The following is an an announcement from the (US) National Archives and Records Administration:
The (US) National Archives (NARA) will soon have digital access to the morning reports of Army units during the final year of World War ll. These will offer descriptions of unit locations, award nominations and soldier personnel movements.
The records have been transferred to a digital format that now exist on microfilm at the National Archives facility in St. Louis, MO. The project, which also includes more than a decade’s worth of post-war draft registration cards, was announced this year as part of a partnership with Ancestry. All records will be available to the public and were not previously available online. Using the reports, researchers can track a veteran from the date that they joined a particular unit to the date that they left it.
“The unit’s clerk would type the reports onto long strips of paper and send them in batches to the Army, she said. The Army used this form of morning reports until 1974 when it switched to a system of personnel data cards. The Navy and Marine Corps kept similar records but in large diaries as opposed to individual papers.”
Once this round of records is transferred to a digital format, full sets of morning reports from 1944 through 1946 will be available online.
Once the process is complete, the records will be available to access through the National Archives website https://www.archives.gov/.
Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/history/2024-07-15/army-records-national-archives-morning-reports-14494497.html