U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard lists of the thousands killed and died by Name, by Date and by State in World War 2

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UNITED STATES NAVY, COAST GUARD and MARINE CORPS CASUALTIES, 1941-1945

At the End - USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, 30 August 1945, seen from one of the smaller vessels which took part in such vast numbers (NHHC, click to enlarge) return to World War 2


Service, States, in Support As this is a long term project, work is being uploaded as it is completed for use by naval history, family and other researchers.
UNITED STATES NAVY - compiled from ABMC, Bureau of Naval Personnel, POW/MIA Agency, States Lists and US Navy Memorial.

Interim Note on Casualty Number Totals

Part 1 - by NAME from Aanonsen to Zywicki

Part 2 - by DATE, 1941

Battle Casualties: 1941- Pearl Harbor


Bureau of Naval Personnel entries by NAME and by DATE

Bureau of Naval Personnel Combat Losses by Service/Units - Construction Battalions, Naval Beach Battalions, Underwater Demolition Units/Teams
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD - compiled from USCG, ABMC, POW/MIA Agency, and States Lists
Part 1 - by NAME from Abies to Zimpel

Part 2 - by DATE, 1941-45
UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS - compiled from USMC Casualty Cards, ABMC, POW/MIA Agency, and States Lists
Part 1 - by NAME from Aasheim to Zwissler

Part 2 - by DATE 1941-December 1942

STATES LISTS by NAME - Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Corps killed in combat, died as POW, and missing in action
ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF STATES LISTS, Names from A'Hearn (Mass) to Zywicki (NY)

INDIVIDUAL STATE LISTS, ALABAMA to WYOMING, including District of Columbia, Territories and Foreign Nationals
IN SUPPORT Medal of Honor recipients, 1941-1945


 Introduction

Naval-History.Net has been proud to host a definitive list of almost all 20th century Royal Navy casualties for some years. These were compiled by an American, Don Kindell from Ohio. This current project aims to do the same for the US Navy in World War 2 (Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps), the war in which my own father was killed at sea. It is in part an attempt to repay Don in some small way. It will also complement the World War 1 USN casualties we already have online.

The aim is to collect the information from the main online sources - listed below with their abbreviations - and present it by Name and by Date & Ship/Unit. Note: A variety of Officer and Enlisted Rates abbreviations are used in the different sources.

I would like to thank all the sources and their contributors for making this vast amount of information available on the Internet.

Gordon Smith, Naval-History.Net
gordonsmith@naval-history.net







MAIN SOURCES
(links checked as of 11 March 2016)


Sources (reference abbreviations)
Coverage
Links to Sources
States Summary of War Casualties from World War II - National Archives (States or na) Combat area deaths by State - USN, USCG, USMC https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/navy-casualties/
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC or bm)
Combat area deaths by Name -  USN, USCG, USMC. Note: the date assigned to those MIA i later than their actual death http://www.abmc.gov
Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA or va)
Veterans buried in Cemeteries in the United States - USN, USCG, USMC http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/
Arlington National Cemetery (ANC or ac)
Veterans buried in Arlington, Va - USN, USCG, USMC http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Find-a-Grave
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (pm) All those missing and not accounted for - USN, USCG, USMC http://www.dpaa.mil/
United States Navy Memorial (USNM or nm)
Ships lost and damaged by Ship and Date - USN, USCG, USMC http://navylog.navymemorial.org/ship-tribute

US Coast Guard (USCG or cg)
All casualties 1942-1945, USCG
http://www.uscg.mil/history/CoastGuardPeople.asp
US Marine Corps History Division (USMC or mc) All casualties 1941-1945, USMC http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/cc_ww2/SitePages/Home.aspx



Other Identified Sources

(links checked as of 11 March 2016)


The following are amongst those found on the internet:

Pearl Harbor Casualties (ph) - http://www.usswestvirginia.org/ph/phlist.php

United States Submarine Losses, World War II,  Naval Historical Division - www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/united-states-submarine-losses.html

USMC Casualties, Iwo Jima - http://www.recordsofwar.com/iwo/dead/dead.htm

USMC Casualties, Tarawa - http://tarawaontheweb.org/casualty.htm

USN Armed Guard casualties - usmm.org/armedguard.html

USS Arizona Memorial Casualty List (az) - http://www.ussarizona.org/

USS Enterprise, CV-6 casualties - http://www.cv6.org/company/muster/casualty.asp

USS Lexington, CV-16 casualties - http://www.cannon-lexington.com/Index.html

US Submarines, On Eternal Patrol (ep), includes casualties not due to submarine sinkings - http://www.oneternalpatrol.com/

Further Research

Chronology of the United States Marine Corps, 1935-1946, Volume II (mh) - http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-Chron1935-1946/index.html

Daily Chronology of Coast Guard History (gc) - http://www.uscg.mil/history/chronindex.asp

HyperWar, A Hypertext History of the Second World War (hw) by Patrick Clancey, a major collection of transcribed official documents - http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/

Naval History and Heritage Command (nh) - www.history.navy.mil/

NavSource Naval History (ns) - http://www.navsource.org/

The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (da) - www.hazegray.org/danfs/

"The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II" (oc) by Robert J Cressman - https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII

"The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States in the Second World War" by Samuel Eliot Morison, 1963 as a prelude to his 15 volume "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II".

"The United States Navy in World War II" (se) by S E Smith, 1967

U.S. Naval Activities, World War Two, By State - http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/USN-Act/

Enlisted Mens' Rating - Abbreviations

Access Genealogy -  https://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/world-war-ii.htm

Find A Grave (fg) - a free service at http://www.findagrave.com/






Source and other Abbreviations

ac
an
ar
az
bm
bp
cg
ci
da
dd
ep
fg
gc
ho
hw
ln
mc
mh
mq
ms
na
nh
nhn
nm
ns
oc
ph
pm
se
un
va

DOW
MIA
Arlington National Cemetery (ANC)
arlingtoncemetery.net
USS ship action reports
USS Arizona Memorial Casualty List
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
Bureau of Naval Personnel
US Coast Guard (USCG)
Marine Corps Intelligence Association, Inc, www.mcia-inc.org
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
HMS Cavalier (Destroyer) Association
US Submarines, On Eternal Patrol
Find A Grave
Daily Chronology of Coast Guard History
USSHouston.org
HyperWar, A Hypertext History of the Second World War
leatherneck.com
US Marine Corps History Division (USMC)
Chronology of the United States Marine Corps, 1935-1946
Maritime Quest
Navy Medicine Killed in Action Memorial (BuMed)
States Summary of War Casualties from WW2  - National Archives (States)
Naval History and Heritage Command
Naval-History.net
United States Navy Memorial (USNM)
Navsource Naval History
"The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II"
Pearl Harbor Casualties
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
"The United States Navy in World War II" by S E Smith
U-boat.net
Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA)

died of wounds
missing in action




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