Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Ailiff	C			A(C)		Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT	Civil War
Ailiff	George	H		A(C)		Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT… Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT May be George H. Aleff, qv, or G.H. Aliff, qv	Civil War
Ailiff	John	A		A(C)		Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT… Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT May be John H. Ailiff, qv, or John A. Aliff, qv, or John A. Ayliff, qv	Civil War
Ailiff	John	H		A(C)		Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT… Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT May be John A. Ailiff, qv, or John A. Aliff, qv, or John A. Ayliff, qv	Civil War
Ailiff	Joseph	N.B.		A(C)		Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT	Civil War
Ailiff	Lewis	H	PVT	Army	1944-04-20 00:00:00.000	WW II Killed in action WV-Wayne	World War II
Ailiff	Philip	C		A(C)		Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT… Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT May be P.C. Aliff, qv, or P.C. Ayliff, qv	Civil War
Ailiff	William	H	PFC	Army	2002-04-15 00:00:00.000	WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division)… WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division) KY	World War II
Ailinger	Warren	L		Navy		WW II USS Edmonds (DE-406) as SoM2c	World War II
Ailio	Frank	E	2LT		1945-02-17 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MI	World War II
Ailio	Frank	E	2LT	Army		WW II Killed in action MI-St. Clair	World War II
Ailio	Frank	E		Army		WW II 253rd Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Com… WW II 253rd Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Company H as 2LT	World War II
Aillett	W	I		A(C)		Civil War 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company D as CPT… Civil War 53rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company D as CPT-COL May be William R. Aylett, qv	Civil War
Aillif	Samuel			A(C)		Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT… Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT May be Aliff, qv, or Ayliff, qv	Civil War
Ailliff	Allen	B.T.		A(C)		Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT… Civil War 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT May be A.B.Tompkins Ailiff, qv, or Alex B.T. Ailff	Civil War
Aills	George	A		Army		WW I - 58th Coast Artillery Regiment, Battery B as PVT	World War I
Aills	George	W		CSA		Civil War 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company C as … Civil War 16th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Company C as 5SGT	Civil War
Aills	James			AAF		WW II 744th Bomb Squadron (456th Bomb Group)	World War II
Aills	John	A	PVT	Army	1918-10-05 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died of wounds KS	World War I
Aills	John	R		Army	1917-09-24 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died of wounds KS	World War I
Aills	John	R		Army		WW I - KS-Saline	World War I
Aills	William			A(C)		Civil War 6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment as Surgeon	Civil War
Ailor	Foster			AF		WW II 490th Bombardment Group (8th Air Force)	World War II
Ailor	James	R		Army		Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regime… Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regiment, Company A	Spanish American War
Ailor	James	T	1LT		1945-04-21 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service TN	World War II
Ailor	James	T	1LT	Army		WW II Killed in action TN-Polk	World War II
Ailor	James	T		Army		WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Company H as 1LT	World War II
Ailor	James	W		A(C)		Civil War 5th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT … Civil War 5th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT May be Ailer, qv, or Airey, qv	Civil War
Ailport	John	Levi		Navy		WW II USS Reid (DD-369) as MM1c	World War II
Ailport	R	E		Army		WW II 341st Field Artilley Battalion (89th Infantry Divisio… WW II 341st Field Artilley Battalion (89th Infantry Division), Battery C as PFC	World War II
Ails	John			Army		Civil War 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company F as… Civil War 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT May be Ailes, qv	Civil War
Ailshie	Everett	Lee, Sr.	PVT	MC		WW II Died in service MO	World War II
Ailshouse	William	W	2LT	Army		WW II Died non-battle PA-Venango	World War II
Ailstock	Alfred	E		Army		WW II 81st Engineer Combat Battalion (106th infantry Divisi… WW II 81st Engineer Combat Battalion (106th infantry Division) as SSGT	World War II
Ailstock	Jim	Lamarr	SP4	Army	1968-03-26 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service TX	Vietnam War
Ailstock	Jim	Lamarr, Jr.	SP4	Army		Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Ailstock	Leonard	L	PVT	Army		WW II Died-non battle VA-Alleghany	World War II
Ailstock	Theodore			Army		WW I - KS-Sedgwick	World War I
Ailstock	Theodore	R		Navy		WW II USS Franklin (CV-13) as StM2c	World War II
Ailstock	Theodore	Roosevelt		Navy		WW II USS Cuyama (AO-3) as StM1c	World War II
Ailstock	Theodore	Roosevelt		Navy		WW II USS Franklin (CV-13) as StM2c	World War II
Ailstock	Vernon	Lynnwood		Navy		WW II USS Pasadena (CL-65) as PhM1c	World War II
Ailstock	Willie	E., Jr.		Army		WW II 87th Infantry Regiment, Company A	World War II
Ailstock	Zorobabel			CSA		Civil War 11th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company G as CPL-… Civil War 11th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company G as CPL-SGT Wounded	Civil War
Ailsworth	George			AF		WW II 343rd Bomb Squadron (98th Bomb Group)	World War II
Ailworth	Edmund			A(C)		Civil War 55th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company B as PVT	Civil War
Aim	Walter	Page		Navy		WW II USS Farenholt (DD-491) as Y1c	World War II
Aiman	Edward	H		Army		WW I - KS-Riley	World War I
Aiman	Marion	F		Navy		WW I - KS-Riley	World War I
Aiman	William	?		Army		WW I - KS-Reno	World War I

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.