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World War II Honor List
New York US Army & US Army Air Force - Dead and Missing
US Navy, US Marine Corps and US Coast Guard - Dead, Missing, POW and Wounded

Showing 770 of 43255 records.

The entire list containing over 43,000 names can be downloaded here.

Limitations of this resource:

• It does not include US Army and US Army Air Force wounded
• It does not include serial numbers for US Navy, Coast Guard or Marine Corps
• It does not include next-of-kin for US Army and US Army Air Force
• It only includes burial information for Army personnel who were buried overseas
• The Navy casualties represent only those on active duty resulting directly from operational activities against the enemy
• Some last names with two parts (such as Del Toro) have lost the space between words

Thanks:

Volunteers working throughout New York state and the country have spent many hours indexing these books so that the general public can access this information over the web. The museum would like to thank the volunteers who made this possible:

• Mia Bango, Siena College, New York
• Rick Bennett, Stokesdale, North Carolina
• Dawn Farrar, Malta, NY
• Greta Hamilton, Indiana
• Col. Jack Kennedy (USA Ret.), Elfers, Florida
• Mike Mansir, Ballston Spa, NY
• John McCarty, Waterford, NY
• Bruce Scott, Selkirk, NY
• Sean Sullivan, Queensbury, NY

This information was compiled from:

• The Army's World War II honor list of dead and missing: state of New York (Washington: War Department, 1946)
• The Navy's State summary of war casualties: (New York) (Washington, D.C. United States Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Dates of death, units, award information and burial place for the Army obtained from:

• The American Battle Monuments Commission
• Thank you to Martha Sell and all of the people there