Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Andrews	William	Larry	LCPL	MC	1970-03-26 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service MS	Vietnam War
Andrews	William	Larry	SP4	Army		Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Andrews	William	Larry	LCPL	MC		Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Andrews	William	Lester		Navy		WW II USS Conyngham (DD-371) as FC3c(M)	World War II
Andrews	William	M	SGT			Died in service VA	Uncategorized
Andrews	William	N	TSGT		1945-07-27 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service UT	World War II
Andrews	William	N	TSGT	Army		WW II Killed in action UT-Sanpete	World War II
Andrews	William	R		AF		WW II 37th Troop Carrier Squadron, 316th Troop Carrier Grou… WW II 37th Troop Carrier Squadron, 316th Troop Carrier Group as 2LT CA Also see other William R	World War II
Andrews	William	R		Army		Korean War B Company, 1st Battalion, 180th Infantry Regimen… Korean War B Company, 1st Battalion, 180th Infantry Regiment as PFC NC	Korean War
Andrews	William	R	1LT	Army		WW II Killed in action CA-Los Angeles Also see other Will… WW II Killed in action CA-Los Angeles Also see other William R	World War II
Andrews	William	R		Navy		WW II USS Indianapolis July 30 1945 when the ship was sunk,… WW II USS Indianapolis July 30 1945 when the ship was sunk, as S2c Survived the sinking PA	World War II
Andrews	William	R		Army		WW II 87th Infantry Regiment, Company H	World War II
Andrews	William	R		Army		WW II 345th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 345th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Company B	World War II
Andrews	William	R		Army		Korean War 27th Infantry Regiment (25th Infantry Division) … Korean War 27th Infantry Regiment (25th Infantry Division) Wounded as PVT2 NY-Bronx	Korean War
Andrews	William	Richard	LCOL			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Andrews	William	S		A(C)		Civil War 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT	Civil War
Andrews	William	S.G.		A(C)		Civil War 1st North Carolina Artillery Regiment, Battery F … Civil War 1st North Carolina Artillery Regiment, Battery F as CPT-CPT/BvtMAJ	Civil War
Andrews	William	T		Army		Civil War 61st New York Infantry Regiment, Company I and Co… Civil War 61st New York Infantry Regiment, Company I and Company F as PVT	Civil War
Andrews	William	T		Army		Korean War 3rd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne)	Korean War
Andrews	William	T		Army		WW II 137th Infantry Regiment (35th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 137th Infantry Regiment (35th Infantry Division), Company K as PFC IN Wounded	World War II
Andrews	William	W		A(C)		Civil War 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, as PVT, Company … Civil War 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, as PVT, Company K	Civil War
Andrews	Willie			AAF		WW II 320th Bomb Squadron (90th Bombardment Group)	World War II
Andrews	Willie	D		Navy		WW II USS Texas (BB-35) as GM2c	World War II
Andrews	Willie	T		Army		WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), HQ … WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), HQ 1st Battalion as PVT	World War II
Andrews	Willis	N		Navy		WW II USS Rooks (DD-804) as S1c	World War II
Andrews	Willis	Norwood	SGT	Army	1971-04-17 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service OH	Vietnam War
Andrews	Willis	Norwood	SGT			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Andrews	Wills	M		A(C)		Civil War 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company I as P… Civil War 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company I as PVT	Civil War
Andrews	Wilmer	O		Army		WW I - 58th Coast Artillery Regiment, Battery F as Mechanic… WW I - 58th Coast Artillery Regiment, Battery F as Mechanic MD	World War I
Andrews	Wilson	H		Army		WW I - KS-Montgomery	World War I
Andrews	Wilton	Glenn		Navy		WW II USS Fitch (DD-462) as CEM(AA)	World War II
Andrews	Wm.			Army		Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company A s … Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company A s PVT-CPL	Civil War
Andrews	Wm.			Army		Civil War 5th Cavalry Regiment, Company H as PVT	Civil War
Andrews	Wollaston			Army		Civil War 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery Regiment, Battery B as P… Civil War 1st Ohio Heavy Artillery Regiment, Battery B as PVT May be Andrus, qv	Civil War
Andrews	Zachariah			Army		Civil War 11th Maryland Infantry Regiment (One Year), Compa… Civil War 11th Maryland Infantry Regiment (One Year), Company F as PVT and 2nd Maryland Infantry Regeiment, Company F	Civil War
Andrews	Zachariah	P		A(C)		Civil War 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, as PVT, Company … Civil War 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, as PVT, Company B	Civil War
Andrews	Zeno			Army		WW I - KS-Butler	World War I
Andrews	Zeph			Army		Revolutionary War From CT	American Revolution
Andrewscavaee	John	A		Army		WW II 305th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 305th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Company H as PFC	World War II
Andrewsen	Raymond	Edward		Navy		WW II USS Picuda (SS-382) as MoMM1c	World War II
Andrewsen	Walter	D		Army		WW II 292nd Engineer Combat Battalion, HQ as MAJ CA	World War II
Andrewseski	Theodore		SGT	Army		WW II Died non-battle MA-Bristol	World War II
Andrewseski	Theodore			AAF		WW II 759th Bomb Squadron (459th Bombardment Group) as SGT	World War II
Andrewshetsko	John			Army		WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment (36th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment (36th Infantry Division), Company F as PFC NJ MIA	World War II
Andrewski	Raymond	Florian		Navy		WW II Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Four as TM3c	World War II
Andrewson	Carl	O		AF		WW II 442nd Bomb Squadron, 320th Bomb Group	World War II
Andrewson	Carl	O		AF		WW II 320th Bomb Group, 442nd Bomb Squadron	World War II
Andrewson	Dan	E		Army		WW II 306th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Med… WW II 306th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Medical Detachment as T-5	World War II
Andrewss	George			Army		WW II Pacific in early 1945 as PVT	World War II
Andrewss	Herbert	K	MSGT	Army		WW II Killed in action TX-Cass	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.