Veterans · Our War Veterans

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Borndate	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Acker	Jack			AF			WW II 29th Bomb Group (20th Air Force) CA	World War II
Acker	Jacon			CSA			Civil War 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company B as PVT-2… Civil War 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company B as PVT-2LT	Civil War
Acker	James			AAF			WW II 2nd Bomb Squadron (22nd Bombardment Group)	World War II
Acker	James	C		Army			Civil War 2nd Michigan Cavalry Regiment, Company C as EM	Civil War
Acker	James	F	TSGT	AF		1944-12-07 00:00:00.000	WW II 43rd Bomb Group, 63rd Bomb Squadron Declared Dead A… WW II 43rd Bomb Group, 63rd Bomb Squadron Declared Dead Aircraft Serial No. 42-41049	World War II
Acker	James	F	TSGT	Army			WW II Finding of death NY-Warren	World War II
Acker	James	Herman		Navy			WW II USS Chenango (CVE-28) as SKV1c	World War II
Acker	Jesse		CPL			1918-09-03 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service PA	World War I
Acker	Jimmy	Howard		Navy			WW II LST-359 (Assault Boatmen, TDY) as S1c	World War II
Acker	Joel	M		A(C)			Civil War 4th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company J a… Civil War 4th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company J as CPL May be Joseph M., qv	Civil War
Acker	Joel	M., Jr.	2LT			1943-08-12 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service SC	World War II
Acker	John			AF			WW II 509th Composite Group (20th Air Force) AR	World War II
Acker	John	A		Army			WW II CBI As SSGT,Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit (Provis… WW II CBI As SSGT,Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), Merrill's Marauders, Legion of Merit	World War II
Acker	John	Duane		Navy			WW II Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 as QM2c	World War II
Acker	John	Henry		Navy			WW II LSM-70 as S1c	World War II
Acker	John	Lloyd		Navy			WW II USS Cabot (CVL-28) as RdM2c(T)	World War II
Acker	John	T		Navy			WW II Invasion of Okinawa, USS Catron (APA-71) as GM3c	World War II
Acker	John	W		Navy			WW II USS Superior (AM-311) as Bkr1c	World War II
Acker	Joseph			Army			Civil War 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, Company I as … Civil War 14th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, Company I as PVT	Civil War
Acker	Joseph	M		A(C)			Civil War 4th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company J a… Civil War 4th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company J as CPL May be Joel M., qv	Civil War
Acker	Joseph	M		CSA			Civil War South Carolina Palmetto Sharpshooters, Company L a… Civil War South Carolina Palmetto Sharpshooters, Company L as CPL	Civil War
Acker	Joseph	N		Army			WW I - KS-Ellis	World War I
Acker	Joseph	Raymond		Navy			WW II YMS-104 as RM3c(T)	World War II
Acker	Jury			Army			Revolutionary War 4th New York Regiment	American Revolution
Acker	Karl			Army			WW II 87th Infantry Regiment, Company B	World War II
Acker	Keith	Charles	Y	Navy			WW II USS Champlin as S1c	World War II
Acker	Kenneth	C	2LT	Army			WW II Killed in action MN-Ramsey	World War II
Acker	Kenneth	C	2LT	Army			WW II 15th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as 2LT… WW II 15th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as 2LT Killed in action	World War II
Acker	Kenneth	Fred		Navy			WW II LSM-1 as S1c	World War II
Acker	Leamond			Navy			Iraq War Naval Expeditionary Logistics Support Force, Forwa… Iraq War Naval Expeditionary Logistics Support Force, Forward Group Bravo as HM2c	Iraq War
Acker	Leonard	W	SGT			1945-04-11 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service SD	World War II
Acker	Leonard	W	SGT	Army			WW II Killed in action SD-Day	World War II
Acker	Leroy	A	PFC	Army			WW II Killed in action PA-Berks	World War II
Acker	Lester	E		Army			WW II 22nd Infantry Regiment (4th Infantry Division), Compa… WW II 22nd Infantry Regiment (4th Infantry Division), Company K as PVT AL	World War II
Acker	Levi	J		Army			Civil War 50th New York Engineers Regiment, Company B as PV… Civil War 50th New York Engineers Regiment, Company B as PVT	Civil War
Acker	Lewis	F		Army	1897-12-02 00:00:00.000	1963-01-28 00:00:00.000	WW II 112th Infantry Regiment (28th Infantry Division) as L… WW II 112th Infantry Regiment (28th Infantry Division) as LCOL PA-Allegheny	World War II
Acker	Lloyd	L		Navy			WW II SACO as RM1c	World War II
Acker	Mason	S		Army			Civil War 3rd Artillery Regiment, Regular Army, Battery C a… Civil War 3rd Artillery Regiment, Regular Army, Battery C as PVT May be Munson S., qv	Civil War
Acker	Milton	D		Navy			WW II Invasion of Okinawa, USS Catron (APA-71) as S2c	World War II
Acker	Munson	S		Army			Civil War 3rd Artillery Regiment, Regular Army, Battery C a… Civil War 3rd Artillery Regiment, Regular Army, Battery C as PVT May be Mason S., qv	Civil War
Acker	Newton			A(C)			Civil War 4th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company J a… Civil War 4th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company J as PVT	Civil War
Acker	Odell	Bernard Pate	PFC	MC		1969-09-10 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service NC	Vietnam War
Acker	Odell	Bernard Pate	PFC				Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Acker	Pearl	J		Army			WW II 305th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 305th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Company F as PVT	World War II
Acker	Peter			Army			Civil War 57th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company G as Rct	Civil War
Acker	Peter			CSA			Civil War 7th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company B as PVT	Civil War
Acker	R	C.B.		A(C)			Civil War 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment as PVT	Civil War
Acker	Ralph	E	PVT			1945-03-12 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service PA	World War II
Acker	Ralph	E	PVT	Army			WW II Killed in action PA-Snyder	World War II
Acker	Raymond	W		Army	1920-05-01 00:00:00.000		WW II 106th Field Artillery Battalion (27th Infantry Divisi… WW II 106th Field Artillery Battalion (27th Infantry Division), Battery C as T-5 NY	World War II

This web page is focused on American war veterans themselves. In addition to the searchable database table of names, several other sources are described (and some are linked) below. It is not about the generals and admirals, although the table includes many of those. However, they get plenty of fame and glory elsewhere. This site is about the rank and file of people who have served, whether volunteers or draftees, making up the depth of the forces needed in the times of our wars.

Links to some of the sources I have used, plus sources in printed books, are described below.

Revolutionary War

Probably the best source of information about the individual American soldiers of the Revolutionary War is the books published by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). These are the result of extensive research, and should be available in major public libraries. As far as I know they are not generally for sale publicly.

Valley Forge

Possibly the most famous place associated with the American Revolution is Valley Forge, an encampment outside Philadelphia where the men of George Washington’s army spent a bitterly cold winter early in the war. A searchable database is available at the Valley Forge Muster Roll site. That site will not produce a complete list of every person in their database by a single query, and is limited to 1,000 names per query, but can provide a list of all the persons with a given last name or all of those in a particular regiment (if the regiment had not more than 1,000 members there).

Saratoga

The most decisive engagements of the Revolutionary War were the series of actions around Saratoga, NY in 1777. A site containing information about each of the participants in those actions is at the Saratoga List.

National Parks Service (Civil War)

The National Parks Service (NPS), among its other duties, is responsible for the administration and care of the National Battlefield Parks that were the sites of major Civil War battles. Some years ago the NPS undertook a major project involving thousands of volunteers to digitize the written records of the people who served in that war, on both sides. The result of that effort is now online at the NPS web site.

This is a treasured resource, but one of its characteristics is that in many cases it lists several names that are actually different spellings of one person’s name. As a result, although about 3,500,000 persons participated in the war, the NPS list includes about 6.5 million entries.

World War I

Soldiers of the Great War, is a printed book published in 1920, written by W.M. Haulsee, F.G. Howe, and A.C. Doyle. This publication includes those Americans who died in World War I, listed by state, type of casualty, and rank. These books may be found in major libraries. I found them in the Tampa Florida public library.

At least four states published lists of all of their residents who served in World War I. These books are very detailed, giving quite a bit of information about each person listed. The states for which I have found such volumes are Maine, Maryland, North Dakota and Ohio. I found them in the Columbus Ohio main public library.

Kansas also published a list of its residents who served, by military service and by county, but this publication only lists the names. It was found in the library of the Kansas Historical Society in Topeka Kansas.

World War II

National Archives and Records Administration

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) (commonly known as the National Archives) has a website that lists the 425,000 American military people who died in service during World War II, and also lists Navy and Marine Corps personnel who were wounded, missing, or POW. That site is the NARA site. This link takes you to the state index of the Army and Air Force (Army Air Corps) deaths during the war, and has a link to the index of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard casualties.

WW II Navy Muster Rolls

A site called Fold3 (a pay site) shows the quarterly muster rolls of enlisted men serving aboard the Navy ships in World War II. See the Fold3 site.

Marine Corps Muster Rolls

A site called Ancestry.com (a pay site) includes the muster rolls of U.S. Marine units (officers and enlisted) for World War II and a much longer period before and after. Their site is Ancestry.com. I have so far used this source in finding the names of the Marines who were at Guadalcanal.

American Battle Monuments Commission

Many American war veterans who died overseas are buried in a cemetery in or near the country where they died, especially those who died in World War II. These American cemeteries are administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC). That organization maintains a web site showing the names of persons buried in their cemeteries, as well as some information about those people, including their rank, serial number, state, and location of their burial. See the ABMC search site. This will not produce a displayed roster. It is a searchable database.

Some Rosters

Of the many large Army units in the war, such as the Infantry divisions, most have not posted rosters on the Web, or at least I have not found them. Following are a few of the ones that are available.

10th Mountain Division
30th Infantry Division
35th Infantry Division (Partial) – roster index

A Roster of the Officers and Enlisted Men of the 84th Infantry Division has been published in book form. I found a copy through interlibrary loan.

Three books have been published showing the rosters of the three Marine Divisions that participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima. They are available in paperback from online sources:

Complete 3rd Marine Division Unit Rosters: Compiled from January 1945 Muster Roll (USMC WW II Unit Rosters)
Complete 4th Marine Division Unit Rosters: Compiled from January 1945 Muster Roll (USMC WW II Unit Rosters)
Complete 5th Marine Division Unit Rosters: Compiled from January 1945 Muster Roll (USMC WW II Unit Rosters)

Korean War Project

About 38,000 Americans lost their lives in the Korean War. (Various sources give vastly different numbers.) Information about those persons is included in a site titled Korean War Project. That site is maintained by two brothers in Dallas in honor of their uncle who served in that war. Go to the Korean War Project site.

Vietnam War

Hundreds of thousands of Americans went to Vietnam in the uniform of their country. I don’t believe there is any public list of all of them. But about 58,000 of them died there or because of their service there. In addition to being on The Wall in Washington DC they are listed by state in a National Archives Vietnam War web site.

Department of Veterans Affairs

This site includes veterans buried in U.S. National Cemeteries as well as other veterans who have met certain criteria for being included in the list, as well as many wives and dependent children. Both war veterans and other veterans are included. The war in which a veteran served is shown where applicable. I estimate that the site includes on the order of 8 million names, of which maybe half are war veterans. Go to the Grave Locator.