Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Aiken	Leroy	Benjamin	PFC			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Aiken	Mathew	M		Army		Spanish-American War 4th Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regime… Spanish-American War 4th Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regiment May be Akin, qv	Spanish American War
Aiken	Neill	C	PVT	Army		WW II 121st Engineer Combat Battalion, Died as result of ba… WW II 121st Engineer Combat Battalion, Died as result of battle	World War II
Aiken	Neill	C	PVT	Army		WW II Killed in action MA-Essex	World War II
Aiken	P	R		Army		WW I - 111th Field Artillery Regiment (29th IDivision) as P… WW I - 111th Field Artillery Regiment (29th IDivision) as PVT	World War I
Aiken	Paul			AAF		WW II CBI Combat Cargo Group	World War II
Aiken	Peter	S		Navy		WW II USS Minneapolis (CA-36)	World War II
Aiken	Peter	S		Navy		WW II PT Boat crew Silver Star as GM1c	World War II
Aiken	R	W		A(C)		Civil War 5th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT	Civil War
Aiken	Ralph	C		Army		WW II 105th Engineer Compat Battalion (30th Infantry Diviso… WW II 105th Engineer Compat Battalion (30th Infantry Divison) as T-4	World War II
Aiken	Ralph	E	F1c		1945-05-04 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Aiken	Ralph	E		Navy		WW II USS Morrison (DD-560) as F1c	World War II
Aiken	Ralph	Eugene	F1c	Navy		WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Aiken	Ralph	Eugene	F1c	Navy		WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Aiken	Raymond	Harold, Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Wayne (APA-54) as COX	World War II
Aiken	Richard	P	PVT	A(C)	1862-07-27 00:00:00.000	Civil War 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, as PVT, Company … Civil War 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, as PVT, Company B Died of wounds	Civil War
Aiken	Robert			Army		Civil War 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery Regiment (14th R… Civil War 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery Regiment (14th Reserves) as PVT-CPL	Civil War
Aiken	Robert		PVT	Army		Revolutionary War 5th Pennsylvania Regiment as PVT	American Revolution
Aiken	Robert	Dale		Navy		WW II LSM-167 as S1c	World War II
Aiken	Robert	E	CPL		1945-07-09 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service NY	World War II
Aiken	Robert	E	CPL	Army		WW II Died-non battle NY-St. Lawrence	World War II
Aiken	Robert	E		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
Aiken	Robert	L		AF		WW II CBI 22nd Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group as TSGT	World War II
Aiken	Robert	L		AF		WW II CBI 491st Bomb Squadron (341st Bomb Group) as TSGT	World War II
Aiken	Robert	M		Navy		WW II USS Owen (DD-536) as SoM3c	World War II
Aiken	Robert	S		A(C)		Civil War 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment , Company I as… Civil War 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment , Company I as CPL Died in service	Civil War
Aiken	Robert	V	PVT	Army	1944-07-19 00:00:00.000	WW II Died of wounds CA-Los Angeles	World War II
Aiken	Russell	Elmer		Navy		WW II USS William D. Porter (DD-579) as TM1c	World War II
Aiken	Samuel	Fogle	S2c		1943-11-02 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service TX	World War II
Aiken	Samuel	Fogle	S2c	Navy		WW II Died in service TX	World War II
Aiken	Samuel	J		Army		WW II 397th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Co… WW II 397th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Company A as PFC PA	World War II
Aiken	Theodore	J	PVT	Army		WW II Died-non battle PA-Philadelphia County	World War II
Aiken	Thomas			Army		Civil War 5th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT-CPL … Civil War 5th Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT-CPL May be Aitken, qv, or Aitkin, qv	Civil War
Aiken	Thomas	Newkirk	LT	Navy	1944-11-14 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service PA	World War II
Aiken	W	A		A(C)		Civil War 5th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT … Civil War 5th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT May be William L. Akins, qv	Civil War
Aiken	Wallace	D		Navy		WW II LCI(G)-407 as F1c CA-Los Angeless	World War II
Aiken	Walter	A		Army		Civil War 6th Vermont Infantry Regiment, Company C	Civil War
Aiken	Walter	H		Navy		WW II USS Appalachian (AGC-1) as S1c	World War II
Aiken	Warren	B		MC		WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal Company D, 5th Marine Regiment… WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal Company D, 5th Marine Regiment as PFC	World War II
Aiken	Warren	B	CPL	MC		WW II Wounded MA	World War II
Aiken	William			Army		Civil War 5th New York Cavalry Regiment, Company F as PVT	Civil War
Aiken	William		PhM2c	Navy		WW II Wounded TX	World War II
Aiken	William			Army		Mexican War 2nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Compan… Mexican War 2nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT	Mexican War
Aiken	William	B		Army		Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regime… Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regiment, Company H	Spanish American War
Aiken	William	D	1LT	Army		WW II Killed in action MN-Olmsted	World War II
Aiken	William	D.S.		CSA		Civil War 43rd North Carolina Regiment - Infantry, Company … Civil War 43rd North Carolina Regiment - Infantry, Company G as PVT-SGT	Civil War
Aiken	William	E		Army		Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regime… Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regiment, Company I and 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company A	Spanish American War
Aiken	William	H		AF		WW II CBI 490th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group as 1LT	World War II
Aiken	William	H		Army		WW II 441st Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (3rd Infantry … WW II 441st Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion (3rd Infantry Division) as T-5	World War II
Aiken	William	L		MC		WW II Navy Cross	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.