Soft launch: Soldier biographies and research notes vary in completeness. Prefer class-roster, NARA, newspapers, and other cited sources for contested facts — treat Research notes as leads, not settled history. Anyone can correct a page; contact us with questions.
By birth country
By birth country lets you browse soldier pages by roster nativity — the country of birth recorded on the Classes 1–31 roster / enlistment merge. Open a country to see everyone tagged with that value.
These figures are leads from imported fields, not a finished demographic study. Codes can be wrong, incomplete, or still abbreviated; some men have no nativity set. For the refugee story in prose form, see Refugees who enlisted. Full caveats: About the data.
Major birth countries
Counts are live page totals in each category (a soldier can appear in only one nativity category).
- United States — 8,521
- Germany — 2,383
- Austria — 612
- Italy — 338
- Russia — 305
- Poland — 188
- France — 173
- Canada — 139
- Czechoslovakia — 121
- Hungary — 87
- Puerto Rico — 88
- Switzerland — 79
- Great Britain — 71
- Turkey — 68
- Netherlands — 67
- China — 66
All countries
Full set of cleaned country categories (with counts). Roster abbreviation leftovers are not listed here yet.
Place context
- Camp Ritchie — where they trained
- — browse by training class
- — IPW / MII team rosters
- Themes — curated face galleries (including refugees)
See also
- Contents — full directory
- For families — find a name, then understand roster fields
- About the data