This graphic used with
the expressed permission of Hap Halloran,
friend of
Robert Goldsworthy
Continually Under Construction
April 23, 2007
With regards to searching for records....
An e-mail from Lisa Stein passes on the following information:
NARA has WWII POW Info available. Their site is so hard to navigate though.
After hitting their main page, folks can go to the AAD Search: http://aad.archives.gov/aad/title_list.jsp (link will open up into a new browser window) and search by many different values...i.e. name, rank, serial number, POW Camp, etc. If one can actually make it to the proper page, it's almost inevitable that they will find the info they are looking for concerning WWII POW's.
An e-mail from Robert Garcia suggests going to the National Archives Official site (link will open up into a new browser window.) When you get there, click on SEARCH. In the keyword box, enter: Provost Marshal POW records. The electronic record group is 389. If you have any trouble, e-mail Mr. Lee Gladwin, who works for the National Archives. He helped Robert a bit on his search.
Also...
The Wringer Database and the GULAG Study Support Document Database pages are up and
running on the Library of Congress FRD website: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/tfr/tfrhome.html
Hundreds of declassified U.S. documents relating to Americans in the Gulag are databased in the Gulag Study Support Document Database. The WRINGER collection contains WRINGER debriefs of Japanese and German POWs from the Gulag who had contact or heard of Americans in the
Gulag. These should be invaluable tools for independent researchers. They are adding more documents as they become available.
In the meantime, research...write...post to message boards...write to WWII
webpage masters...visit on-line WWII museums...post to WWII newsgroups...do
searches on WWII...anything you can do to try and get the information you
are looking for. I have links listed below that I have used and might help
in your research.
In addition, if you don't find what you are looking for here from the links
and info provided, please feel free to post your inquiries to our message
board:
It has been an incredible and emotional process, but thanks to Wayne Martin,me talking about our POW/MIA work on
the POW/MIA Freedom Radio, the story of my Uncle is slowing being revealed.
He dove right in and has been helping me search for my Uncle. Without him,
I would not have the information I have today. In his search, he has come
across and supplied me with a huge resource of WWII links which I am including
here...please be patient as they are sorted and then added.
And thanks to all he has done and the wonderful people I have met that are
involved in remembering WWII and the Heros of that War; and searching for
loved ones from that War, I am in the process of trying to obtain a datbase
of all the POW/MIA/KIA from WWII. Please check back for updates and the process
of that database when and if it is ever obtained.
