Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Title	Borndate	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Adams	John	Cole		Navy				WW II USS Oxford (APA-189) as Ck3c	World War II
Adams	John	D		Army				Civil War 29th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, Company K as… Civil War 29th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT	Civil War
Adams	John	D		Army				Civil War 1st Cavalry Regiment (Regular Army), Company B as… Civil War 1st Cavalry Regiment (Regular Army), Company B as Bugler	Civil War
Adams	John	D	SGT	Army			1952-11-24 00:00:00.000	Korean War Died of wounds	Korean War
Adams	John	D		Navy				WW II USS Housatonic (AO-35) as F3c	World War II
Adams	John	D		Army				WW II 9th Field Artillery Battalion (M) (3rd Infantry Divis… WW II 9th Field Artillery Battalion (M) (3rd Infantry Division) as CPL	World War II
Adams	John	D		Army				WW II 142nd Infantry Regiment (36th Infantry Division), Co… WW II 142nd Infantry Regiment (36th Infantry Division), Company C as PFC WV	World War II
Adams	John	D		Army				WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Com… WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Company K as PFC	World War II
Adams	John	D		Army				WW II 254th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Ser… WW II 254th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Service Company as PFC	World War II
Adams	John	D		Navy				WW II USS Palmer (DMS-5) as FC2c	World War II
Adams	John	D		MC				WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 5th Engineer Battalion (5th Marin… WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 5th Engineer Battalion (5th Marine Divison) as CPL	World War II
Adams	John	David	PVT	MC				WW II Wounded NJ	World War II
Adams	John	David		Navy				WW II USS Housatonic (AO-35) as WT1c	World War II
Adams	John	E	SSGT				1943-08-19 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MA	World War II
Adams	John	E	MAJ	Army			1944-01-24 00:00:00.000	WW II Killed in action CA-Los Angeles	World War II
Adams	John	E		Navy				WW II SACO as LTJG	World War II
Adams	John	E		Navy				WW II LSM-202 as COX(T)	World War II
Adams	John	E		Army				WW I - 117th Engineer Regiment (SC and CA), Company E as Su… WW I - 117th Engineer Regiment (SC and CA), Company E as Supply SGT CA-Los Angeles	World War I
Adams	John	E	SSGT	Army				WW II Finding of death MA-Essex	World War II
Adams	John	E		Army				WW II 333rd Infantry Regiment (84th Infantry Division), Can… WW II 333rd Infantry Regiment (84th Infantry Division), Cannon Company as PFC NM	World War II
Adams	John	E		Army				WW II 30th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PFC	World War II
Adams	John	E		Navy				WW II USS Louisville (CA-28) as S1c	World War II
Adams	John	E		Army				WW II Distinguished Service Cross Killed in action	World War II
Adams	John	E	PVT	Army				WW I - Died of accident NY-Kings	World War I
Adams	John	E., Jr.	PFC				1944-09-07 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service DE	World War II
Adams	John	E., Jr.	PFC	Army				WW II Killed in action MD-Baltimore County	World War II
Adams	John	E., Jr.	SGT	Army				WW II Died non-battle MA-Worcester	World War II
Adams	John	Ed		Navy				WW II USS Oklahoma (BB-37) as S1c	World War II
Adams	John	Edward		Navy				WW II USS Murphy (DD-603) as S2c	World War II
Adams	John	Edwin	PFC	MC			1950-09-28 00:00:00.000	Korean War Company D, 7th Marine Regiment as PFC Killed in… Korean War Company D, 7th Marine Regiment as PFC Killed in action MT	Korean War
Adams	John	Ellis		Navy				WW II USS Amsterdam (CL-101) as S2c	World War II
Adams	John	Everett		Navy				WW II USS Pasadena (CL-65) as WT2c	World War II
Adams	John	F		MC				WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regime… WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment as PFC	World War II
Adams	John	F		Army				WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment (36th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment (36th Infantry Division), Company B as 1SGT NY-Kings	World War II
Adams	John	F		Army				WW II 306th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division) as P… WW II 306th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division) as PVT	World War II
Adams	John	F		Army				WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Com… WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Company D as 1SGT	World War II
Adams	John	F		AF				WW II 20th Air Force FL	World War II
Adams	John	F., Jr.		Army				WW II 333rd Infantry Regiment, Company E as PFC VA	World War II
Adams	John	F.S.		Army		1916-08-18 00:00:00.000		WW II 27th Infantry Division as 2LT NY-Kings	World War II
Adams	John	Franklin		Navy				WW II US Glennon (DD-620) as GM3c	World War II
Adams	John	G		Army				Civil War 1st Kansas Infantry Regiment, Company D as CPL-PV… Civil War 1st Kansas Infantry Regiment, Company D as CPL-PVT	Civil War
Adams	John	G		Army				Civil War 11th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT… Civil War 11th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT May be John H. Adam, qv, or John H. Adams, qv, or John H. Addams, qv	Civil War
Adams	John	G		Army				WW II 15th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PVT	World War II
Adams	John	G		Army				WW II HQ, 87th Infantry Division	World War II
Adams	John	G. B.		Army	Medal of Honor			Civil War 19th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment Medal of Ho… Civil War 19th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment Medal of Honor as 2LT at Battle of Fredericksburg Dec 13 1862	Civil War
Adams	John	Gordon		MC				Korean War Died in service AR	Korean War
Adams	John	H	ENS				1943-04-07 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service CA	World War II
Adams	John	H		Army				Spanish-American War 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (R… Spanish-American War 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (Rough Riders), Troop K, as Trooper Wounded Jul 1 1898 AL	Spanish American War
Adams	John	H		Army				Civil War 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, Company F	Civil War
Adams	John	H		Army				Civil War 11th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT… Civil War 11th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT May be John H. Adam, qv, or John G. Adams, qv, or John H. Addams, qv	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.