World War II Enlistment and Casualty Records, United States, 1941-1945 (ICPSR 38927)

Version Date: Apr 2, 2024

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Principal Investigator(s):
Andreas Ferrara, University of Pittsburgh

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38927.v1

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Summary

The World War II Enlistment and Casualty Records data set contains individual-level information on soldiers who were drafted or volunteered for service in the U.S. armed forces during World War II. The repository consists of three files:

  • The digitized list of fallen soldiers who served in the U.S. Army or Army Air Force by name, state, and county of residence (300,131 observations)
  • The digitized list of fallen soldiers who served in the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard by name, state, and county of residence (65,507 observations)
  • The World War II Army and Army Air Force Enlistment records which were merged with the list of fallen soldiers (8,293,187 observations)

Citation

Ferrara, Andreas. World War II Enlistment and Casualty Records, United States, 1941-1945. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-04-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38927.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Smallest Geographic Unit

County

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1941-01-01 -- 1945-12-31

Date of Collection

1941-01-01 -- 1945-12-31
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Time Method

Cross-sectional

Universe

Soldiers who were drafted or volunteered for service in the U.S. armed forces during World War II

Unit(s) of Observation

Individual

Data Source

Individual information on enlisted soldiers merged with casualty records Army and Army Air Force merged

Individual information on fallen soldiers Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard

Individual information on fallen soldiers Army and Army Air Force

Data Type(s)

Mode of Data Collection

Description of Variables

All data sets identify soldiers by name, serial number, as well as their place of residence (or that of their next of kin) at the time of entering into service. The enlistment records contain each soldier's unique serial number, full name, state and county of residence, and several variables measured at the time of entering into service including their rank, service branch, terms of enlistment, nativity, age, race, education, pre-war occupation, marital status, height, weight, and for a subsample their Army General Classification Test (AGCT) score.

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Original Release Date

2024-04-02

Version History

2024-04-02 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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