Veterans · Our War Veterans

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Aber	Donald	C		Navy		WW II USS Vincennes (CL-64) as MM3c	World War II
Aber	Earle	J., Jr.	LCOL		1945-03-04 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service WI	World War II
Aber	Earle	J., Jr.	LCOL	Army		WW II Killed in action WI-Racine	World War II
Aber	Franz			Army		Civil War 61st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Compan… Civil War 61st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company I as PVT	Civil War
Aber	J	William		Army		Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company H as… Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT-Musician May be William, qv, or William J., qv	Civil War
Aber	John	E		Army		WW II 374th Field Artillery Battalion (100th Infantry Divis… WW II 374th Field Artillery Battalion (100th Infantry Division), HQ as MAJ NJ	World War II
Aber	Kenneth	D		Navy		WW II USS Northampton (CA-26) as AS	World War II
Aber	Leo			AF		WW II 721st Bomb Squadron (450th Bomb Group)	World War II
Aber	Melvin	Orr	PVT	MC		WW II Died in service PA	World War II
Aber	Michael		QM2c	Navy		WW II Died in service OH	World War II
Aber	Michael			Navy		WW II USS Bowers (DE-637) as QM2c	World War II
Aber	Robert	E		Navy		WW II USS Plunger (SS-179) as MoMM1c(SS)	World War II
Aber	Robert	Le Roy, Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Bates (APD-47) as EM2c(T)	World War II
Aber	Samuel			Navy		WW II USS Essex (CV-9) as SC3c	World War II
Aber	Theodore	G., Jr.	PFC	Army	1945-09-04 00:00:00.000	WW II Died-non battle NJ-Essex	World War II
Aber	Wesley	A		Army		Civil War 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery K … Civil War 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment, Battery K and Battery E as PVT	Civil War
Aber	William			Army		Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company H as… Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT-Musician May be J. William, qv, or William J., qv	Civil War
Aber	William	Jr.		Army		Civil War 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company K as… Civil War 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT	Civil War
Aber	William	J		Army		Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company H as… Civil War 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company H as PVT-Musician May be J. William, qv, or William, qv	Civil War
Aberalle	Guiseppe		PFC		1918-08-17 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service NY	World War I
Aberbathy	Curtis	Q		Navy		WW II USS Anacostia (AO-94) as F2c	World War II
Aberbom	Morris			Navy		WW II USS Renville (APA-227) as SC3c(T)	World War II
Abercia	Johnnie			Navy		WW II USS Indiana (BB-58) as S1c(RdM)	World War II
Abercia	Ralph		T/5	AF		WW II 1114th Quartermaster Co.	World War II
Abercrombie	Aaron	Richard		AF		Korean War 18th Fighter-Bomber Wing Killed in action AL	Korean War
Abercrombie	Albert			Army		WW II 87th Infantry Regiment, Company B	World War II
Abercrombie	Alex	M	T/5	Army		WW II Died in service PA	World War II
Abercrombie	Alex	M	T/5	Army		WW II Killed in action PA-Cambria	World War II
Abercrombie	Alex	M		Army		WW II 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment as T/5	World War II
Abercrombie	Arthur	Quinton		Navy		WW II 18th Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees) tn	World War II
Abercrombie	Bennett	B		Army		WW II 275th Infantry Regiment (70th Infantry Divison), Comp… WW II 275th Infantry Regiment (70th Infantry Divison), Company D as PFC	World War II
Abercrombie	Charles	H	CPT		1918-10-11 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service OR	World War I
Abercrombie	Clemeth	C		Army		WW I - KS-Lincoln	World War I
Abercrombie	Clifford	E		Army		WW II 117th Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT	World War II
Abercrombie	Cloyd	O		Army		WW II 304th Field Artillery Battalion (77th Infantry Divisi… WW II 304th Field Artillery Battalion (77th Infantry Division), HQ Battery as SSGT	World War II
Abercrombie	Edward			Navy		WW II USS Portland (CA-33) as S1c(RM)	World War II
Abercrombie	Elisha			A(C)		Civil War 5th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT … Civil War 5th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT May be Ellehue Amacrombie, qv	Civil War
Abercrombie	Forrest	Ferold		Navy		WW II USS Boyd (DD-544) as TM2c	World War II
Abercrombie	Frank	E		Navy		WW II LST-688 as EM3c	World War II
Abercrombie	Garniel			Army		WW II 345th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), HQ … WW II 345th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), HQ 1st Battalion	World War II
Abercrombie	George	W		Army		WW II 345th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 345th Infantry Regiment (87th Infantry Division), Company M	World War II
Abercrombie	Homer	T		Army		WW I - KS-Lincoln	World War I
Abercrombie	Irby		PVT	Army		WW II 7th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PVT … WW II 7th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PVT MIA	World War II
Abercrombie	J	J		Army		Civil War 127th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Aide … Civil War 127th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Aide as 1LT	Civil War
Abercrombie	James	D	PVT		1945-03-01 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service CA	World War II
Abercrombie	James	D	PFC	Army		WW II Killed in action CA-Kern	World War II
Abercrombie	James	L	SSGT	Army		WW II Killed in action WA-King	World War II
Abercrombie	James	R		Navy		WW II Aug 1944, USS George E. Davis	World War II
Abercrombie	John			A(C)		Civil War 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company F a… Civil War 3rd South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company F as PVT	Civil War
Abercrombie	John			Army		Vietnam War 60th Land Clearing Company as SSGT IN	Vietnam War

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.