Veterans · Our War Veterans

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Able	Frederick	I		Army		Civil War 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company D an… Civil War 90th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company D and Company F as PVT-CPL May be Frederich J. Abel, qv, or Frederick S. Abel, qv Also see Frederick J., qv	Civil War
Able	Frederick	J		Army		Civil War 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company B as… Civil War 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company B as CPL May be Abel, qv	Civil War
Able	George			Army		Civil War 3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Company D as… Civil War 3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, Company D as PVT	Civil War
Able	George	C		Army		WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment, Company L as PFC PA-Philade… WW II 143rd Infantry Regiment, Company L as PFC PA-Philadelphia	World War II
Able	George	W		A(C)		Civil War 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company H as PVT … Civil War 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, Company H as PVT May be George Abel, qv, or George W. Abel, qv	Civil War
Able	Hubert	R		MC		WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal Company M, 5th Marine Regiment a… WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal Company M, 5th Marine Regiment as PFC	World War II
Able	Jacob			Army		Civil War 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery Regiment (14th R… Civil War 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery Regiment (14th Reserves), Battery G as PVT May be Abale, qv, or Abele, qv	Civil War
Able	Jacob	H	PVT		1918-10-05 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service WV	World War I
Able	Jacob	H		Army		WW I - WV Killed in action	World War I
Able	James	Arthur		Navy		WW II USS Stack (DD-406) as RM2c	World War II
Able	John			Army		War of 1812 Austin's Regiment, SC Militia, as PVT	War of 1812
Able	John	M		A(C)		Civil War 22nd Texas Infantry Regiment, Company G as 2LT	Civil War
Able	Joseph	C		A(C)		Civil War 19th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company B as PVT	Civil War
Able	Lee	R		Army		Korean War 8th Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne)	Korean War
Able	Lewis			Army		Civil War 153rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company A a… Civil War 153rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company A as Musician May be Lewis H. Abel, qv	Civil War
Able	Mark			MC		WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regimen… WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment (3rdMarine Division) as CPL	World War II
Able	Marshall			A(C)		Civil War 8th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT … Civil War 8th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT May be Abell, qv	Civil War
Able	Peter			Army		Civil War 153rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company D a… Civil War 153rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT May be Abel, qv	Civil War
Able	R			Navy		WW II USS Arkansas (BB-33) as S2c	World War II
Able	Robert	?		Army		WW II 739th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company (30th Infant… WW II 739th Ordnance Light Maintenance Company (30th Infantry Division) as CWO	World War II
Able	Robert	L		A(C)		Civil War 8th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT … Civil War 8th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT May be Abel, qv	Civil War
Able	Robert	L		AF		WW II 767th Bomb Squadron (461st Bomb Group)	World War II
Able	Robert	Lawrence		Navy		WW II LST-697 as MoMM3c(T)	World War II
Able	Robert	Lawrence		Navy		WW II LST 697 as MoMM3c	World War II
Able	Wilbur	S	PFC	Army	1944-02-16 00:00:00.000	WW II 335th Infantry Regiment, Anti-tank Company as PFC Di… WW II 335th Infantry Regiment, Anti-tank Company as PFC Died of wounds DC	World War II
Able	Wilbur	S	PFC	Army		WW II Died of wounds VA-Essex	World War II
Able	William			Army		Civil War 23rd Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT-CPL… Civil War 23rd Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT-CPL May be Abel, qv, or Apel, qv	Civil War
Able	William			Army		ICivil War 16th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company E as PV… ICivil War 16th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Company E as PVT	Uncategorized
Able	William			Army		Indian Wars 10th Cavalry Regiment IL	Indian Wars
Able	William	H		Army		Civil War 1st Pennsylvania Regiment, Company D as 2LT	Civil War
Able	William	S	SSGT	Army		WW II Killed in action AL-Fayette	World War II
Ableman	Bert	F	FL O	AF	1945-09-11 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service AZ	World War II
Ableman	Robert	Joseph		Navy		WW II USS Saratoga (CV-3) as AOM3c(T)	World War II
Ableman	Stephen			Army		Civil War 7th New York Artillery Regiment, Company D as PVT… Civil War 7th New York Artillery Regiment, Company D as PVT Captured June 3 1864 as tCold Harbor. Paroled	Civil War
Ablendi	Amelio			Army		WW I - KS-Crawford	World War I
Abler	Alexander	M	ARM3c	Navy	1943-05-24 00:00:00.000	WW II USS Lexington (CV-16), as ARM3c Died in service WI	World War II
Abler	Alexander	Michael	ARM2c	Navy		WW II Died in service WI	World War II
Abler	Gordon	Herman		Navy		WW II USS Metcalf (DD-595) as S2c	World War II
Abler	James	Lynn	SP4	Army	1970-05-22 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service IA	Vietnam War
Abler	James	Lynn	SP4	Army		Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Abler	Paul			Army		WW II 398th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Co… WW II 398th Infantry Regiment (100th Infantry Division), Company M	World War II
Abler	Robert	W		Army		Vietnam War 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, Company … Vietnam War 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, Company A as PFC	Vietnam War
Ables	Albert	P		Army		WW II 264th Infantry Regiment (66th Infantry Division) AL a… WW II 264th Infantry Regiment (66th Infantry Division) AL as PFC	World War II
Ables	Arthur			Army		WW I - KS-Osage	World War I
Ables	Benjamin	Franklin	S1c	Navy	1944-03-03 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service SC	World War II
Ables	Billy	Gene		Navy		WW II USS Escambia (AO-80) as S1c	World War II
Ables	Billy	R		Army		Korean War Died in service AR	Korean War
Ables	Charles	George	S2c		1943-08-10 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service CO	World War II
Ables	Charles	George	S2c	Navy		WW II Died in service CO	World War II
Ables	Charles	N		MC		WW II Battle of Iwo Jima HQ Battalion, 3rd Marine Division… WW II Battle of Iwo Jima HQ Battalion, 3rd Marine Division as SSGT	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.