Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Borndate	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Armstrong	Frank			Army			WW I - CPL OH	World War I
Armstrong	Frank			Army			WW II 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Company C as PVT	World War II
Armstrong	Frank	A, Jr		AF			WW II As COL, Commander 97th Bomb Group Jul 31-Sep 27 1942 … WW II As COL, Commander 97th Bomb Group Jul 31-Sep 27 1942 As COL, Commander 306th Bomb Group Jan 4-Feb 17 1943 As BGEN, Commander 1st Bomb Wing Jul 1943 He was the basis for the character Frank Savage in the movie Twelve O'Clock High	World War II
Armstrong	Frank	Alton, III	MAJ	AF		1967-10-06 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service LA	Vietnam War
Armstrong	Frank	Alton, III	MAJ				Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Armstrong	Frank	B		Army			WW I - PVT OH	World War I
Armstrong	Frank	Crawford	BGEN	A(C)	1835-11-22 00:00:00.000	1909-09-08 00:00:00.000	Civil War As COL, a commander of 3rd Louisiana Infantry Reg… Civil War As COL, a commander of 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment	Civil War
Armstrong	Frank	H		Army			WW II 283rd Field Artillery Battalion as 1LT	World War II
Armstrong	Frank	L		Army			WW I - KS-Douglas	World War I
Armstrong	Frank	L		Army			WW I - KS-Riley	World War I
Armstrong	Frank	S		Army			WW I - PVT OH-Hamilton	World War I
Armstrong	Frank	T		Army			WW I - PVT OH	World War I
Armstrong	Frank	T	Pvt	Army			WW I - Died of disease CA	World War I
Armstrong	Franklin	D		Navy			WW II LST-606 as PhM2c	World War II
Armstrong	Franklin	Leroy		Navy			WW II USS Massachusetts (BB-59) as S2c	World War II
Armstrong	Franklin	W		Army			WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Can… WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Cannon Company as PFC	World War II
Armstrong	Franklin	W		Army			WW II 262nd Infantry Regiment (66th Infantry Division) NY a… WW II 262nd Infantry Regiment (66th Infantry Division) NY as PFC	World War II
Armstrong	Fred			Army			WW I - 12th Infantry Regiment, A Company as PVT OK	World War I
Armstrong	Fred			Army			WW I - KS-Sedgwick	World War I
Armstrong	Fred	A		Army			WW I - 117th Engineer Regiment (SC and CA), Company F as PV… WW I - 117th Engineer Regiment (SC and CA), Company F as PVT CA-Los Angeles	World War I
Armstrong	Fred	R	LCOL	Army			WW II 30th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as LCO… WW II 30th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as LCOL Killed in action	World War II
Armstrong	Fred	R		Army			WW II 80th Tank Battalion (8th Armored Division), Company C… WW II 80th Tank Battalion (8th Armored Division), Company C as PVT Wounded	World War II
Armstrong	Fred	Richard		Navy			WW II USS Monongahela (AO-42) as S1c	World War II
Armstrong	Fred	W	PFC			1944-12-23 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service TN	World War II
Armstrong	Fred	W		Army			WW I - PVT OH-Hamilton	World War I
Armstrong	Fred	W	PFC	Army			WW II Killed in action TN-Washington	World War II
Armstrong	Fred	W	PFC	Army		1944-12-23 00:00:00.000	WW II 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, Company F as PFC Kil… WW II 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, Company F as PFC Killed in action	World War II
Armstrong	Frederic	C		Army			WW I - KS-Riley	World War I
Armstrong	Frederick	A		Army			WW II 30th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) Silve… WW II 30th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) Silver Star (2) as MAJ	World War II
Armstrong	Frederick	Ernest		Navy			WW II USS Herndon (DD-638) as RM1c	World War II
Armstrong	Frederick	W		Army			WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment (26th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment (26th Infantry Division), Company D as SSGT IL	World War II
Armstrong	Friday			Army			WW I - KS-Riley	World War I
Armstrong	G			A(C)			Civil War 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company F as PVT	Civil War
Armstrong	G			Army			WW I - 113th Infantry Regiment (29th IDivision) as PVT	World War I
Armstrong	G	E		Army			Spanish-American War 3rd U.S. Volunteer Engineer Regiment, … Spanish-American War 3rd U.S. Volunteer Engineer Regiment, Company I as PVT VA	Spanish American War
Armstrong	G	H		Army			WW II 354th Infantry Regiment (89th Infantry Division), HQ … WW II 354th Infantry Regiment (89th Infantry Division), HQ 3rd Battalion as PVT	World War II
Armstrong	G	M		Army			Mexican War Hays Regiment, 1st Texas Mounted Volunteers, Co… Mexican War Hays Regiment, 1st Texas Mounted Volunteers, Company G as CPT Resigned	Mexican War
Armstrong	G	W		A(C)			Civil War 1st Texas Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT	Civil War
Armstrong	G	W		Army			WW II HQ, 89th Infantry Division as T-4	World War II
Armstrong	Galen	De Vore		Navy			WW II USS Elmore (APA-42) as S1cc	World War II
Armstrong	Garland			AF			WW II 722nd Bomb Squadron (450th Bomb Group)	World War II
Armstrong	Gaylord	J		AF			WW II 468th Bomb Group (20th Air Force) WI	World War II
Armstrong	Gene	L., Sr.		Army			WW II 58th Armored Infantry Battalion, Company B as PFC Si… WW II 58th Armored Infantry Battalion, Company B as PFC Silver Star	World War II
Armstrong	Gene	L., Sr.		Army			WW II Distinguished Service Cross	World War II
Armstrong	Geo.	L		Army			Civil War 1st Artilley Regiment, Regular Army, Battery I as… Civil War 1st Artilley Regiment, Regular Army, Battery I as PVT	Civil War
Armstrong	George		PVT			1918-10-04 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service MT	World War I
Armstrong	George			A(C)			Civil War 1st Texas Infantry Regiment, Company C as CPL-PVT… Civil War 1st Texas Infantry Regiment, Company C as CPL-PVT May be O.G., qv	Civil War
Armstrong	George			Army			Civil War 95th New York Infantry Regiment, Company D and Co… Civil War 95th New York Infantry Regiment, Company D and Company K as PVT	Civil War
Armstrong	George			Army			Civil War 7th Michigan Cavalry Regiment, Company L	Civil War
Armstrong	George			Army			Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company E as… Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT	Civil War

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.