Online Vietnam War Indexes & Records

A Genealogy Guide

Online Vietnam War Indexes & Records

• POW-MIA database - Korean War/Vietnam War (at Rootsweb)

• Vietnam War, Deceased Casualties, 1965-1972 more than 100,000 listings (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription)
  • A subscription also includes...
    • Vietnam War, Casualties Returned Alive, 1962-1979 (requires payment)
    • Vietnam War, Awards and Decorations of Honor, 1965-1972 (requires payment)
    • U.S. Army Personnel and Dependent Casualties, 1961-1981 (requires payment) - 85% of the records in this database are related to the Vietnam Conflict
    • Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 (requires payment) The BIRLS (Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem) Death File contains birth and death dates, and other information, for more than 14 million veterans who received benefits from the VA while they were alive.

• Personnel Missing Southeast Asia (Vietnam War) POW/MIA (Department of Defense)
• Vietnam-Era Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Database (from the Library of Congress)

• The Vietnam Veterans Wall...
  • Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Fold3 (formerly Footnote) (free) you can search for names and view images from the wall; you can also leave tributes
  • Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page includes a searchable database of names on the wall

• National Archives (NARA) Vietnam War Databases
  • Vietnam War - Access to Archival Databases (AAD) includes Vietnam War casualties, wounded, prisoners of war, missing in action, and more items
  • Lists of American Casualties from the Korean & Vietnam Wars State-level lists of casualties from the Korean conflict (1951-1957) and from the Vietnam conflict (1956-1998)

• Names of Vietnam War Merchant Marine Killed

• Colorado Vietnam War Casualites June-December 1966 & January-December 1968

• Michigan Military Personnel Who Died in the Vietnam War

• Missouri: St. Louis City and St. Louis County Vietnam War Dead
  • Also see: St. Louis Genealogy Resources

General Databases with Vietnam Records

• Veterans Affairs Burial Search for 120 National Cemeteries (USA)

• Medals & Awards
  • U.S. Army Medal of Honor Recipients (Civil War to the present)
  • Purple Heart Recipients Database (not complete)

• Virginia Military Dead Database ongoing project

• West Virginia Veterans Memorial Database (for 20th Century Wars)