Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Alford	Joseph			A(C)		Civil War 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company I a… Civil War 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company I as PVT May be Allford, qv	Civil War
Alford	Joseph			Army		WW II 422nd Infantry Regiment (106th Infantry Division), Co… WW II 422nd Infantry Regiment (106th Infantry Division), Company F and 423rd Infantry Regiment as SGT POW	World War II
Alford	Joseph	S		Army		WW I - KS-Montgomery	World War I
Alford	Joseph	W		Army		Civil War Company K, 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Regiment as … Civil War Company K, 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Regiment as PVT May be Alvord, qv	Civil War
Alford	Josiah			A(C)		Civil War 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company I a… Civil War 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company I as PVT	Civil War
Alford	Julius	P		Army		WW II 399th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Co… WW II 399th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Company G as PFC MS Wounded	World War II
Alford	Julius	W		Navy		WW II USS Freestone (APA-167) as SM3c	World War II
Alford	Julius	Whiteford		Navy		WW II USS Charles Ausburne (DD-570) as S1c	World War II
Alford	Kenneth	M		Army		WW II 4th Medical Battalion (4th Infantry Division), Compan… WW II 4th Medical Battalion (4th Infantry Division), Company D as MAJ	World War II
Alford	Lee		PVT		1918-07-19 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service LA	World War I
Alford	Leo	K		Navy		WW II USS Northampton (CA-26) as S1c	World War II
Alford	Leo	Keller		Navy		WW II USS Iowa (BB-61) as GM2c	World War II
Alford	Leonard			Army		WW II 10th Mountain Medical Battalion, Company C	World War II
Alford	Leonard			Army		WW II 264th Infantry Regiment (66th Infantry Division) IN a… WW II 264th Infantry Regiment (66th Infantry Division) IN as PVT	World War II
Alford	Leonard	W	CPT		1945-06-17 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service IN	World War II
Alford	Leonard	W		Army		WW II 333rd Infantry Regiment (84th Infantry Division), Ant… WW II 333rd Infantry Regiment (84th Infantry Division), Antitank Company as PFC AR	World War II
Alford	Leonard	Willis	CPT	MC		WW II Died in service IN	World War II
Alford	Leroy			Army		WW II in Pacific as PVT	World War II
Alford	Leslie	"B"		Navy		WW II USS California (BB-44) as CEM(PA)	World War II
Alford	Leslie	P		Army		WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Ant… WW II 307th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), Antitank Company as PFC	World War II
Alford	Lester	Alton		Navy		WW II USS Hambleton (DMS-20) as WT1c(T)	World War II
Alford	Lewis	James		Navy		WW II USS Fanshaw Bay (CVE-70) as MM2c	World War II
Alford	Lewis	R		Army		WW II 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment as PFC	World War II
Alford	Lilberne	L	PFC	Army		WW II CA-Santa Clara Died non-battle	World War II
Alford	Lois	E		Army		WW II 347th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Med… WW II 347th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Medical Detachment	World War II
Alford	Lonnie	R		Army		WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Ser… WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Service CompanyA	World War II
Alford	Lonnie	R		Army		WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Ser… WW II 120th Infantry Regiment (30th Infantry Division), Service Company	World War II
Alford	Lonnie	R	1LT	Army	1994-01-08 00:00:00.000	WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division)… WW II 505th Regimental Combat Team (82nd Airborne Division) NC Retired as LCOL	World War II
Alford	Louis	B		Navy		WW II USS Irwin (DD-794) as S1c	World War II
Alford	Luther	J		Army		WW II 345th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 345th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Company D	World War II
Alford	M	J.A.		A(C)		Civil War 10th Texas Infantry Regiment, Company I	Civil War
Alford	Major	F., Jr.	1LT		1945-06-17 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service LA	World War II
Alford	Major	F., Jr.	1LT	MC		WW II Died in service LA	World War II
Alford	Mark	Carl	SGT	Army	1969-09-03 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service CA	Vietnam War
Alford	Mark	Carl	SGT			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Alford	Marvin			AF		WW II 703rd Bomb Squadron (445th Bomb Group)	World War II
Alford	Marvin	C., Jr.		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
Alford	Merrell	E	Sup SGT	Army		WW I - Company H, 349th Infantry Regiment, 88th Division as… WW I - Company H, 349th Infantry Regiment, 88th Division as Sup SGT IA	World War I
Alford	Michael	Lynn	SP4	Army	1968-05-01 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service CA	Vietnam War
Alford	Michael	Lynn	SP4	Army		Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Alford	Miles	G		Army		Civil War 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT… Civil War 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT May be Milo C. Alford, qv, or M.C. Alfred, qv	Civil War
Alford	Milo	C		Army		Civil War 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT… Civil War 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Company G as PVT May be Miles G. Alford, qv, or M.C. Alfred, qv	Civil War
Alford	Norman			Navy		WW II USS Freestone (APA-167) as StM1c	World War II
Alford	Oliver	Henry		Army		Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company E as… Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT May be Oliver H. Alfred, qv	Civil War
Alford	Opal		S2c	Navy	1944-11-02 00:00:00.000	WW II USS Borie as S2c Died in service AL	World War II
Alford	Oscar	Jep	RM3c		1943-06-05 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service LA	World War II
Alford	Oscar	Jep	RM3c	Navy		WW II Died in service LA	World War II
Alford	Ottis	D	SGT	Army		WW II Killed in action TX-Hopkins	World War II
Alford	Ottis	F		Army		Korean War Died in service AL	Korean War
Alford	Pat			Army		WW II 335th Infantry Regiment (84th Infantry Division), Can… WW II 335th Infantry Regiment (84th Infantry Division), Cannon Company as PFC AR	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.