U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
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- U.S. WW II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946. Other title: World War II Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File.
- Name index to Army Serial Number Enlistment Card Records, excluding officers, in the United States Army including the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Enlisted Reserve Corps circa 1938-1946. The index is part of Record Group 64: Records of the National Archives and Records Administration. This index is not complete and may contain scanning errors. Database courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
- This database contains information on about 8.3 million men and women who enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War II. While this database contains information on the majority of the men and women who served in the Army during this war, it is not complete and does not represent the entirety of the U.S. Army servicemen. Information found in this database comes from the WD AGO Form 317 (used from 1941-45), WD AGO Form 372 (used from 1945-46), and Enlisted Reserve Corps Statistical cards.
- From the National Archives web site:
- These records are an electronic version of the series "Army Serial Number File, 1938-1946." In 1994, NARA contracted with the Bureau of the Census for a special conversion project which later resulted in the creation of the series "Electronic Army Serial Number Raw Files, 1994-2002." To create the series "World War II Army Enlistment Records, 2002," the series "Electronic Army Serial Number Raw Files, 1994-2002" were merged into a single file. This processing combined the first two reads of the punch card images into a single "best guess" record and stripped the files of the box header records, end of file and blank records. The box and roll data were placed at the end of the cleaned up record. The records with the value ONE OR MORE CARDS WERE UNREADABLE AT THIS LOCATION are retained in the file at the position where they originally occurred.
- Each record contains the combined readings from the first two scans of each enlistment punch card although each card was scanned up to ten times. While these additional scans may have produced additional information from the card, NARA did not use a more complex algorithm to include the information from these subsequent scans to create a better "guess" than what currently appears in the series "World War II Army Enlistment Records, 2002." Therefore NARA has retained the series "Electronic Army Serial Number Raw Files, 1994-2002," should researchers want to re-process the raw data with the information from all of the scans and to try to create a file with possibly more accurate records.
- https://catalog.archives.gov/id/604357?q=Army%20Enlistment%20world%20war%20ii
- https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=3360&cat=all&bc=sl (this is the actual search form for the above database)
- https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2028680
- https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/United_States,_World_War_II_Army_Enlistment_Records_%28FamilySearch_Historical_Records%29
- http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8939
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