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| 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 |
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.
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
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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/
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/
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
Naval History and Heritage
Command - www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/organization-and-administration/ranks/enlisted-personnel/abbreviations-used-for-navy-enlisted-ratings.html
USS Enterprise CV-6 - http://www.cv6.org/company/muster/organization.htm
Access Genealogy - https://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/world-war-ii.htmUSS Enterprise CV-6 - http://www.cv6.org/company/muster/organization.htm
Find A Grave (fg) - a free service at http://www.findagrave.com/
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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 |