Military identification ID cards are U. Be sure to check a location's details or call that office to verify ID card issuing hours. Some offices allow or require you to make an appointment. Be sure to bring the required identification documents to the ID Card office. If you are a military member, report lost or stolen cards to your base security officer or through your chain of command.
If you find a military ID card, return it to the nearest ID card office. A VIC is a veteran photo ID card that you can use to get veterans discounts, which many restaurants and businesses offer.
Britain and the Commonwealth remained the only major force continuing the fight against the Axis in North Africa and in extensive naval warfare. In June , the European Axis launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, giving a start to the largest land theatre of war in history, which, from that moment on, tied down the major part of the Axis military power.
In December , Japan, which aimed to dominate Asia, attacked the United States and European possessions in the Pacific Ocean, quickly conquering much of the region. We add around , new records each month. Register with your email address now, we can then send you an alert as soon as we add a record close matching the one you were searching for. Please enter a surname. Search Now. Are you researching your World War Two military ancestor? If you know the veteran's name, birth date, death date, and Social Security number, you can request information from the nearest U.
Department of Veterans Affairs. They may be able to provide insurance, birth date,service number, service entry and separation dates, service branch, pay grade, or claim folder location. Veterans Affairs offices are in the U. VFW applications include a copy of the discharge papers form DD A local post of the association is more likely to have applications and other records than the national headquarters.
Look in the telephone book for phone numbers or the Internet for address directories. A typical personnel file has information about service dates, marital status, dependents, rank, salary, assignments, education level, decorations, service number, birth date and place, death date and place, and sometimes a photo.
Also use SF to request a "complete" military medical file, which is in separate archives. Within each county they are slphabetical by name and only include those who died from wounds received in the line of duty.
They show name rank, serial number, and type of casualty. Each state list is alphabetical divided by the casualty type, including wounded and recovered. Also shows next of kin address. For a guide to the National Archives record groups on this topic, see:. Benjamin DeWhitt. Washington, D. For advice on finding records of Special Operations Executive SOE , signals intelligence and code breaking and other intelligence matters, see our intelligence and security services guide.
For advice on finding digitised records recording the movements of British and Allied merchant ships, consult our guide to merchant shipping movement cards.
For information on finding records of air raid damage between and , see the guide to records of the Bomb Census. Use our guide to land requisitioned for war for guidance on finding records of land requisitioned by the military and by the state during the war.
Our guide to the National Farm Survey of England and Wales gives advice on finding records and maps from the to survey which aimed to collect data on every farm or holding of more than five acres in England and Wales.
Though we do not generally hold photographs of individuals, there are large numbers of photographs depicting elements of military operations, some of them taken as part of the operations themselves, and some from the Home Front too.
Consult the Second World War section of our photographs guide for more details and advice on how to find photographs at The National Archives. Consult our guide to Propaganda for advice on finding records of the Ministry of Information and of the Foreign Office concerning news, press censorship and publicity and propaganda at home and overseas.
To locate copies of captured German and Italian documents follow the advice in our guide to German Foreign Ministry records. Our guide to war crimes includes advice on finding records of investigations and trials of war criminals in Europe and the Far East as well as of the tracing of ex-enemy nationals suspected of committing war crimes. There is a separate guide to records of Nazi persecution. Records of the looting of works of art and cultural property throughout Europe by Nazi Germany are covered in our looted art guide.
Our Education pages provide other resources for learning about the Second World War. For quick pointers Tuesday to Saturday to Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records.
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