Veterans Military History Database

Lastname	Firstname	Middle	Rank	Service	Dieddate	Remark	Conflict
Anderson	John	D		Army		Civil War 3rd Maryland Infantry Regiment, Company D as 1LT	Civil War
Anderson	John	D	PVT	Army		WW II Killed in action CA-Los Angeles	World War II
Anderson	John	D	SGT	Army	1945-04-15 00:00:00.000	WW II Killed in action NY-Kings	World War II
Anderson	John	D		Navy		WW II USS Arizona Dec 7 1941, a survivor of the Pearl Harb… WW II USS Arizona Dec 7 1941, a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack as BM2c	World War II
Anderson	John	D		Navy		WW II LSM-2 as COX	World War II
Anderson	John	D		Army		WW I - KS-Shawnee	World War I
Anderson	John	D		Army		WW II 30th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PFC	World War II
Anderson	John	D		Navy		WW II USS Alaska (CB-1) as PhM2c	World War II
Anderson	John	D		Navy		WW II USS Arizona (BB-39) Survived Pearl Harbor attack as … WW II USS Arizona (BB-39) Survived Pearl Harbor attack as BM2c	World War II
Anderson	John	D		Army		WW II 96th infantry Division NJ	World War II
Anderson	John	Daniel		Navy		WW II USS Warren (APA-53) as St1c(T)	World War II
Anderson	John	Desmond	ENS	Navy		WW II Died in service TX	World War II
Anderson	John	Dewey	PFC	MC		WW II Wounded CA	World War II
Anderson	John	Douglas		Navy		WW II USS Baltimore (CA-68) as MMR1c	World War II
Anderson	John	Douglas		Navy		WW II USS Hudson (DD-475) as F2c	World War II
Anderson	John	E	MoMM1c		1944-06-06 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service MN	World War II
Anderson	John	E	PVT		1918-07-31 00:00:00.000	WW I - Died in service MI	World War I
Anderson	John	E	PVT		1944-01-26 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service TN Serial No. 34371843	World War II
Anderson	John	E	PVT		1945-04-11 00:00:00.000	WW II Died in service GA	World War II
Anderson	John	E		Army		WW I - 136th Field Artillery Regiment, Battery F as SGT OH… WW I - 136th Field Artillery Regiment, Battery F as SGT OH-Hamilton	World War I
Anderson	John	E		Army		Civil War 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Company D as… Civil War 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, Company D as PVT-SGT	Civil War
Anderson	John	E	2LT	MC		WW II Invasion of Tarawa, Nov-Dec 1943, Killed in action. 2… WW II Invasion of Tarawa, Nov-Dec 1943, Killed in action. 2LT	World War II
Anderson	John	E		Army		WW I - KS-Republic	World War I
Anderson	John	E		Navy		WW II Fighter Squadron 45 aboard USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) a… WW II Fighter Squadron 45 aboard USS San Jacinto (CVL-30) as LTJG	World War II
Anderson	John	E	2LT	MC		WW II Died in service IN	World War II
Anderson	John	E	PVT	Army		WW II Killed in action TN-Campbell	World War II
Anderson	John	E		Navy		WW I - KS-Saline	World War I
Anderson	John	E		Army		WW II 216th Field Artilley Battalion MN	World War II
Anderson	John	E	PVT	Army		WW II Died of wounds GA-Clayton	World War II
Anderson	John	E		Army		WW II 253rd Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Com… WW II 253rd Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Division), Company B as PVT	World War II
Anderson	John	E		Army		WW II 7th Infantry Regiment (3rd Infantry Division) as PFC	World War II
Anderson	John	E		Army		WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Divison, Compa… WW II 255th Infantry Regiment (63rd Infantry Divison, Company B as PFC	World War II
Anderson	John	E		MC		WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 3rd Amphibious Tractor Battalion … WW II Battle of Iwo Jima 3rd Amphibious Tractor Battalion (5th Marine Division) as PFC	World War II
Anderson	John	E		MC		WW II 24th Marine Regiment (4th Marine Division), 2nd Batta… WW II 24th Marine Regiment (4th Marine Division), 2nd Battalion as PFC	World War II
Anderson	John	E		Army		WW II 276th Infantry Regiment (70th Infantry Division), Com… WW II 276th Infantry Regiment (70th Infantry Division), Company D as PFC	World War II
Anderson	John	E		Army		WW II 313th Infantry Regiment (79th Infantry Division) as C… WW II 313th Infantry Regiment (79th Infantry Division) as CPL	World War II
Anderson	John	E		Navy		WW II USS Knapp (DD-653) as S1c	World War II
Anderson	John	Edward		Navy		WW II USS New Mexico (BB-40) as S1c(RM)	World War II
Anderson	John	Edward		Navy		WW II USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) as AMM3c	World War II
Anderson	John	Elmer		Navy		WW II USS Lassen (AE-3) as SK3c(T)	World War II
Anderson	John	Emanuel	MoMM1c	Navy		WW II Died in service MN	World War II
Anderson	John	Ernest	WO	Army	1969-07-21 00:00:00.000	Vietnam War Died in service GA	Vietnam War
Anderson	John	Ernest	PFC	MC		WW II Wounded MN	World War II
Anderson	John	Ernest	WO			Died in Vietnam War Name is on the wall	Vietnam War
Anderson	John	F	PVT		1945-02-07 00:00:00.000	WW II 56th Armored Infantry Battalion Died in service CT … WW II 56th Armored Infantry Battalion Died in service CT Serial No. 6134253 Also see other John F	World War II
Anderson	John	F		AF		WW II 446th Bomb Group Also see other John F	World War II
Anderson	John	F		Army		Civil War Company D, 4th Michigan Infantry Regiment	Civil War
Anderson	John	F	PVT	Army	1943-11-11 00:00:00.000	WW II Killed in action WA-Spokane County Serial No. 39461… WW II Killed in action WA-Spokane County Serial No. 39461457 Also see other John F	World War II
Anderson	John	F		Army		WW I - KS-Butler	World War I
Anderson	John	F		Army		WW II 116th Infantry Regiment, Company K as PVT-PFC	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.