deserves a
record.
Tell us about your soldier — name, rank, dates of service, unit. Describe what materials you have: photos, letters, documents, a DD-214. Takes about ten minutes.
Photograph your photos and documents with your phone — no scanner needed. Send by email or upload directly. Originals stay with you. We work from copies.
We research the unit history, cross-reference dates, identify fellow soldiers, and write the timeline. You review everything before it goes live.
Your soldier's profile links to others who served alongside him — connecting families, filling gaps. It gets richer over time.
You don't need everything. Even a name and a single photograph is enough to start.
- ✓Photographs — in-country shots, unit photos, anything from his service years. Phone photos of printed photos work fine.
- ✓Letters home — the most irreplaceable source. They place him in specific places at specific times and in his own words.
- ✓DD-214 — contains rank, MOS, dates, decorations, and character of service.
- ✓Names of men he served with — even partial names help. Connections between soldiers strengthen both records.
- +Anything else — clippings, citations, discharge papers, patches. Anything he brought home.
We supplement your materials with unit history research so even sparse submissions produce a meaningful record.
- ✓Unit movement and events — fire support base locations, operations, and documented engagements for the dates he served.
- ✓Fellow soldiers — cross-referencing with other archive profiles and unit records.
- ✓Military records — National Archives requests, casualty records, and award citations where available.
- +Published accounts — ASA newsletters, memoirs, and oral histories that may mention your soldier by name.