Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Borndate	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Adams	Norman	C		Navy			WW II USS Minneapolis (CA-36)	World War II
Adams	Norman	C		AF			WW II England, North Africa	World War II
Adams	Norman	Carlyle		Navy			WW II USS Kadashan Bay (CVE-76) as S1c	World War II
Adams	Norman	Edward	SGT				Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Adams	Norman	H		MC			WW II Battle of Iwo Jima Weapons Company, 9th Marine Regim… WW II Battle of Iwo Jima Weapons Company, 9th Marine Regiment as 1SGT	World War II
Adams	Norman	K	SSGT			1944-07-18 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MI	World War II
Adams	Norman	K	SSGT	Army			WW II Killed in action MI-Oakland	World War II
Adams	Norman	K	SSGT	Army		1944-07-18 00:00:00.000	WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division) as S… WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division) as SSGT Killed in action	World War II
Adams	Norman	K		Army			WW II 125th Infantry Regiment , Company A as SGT	World War II
Adams	Norman	Lee		Navy			WW II USS Yorktown (CV-10) as AMM3c	World War II
Adams	Norman	Louis		Navy			WW II USS Essex (CV-9) as AMM3c	World War II
Adams	Norman	Wesley		Navy			WW II USS Antares (AKS-3) as S1c	World War II
Adams	Nwell	H.H.		Army			Civil War 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment, Company F	Civil War
Adams	O			Army			WW I - 113th Infantry Regiment (29th IDivision) as PVT	World War I
Adams	O	B	SGT	Army			WW II Died-non battle TX-Polk	World War II
Adams	Obediah	L		Army			Civil War 9th Kentucky Infantry Regiment , Company E as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Octave			Army			Civil War 61st New York Infantry Regiment, Company C as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Ogden			AAF			WW II CBI	World War II
Adams	Ogden	R		Army	1920-10-07 00:00:00.000		WW II 27th Infantry Division as 2LT NY	World War II
Adams	Ola	W		MC			WW I - KS-Wyandotte	World War I
Adams	Oley	Neal	SSGT	AF		1966-06-17 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service MO	Vietnam War
Adams	Oley	Neal	SSGT				Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Adams	Oliver			Army			Korean War Died in service IL	Korean War
Adams	Oliver	B		Army			Mexican War 3rd Texas Mounted Volunteers Regiment , Company… Mexican War 3rd Texas Mounted Volunteers Regiment , Company E as PVT	Mexican War
Adams	Oliver	E., Jr.		Army			WW II 716th Tank Battalion as PFC	World War II
Adams	Oliver	F		Army			Civil War 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, Company I	Civil War
Adams	Oliver	F		Army			WW II 305th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 305th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Company E as PVT	World War II
Adams	Oliver	F.G.	PVT	Army			WW II Died non-battle NE-Hall	World War II
Adams	Oliver	H		Army			WW I - KS-Shawnee	World War I
Adams	Oliver	P		Army			Civil War 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company H as… Civil War 28th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT-CPL	Civil War
Adams	Oliver	Robert	PFC			1945-07-27 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service WI	World War II
Adams	Oliver	Robert	PFC	MC			WW II Died in service WI	World War II
Adams	Oliver	T		Army			Civil War 2nd New Jersey Infantry Regiment, Company F as PV… Civil War 2nd New Jersey Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT	Civil War
Adams	Omer	C		Army			WW II 30th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PVT	World War II
Adams	Onesimo			Navy			WW II USS Mc Cook (DD-496) as F1c	World War II
Adams	Ora			AAF			WW II 453rd Bombardment Group (8th Air Force)	World War II
Adams	Ora			AAF			WW II CBI May be Orlo, qv	World War II
Adams	Ora	R		AF			WW II 455th Bomb Group, 742nd Bomb Squadron as CPL	World War II
Adams	Oren	O		Army			WW I - 168th Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT IA	World War I
Adams	Orin	S		Army			Civil War 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company A an… Civil War 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company A and Company C as PVT-SGT	Civil War
Adams	Orla	E		Army			WW II 119th Infantry Regiment	World War II
Adams	Orlo			AAF			WW II CBI Air Transport Command	World War II
Adams	Orren	H		Navy			WW II USS Goodhue (APA-107) as S2c	World War II
Adams	Ortus			AAF			WW II CBI Air Transport Command	World War II
Adams	Orville	D		Navy			WW II Armed Guard on USS Fort Lee as S1c. Survived its sin… WW II Armed Guard on USS Fort Lee as S1c. Survived its sinking	World War II
Adams	Orville	Eugene	S2c	Navy		1943-11-14 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service PA	World War II
Adams	Orville	L	CPL	MC			WW II Wounded TX	World War II
Adams	Orville	V		Navy			WW II LCI(L)-9 as AS	World War II
Adams	Oscar			Army			Civil War 2nd Michigan Cavalry Regiment, Company G as EM	Civil War
Adams	Oscar	Jr.		Navy			WW II USS Wisconsin (BB-64) as StM1c	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.