Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Borndate	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Adkins	Frank			AVG			WW II 1942, Flight Leader in 3rd Squadron, American Volunte… WW II 1942, Flight Leader in 3rd Squadron, American Volunteer Group	World War II
Adkins	Frank			AAF			WW II 39th Fighter Squadron (35th Fighter Group)	World War II
Adkins	Frank	E	LCOL	Army			WW II Died non-battle TN-Montgomery	World War II
Adkins	Frank	L	PFC			1918-03-08 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service GA	World War I
Adkins	Frank	L		Army			WW I - 151st Machine Gun Battalion, Company B as PVT GA	World War I
Adkins	Franklin	Arthur		Navy			WW II USS Hobson (DMS-26) as WT1c(T)	World War II
Adkins	Fred		PFC			1918-10-19 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service MO	World War I
Adkins	Gale	Phyllip		Navy			WW II USS Carlson (DE-9) as RdM3c	World War II
Adkins	George			Army			WW I - 165th Infantry (69th New York) Regiment, Company E a… WW I - 165th Infantry (69th New York) Regiment, Company E as PVT NY-New York	World War I
Adkins	George	Jr.	PFC	MC			WW II Wounded WV	World War II
Adkins	George	A		Army			WW I - KS-Elk	World War I
Adkins	George	Andrew		Navy			WW II USS Miami (CL-89) as S2c	World War II
Adkins	George	B	T/3	Army		1982-06-14 00:00:00.000	WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division)… WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division) NC	World War II
Adkins	George	D		Army			WW II 7th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as CPL … WW II 7th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as CPL POW	World War II
Adkins	George	H	PFC			1945-05-20 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service CA Also see other George H	World War II
Adkins	George	H		Army			WW II 318th Infantry Regiment, Company A Wounded in action… WW II 318th Infantry Regiment, Company A Wounded in action November 1944 Also see other George H	World War II
Adkins	George	H	PFC	Army			WW II Killed in action CA-San Francisco	World War II
Adkins	George	M		Army			WW I - KS-Franklin	World War I
Adkins	George	N		Army			WW I - 353rd Infantry Regiment, Company B KS-Franklin	World War I
Adkins	George	S		Army			WW II 60th Medical Battalion as PFC	World War II
Adkins	George	W		A(C)			Civil War 21st Georgia Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT	Civil War
Adkins	George	W		Army			WW I - 58th Coast Artillery Regiment, Battery A as PFC KY	World War I
Adkins	George	W		Army			Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regime… Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regiment, Company L	Spanish American War
Adkins	Glen			AAF			WW II CBI	World War II
Adkins	Gold			AAF			WW II CBI	World War II
Adkins	Golden		SA			1942-02-18 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service WV	World War II
Adkins	Grable	R		Army			WW II 30th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PFC	World War II
Adkins	H			Army			WW I - 113th Infantry Regiment (29th IDivision) as PVT	World War I
Adkins	H	F		Army			WW I - 116th Infantry Regiment (29th IDivision) as PFC	World War I
Adkins	Hariel			Army			WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment (36th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment (36th Infantry Division), Company A as PVT TN	World War II
Adkins	Harm	K	S2c			1945-03-19 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service TN	World War II
Adkins	Harold		T/5	Army			WW II Died of wounds MD-Princes Georges	World War II
Adkins	Harold			AF			WW II 437th Troop Carrier Group (9th Air Force)	World War II
Adkins	Harold	K		Navy			WW II LSM 25 as F1c	World War II
Adkins	Harold	M	PFC	Army			WW II Killed in action IN-Knox	World War II
Adkins	Harry			Army			WW I - WV Killed in action	World War I
Adkins	Harvey	G		MC			WW I - 5th Marine Regiment, 45th (L) Company as PVT	World War I
Adkins	Hary	C		Army	1919-09-12 00:00:00.000		WW II 108th Infantry Regiment, Company F NY	World War II
Adkins	Hatten		SFC	Army		1951-01-15 00:00:00.000	Korean War Killed in action WV	Korean War
Adkins	Henry			Army			Civil War 57th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company E as Rec… Civil War 57th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company E as Recruit Deserte	Civil War
Adkins	Henry		PFC	Army			WW II Died-non battle TX-Nueces	World War II
Adkins	Henry	D					Spanish-American War GA	Spanish American War
Adkins	Henry	D		Army			Civil War 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, Battery K as … Civil War 1st Maine Heavy Artillery Regiment, Battery K as PVT	Civil War
Adkins	Henry	Dale	SP4	Army		1971-05-23 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service OH	Vietnam War
Adkins	Henry	Dale	SP4	Army			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Adkins	Henry	N		Army			Civil War 36th infantry Regiment, US. Colored Troops as SGT… Civil War 36th infantry Regiment, US. Colored Troops as SGTMAJ	Civil War
Adkins	Henry	N		Army			Civil War 36th infantry Regiment, US. Colored Troops, Compa… Civil War 36th infantry Regiment, US. Colored Troops, Company E as 1SGT	Civil War
Adkins	Herbert			Army			WW II 7th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PFC	World War II
Adkins	Herman			Army			WW II 116th Infantry Regiment, Company L as PFC	World War II
Adkins	Herman	G		Army			WW II 413th Infantry Regiment, Company D as PFC	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.