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The military records and indexes are listed here in chronological order starting with the Revolutionary War.
Many of the indexes listed here are free to use - the items marked "requires payment" are part of Ancestry's subscription-based collection of online U.S. genealogy records.
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Black Hawk War
Mexican War
Civil War Databases, Records & Rosters of Soldiers -- for Genealogy Research
Ordering Civil War Records...
Helpful Civil War Guide Books (available from Amazon.com)...
Spanish-American War
- Ancestry's Military Records Collection
 (requires payment) includes these Spanish-American War items...
- Connecticut Servicemen, Spanish American War
- Indiana Spanish American War Records
- Massachusetts Spanish American War Records
- Minnesota Volunteers in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection
- North Carolina Volunteers, Spanish American War
- Ohio Soldiers in the War with Spain, 1898-1899
- Oregon Volunteers, Spanish American War and Philippine Insurrection
- These scanned books are also included in their "Family & Local Histories" collection...
- Michigan Men in the Spanish American War
- Pennsylvania: Record of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898
- Utah: The History of the Utah volunteers in the Spanish-American War and in the Philippine Islands
World War One
- World War I Draft Registration Records...
- World War One Alien Registration Records - Indexes of German (and some Austrian) Aliens in the US 1917-1918
World War Two
- World War II Army Enlistment Records Database (when you get there click on "World War II")
This database contains records of nearly 9 million men and women who enlisted in the United States Army, including the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. Although incomplete, the records contain data for a majority of the enlistments in the US Army during World War II.
- World War II Draft Registration Cards - 1942
 (requires payment) these are from the Fourth Registration held on 27 April 1942 - for men born 28 April 1877 to 16 February 1897. Presently available for these states: Arkansas*, California*, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana*, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York*, Ohio*, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia (states marked with * are incomplete)
- Missing Air Crew Reports, World War II (from Footnote)
 includes over 16,000 case files of Missing Air Crew Reports and related records of the U.S. Army Air Forces, 1942-1947 (you can search the database for free -- payment is required to download digitized images of the records)
Korean War & War in Vietnam
General
- Access to Archival Databases (AAD) from the US National Archives - included are many war related databases such as...
- World War II Army Enlistment Records (Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, 1938-1946)
- World War II Prisoners of War File, ca. 1942 - ca. 1947
- Japanese-American Internee File, 1942-1946
- Korean Conflict Casualty Files
- Repatriated Korean Conflict Prisoners of War File, ca. 1978 - ca. 1980
- Combat Area Casualties Database, ca. 1967 - ca. 12/1998 (includes Vietnam Casualties)
- Data File from the Casualty Information System, 1/1961-12/1981 (includes Vietnam Casualties)
- Cambodian Incidents File
- American Battle Monuments Commission
This organization maintains a listing of those buried at American military cemeteries overseas, and those Missing in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. They also have a listing of Civil War, Mexican War and Spanish American War veterans buried in Mexico, and those who lost their lives during the Korean War. Many of their databases are searchable online.
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