Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Anderson	Henry			Army		War of 1812 Captain John Jones' Company, OH, as SGT	War of 1812
Anderson	Henry			Army		Mexican War 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company B… Mexican War 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company B as PVT	Mexican War
Anderson	Henry			Army		Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company B as… Civil War 5th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company B as PVT	Civil War
Anderson	Henry			Army		Civil War 7th Michigan Cavalry Regiment, Company M	Civil War
Anderson	Henry			Army		Civil War 1st New York Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT … Civil War 1st New York Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT Also see other Henry	Civil War
Anderson	Henry			Army		Civil War 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company B as… Civil War 2nd New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, Company B as PVT	Civil War
Anderson	Henry			Army		Civil War 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, Company A as … Civil War 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment, Company A as PVT	Civil War
Anderson	Henry			Army		Civil War 64th New York Infantry Regiment as PVT	Civil War
Anderson	Henry			Army		Civil War 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as PVT	Civil War
Anderson	Henry			Navy		Civil War MD	Civil War
Anderson	Henry			Navy		Civil War KY	Civil War
Anderson	Henry		RdM3c	Navy		WW II Died in service IL Also see other Henry	World War II
Anderson	Henry			Army		WW I - KS-Morton	World War I
Anderson	Henry			Army		WW I - KS-Barber	World War I
Anderson	Henry			Navy		WW II USS Franklin (CV-13) as S2c	World War II
Anderson	Henry			Navy		WW II USS Panamint (AGC-11) as StM1c	World War II
Anderson	Henry			Army		WW II 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion as 1LT NY	World War II
Anderson	Henry			AF		WW II 437th Troop Carrier Group (9th Air Force)	World War II
Anderson	Henry		PVT			WW I - Killed in action IL	World War I
Anderson	Henry			CSA		Civil War 40th North Carolina Artillery Regiment, Company D… Civil War 40th North Carolina Artillery Regiment, Company D as PVT	Civil War
Anderson	Henry			Navy		WW II USS Franklin (CV-13) as S2c	World War II
Anderson	Henry			AAF		WW II 778th Bomb Squadron (464th Bombardment Group)	World War II
Anderson	Henry			AAF		WW II 71st Bomb Squadron (38th Bombardment Group)	World War II
Anderson	Henry			AAF		WW II CBI Combat Cargo Group	World War II
Anderson	Henry	Jr.	TSGT	AF	1967-10-27 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service NY	Vietnam War
Anderson	Henry	Jr.	TSGT			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Anderson	Henry	A	T/5	Army	1944-06-24 00:00:00.000	WW II 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Company E Killed … WW II 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Company E Killed in action IL-Cook	World War II
Anderson	Henry	A		MC		WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 3rd Battalion, 21st Marine Regime… WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 3rd Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment (3rd Marine Division) as PSGT	World War II
Anderson	Henry	Allen	PSGT	Navy		WW II Wounded TX	World War II
Anderson	Henry	C		A(C)		Civil War 5th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT	Civil War
Anderson	Henry	C		Army		Civil War 115th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company I as PV… Civil War 115th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company I as PVT	Civil War
Anderson	Henry	C		Navy		WW II LST 457 as MoMM2c	World War II
Anderson	Henry	Carleton		Navy		WW II LST-446 as Y1c	World War II
Anderson	Henry	E		Army		WW II 333rd Infantry Regiment, Company H as PFC MS	World War II
Anderson	Henry	E		MC		WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal HQ and Service Company, 5th Ma… WW II Oct 1942, Guadalcanal HQ and Service Company, 5th Marine Regiment as PVT	World War II
Anderson	Henry	E		Army		WW II 22nd Infantry Regiment (4th Infantry Division), Compa… WW II 22nd Infantry Regiment (4th Infantry Division), Company K as PFC MI	World War II
Anderson	Henry	E	PVT			WW I - Died of disease NY-Kings	World War I
Anderson	Henry	E.V.		Army		WW II 305th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), HQ … WW II 305th Infantry Regiment (77th Infantry Division), HQ 1st Battalion as PFC	World War II
Anderson	Henry	F	PVT	Army		Spanish-American War 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,… Spanish-American War 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, as PVT, Co. D	Spanish American War
Anderson	Henry	Gary, Jr.		Navy		WW II USS Marias (AO-57) as SM1c	World War II
Anderson	Henry	J	PFC	AF	1944-05-20 00:00:00.000	WW II 2059th Quartermaster Truck Company, Aviation Died in… WW II 2059th Quartermaster Truck Company, Aviation Died in service GA	World War II
Anderson	Henry	J		Army		WW II 119th Infantry Regiment	World War II
Anderson	Henry	J		Army		WW I - 101st Field Artillery Regiment, Company D as PVT	World War I
Anderson	Henry	J	PFC	Army		WW II Died-non battle GA-Chatham	World War II
Anderson	Henry	J		Army		WW II 325th Medical Battalion (100th Infantry Division), Co… WW II 325th Medical Battalion (100th Infantry Division), Company B as CPL	World War II
Anderson	Henry	J		Navy		WW II LCS(L)(3) 71 as S2c	World War II
Anderson	Henry	John	PVT	Army		Civil War 7th New York Cavalry Regiment, Company K as PVT … Civil War 7th New York Cavalry Regiment, Company K as PVT Deserted	Civil War
Anderson	Henry	L	S2c		1918-10-11 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service NY	World War I
Anderson	Henry	L		Army		Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regime… Spanish-American War 3rd Tennessee Volunter Infantry Regiment, Company A	Spanish American War
Anderson	Henry	L	PVT			WW I - Killed in action MI	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.