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Documents from US archives will serve to extend database of the perished in WW2

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Documents from US archives will serve to extend database of the perished in WW2


13.08.2018


Discussions on using documents from US military archives to develop Feat of the People and Memory of the People websites took place during Russian-American Commission of the The Prisoner of War/Missing in Action, TASS reports. In particular, the war theme on Korean Peninsula in 1950-53 was touched. 

According to the Head of the Central Department of Defence of Russia Igor Permyakov, the US has expressed the great interest in these meetings. American media representatives asked to search in national archives data on its personnel missing during military actions on the Korean peninsula. 

Russia has proposed to discuss the usage of materials found in US archives. For the most part it is a matter of German documents of WW2 that contains the data on Russian prisoners of war.

Russia has received the photocopies of these documents, but now the technical question should be solved to make these documents appear on Feat of the People and Memory of the People  websites that provide information on the World War Two heroes. 

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