Government Resources
Vietnam Era Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Database :: Library of Congress
Interactive Database of Documents Pertaining To POWs and MIAs From Southeast Asia
Task Force Russia Documents Database
Interactive Database of Documents Pertaining To POWs and MIAs in the Former USSR
Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
Official Agency of USG Tasked With Accounting For POWs and MIAs From All Wars
Russian - American Joint Commision On Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
Official Agency of USG Tasked With Accounting For POWs and MIAs in the Former USSR
National Personnel Records Center
Military and Civilian Document and Personnel File Repository
JPAC
Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command - Merger of CILHI & JTF-FA
AFIP - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Private Resources :: Interactive
POW-MIA Bios and Loss Data Database - Courtesy of POW Networks
Interactive Database of POW-MIA Public Loss Bios
Vietnam Wall
Interactive Site Offering Virtual Rubbing of The Wall
Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Page
Interactive Site Offering Virtual Rubbing of TheWall
World War I, World War II & Korean War Name Search Database
Interactive Database Offering Searches For POW-MIAs and KIA/BNR
Private Resources :: Family Organizations
SEA ::
The National Alliance of Families
Organization of POW-MIA Families From All Wars
Updates, Dedicated Sections & Family Perspectives
The National League of Families
Organization of POW-MIA Families From Southeast Asia
Korean War - Cold War ::
Korea-Cold War Families of the Missing, Inc.
Largest Family Organization for Korea-Cold War POWs and MIAs
Coalition Of Families of Korean/Cold War POWs and MIAs
Organization of POW-MIA Families From the Korean War and Cold War Era
World War II ::
WWRM (World War II Families for the Return of the Missing)
An advocacy group dedicated to locating and repatriating the remains of missing service personnel from World War II.
International:
IFFAMPAC - International Federation of Family Associations of Missing Persons from Armed Conflicts
IFFAMPAC is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)
in Special Consultative Status with the
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
Private Resources :: Veteran & Activist, Former USG Officials
American Ex-Prisoners of War (AmEx POWs)
Congressionally chartered organization for POWs from all wars
News, Reunions, Legislation
Cambodian Genocide Programme
The Killing Fields
Civil War Camp Names & Locations, Interactive Namebase, Geneaology Database of POWs
US Civil War Center
Civil War Interactive Database
George One Recovery Team
The safe and successful recovery of three US Naval Aviators killed when their PBM-5 Mariner crashed during Admiral Richard ByrdÕs 1946-47 Operation Highjump expedition.
Ted 'Hawk' Guy's - The Hanoi Hilton
Former Southeast Asia POW and Advocate
Korean War MIA/POW Help Desk
Korea Web Weekly Site Offers News, Links, History and POW-MIA Material
Korean War Veterans's National Museum
Museum & Library Dedicated to the Korean War
Keith "Matt" Maupin Official Website
Parents, Keith & Carolyn Maupin have created a Tribute to their POW son, captured April 2003, Iraq
MIA Facts Page - Colonel Joe Schlatter, US Army (Retired)
Former DOD Official Offers A Personal View of the POW-MIA Issue
Worth Reading
MIA Recoveries
Ongoing expeditions in Burma, India, Bangladesh and China to locate and document missing-in-action (MIA) Allied aircraft lost in that area of Asia during World War II.
Minnesota Won't Forget POW/MIA
Wonderful Non-Partisan Group of long-time advocates
Please Visit Them
The National Gulf War Resource Center
An international coalition of advocates and organizations providing a resource for information, support, and referrals for all those concerned with the complexities of Persian Gulf War issues, especially Gulf War illnesses and those held prisoner or missing in action.
Operation Just Cause
Online Adopt-A-POW Program, POW-MIA Graphics
The Other Holocaust
Unit 731 and Nanjing Massacre
WARNING: Graphic Atrocities Material
Pacific Ghosts - Project PRIAM
An initiative created in 2006 to document those still missing in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War. Using information gathered from relatives, eye witnesses, official documents and other sources they are putting the pieces together in the hope of one day helping to locate some of those personnel with "No Known Grave".
Phony POW Project
Excellent Resource on Phonies, Frauds & Wannabes
Organization of Family Members
P.O.W. Network
Public Loss Biographies and Operation Smoking Gun Document Collection
Must Read
Society of the Honor Guard, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Brotherhood of Tomb Guards, History, Pictures, News and More
Stop POW Torture
Organization of Former POWs From PGW Who Filed Suit Against Saddam Hussein
Three's In - The Vietnam POW Homepage
Organization of Former POWs From Southeast Asia
Unit 731
Biological Warfare Unit WW II
Vietnam Law Links
Archive of Vietnam Legal Documents
WW II POWs of Stalag Luft I
Expansive archive of POW materials
100th Bomb Group
Home of the Famous "Bloody Hundredth"
Memorandum for the Record::
United States Senate
"Unclassified and Based Entirely Upon Unclassified Sources and Information
From: (REDACTED)
Date: April 8, 1993
Subject: Russian Document From Soviet CPSU Central Committee International Department Archives Reveals 1,205 American POWs Were Held in North Vietnam in September, 1972--Five Months Before Operation Homecoming Returned 591 POWs.
Summary: The Newly Acquired Russian Document Has Been Authenticated by the U.S. Executive Branch, and it Reveals That About 700 American POWs Were Kept Behind by the North Vietnamese in 1973. There is also Corroborating Evidence from Two Credible Sources, Buttressed by Declassified Overhead Imagery and Other POW Prison Systems in North Vietnam Where These 700 POWs Were Kept, Other Evidence Shows that Some American POWs Were Sent to the Former Soviet Union in yet Another Separate Prison System.
President Clinton was Briefed on this Document and its revelations before his April 3, 1993, Summit Meeting with Russian President Yeltsin, But President Clinton Reportedly Failed to Bring up the Subject of POWs at all with Yeltsin. (End Summary).
"The 1972 Soviet G.R.U. Document on American Prisoners of War being Held in North Vietnam
An Evaluation by Dr. Stephen J. Morris Visiting Scholar
Center for International Affairs - Harvard UniversityThe Soviet G.R.U. document has failed to receive a thorough and objective evaluation from the bureaucratic agencies of the United States government, in particular the Departments of Defense and State. In part the U.S. government's evaluation is crippled by its lack of access to other relevant documents of this kind --- that is genuine Vietnamese communist politburo or military high command documents dealing with the American prisoners of war and their political role in VIetnamese communist policy. But that problem is potentially soluble through the possible further use of another source of Vietnamese documents and valuable intelligence reports -- the archives of the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow.
A more profound and possibly intractable problem which has crippled U.S. government evaluation has been the prejudice on the part of many senior U.S. government officials -- and the Presidentail emissary General Vessey --- to totally reject the value of the Soviet G.R.U. document. As the previous discussion has shown, the criticisms at best show a lack of proportion and at worst a total incompetence in even reading the Soviet document."
Foreign Relations SubCommittee for Asian and Pacific Affairs
Testimony of Dr. Stephen J. Morris - July 14, 1993
