US military records for WW2

[tessie31082]

Hi, is there anywhere I can search for US military records? Had a gander on Ancestry but nothing obvious popped up! Also had a Google and there are US.gov but as I'm in England and not a direct relative I wonder if I could get the information?
Thanks (again)

[PhotoFamily]

Service records mostly went up in smoke, and the surviving records are not online.

Ancestry has military headstone applications - not sure they go up to WWII, tho.

Ancestry has draft registration records for WWII - but if your man enlisted, then he didn't have a draft record. There are some enlistment records, also on Ancestry, but they are very sparse on info (like, name, place of enlistment, maybe age?).

[PhotoFamily]

familysearch's wiki on US WWII military records:
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en...,_1941_to_1945

and they have a pamphlet on the subject.
https://www.archives.gov/files/resea...ticipation.pdf