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Where can you find a complete roster of 101st airborne in World War 2?
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∙ 14y ago
There MIGHT be such a roster in the divisional history, published just after the war. Some units tried to include such a roster in their published histories, but most confined themselves to listing those killed, and those who earned medals.
Bear in mind that over 10,000 men were assigned to the division at full strength, many were killed or wounded so severely that they could no longer serve, or were lost to accidents or illness, so the number who served with the division probably exceeded 20,000.
The only other approach would be to ferret out the original rosters of subunits in the National Archives and compile such a roster yourself. You would have to look day-by-day for each unit as men were constantly being lost, transferred, and replaced.
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