Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Arthur	James	T	CPL	Army		WW I - Died of disease CA	World War I
Arthur	Jesse	H		Army		WW II CBI 931st Signal Battlion (Aviation)	World War II
Arthur	Jesse	James, III	PFC	MC	1969-09-08 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service GA	Vietnam War
Arthur	Jesse	James, III	PFC			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Arthur	Jhue			Navy		WW II USS English (DD-696) as S1c	World War II
Arthur	Joel	T	PVT		1918-11-05 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service GA	World War I
Arthur	John			A(C)		Civil War 3rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company F as CPL-… Civil War 3rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company F as CPL-2LT	Civil War
Arthur	John			Army		Civil War 3rd Maryland Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT	Civil War
Arthur	John			Army		Civil War 30th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT Ma… Civil War 30th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT May be Arthurs, qv	Civil War
Arthur	John			AAF		WW II 381st Bombardment Group (8th Air Force)	World War II
Arthur	John			Army		Revolutionary War PA	American Revolution
Arthur	John	A		A(C)		Civil War 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, Company F	Civil War
Arthur	John	A., Jr.		Army		WW II 56th Armored Infantry Battalion WV	World War II
Arthur	John	B		A(C)		Civil War 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT… Civil War 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT May be Arther, qv	Civil War
Arthur	John	C	PVT		1944-04-20 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MA	World War II
Arthur	John	C	PVT	Army		WW II Died non battle MA-Essex	World War II
Arthur	John	C		Army		WW II 99th Infantry Battalion, Company A	World War II
Arthur	John	Donald		Navy		WW II USS Benham (DD-796) as GM3c	World War II
Arthur	John	E		Army		Civil War Company B, 93rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry R… Civil War Company B, 93rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment as CPT	Civil War
Arthur	John	Elliott, Jr.	COL	Army	2002-02-27 00:00:00.000	WW II 28th Infantry Division VA	World War II
Arthur	John	F	2LT		1918-10-06 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service SC	World War I
Arthur	John	F		Army		WW I - 149th Machine Gun Battalion, Company L as 1SGT SC	World War I
Arthur	John	J		Navy		WW II USS Rock (SS-274) as TM3c	World War II
Arthur	John	M		MC		WW II Jul 1942, as COL, Commander 2nd Marine Regiment, Oper… WW II Jul 1942, as COL, Commander 2nd Marine Regiment, Operation Watchtower, invasion of Guadalcanal	World War II
Arthur	John	M		Army		WW II 4th Armored Division medical service as PFC	World War II
Arthur	John	S		A(C)		Civil War 48th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT … Civil War 48th Alabama Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT Died during the war	Civil War
Arthur	John	T., Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Flint (CL-97) as RdM3c	World War II
Arthur	John	Thomas, Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Montpelier (CL-57) as S2c	World War II
Arthur	John	W		Army		WW I - 58th Coast Artillery Regiment, Battery E as PVT MO	World War I
Arthur	John	William		Navy		WW II USS South Dakota (BB-57) as S1c	World War II
Arthur	Johnny		SP5	Army	1971-06-10 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service NM	Vietnam War
Arthur	Johnny		SP5	Army		Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Arthur	Joseph			Navy		WW II USS Hancock (CV-19) as S2c	World War II
Arthur	Joseph	A		Army		WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Company D as PVT	World War II
Arthur	Joseph	A	PVT	Army	2004-09-10 00:00:00.000	WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division)… WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division) VA-Roanoke	World War II
Arthur	Joseph	E		Navy		WW II LSM 245 as RdM3c	World War II
Arthur	Joseph	Jonethan		Navy		WW II USS Tallulah (AO-50) as COX	World War II
Arthur	Joseph	Leonard		Navy		WW II USS Mount Mc Kinley (AGC-7) as RT1c	World War II
Arthur	Joseph	T		Army		WW II 264th Infantry Regiment (66th Infantry Division) RI a… WW II 264th Infantry Regiment (66th Infantry Division) RI as T/5	World War II
Arthur	Justus	G		Navy		WW II USS Intrepid (CV-11) as S2c	World War II
Arthur	K		PFC	Army	1945-05-20 00:00:00.000	WW II Battle of Okinawa 96th Infantry Division Killed in … WW II Battle of Okinawa 96th Infantry Division Killed in action as PFC	World War II
Arthur	Kemp	Buckingham, Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Honolulu (CL-48) as F1c	World War II
Arthur	Kenneth			Navy		WW II USS Longshaw (DD-559) as WT1c	World War II
Arthur	Kenneth	Robert		Navy		WW II USS Lang (DD-399), as GM2c	World War II
Arthur	L	James		Army		WW II 10th Mountain Divison, HQ	World War II
Arthur	Lawrence	Kenneth	PFC	MC	1968-05-28 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service NY	Vietnam War
Arthur	Lawrence	Kenneth	PFC			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Arthur	Lee	H		Army		WW II 399th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Co… WW II 399th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Company I as PFC OH-Lucas	World War II
Arthur	Lee	K		MC		Charley Company, 7th Marine Reserve Battalion as PFC Korean… Charley Company, 7th Marine Reserve Battalion as PFC Korean War OH-Franklin	Korean War
Arthur	Leo	N		Army		WW II 422nd Infantry Regiment (106th Infantry Division) PO… WW II 422nd Infantry Regiment (106th Infantry Division) POW	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.