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Below are database fields with controlled lists, use these lists to guide your keyword searches in the advanced search option. The headings represent the field name (source, unit of service, war or conflict, campaign/battle) and the subheadings represent the entries available in each of these fields. See also the Description Fields page for a full list of fields utilized in the database.
Source [field name]
Go For Broke National Education Center
Japanese American Service Committee
Military Intelligence Service Veterans Club of Hawaii
Nisei Veterans Memorial Center
Unit of Service [field name]
100th Infantry Battalion (Separate)
100th Infantry Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team (Combined)
1399th Engineer Construction Battalion
1800th Engineering Battalion
232nd Combat Engineer Company
442nd Regimental Combat Team
522nd Field Artillery Battalion
5307 Composite Unit, Provisional (Merrill's Marauders)
Counter Intelligence Corps Linguists
Mars Task Force
Military Intelligence Service (MIS)
Varisty Victory Volunteers (VVV)
Women's Army Corps
2nd Armored Division
Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC)
141st Infantry Regiment
Civil Intelligence Section
Civil Intelligence Section, Operations Branch
Civil Intelligence Section, 441st Counter Intelligence Corps
Civil Intelligence Section, Civil Censorship Detachment
Civil Intelligence Section, Public Safety Division
555th Military Police Battalion
171st Cadre Training Battalion
1st Cavalry Division
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
106th Infantry Division
332nd Fighter Group
3rd Engineer Battalion
31st Engineer Battalion
477th Medium Bombardment Group
503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment
143rd Infantry Regiment
War or Conflict [field name]
World War, 1939-1945
Allied occupation, Japan, 1945-1952
Korean War, 1950-1953
Campaigns/Battles
Aleutian Islands Campaign
Anzio Campaign
Arno-Rome Campaign
Atsugi Airbase
Australia (Allied Translator and Interpreter Section)
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Monte Cassino
Battle Of Motne Cassino
Battle of Okinawa
Battle of Peleliu
Battle of Salerno
Battle of the Bulge
Belvedere
Bougainville
Bruyeres, Belmont, Biffontaine
Bruyeres, Belmont, Buffontaine
Central Burma Campaign
Central Europe Campaign
Champagne Campaign
Champaign Campaign
China Defensive, China Offensive
China, Burma, India Theater
Guadalcanal Campaign
Hokkaido
India, Burma Campaign
Leyte Campaign
Liberation of Dachau Subcamps
Luzon Campaign
Marianas Islands
Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands Campaign
Marshall-Gilberts Islands Campaign
Naples-Foggia Campaign
Napples-Foggia Campaign
New Georgia
New Guinea Campaign
North Africa Deployment
Northern Apennines and Po Valley Campaigns
Okinawa
Operation Varsity
Philippine Islands
Po Valley Campaign
Post-war Occupation of Germany
Post-war Occupation of Italy
Post-war Occupation of Japan
Post-war Occupation of Korea
Post-war Occupationof Japan
Rescue of the Lost Battalion
Rescue of the Lot Battalion
Rhineland Campaign
Rhineland Campaign-Maritime Alps
Rome-Arno Campaign
Saipan, Tinian and Guam
Solomon Islands
Southern France Campaign
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP)
The Gothic Line
Tokyo
Volcano and Ryukus Islands Campaign
Vosges
Yokohama