To access 400,000 records from the United States National Archives regarding casualties from World War II.
Also, this is a programming project for me that will highlight Amazon AWS technologies. The website will be hosted on AWS as a static website running from S3 buckets. GIFs from records appearing in the National Archives will (eventually) be read using AWS Lambda. Any searches will be linked to an AWS REST point that will trigger results from an AWS DynamoDB file.
Background image courtesy U.S. National Archives. ("Into the Jaws of Death", Omaha Beach, 1944.)
Records from the National Archives are available on a state-by-state basis.
Each state page has separate casualty lists by what appears to be by county. Individual page records are GIF files and displays 3 sets of columns. Each set of columns lists "last name", "first name", "middle initial (if any)", "serial number", "rank", and an Army abbreviation for type of death.
Records from the National Archives are available on a state-by-state basis.
Each state page has separate casualty lists sorted by last name, not county of residence. Individual page records are GIF files and displays 3 sets of columns. Each set of columns lists "last name", "first name", "middle initial (if any)", "serial number", "rank", "Next of Kin", and a mailing address of some kind.