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Access to Archival Databases Featured
aad.archives.gov/aad/This Archival Databases site created by The National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) offers access to military records. Not all military personnel are yet available, but according to this website, more databases are added on a regular basis. T ...
Air Force Historical Research Agency Featured
afhra.maxwell.af.milThe Air Force Historical Research Agency provides medal information in a Guide to United States Air Force Lineage and Honors.
American Memory Project: The Civil War Featured
memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.htmlThe Library of Congress continues to expand its American Memory Project, providing online collections of documents, artifacts and primary sources: A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers documents the ...
Army Decorations and Medals Featured
www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_07/32cfr578_07.htmlTitle 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations which oversees National Defense contains detailed information about the Army's decorations and medals. See part 578 Decorations, medals, ribbons, and similar devices.
Defense Information Systems Agency Featured
www.disa.mil
The Defense Information System Agency is a combat support agency for planning, supporting, developing, fielding, and operating the command, control, communications, and information systems serving the President, Vice-President, Secretary of Defense, Joint ...
Flags, Medals, and Uniforms of the Coast Guard Featured
www.uscg.mil/history/Uniform_Index.aspThe United States Coast Guard Historian's Office includes a section on Flags, Medals, and Uniforms of the Coast Guard and its predecessor Services and information about select medal recipients. See Code of Federal Regulations Title 33 Part 13 for informa ...
Marine Corps History and Museums Division Featured
www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/
The Marine Corps History and Museums Division provides resources on the Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients. Recipients are listed by campaign, by name, and by unit. The site also includes a list of Naval personnel who recieved the medal while serving ...
Medal of Honor Featured
www.defenselink.mil/faq/pis/med_of_honor.htmlThe Medal of Honor is awarded to for acts of valor. A Brief History of the Medal of Honor provides a history of the medal which was authorized by Congress in 1861. The Medal of Honor Citations provides statistics and full text citations for recipients du ...
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Featured
www.archives.gov
The National Archives has a great deal of valuable information for the genealogist and family historian. This is probably the most well-known agency to genealogists. NARA is the repository of our government's records, many of which include information abo ...
National Archives Teaching with Documents: Civil War Featured
www.archives.gov/education/lessons/civil-war-reconstruction....Civil War and Reconstruction contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States. Teaching with primary documents encourages a varied learning environment for teachers and students alike. Lectu ...
Naval Historical Center Featured
www.history.navy.mil/index.html
The Naval Historical Center has extensive resources on wars and conflicts fought by the U.S. Navy from the Revolution to the present time. The Center manages the Navy Department Library, twelve Navy museums, art collections, archives, and an underwater ar ...
Office of the Director of National Intelligence Featured
www.dni.govThe Office of the Director of National Intelligence serves as the principal advisor to the President, National Security Council, and Homeland Security Council on intelligence matters related to national security.
U.S. Army Center for Military History Featured
www.army.mil/cmh-pg/index.htmlThe Center for Military History records the official history of the Army in both peace and war, while advising the Army Staff on relevant historical matters and is one of the major publishers of military history in the world. The site has an Online Booksh ...
U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center Featured
www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/The Army Heritage and Education Center (AHEC) began in June of 1999 by the Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera, who was committed to pursuing an Army museum at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. The museum was joined with the pre-existing U.S. Army Milit ...
Unit Lineage and Honors Featured
www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lh.htmlThe U.S. Army Center of Military History provides Unit Lineage and Honors information for select United States Army units including campaign credits and decorations received.
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