Prisoner of War research is complicated due to the enormous amount of material available. If you would like to discuss a research plan to help you discover the story of your family’s WWI or WWII POW, please contact us to schedule your free phone consultation to discuss research possibilities, time, and cost.
U.S. Internment and Prisoner of War Camps
POW Camps in the U.S.
National Archives Resources for Japanese American Records
NCPedia – Prisoners of War in North Carolina
Prisoners in Paradise – Italian POWs held in America
University of Utah’s Japanese-American Internment Camps During WWI
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco – Japanese Internment
European Theater POW and Internment Camps
Defense Prisoners of War * Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
Fold3.com Records
National Archives World War II Prisoners of War Data File, 12/7/1941 – 11/19/1946
Stalag Luft 1 POW Stories
Pacific Theater POW and Internment Camps
Center for Research Allied POWs Under the Japanese
JAG Case Files – Pacific War Crimes on Fold3
National Archives World War II Prisoners of the Japanese File, 2007 Update, ca. 1941 – ca. 1945
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