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 professional and comprehensive military records research. Our services cover records from the Spanish-American War to the present day. We specialize in individual personnel records and military unit records from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Our Customers
We cater to a diverse clientele, including retired and discharged members of all branches of the U.S. Military and the German military and their families. In addition to supporting our veterans, our research services are invaluable to historians, authors, aspiring writers, military history website administrators, scholars, universities, and the general public, helping them connect individuals with significant places. Our company specializes in the research of World War II records, focusing on both the European and Pacific theaters.
Where We Research
The United States National Archives and Records Administration is the primary repository for our research records. Archives II, located in College Park, MD, contains the majority of unit records, histories, and after-action reports from various services. The National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO, houses individual personnel records from 2002 back to World War I, while records from earlier years can be found at Archives I in Washington, DC.
Our Owner and ARCHIVES Research PROFESSIONAL
Donald (Don) Mounts
Donald (Don) Mounts is a retired homicide detective with the New York City Police Department. He played a key role in developing the NYPD's first Cold Case Squad and was one of the first detectives selected for the unit after its implementation. This squad was tasked with solving over 18,000 open homicide cases dating back to the 1960s. After serving 30 years on the force, Don retired.
While researching his family's genealogy, Don discovered that a deceased cousin, 1st Lt. James Monroe Mounts, had been a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II. His research took him to the National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri, and College Park, Maryland. During this process, he learned that a fire in 1973 at the St. Louis Archives had destroyed his cousin's Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). Undeterred, Don spent countless hours rebuilding the lost personnel file using alternate record sources.
Through his research, Don established that Lt. Mounts was a bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress assigned to the 91st Bombardment Group in Bassingbourn, UK. He was shot down on his 23rd mission over Nazi Germany on July 20, 1944, the same day Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to assassinate Hitler. Lt. Mounts survived the mission to Leipzig, Germany, by jumping from his burning aircraft. After evading capture for three days, he was ultimately captured, tortured by the Gestapo, and then interned at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany, for the remainder of the war.
In 2011, Don discovered his late cousin James' cremated remains in the back room of a Florida funeral home and successfully arranged for his burial with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
In 2011, Don also founded Global Military Research, LLC. Since then, he has researched thousands of records from World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. He has successfully rebuilt over one hundred destroyed personnel files from World War II and the Korean War for veterans and their families. Additionally, he has united three sets of children of World War II veterans and traced the footsteps of hundreds of veterans through the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific. In 2022, he organized a customized World War II battlefield tour of Luxembourg and Germany for the daughters of two veterans.