Welcome to Global Military Research LLC (G.M.R)
A Historical Military Records Research Company located in the United States
About Us
Tenacious Military Records Research
Global Military Research, LLC (G.M.R.) provides comprehensive military records research services, covering records from the Spanish-American War to the present. We specialize in individual personnel and unit records from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Our Customers
We serve retired and discharged members of all branches of the U.S. military, the German military, and their families. Our research services also support historians, authors, aspiring writers, military history website administrators, scholars, universities, and the general public by connecting individuals with significant places. We specialize in researching World War II records from both the European and Pacific theaters.
Where We Research
The United States National Archives and Records Administration is the main repository for research records. Archives II in College Park, Maryland, holds most unit records, histories, and after-action reports from military services. The National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, maintains individual personnel records from 2002 back to World War I. Records from earlier periods are located at Archives I in Washington, DC.
Our Owner and ARCHIVES Research PROFESSIONAL
Donald (Don) Mounts
Donald (Don) Mounts is a retired homicide detective from the New York City Police Department. He contributed to the establishment of the NYPD's first Cold Case Squad and was among its inaugural members. The squad addressed more than 18,000 unsolved homicide cases dating back to the 1960s. Mounts retired after 30 years of distinguished service.
During genealogical research, Mounts discovered that his late cousin, 1st Lt. James Monroe Mounts, had been a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II. This investigation led him to the National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri, and College Park, Maryland. He found that a 1973 fire at the St. Louis Archives had destroyed his cousin's Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). Despite this setback, Mounts devoted considerable effort to reconstructing the lost file using alternative records.
Mounts' research established that Lt. James Monroe Mounts served as a bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress with the 91st Bombardment Group in Bassingbourn, United Kingdom. On July 20, 1944, during his 23rd mission over Nazi Germany, which coincided with the Stauffenberg assassination attempt, his aircraft was shot down over Leipzig. Lt. Mounts survived by parachuting from the burning plane. After evading capture for three days, he was apprehended, subjected to torture by the Gestapo, and interned at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany, for the remainder of the war.
In 2011, Mounts located the cremated remains of his late cousin James in a Florida funeral home and arranged for his burial with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
In 2011, Mounts founded Global Military Research, LLC. Since its inception, he has examined thousands of records from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. He has reconstructed over one hundred destroyed personnel files from World War II and the Korean War for veterans and their families. Additionally, he has reunited three groups of children of World War II veterans and traced the movements of hundreds of veterans across European and Pacific battlefields. In 2022, he organized a customized World War II battlefield tour of Luxembourg and Germany for the daughters of two veterans.