While I was writing Top 10 Blog Posts for 2019 I discovered that my top post was US
Marine Casualty Cards from 2014.
Wow! {There is also an update to the original post here where I show some more information that was sent to me.} I went back to read the post
and discovered that the links no longer work.
I did a little
digging and found a link to the Casualty
Card Database at the Marine Corps University website. At this site you click on the war you want to
search and download a searchable spreadsheet.
Once you locate your Marine you send an email to request the card. There are also links to download information
about what the codes mean on the cards.
I also found that
you can search the U.S.
Marine Corps Casualty Index, 1940-1958, at Ancestry.com. It gives the casualty date, type, unit, and
service number. There is a link to go to
another website from the Ancestry database but that link does not work. {I
believe it is the same as the link from my original post.}
Have you used this
database before?
Wow! That looks like a very helpful database. I'm not a genealogist, but I do a lot of historic research for the books I write. Thanks!
ReplyDelete~Tui Snider, @TuiSnider TuiSnider.com - Historic Cemeteries & Symbolism from A to Z
Interesting post.
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