United States World War II Unit Histories

United States U.S. Military  WWII  Unit Histories

Army 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


 * 70th Bombardment Squadron in World War II

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

Division Histories

 * First Division
 * 20th Armored Division
 * 24th Division
 * 26th Division
 * 29th Division
 * 31st Division
 * 33rd Division
 * 41st Division
 * 43rd Division
 * 75th Division
 * 76th Division
 * 80th Division
 * 83rd Division
 * 86th Division
 * 88th Division
 * 90th Division
 * 94th Division
 * 96th Division

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

National Archives Administrative History Notes

 * Army Air Forces. - 2nd Bombardment Division. 9.13.1943-12.19.1944.
 * Army Air Forces. - 2nd Air Division. 12.19.1944-8.28.1945.

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.)

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