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 establishing the NYPD's first Cold Case Squad and was among its inaugural members. The squad investigated more than 18,000 unsolved homicide cases dating back to the 1960s. Mounts retired after 30 years of distinguished service.
While conducting genealogical research, Mounts learned that his late cousin, 1st Lt. James Monroe Mounts, had been a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II. His investigation took 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, Mounts systematically reconstructed the file using alternative records.
Mounts' research confirmed 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 parachuted from the aircraft and survived. After evading capture for three days, he was apprehended, tortured 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 at a funeral home in Florida and arranged for his burial with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
In 2011, Mounts founded Global Military Research, LLC. Since then, he has reviewed 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. He has also 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 and Ms. Heather Steele, CEO of The WWII History Project, organized a customized World War II battlefield tour of Luxembourg and Germany, which Ms. Steele conducted for the daughters of two WWII Veterans