The World War II Enlistment and Casualty Records data set contains individual-level information on soldiers who were drafted or volunteered for service in the U.S. armed forces during World War II. The repository consists of three files: The digitized list of fallen soldiers who served in the U.S. Army or Army Air Force by name, state, and county of residence (300,131 observations) The digitized list of fallen soldiers who served in the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard by name, state, and county of residence (65,507 observations) The World War II Army and Army Air Force Enlistment records which were merged with the list of fallen soldiers (8,293,187 observations)

VetPop2020 projected number of Veterans who served in World War II by state for fiscal year 2023.

Project WARLUX - Soldiers and their communities in WWII: The impact and legacy of war experiences in Luxembourg is a research project based at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) (University of Luxembourg). The projects focuses on the war experiences of male Luxembourgers born between 1920 and 1927 who were recruited and conscripted into Nazi German services (Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) and Wehrmacht) under the Nazi occupation in Luxembourg during the Second World War.

Data Sample

While over 12,000 men and women were affected by the conscription, Project WARLUX focuses on a case study of 304 recruits from Schifflange and their families. In total, the data sample includes around 1200 persons, recruits and their family members.

Origin of the data

The dataset primarily consists of compiled archival documentation, including organizational and official documents, statistics, and standardized fiches and cards. These sources are primarily sourced from the Luxembourgish National Archives and other relevant repositories.

In addition to basic information such as name, birth date, and residence, the (internal) dataset also incorporates military records sourced from German archives. Furthermore, supplementary information related to captivity, repatriation, and compensation was collected in the post-war period. The surveys and statistics conducted by the Luxembourgish state provide valuable insights into the experiences and trajectories of the war-affected generation.

It is important to note that the dataset is a composite of multiple heterogeneous sources, reflecting its diverse origins.

Database

The researchers involved in the WARLUX project opted for the utilization of a relational database, nodegoat.

The WARLUX project adheres to an object-oriented approach, which is reflected in the core functionalities provided by nodegoat. Given the project's specific focus on the war experiences of recruited Luxembourgers within Nazi services such as the Wehrmacht and RAD, the included data model (warlux data model file) represents only a partial depiction of the comprehensive nodegoat environment employed in the WARLUX project. Within this data model, the interconnected objects and their respective sub-objects are presented, with particular emphasis placed on the individual profiles of recruits and their involvement in military service.

As the data can not be published due to restriction, the team provides a pseudonymized dataset as an example of the data structure.

The provided dataset shows the male recruits (and conscripts) of the Case Study Schifflange (born between 1920 and 1927). It includes

• nodegoat ID
• their birthdate
• information on death if it occurred during the war
• whereabout after the war (unknown, missing, KIA, returned etc.)

The dataset also includes references to their recruitment into

• the Wehrmacht and/or the RAD as well as their subsequent activities such as
• being captured as a Prisoner of War (POW)
• serving for the Allied Forces
• desertion, or
• draft evasion (réfractaire).

The access to the WARLUX nodegoat database, on recruits of Schifflange/Luxembourg is restricted due to sensitive data. For further questions please contact warlux@uni.lu

The project is funded by the Fond National de la Recherche Luxembourg (FNR).

The Veterans’ Grandchildren Mortality Plus sample consists of the records of more than 35,700 total grandchildrenboth male and female in nearly equal numbers,about 28,000 of which survived to age 45,who were born after the war to 16,791 children of 2,825 veterans,and contains an oversample of ex-POW veterans.The primary purpose of the project was to explore how grandfathers’ trauma affects the longevity and overweight of descendants. The dataset contains birth and death dates of grandchildren, census information on their parents' household, select socioeconomic and education information from the 1930 and 1940 census, and height and weight information from WWII draft cards for the grandsons. This multigenerational dataset can be used for researching the intergenerational transmission of longevity, overweight and socioeconomic status and the sex-specific pathways of this transmission and for testing mechanical linkage algorithms. Researchers built on a previously collected NIA-funded project containing census and death information of children of ex-POW and non-POW veterans (“Early Indicators, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging,” NIA grant P01AG10120, PI: Costa). The Veterans’ Grandchildren Mortality Plus data set contains the newly collected records of the veterans’ grandchildren, as well as the previously collected data of the veterans and their children.

Ecomomic and Social Statistics of World War II in Southeast AsiaThis project draws on archival material and uses economic theory and an historical, strongly comparative, approach to analyse the consequences of the Second World War Japanese occupation for the economies and welfare of the peoples of Southeast Asia. The region's six countries of Burma, Malaya (including Singapore), Thailand (Siam), Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) and the Philippines had markedly contrasting wartime experiences. One main aim of the project is to quantify wherever possible the differing impacts of Japan's occupation. Second, the project aims to link the pre- and post-1945 economic histories of Southeast Asia and contribute to an understanding of each in light of the events of the Second World War. Specific topics for investigation include the impact on Southeast Asia of Japanese command and planned economic systems, the effectiveness of these policies in achieving resource extraction, trends in Southeast Asian production and GDP, and inflation and hyperinflation resulting from Japan's methods of financing war in Southeast Asia. The project examines for each Southeast Asian country the social costs of wartime economic collapse and traces a chronology of mass death from famine and forced labour in many parts of Southeast Asia. An important contribution of the project is to direct attention towards the populations of non-combatant countries which, although not militarily involved in war, were profoundly affected by it.

The CenSoc WWII Army Enlistment Dataset is a cleaned and harmonized version of the National Archives and Records Administration’s Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938 - 1946 (2002). It contains enlistment records for over 9 million men and women who served in the United States Army, including the Army Air Corps, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, and Enlisted Reserve Corps. We publish links between men in the CenSoc WWII Army Enlistment Dataset, Social Security Administration mortality data, and the 1940 Census. The CenSoc Enlistment-Census-1940 file links these enlistment records to the complete 1940 Census, and may be merged with IPUMS-USA census data using the HISTID identifier variable. The CenSoc Enlistment-Numident file links enlistment records to the Berkley Unified Numident Mortality Database (BUNMD), and the CenSoc Enlistment-DMF file links enlistment records to the Social Security Death Master File. For enlistment records in the Enlistment-Numident and Enlistment-DMF datasets that have been independently and additionally linked to the 1940 Census, we include the HISTID identifier variable that can be used to merge the data with IPUMS census data.

The Auckland Provincial Roll of Honour for World War II is an alphabetical list of those service personnel from the Auckland Province who died during, or as a result of injuries caused by, World War II. The handwritten document provides information on regimental number, rank, honours, unit and next-of-kin. It duplicates the names held on the Walls of the Hall of Memories and is on permanent display in the Museum's Hall of Memories II.

This Manuscript has been transcribed and matched against the Online Cenotaph database part of Auckland War Memorial Museum and includes 4,668 entries. Two entries have not been matched.

The Original catalogue record can be found on Collections Online MS-1993-139. It was digitised in 2013 and transcribed by Auckland War Memorial Museum volunteers in 2020.

Field Names

• Sequence

• Filename – from image files

• Online Cenotaph ID– from Online Cenotaph

• Service No. – original information

• Rank – original information

• Last name – original information

• First name – original information

• Honours (if applicable) – original information

• Unit – original information

• Next of kin – original information