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). A few roster abbreviation leftovers (for example Lat, Bul, Alb) still exist as separate categories and are not filed here yet.
Unexpanded roster codes
These still use short import codes. Treat them as leads until the underlying soldier fields are expanded.
- Lat (likely Latvia) — 0
- Bul (likely Bulgaria) — 0
- Alb (likely Albania) — 0
- Lux (likely Luxembourg) — 0
- Bra (likely Brazil) — 0
Place context
- Camp Ritchie — where they trained
- Classes — browse by training class
- Teams — 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