United States World War II Unit Histories

United States U.S. Military  WWII  Unit Histories

Air Force
For information regarding official military unit histories, contact:

U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency 600 Chenault Circle Maxwell AFB, AL 36112-6424 Telephone: (334) 953-2395

Army
For information regarding official military unit histories, contact:

U.S. Army Center of Military History 103 3rd Avenue Fort Lesley J. McNair, DC 20319-5058 Telephone: (202) 685-4042

Navy
For information regarding official military unit histories, contact:

U.S. Naval History &amp; Heritage Command Washington Navy Yard, Bldg 57 (3rd Floor) Washington, DC 20374 Telephone: (202) 433-3224

Marine Corps
For information regarding official military unit histories, contact:

U.S. Marine Corps History Division 3078 Upshur Avenue Quantico, Virginia 22134 Telephone: (703) 432-4877

Information on WWII Marines has been collected by Jerome Beau, volunteer historian. He has collected over 7600 histories on fellow Marine Raiders.

Coast Guard
For information regarding official military unit histories, contact:

U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office Commandant (CG-09224) U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters 2100 Second Street SW Washington, D.C. 20593

Other Sources
For brief organizational and service histories of Army combat units see the following:


 * Maurer, Maurer, ed. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II. Department of the Air Force, USAF Historical Division, Air University, 1969. Not found at the FHL.
 * Stanton, Shelby L. Order of Battle, U.S. Army, World War II. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1984. (FHL book 973 M2st.)

UnitHistories.com website aims to give a full spectrum of data on World War II fighting units, including details on organization, commanders, and literature.