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Center for Electronic Records Announcement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore J. Hull)
Fri Jul 17 20:03:34 1998
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:22:23 -0500
From: "Theodore J. Hull" <theodore.hull@arch2.nara.gov>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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This message is being posted to a number of Listservs. Please forgive
duplication and length.
The Center for Electronic Records (U.S.) National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA) announces the on-line
availability of state list extracts from the Southeast Asia Combat Area
Casualties Current File (CACCF), as of November 1997, electronic records
in the Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Record Group
330). These are the same lists NARA has made available for many years in
paper form.
The CACCF contains selected descriptive data about U.S. military personnel
who died as a result of the conflict in Southeast Asia, including
personnel declared dead while in a missing or captured status. There is
one record for each individual, 58,187, in all. The dates of death range
from 1957 to 1995. This database is one of the sources for the names that
appear on the Vietnam Veteran*s Memorial in Washington, D.C. (*The Wall*).
Each state list incorporates selected data elements for all deceased
casualties whose state home of record, as identified by the
serviceman upon last entrance into military service, was that state. The
state lists are in two formats: alphabetically by last name; or, alphabetic
ally by place of home of record. Home of record does not
necessarily refer to the place of birth, residence of next of kin, place
of longest residence, or other common uses of the term hometown.
The state lists include the following data for each casualty: name, rank
or grade, branch of service, home of record, date of casualty, place of
casualty, date of birth, type of casualty, and an indicator of the
recovery of remains. The direct URL to access the Vietnam conflist, as
well as the previously made available Korean conflict, state lists is:
http://www.nara.gov/nara/electronic/korvnsta.html.
I hope this information is useful.
Ted Hull
Archives Specialist
Center for Electronic Records
National Archives and Records Administration
(301) 713-6645, ext. 253
