Veterans · Our War Veterans

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Title	Borndate	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Abrams	Bernard			Army				WW II 18th Infantry Regiment (1st Infantry Division), Compa… WW II 18th Infantry Regiment (1st Infantry Division), Company A	World War II
Abrams	Bernard	A	PFC				1943-04-23 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Abrams	Bernard	A	PFC	Army				WW II Killed in action NY-Queens	World War II
Abrams	Bernard	M		Army				WW II 346th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 346th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Company D	World War II
Abrams	Billey		PFC				1945-04-02 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service GA	World War II
Abrams	Billey		PFC	Army				WW II Killed in action GA-Floyd	World War II
Abrams	Bruce	R		AF				WW II 330th Bomb Group (20th Air Force) NJ	World War II
Abrams	C	G		A(C)				Civil War 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT… Civil War 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT May be C.J., qv	Civil War
Abrams	C	J		A(C)				Civil War 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT… Civil War 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT May be C.G., qv	Civil War
Abrams	Capers		SGT	Army				WW II Died non-battle AL-Elmore	World War II
Abrams	Carl	B		Army				WW II 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion, Company B as T-4 TN	World War II
Abrams	Charles		CPT	Army				WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division)	World War II
Abrams	Charles	E		Army				Civil War 64th New York Infantry Regiment, Company B as PVT	Civil War
Abrams	Charles	H., Jr.	CM2c				1942-10-26 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Abrams	Charles	H., Jr.		Navy				WW II USS Hornet (CV-8) as CM3c	World War II
Abrams	Charles	Howard, Jr.	CM2c	Navy				WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Abrams	Charles	Howard, Jr.	CM2c	Navy				WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Abrams	Chester	B., Jr.		Navy				WW II LST-461 as S1c	World War II
Abrams	Chester	Lee	SF3				1943-05-08 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service AL	World War II
Abrams	Chester	Lee	SF3c	Navy				WW II Died in service AL	World War II
Abrams	Clifford	I	PVT				1945-01-01 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service CA Also see other Clifford I	World War II
Abrams	Clifford	I		Army				WW II 137th Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT CA-San Fra… WW II 137th Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT CA-San Francisco Also see other Clifford I	World War II
Abrams	Clifford	Kelley		Navy				WW II USS Alabama (BB-60) as SC3c	World War II
Abrams	Cliford	I	PVT	Army				WW II Finding of death CA-San Francisco	World War II
Abrams	Cornelius			Army				Civil War 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Compan… Civil War 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Company G, as PVT	Civil War
Abrams	Creighton	Williams, Jr	GEN	Army	Chief of Staff, U.S. Army	1914-09-15 00:00:00.000	1974-09-04 00:00:00.000	Graduated Military Academy 1936 Promoted 1LT Jun 1939 Prom… Graduated Military Academy 1936 Promoted 1LT Jun 1939 Promoted temporary CPT Sep 1940 WW II Promoted temporary MAJ Feb 1943 Promoted temporary LCOL Sep 1943 Mar 1945, as LCOL, Commander of Combat Command B, 4th Armored Division Distinguished Service Cross (2) in WW II Promoted permanent CPT Jun 1946 Promoted permanent MAJ Jul 1948 Promoted temporary BGEN Feb 1956 Promoted temporary MGEN Jun 1960 Promoted permanent COL Jun 1961 Commander V Corps 1963-4 Promoted permanent BGEN Feb 1963 Promoted temporary LGEN Aug 1963 Promoted GEN Sep 1964 Promoted permanent MGEN Aug 1965 Viet Nam War as GEN, Commander Military Assistance Command Vietnam Jul 1968-Jun 1972 Army Chief of Staff, Oct 12, 1972 to Sep 4, 1974 Honorary inductee into U.S. Ranger Hall of Fame 1992 as GEN See Abrams tank	World War II
Abrams	Daniel			Army				WW II 10th Engineer Combat Battalion (3rd Infantry Division… WW II 10th Engineer Combat Battalion (3rd Infantry Division) as SGT	World War II
Abrams	Daniel			Navy				WW II USS Nevada (BB-36) as F1c	World War II
Abrams	David			Army				WW II HQ and HQ Company, 63rd Infantry Division as PFC	World War II
Abrams	David			Army				WW II 861st Field Artilley Battalion (63rd Infantry Divisio… WW II 861st Field Artilley Battalion (63rd Infantry Division), HQ and HQ Battery as PFC	World War II
Abrams	David			Army				Civil War 118th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, C… Civil War 118th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company D as Mus	Civil War
Abrams	Dewey	L		Army				WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), HQ … WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), HQ 2nd Battalion as PFC	World War II
Abrams	Donald		SK3c				1943-09-16 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service KY	World War II
Abrams	Donald		SK3c	Navy				WW II Died in service KY	World War II
Abrams	Donald			Navy				WW II USS Wasp (CV-7) as SK3c	World War II
Abrams	Donald			AAF				WWII 390th Fighter Squadron (366th Fighter Group)	World War II
Abrams	Donald	B	FC2c				1946-01-08 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Abrams	Donald	Bradley	FC2c	Navy				WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Abrams	Donald	Bradley	FC2c	Navy				WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Abrams	Douglas	Allen		Navy				WW II LST 281 as S1c	World War II
Abrams	Earl	B		Army				WW I - KS-Cherokee	World War I
Abrams	Edward			Army				Civil War 95th New York Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT… Civil War 95th New York Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT-CPL	Civil War
Abrams	Edward			Navy				WW II Invasion of Okinawa, USS Catron (APA-71) as F2c(MM)	World War II
Abrams	Edward	B	CPL				1918-06-12 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service NJ	World War I
Abrams	Edward	B	CPL	MC			1918-06-11 00:00:00.000	WW I - 5th Marine Regiment, 43rd(F) Company as PVT Killed … WW I - 5th Marine Regiment, 43rd(F) Company as PVT Killed in action	World War I
Abrams	Edwin		PVT					WW I - Died of disease NY	World War I
Abrams	Elijah	M	PVT	Army			1945-03-24 00:00:00.000	WW II 16th Infantry Regiment Killed in action MO-St. Loui… WW II 16th Infantry Regiment Killed in action MO-St. Louis City County	World War II
Abrams	Elwyn			AF				WW II CBI 491st Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group as SSGT	World War II
Abrams	Elwyn			AAF				WW II CBI	World War II
Abrams	Emanuel			AAF				WW II 392nd Bombardment Group (8th Air Force)	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.