating military buddies. The
site also contains information about military reunions, helps organize
reunions and maintains many current reunion-outfit rosters. The site charges
a $15 fee to perform a comprehensive search, which includes: looking in
the site’s database to see if the buddy you seek has registered; searching
outfit rosters to see if he or she is currently a member of any reunion
group; and sending a query to the National
Personnel Records Center (see below) requesting any current information
on your buddy. You can register yourself in the site’s database by e-mailing
your name, address, service number, outfit and other vital information
to vets@vets.org.
Also
part of the Veteran’s National Archives Web site, the Outfit
reunion database is a comprehensive list of organizations sponsoring
reunions for veterans from every branch of the armed services.
The
National Personnel Records Center is a vast repository of millions
of military-personnel, health and medical records of discharged and deceased
veterans of all services. The facility also stores medical-treatment records
of retirees from all services, as well as records for dependents and other
people treated at Navy medical facilities. The Web site has a form which
you can use to request records, but inquiries must be made by mail at the
address supplied below. Note that this is an official government archive
with restrictions on who can obtain certain information. 9700 Page Ave.,
St. Louis, MO, 63131-5100. Telephone: (314) 263-3901
The
U.S. Navy Memorial Web site has a section called The Navy Memorial
Log, which, to quote from the page, “records naval service information
of present and former members of America’s sea services, living or deceased,
in whose names contributions have been made for the continuation of the
mission of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation.” There are over a quarter
of a million names in the log, most of them veterans of World War II and
Korea. You can see the site from home or you can go to the memorial in
Washington, D.C., and see it on the facility’s own computers.
The
Veteran’s Archive Database has more than 11,000 entries and contains
information on veterans from every branch of service and from all wars.
Fill out a form with your biographical information and it will be posted
in the database for other veterans to see.
The
Military
Search Bulletin Board is a relatively small site that offers the
advantage of seeing inquiries posted on a page, making for easy scanning
and some interesting reading. The postings are diverse, ranging from military
war buffs looking for units that used specific kinds of munitions to a
son looking for information about the location of his father’s unit in
France. There’s a section on the site for veterans of World War II (and
before). You can post your inquiry by e-mailing the site’s Webmaster at
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