Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Arnopp	John	T		Army		WW II 7th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PFC	World War II
Arnor	Reynaldo			Army		WW II 398th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), An… WW II 398th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Anti-Tank Company as PFC TX	World War II
Arnost	Albert			Army		WW II 703rd Ordnance Company (3rd Infantry Division) as T-3	World War II
Arnoszky	S	J		Army		WW II 353rd Infantry Regiment (89th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 353rd Infantry Regiment (89th Infantry Division), Company K as PFC	World War II
Arnot	Arthur	Stuart		Navy		WW II USS Quincy (CA-71) as CSF(AA)	World War II
Arnot	Charles	B		Army		WW I - 168th Infantry Regiment, Company A as CPL NE	World War I
Arnot	David	B	MSGT		1944-01-06 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MD	World War II
Arnot	David	B	MSGT	Army		WW II Died non-battle MD-Baltimore County	World War II
Arnot	Duffie	Maurice		Navy		WW II USS Bennington (CV-20) as MM1c	World War II
Arnot	Duffie	Maurice		Navy		WW II USS Bennington (CV-20) as MM1c	World War II
Arnot	E	D		Army		WW I - 112th Field Artillery Regiment (29th IDivision) as P… WW I - 112th Field Artillery Regiment (29th IDivision) as PVT	World War I
Arnot	Emerson	D., Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Aucilla (AO-56) as S1c	World War II
Arnot	F	T		Army		WW I - 114th Infantry Regiment (29th IDivision) as SGT	World War I
Arnot	George	E	ENS		1944-10-23 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MI	World War II
Arnot	George	Ellis	ENS	Navy		WW II Died in service MI	World War II
Arnot	Howard			Navy		WW II USS Fullam (DD-474) as F1c	World War II
Arnot	Jacob			Army	1862-07-07 00:00:00.000	Civil War 50th New York Engineers Regiment, Company H as PV… Civil War 50th New York Engineers Regiment, Company H as PVT Died of disease	Civil War
Arnot	James	H	PVT		1918-10-10 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service WI	World War I
Arnot	John	D		Navy		WW II LCI(L)-3 as S1c	World War II
Arnot	Leroy	B., Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Calvert (AP-65) as F1c	World War II
Arnot	William			AAF		WW II CBI Air Transport Command	World War II
Arnot	William	R		Army		Mexican War Bell's Regiment, Texas Mounted Volunteers as PV… Mexican War Bell's Regiment, Texas Mounted Volunteers as PVT	Mexican War
Arnote	Garland	W		AF		WW II 460th Bomb Group	World War II
Arnoth	Leonard	R		Army		WW II 116th Infantry Regiment, Company I as PFC-SGT	World War II
Arnott	Charles	H	F2c		1943-11-14 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MA	World War II
Arnott	Charles	H		Navy		WW II USS Monssen (DD-436) as AS	World War II
Arnott	Charles	Herbert	F2c	Navy		WW II Died in service MA	World War II
Arnott	Cornelius	W		AF		WW II September 1944, Operation Market Garden as Troop Carr… WW II September 1944, Operation Market Garden as Troop Carrier crewman	World War II
Arnott	David			Army		Korean War Died in service CA	Korean War
Arnott	David			Navy		WW II USS Butler (DD-636) as RM3c	World War II
Arnott	David	Bruce	PFC	MC	1969-03-19 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service NY	Vietnam War
Arnott	David	Bruce	PFC			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Arnott	David	H		AF		WW II 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, as CPL. Engine… WW II 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, as CPL. Engineer, Reid's crew	World War II
Arnott	David	W		Army		WW II 774th Tank Battalion, Company B as PVT	World War II
Arnott	Donald	A	PVT	MC		WW II Wounded MI	World War II
Arnott	George	A		Army		Civil War 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment as PVT	Civil War
Arnott	George	E		Navy		WW II USS Sims (DD-409) as COX	World War II
Arnott	George	Edward, Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Herndon (DD-638) as F1c	World War II
Arnott	George	K		Navy		WW II LST-288 as S1c(GM)	World War II
Arnott	George	W	CPT		1943-04-08 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Arnott	George	W	CPT	Army		WW II Killed in action NY-Washington	World War II
Arnott	James		PVT	Army	1862-05-30 00:00:00.000	Civil War 3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Regiment as PVT, Civil… Civil War 3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Regiment as PVT, Civil War 3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Company F as PVT Died in service	Civil War
Arnott	James	Albert		Navy		WW II USS Libra (AK-53) as GM3c	World War II
Arnott	John		PVT		1919-01-30 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service MI	World War I
Arnott	John		PVT			WW I - Died of disease MI	World War I
Arnott	Joseph	R		Navy		WW II USS Saury (SS-189) as RM2c	World War II
Arnott	Kenneth	J	PVT	Army		WW II Killed in action OH-Highland	World War II
Arnott	Kenneth	J	PVT	Army		WW II 137th Infantry Regiment (35th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 137th Infantry Regiment (35th Infantry Division), Company G OH Killed in action	World War II
Arnott	Richard	Earl		Navy		WW II USS Oceanus (ARB-2) as S1c	World War II
Arnott	Robert	Everett	PHM2c	Navy	1941-12-07 00:00:00.000	WW II Killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor MD	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.