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Title: |
Records of World War
II Prisoners of War, created, 1942 - 1947, documenting
the period 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946 |
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Creator: |
War Department.
Adjutant General's Office. (3/4/1907 - 9/18/1947). (Most
Recent)
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| Type
of Archival Materials: |
Data Files
Textual Records |
| Level
of Description: |
Series from
Record Group 389: Records of the Office of the
Provost Marshal General |
| Other
Titles: |
W.D. A.G.O. FORM NO.
0326 |
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Location: |
NWME Electronic
and Special Media Records Services Division National
Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College
Park, MD 20740-6001 (phone) 301-837-0470 (fax)
301-837-3681 (e-mail) cer@nara.gov |
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Inclusive Dates: |
1942 - 1947 |
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Coverage Dates: |
12/7/1941 -
11/19/1946 |
| Date
Note: |
December 7, 1941
to November 19, 1946 are the earliest and latest
report dates in the records. The 1942 to 1947 dates
indicate the time period when the Adjutant General's
Office created and maintained the database. |
| Part
of: |
Record Group 389:
Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General |
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Function and Use: |
Using copies of
reports from the International Committee of the Red
Cross, the agency produced records on U.S. military
and civilian prisoners of war and internees, as well
as for some Allied internees. The agency used these
records to generate monthly reports. |
| Scope
& Content Note: |
This series has
information about U.S. military officers and soldiers
and U.S. and some Allied civilians who were prisoners
of war and internees. The record for each prisoner
provides serial number, personal name, branch of
service or civilian status, grade, date reported,
race, state of residence, type of organization,
parent unit number and type, place of capture
(theater of war), source of report, status, detaining
power, and prisoner of war or civilian internee camp
site. Records of prisoners of the Japanese who died
also document whether the prisoner was on a Japanese
ship that sank or if he or she died during transport
from the Philippine Islands to Japan. There are no
records for some prisoners of war whose names appear
in the lists or cables transmitted to the Office of
the Provost Marshal General by the International
Committee of the Red Cross. |
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Access Restrictions: |
Unrestricted |
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General Note: |
The other title,
"W.D.A.G.O. FORM NO. 0326," was printed on each punch
card. It is the form number that the War Department
used to reference this series.
The punch card records were transferred to NARA with
virtually no agency documentation. NARA staff
constructed documentation from paper records in the
Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal (RG 389)
and the Records of the Adjutant General's Office (RG
407).
Additional information about the Adjutant General's
Office, Machine Records Units and the coding of the
POW cards may be found in Lee A. Gladwin, "Top
Secret: Recovering and Breaking the US Army and Army
Air Force Order of Battle Codes, 1941-1945," in
PROLOGUE (Fall, 2000) and "American POWs on Japanese
Ships Take a Voyage into Hell," in PROLOGUE (Winter,
2003).
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Finding Aid Type: |
Technical Information |
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Finding Aid Source: |
NARA and
Adjutant General's Office |
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Finding Aid Note: |
The
documentation package contains 145 pages. |
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Extent: |
1 data file and 1
page of agency documentation |
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| Index Terms |
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Subjects Represented in the Archival Material |
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Armed forces
officers
Names, Personal
Prisoners of war
Repatriation
Soldiers
World War, 1939-1945
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Japan (Asia) nation
Philippines (Asia) nation
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Contributors to the Authorship and/or Production of the Archival
Materials |
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International Committee of the
Red Cross, Originator
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Custodial History Note: |
The U.S. Army
transferred punch card records of World War II
prisoners of war (POWs) to NARA as a unique series
in its 1959 transfer of all of the U.S. Army's
Departmental Archives. In 1978 the Veterans
Administration borrowed most of the punch card
records of repatriated U.S. military personnel for
a study of Repatriated U.S. Military Prisoners of
War, migrated the data on almost all of the
borrowed cards to an electronic format and returned
the punch cards and two electronic records data
files to NARA. In 1995 NARA migrated the data from
almost all of the remaining punch card records to
an electronic format and has subsequently preserved
all of the records in a single data file. |
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