Veterans · Our War Veterans

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Aasvik	Ingvard	T	PVT	MC	1942-10-08 00:00:00.000	WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal Company G, 5th Marine Regiment… WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal Company G, 5th Marine Regiment as PVT Killed in action	World War II
Aaveritte	Billy	W		Army		WW II 117th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 117th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Company E as PVT	World War II
Aaylor	W	J		A(C)		Civil War 7th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT … Civil War 7th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT May be William J. Ayler, qv, or William J. Aylor, qv	Civil War
Ababurko	Alter		PVT	Army	1944-10-21 00:00:00.000	WW II 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, Company C Died of wo… WW II 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, Company C Died of wounds Buried in NY	World War II
Ababurko	Walter		PVT	Army		WW II Died of wounds NY-Niagara	World War II
Abacherli	Rodney	W		Navy		WW II USS Hancock (CV-19) as S1c(AMM)	World War II
Abad	A			Army		WW II 105th Infantry Regiment, Company E	World War II
Abad	Anthony			AF		WW II 44th Bombardment Group (8th Air Force)	World War II
Abad	Basil	M	RM2c		1945-12-06 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service AZ	World War II
Abad	Basil	Martinez	RM2c	Navy		WW II Died in service AZ	World War II
Abad	Eugene	P		Navy		WW II Marathon (APA-200) as Ck1c	World War II
Abad	Joseph		PFC	Army		WW II Killed in action NY-Erie	World War II
Abad	Joseph			Army		WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division) Kil… WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division) Killed in action	World War II
Abad	Roberto		CPL	MC	2004-08-06 00:00:00.000	Iraq War Battalion Landing Team 1/4 Killed in action CA	Iraq War
Abad	Roberto					Iraq War Died in the war	Iraq War
Abad	Roberto		CPL	MC	2004-08-06 00:00:00.000	Iraq War Died in service CA-Los Angeles	Iraq War
Abad	Sergio	S	PFC	Army	2008-07-13 00:00:00.000	Afghanistan War 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment Kil… Afghanistan War 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment Killed in Afghanistan KY	Afghanistan
Abade	Isidore			Navy		WW II USS Heermann (DD-532) as S2c	World War II
Abadessa	Thomas	J		AF		WW II 339th Fighter Group NY	World War II
Abadi	Abe			AF		WW II 765th Bomb Squadron (461st Bomb Group)	World War II
Abadie	Bernard	Eugene, Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) as Y1c	World War II
Abadie	Donald	A		Navy		WW II USS Ancon (AGC-4) as RM2c	World War II
Abadie	Ernest	Clement, Jr.	RM3c	Navy		WW II Wounded LA	World War II
Abadie	Frank	A		Army		WW II 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion, Company A as CPL LA	World War II
Abadie	John	A	CPL	MC		WW II Invasion of Tarawa, Nov-Dec 1943, Killed in action. C… WW II Invasion of Tarawa, Nov-Dec 1943, Killed in action. CPL	World War II
Abadie	John	A	PFC	MC		WW II Died in service LA	World War II
Abadie	Otis	L		Army		WW II Jul 1944, 134th Infantry Regiment, Cannon Company as … WW II Jul 1944, 134th Infantry Regiment, Cannon Company as PFC	World War II
Abadie	Robert			AAF		WW II 28th Bomb Squadron (19th Bombardment Group)	World War II
Abadie	Robert	A	SSGT		1946-01-07 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service TX	World War II
Abadie	Robert	A	SSGT	Army		WW II Finding of death TX-Travis	World War II
Abadie	Steven	Jean		Navy		WW II USS Essex (CV-9) as CM1c(T)	World War II
Abadie	Warren	Arnold		Navy		WW II USS Ozark (LSV-2) as EM3c(LC)	World War II
Abady	Charles			AAF		WW II 496th Bomb Squadron (344th Bombardment Group)	World War II
Abady	Charles	I	SSGT	Army	1944-07-19 00:00:00.000	WW II Killed in action NY-Kings	World War II
Abady	Hrman			MC		WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal Company K, 1st Marine Regiment… WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal Company K, 1st Marine Regiment as 2LT	World War II
Abagat	Pablo		SGT	Army		WW II Finding of death DC	World War II
Abagnalo	Jerry	N		Army		WW II 313th Infantry Regiment (79th Infantry Division) as P… WW II 313th Infantry Regiment (79th Infantry Division) as PFC	World War II
Abagon	Angel			Navy		WW II USS Franklin (CV-13) as St1c	World War II
Abagon	Angel			Navy		WW II USS Franklin (CV-13) as CSt(AA)	World War II
Abahazy	Paul	J		Army		WW II 337th Infantry Regiment (85th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 337th Infantry Regiment (85th Infantry Division), Company C as SSGT PA Wounded	World War II
Abahboh	David			Army		Civil War 5th New York Cavalry Regiment, Company B as 1LT	Civil War
Abaied	James	Kedar		Navy		WW II USS Laffey (DD-724) as TM3c	World War II
Abair	Clarence	E	PFC		1944-12-16 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MA	World War II
Abair	Clarence	E	PFC	Army		WW II Killed in action MA-Hampden	World War II
Abair	Donald	L		AF		WW II 460th Bomb Group Killed in action	World War II
Abair	Donald	L	2LT	Army		WW II Killed in action IN-Marshall	World War II
Abair	Fred	A		Army		WW I - PVT OH	World War I
Abair	Harold			AF		WW II 774th Bomb Squadron (463rd Bomb Group)	World War II
Abair	Joseph			Army		WW I - CPL OH	World War I
Abair	Lucian	G		Army		WW I - PFC OH	World War I

This web page is focused on American war veterans themselves. In addition to the searchable database table of over 2 million 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.