WW2 Name Generator

Period names and ranks for 1939 to 1945 fiction

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Generate period names for stories set between 1939 and 1945: American soldiers like Staff Sergeant Raymond Thibodeaux, British airmen like Flight Lieutenant Robin Ainsworth, Red Army soldiers like Starshina Pyotr Bogatyrev, nurses like Sister Winifred Garland and civilians like Madeleine Fourneyron.

About WW2 names

The Second World War ran from 1939 to 1945 and put tens of millions of ordinary people into uniform. A story set in those years needs names that fit the people who were there: men and women born between roughly 1895 and 1927, named by parents of the generation before. That is why this list leans on Harold, Stanley, Mildred and Doreen and not on anything a modern classroom would recognize.

Most names carry a rank of the period. American entries use grades that have since disappeared, such as Technician Fifth Grade and Flight Officer, and Navy ratings such as Pharmacist's Mate. British and Commonwealth entries use the regimental words for a private soldier: Trooper, Gunner, Sapper, Rifleman, Fusilier, Guardsman. Indian Army ranks (Sepoy, Naik, Havildar, Jemadar, Subedar), Soviet ranks in transliteration (Krasnoarmeyets, Yefreytor, Starshina) and French, Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, Greek and Czechoslovak ranks appear in their own languages.

These are invented characters, not historical figures. The list has no generals, no politicians and no German party or SS ranks. A short block of Italian and Japanese names uses regular army, navy and air force ranks only, next to Italian partisans. More than a fifth of the list is nurses, women's services, home front workers and civilians, including people from neutral Sweden, Switzerland, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Turkey.

How to choose WW2 names

  • Match the rank to the age and the job. A Private or a Seaman Second Class is often eighteen to twenty-two, though the draft took men well into their thirties. A Staff Sergeant is usually in his mid twenties, and a Major is past thirty. Private First Class Elmer Lindquist and Major Carlton Breckenridge should not sound like classmates.
  • Use the word for the arm of service. In the British Army a tank or cavalry soldier is a Trooper, an artilleryman a Gunner and an engineer a Sapper, so Trooper Cyril Entwistle tells the reader he serves in armor before the first tank appears.
  • Let an American squad sound like the draft. Kowalski, Santangelo, Tackett and Archuleta in one platoon reads right for the period. Remember that the US armed forces were segregated throughout the war (the order to integrate came only in 1948) and that most Japanese American soldiers served in the 100th Infantry Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which decides where Sergeant Kazuo Hamada belongs.
  • Give Soviet characters a patronymic for dialogue. Comrades and officers say Ivan Petrovich, not Mister Lukin, so invent the father's given name along with the character.
  • Shorten the name inside the unit. Nobody says Flight Sergeant Jack Hebblethwaite twice, so decide early whether his crew calls him Jack, Hebby or Skipper.

Frequently asked questions

Are these real people from the war?

No. The list was drafted by pairing period given names and surnames with ranks of the time, not by copying any roll or roster. So many millions served that an ordinary name can always match a real serviceman by coincidence, so search a name before you publish it.

Which countries and services are covered?

The largest groups are American, British, Commonwealth, Indian Army, Soviet, French and Polish, with smaller sets for Dutch, Belgian, Norwegian, Greek, Czechoslovak, Yugoslav, Chinese, Filipino, Brazilian, Italian and Japanese characters. Army, navy and air force ranks all appear, for example Gunner's Mate Harvey Lundgren, Pilot Officer Anthony Carstairs, Havildar Narayan Shinde and Porucznik Witold Sadowski. Nurses and civilians include Matron Edith Blackstock, Land Girl Ivy Thackray and Air Raid Warden Herbert Clegg.

What do the non-English ranks mean?

Krasnoarmeyets is a Red Army private, Yefreytor is close to a lance corporal, Starshina is the senior sergeant of a company and Maior is a major. In Polish, Szeregowy is a private, Kapral a corporal, Plutonowy a platoon sergeant and Porucznik a lieutenant. In the Indian Army a Sepoy is a private, a Naik a corporal and a Havildar a sergeant, while Jemadar and Subedar were Viceroy's commissioned officers ranking between the sergeants and the British-style lieutenants.

Does the list include German names or operation names?

No German servicemen or ranks appear on this page: no party or SS ranks, no real commanders and no operation names. A few refugees, Swiss civilians and German American soldiers carry German surnames. Ordinary German names of the period have their own page, the WW2 German name generator, and invented code names are on the military operation name generator.

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A: 28 names

  • Able Seaman Archie Penberthy
  • Able Seaman Darcy Whelan
  • Able Seaman Harry Tattersall
  • Able Seaman Hector LeBlanc
  • Able Seaman Ted Blenkin
  • Adjudant Georges Lemoine
  • Air Raid Warden Herbert Clegg
  • Air Raid Warden Maud Ollerenshaw
  • Aircraftman Ken Wragg
  • Aircraftman Stan Furnival
  • Aircraftman Winston Beckford
  • Aircraftwoman Betty Longbottom
  • Aircraftwoman Joyce Pettit
  • Alpino Giacomo Dalla Costa

A, continued

  • Alpino Secondo Pellissier
  • Ambulance Driver Phyllis Crane
  • Ambulancière Suzanne Leclère
  • Apprentice Seaman Wayne Holcomb
  • Aroha Ngatai
  • Askari Daudi Otieno
  • Askari Juma Mwangi
  • Aspirant Jean-Louis Mercier
  • Assunta Ricciardi
  • ATA First Officer Diana Wetherell
  • ATS Corporal Doreen Platt
  • ATS Subaltern Pamela Hargrove
  • ATS Volunteer Vera Coombs
  • Aviere Bruno Cavallini

B: 12 names

  • Ball Turret Gunner Pete Scarpelli
  • Bersagliere Elio Tamburini
  • Bersagliere Franco Morandi
  • Beryl Coughlan
  • Betty Lou Dillard
  • Birgitta Holmqvist
  • Boatswain's Mate Fred Hanrahan
  • Bombardier Harold Ackroyd
  • Bombardier Walt Jorgensen
  • Bombardier Walter Lovelock
  • Božena Horáčková
  • Bridie Foley

C: 51 names

  • Cabo João Batista Ferraz
  • Capitaine André Valadier
  • Capitaine Yves Le Floch
  • Capitano Ottavio Rinaldi
  • Caporal Lucien Ferrand
  • Caporal Maggiore Tullio Marangoni
  • Caporal René Boucher
  • Caporal-chef Maurice Delattre
  • Caporale Remo Bianchini
  • Captain Armand Gauthier
  • Captain Basil Trevelyan
  • Captain Bernard Fitzhugh

C, continued

  • Captain Edwin Marlowe
  • Captain Geoffrey Wynter
  • Captain Liu Bingwen
  • Captain Nigel Stanhope
  • Captain Theodore Halverson
  • Četař František Šebesta
  • Chaplain Aloysius Brennan
  • Chaplain Morris Lefkowitz
  • Chief Petty Officer Bernard Tregear
  • Chief Petty Officer Ernest Lindholm
  • Chief Petty Officer Michael Flanagan
  • Chūi Akira Tamura
  • Clubmobile Volunteer Jean Whitford

C, continued

  • Codebreaker Hester Quarmby
  • Codebreaker Rosamund Eccleshall
  • Colour Sergeant William Garth
  • Combat Medic Albert Wong
  • Combat Medic Ernie Szabo
  • Commandant Louis Chambard
  • Commander Ralph Conyngham
  • Company Sergeant Major Alfred Rudge
  • Concetta Marinaro
  • Consuelo Magbanua
  • Corporal Alby Skinner
  • Corporal Angelo DeLuca
  • Corporal Arthur Pickles

C, continued

  • Corporal Dewey Carmichael
  • Corporal Florencio Bautista
  • Corporal Harold Finnegan
  • Corporal Irving Rosenblatt
  • Corporal Jesse Montoya
  • Corporal Melvin Schumacher
  • Corporal Pieter Labuschagne
  • Corporal Rangi Waaka
  • Corporal Virgil Tanner
  • Corporal Wilf Pelletier
  • Coxswain Eldon Pickett
  • Coxswain Joseph Bellini
  • Crocerossina Adele Monti

D: 7 names

  • Dalva Nascimento
  • Deolinda Matos
  • Desátník Josef Kratochvíl
  • Dirk Mulder
  • Dr. Emil Grünfeld
  • Driver Bert Catchpole
  • Driver Fred Hobley

E: 8 names

  • Eleni Vasilakou
  • Ensign Chester Van Buskirk
  • Ensign Richard Hollister
  • Ensign Thomas Ashby
  • Ethel Shuttleworth
  • Eusebio Garrido
  • Evacuee Maisie Holloway
  • Evacuee Tommy Pargeter

F: 21 names

  • Fenrik Knut Rønning
  • Fire Watcher Enid Babbage
  • Fireman First Class Roy Niemeyer
  • First Lieutenant Arthur Penniman
  • First Lieutenant Lawrence Oyama
  • First Sergeant Herman Krueger
  • Flight Lieutenant Edmund Ravenhill
  • Flight Lieutenant Robin Ainsworth
  • Flight Nurse Dorothea Kessel
  • Flight Nurse Geraldine Tobin

F, continued

  • Flight Officer Dale Pettigrew
  • Flight Officer Leon Kaczmarek
  • Flight Sergeant Col Hennessy
  • Flight Sergeant Jack Hebblethwaite
  • Flight Sergeant Lawrence Shipley
  • Flying Officer Alan Pomfret
  • Flying Officer Christopher Brandreth
  • Flying Officer Murray Abbott
  • Fouad Ghali
  • Fusilier Gwilym Rees
  • Fusilier Patrick Devlin

G: 18 names

  • Geertje Visser
  • Gladys Arkwright
  • Glider Pilot Carl Emmerich
  • Gochō Yoshio Nakayama
  • Gösta Wikström
  • Guardsman Reginald Haskell
  • Guardsman Victor Aldous
  • Gunnar Skaug
  • Gunner Horace Bickerstaff

G, continued

  • Gunner Ivor Pryce
  • Gunner Leslie Tunnicliffe
  • Gunner Musa Kamara
  • Gunner Reg Tippett
  • Gunner Spiro Zammit
  • Gunner's Mate Harvey Lundgren
  • Gunner's Mate Patrick Shaughnessy
  • Gunnery Sergeant Thaddeus Boyle
  • Gunsō Takeo Hasegawa

H: 9 names

  • Havildar Balwant Singh Grewal
  • Havildar Kharka Bahadur Tamang
  • Havildar Narayan Shinde
  • Heichō Isamu Fujii
  • Heidi Imboden
  • Heisō Fumio Yokoyama
  • Helena Kwiatkowska
  • Holger Rasmussen
  • Home Guard Volunteer Amos Thirkettle

I: 3 names

  • Infirmière Paulette Garnier
  • Inger Madsen
  • Ittōhei Kiyoshi Maruyama

J: 5 names

  • Jean-Pierre Favre
  • Jemadar Iqbal Khan
  • Jemadar Raghunath Pawar
  • Joaquim Teixeira
  • Jōtōhei Minoru Aoki

K: 23 names

  • Kangofu Chiyoko Matsuda
  • Kangofu Setsuko Imai
  • Kangofu Yoshiko Ogawa
  • Kapitan Konstantin Rudakov
  • Kapitan Leonid Shestakov
  • Kapitan Mieczysław Rudnicki
  • Kapral Czesław Nowaczyk
  • Kapral Edward Sikora
  • Kapral Zbigniew Walczak
  • Kaptein Arne Solheim
  • Kimi Fujiwara

K, continued

  • Korporaal Henk Bakker
  • Korporaal Lode Wouters
  • Korporal Einar Bakken
  • Krasnoarmeyets Ivan Lukin
  • Krasnoarmeyets Kuzma Poletaev
  • Krasnoarmeyets Marat Gabdullin
  • Krasnoarmeyets Praskovya Melnik
  • Krasnoarmeyets Stepan Ryabov
  • Krasnoarmeyets Taras Oliynyk
  • Krasnoarmeyets Yegor Shubin
  • Krasnoflotets Gennady Buryak
  • Krasnoflotets Pavel Chernov

L: 35 names

  • Łączniczka Danuta Pawlak
  • Łączniczka Halina Zielińska
  • Łączniczka Krystyna Wójcik
  • Lance Bombardier George Fenwick
  • Lance Corporal Cliff Rutherford
  • Lance Corporal Dennis Sowerby
  • Lance Corporal Ernest Widdowson
  • Lance Corporal Kenneth Braithwaite
  • Lance Naik Sant Ram
  • Land Girl Ivy Thackray
  • Land Girl Nancy Moffat

L, continued

  • Land Girl Olive Bamford
  • Leading Aircraftman Clive Dacosta
  • Leading Aircraftman Gerald Moxon
  • Leading Aircraftman Trevor Paling
  • Leading Aircraftwoman Eileen Marsh
  • Leading Seaman Charlie Mudge
  • Leading Seaman Donald Macaulay
  • Leading Wren Marjorie Falconer
  • Légionnaire Anton Hruby
  • Légionnaire Miguel Ortega
  • Leytenant Alexei Sinitsyn
  • Leytenant Dmitri Yershov

L, continued

  • Leytenant Galina Chistyakova
  • Leytenant Viktor Pankratov
  • Lidiya Kuznetsova
  • Lieutenant Commander Samuel Whitaker
  • Lieutenant Guy Desrosiers
  • Lieutenant Hugo Fairfax-Lyle
  • Lieutenant Lachlan Mackellar
  • Lochias Nikos Vlahakis
  • Lotte Birnbaum
  • Lucienne Barbier
  • Luitenant Frits Hoogeveen
  • Lumberjill Elsie Drummond

M: 30 names

  • Machinist's Mate Gus Pappas
  • Machinist's Mate Lloyd Vandiver
  • Madeleine Fourneyron
  • Maeve Gilligan
  • Maior Vladimir Goncharenko
  • Maior Yevgeny Agapov
  • Major Carlton Breckenridge
  • Major Francis Dougherty
  • Major Humphrey Ledbetter
  • Major Rupert Carew
  • Major Zhang Wenhan
  • Marcel Chevrier
  • Maresciallo Alfredo Grassi
  • Marinaio Antonio Schiaffino
  • Marinaio Salvatore Lo Presti

M, continued

  • Master Sergeant Russell Dunleavy
  • Matelot Jacques Riou
  • Matelot Pierre Guivarch
  • Matron Agnes Cowley
  • Matron Edith Blackstock
  • Matroos Arie Vermeulen
  • Mehmet Arslantaş
  • Menig Olav Haugen
  • Merchant Mariner Oscar Bjornstad
  • Merchant Mariner Tobias Medeiros
  • Midshipman Peter Lyndhurst
  • Mladshiy Leytenant Arkady Fomin
  • Mladshiy Leytenant Valentina Sorokina
  • Mladshiy Serzhant Ostap Kovalenko
  • Mladshiy Serzhant Timofei Gusev

N: 19 names

  • Naik Dhondu Gaikwad
  • Naik Mohammad Aslam
  • Navy Nurse Eleanor Braddock
  • Navy Nurse Vivian Lindstrom
  • Nermin Aksoy
  • Nitōhei Haruo Shibata
  • Nurse Bernice Olmstead
  • Nurse Frances Delaney
  • Nurse Hazel Pennington

N, continued

  • Nurse Juanita Salazar
  • Nurse Kamala Nair
  • Nurse Lin Meihua
  • Nurse Lois Carmody
  • Nurse Mildred Hutchins
  • Nurse Opal Skidmore
  • Nurse Remedios Villareal
  • Nurse Thelma Graves
  • Nursing Sister Isobel MacKinnon
  • Nursing Sister Marguerite Lavoie

O: 1 name

  • Ordinary Seaman Jim Tolley

P: 55 names

  • Padraig Conneely
  • Padre Cuthbert Wimbush
  • Paratrooper Hank Brodeur
  • Paratrooper Jimmy Lee Hargis
  • Partigiana Norma Ferri
  • Partigiano Walter Bassi
  • Partizan Matvei Kravets
  • Partizan Milan Jovanović
  • Partizanka Milica Petrović
  • Partizanka Olesya Shevchuk
  • Petty Officer Clifford Ransome
  • Petty Officer Edgar Kneale
  • Pharmacist's Mate Julius Washington

P, continued

  • Pharmacist's Mate Ralph Eberhardt
  • Pierina Colombo
  • Pilar Montalbán
  • Pilot Officer Anthony Carstairs
  • Pilot Officer Hugh Mallinson
  • Pilot Officer Timothy Gresham
  • Piper Angus MacGillivray
  • Platoon Sergeant Glenn Satterfield
  • Plutonowy Henryk Lewandowski
  • Plutonowy Władysław Mazurek
  • Podchorąży Andrzej Morawski
  • Podporucznik Jan Chmielewski
  • Podporucznik Ryszard Tomaszewski
  • Police Constable Alfred Gubbins

P, continued

  • Poručík Jaroslav Štěpánek
  • Porucznik Kazimierz Orłowski
  • Porucznik Stanisław Domański
  • Porucznik Witold Sadowski
  • Private Albert Rawsthorne
  • Private Chen Dafu
  • Private Des O'Halloran
  • Private Dominic Santangelo
  • Private Elias Mahlangu
  • Private Emlyn Prosser
  • Private Eugene Kowalski
  • Private First Class Elmer Lindquist
  • Private First Class Floyd Ramsey
  • Private First Class Ignacio Sandoval

P, continued

  • Private First Class Salvatore Ruggiero
  • Private First Class Tadao Nishimura
  • Private Gaston Tremblay
  • Private Hamish Dalgleish
  • Private Hemi Parata
  • Private Homer Tackett
  • Private Kofi Agyapong
  • Private Koos van Rensburg
  • Private Leroy Pettibone
  • Private Manuel Archuleta
  • Private Sidney Hoskins
  • Private Stanley Wisniewski
  • Private Wiremu Paki
  • Private Woodrow Haines

Q: 2 names

  • Quartermaster Andrew Sorensen
  • Quartier-maître Albert Le Gall

R: 12 names

  • Radioman Cecil Trowbridge
  • Radioman Norman Feinberg
  • Red Cross Volunteer Pearl Addison
  • Rifleman Dil Bahadur Rai
  • Rifleman Man Bahadur Limbu
  • Rifleman Percy Noakes
  • Rifleman Stanley Whitlow
  • Rifleman Tommy Cardinal
  • Riveter Ruby Jablonski
  • Rotmistrz Ksawery Zaleski
  • Rotný Václav Holub
  • Ruedi Aeschlimann

S: 110 names

  • Saninstruktor Raisa Bondarenko
  • Saninstruktor Tamara Lisitsyna
  • Saninstruktor Zinaida Tkachenko
  • Sanitariuszka Janina Kurek
  • Sanitariuszka Wanda Bielecka
  • Sanitariuszka Zofia Majewska
  • Sapper Herbert Quayle
  • Sapper Nick Kozak
  • Sapper Noel Driscoll
  • Sapper Norman Garside
  • Sargento Waldemar Pacheco
  • Savitri Deshmukh
  • Scout Benigno Pangilinan

S, continued

  • Seabee Buck Hollingsworth
  • Seabee Vince Palermo
  • Seaman First Class Anthony Carbone
  • Seaman First Class Donald Kessler
  • Seaman First Class Willie Grady
  • Seaman Second Class Billy Ray Tuttle
  • Seaman Second Class Felipe Cordero
  • Second Lieutenant Arapeta Kingi
  • Second Lieutenant Howard Kimura
  • Second Lieutenant Julian Hartnell
  • Second Lieutenant Philip Aronson
  • Second Lieutenant Warren Eastlake
  • Section Officer Daphne Courtenay
  • Sepoy Ghulam Hussain

S, continued

  • Sepoy Kartar Singh Dhillon
  • Sepoy Ram Prasad Tiwari
  • Sergeant Alastair Menzies
  • Sergeant Booker Freeman
  • Sergeant Frank Mazzola
  • Sergeant Hendrik Viljoen
  • Sergeant Kazuo Hamada
  • Sergeant Thomas Holroyd
  • Sergeant Vernon Tillery
  • Sergent Achille Lambert
  • Sergent Henri Gaillard
  • Sergent Raymond Tissier
  • Sergent-chef Roger Pasquier
  • Sergente Armando Cattaneo

S, continued

  • Sergente Maggiore Ugo Bellandi
  • Sersjant Leif Tangen
  • Serzhant Grigory Malakhov
  • Serzhant Klavdiya Yefimova
  • Serzhant Nikolai Dorokhin
  • Serzhant Semyon Reznik
  • Serzhant Vakhtang Gelashvili
  • Shipfitter Leona Guidry
  • Shizue Nakajima
  • Shōi Hideo Takagi
  • Sierżant Bolesław Kalinowski
  • Sierżant Tadeusz Wroniak
  • Sierżant Zygmunt Filipek
  • Signalman Eric Tweddle

S, continued

  • Signalman Louis Arceneaux
  • Sister Kathleen O'Driscoll
  • Sister Mavis Trotter
  • Sister Muriel Haythorne
  • Sister Nell Fitzgibbon
  • Sister Winifred Garland
  • Sōchō Noboru Harada
  • Soldaat Jef Peeters
  • Soldaat Kees van Dijk
  • Soldado Benedito Moreira
  • Soldat Émile Carpentier
  • Soldat Fernand Lebrun
  • Soldat Firmin Meunier

S, continued

  • Soldat Marcel Poirier
  • Soldato Attilio Fumagalli
  • Soldato Carmelo Zappalà
  • Soldato Gino Bortolotti
  • Soldato Nello Pagliarini
  • Solveig Bratland
  • Sottotenente Guido Mantovani
  • Sous-lieutenant Étienne Roussel
  • Sowar Hari Singh Shekhawat
  • Sowar Mehboob Ali
  • Spahi Rachid Benali
  • SPAR Seaman Maxine Doyle
  • Squadron Leader Giles Atherton
  • Squadron Leader Miles Fotheringham

S, continued

  • Staff Sergeant Clarence Yoder
  • Staff Sergeant Raymond Thibodeaux
  • Staffetta Iolanda Guerrini
  • Starshina Ilya Korzun
  • Starshina Pyotr Bogatyrev
  • Starshina Yakov Shulgin
  • Starshina Yevdokiya Parshina
  • Starshiy Leytenant Boris Lebedenko
  • Starshiy Serzhant Andrei Zubarev
  • Starshiy Serzhant Mikhail Tretyak
  • Steward's Mate Isaiah Coleman
  • Stoker Alf Grimshaw
  • Stoker Len Crabtree
  • Stratiotis Giannis Kostopoulos

S, continued

  • Strzelec Józef Gwizdała
  • Strzelec Marian Olszewski
  • Strzelec Roman Kaczor
  • Sub-Lieutenant Colin Drysdale
  • Sub-Lieutenant Michael Eversleigh
  • Subedar Harnam Singh Sidhu
  • Subedar Major Bishan Das
  • Suihei Kazuo Miura
  • Surgeon Lieutenant Oliver Haddow
  • Sven-Erik Nyberg
  • Szeregowy Antoni Kubacki
  • Szeregowy Franciszek Maliszewski
  • Szeregowy Leszek Banaś
  • Szeregowy Wacław Pietrzak

T: 21 names

  • Taii Makoto Ueda
  • Tail Gunner Eddie Kubiak
  • Tank Commander Roy Dietrich
  • Technical Sergeant Milton Hathaway
  • Technician Fifth Grade Casimir Dombrowski
  • Technician Fifth Grade Wilbur Novak
  • Technician Fourth Grade Orville Jessup
  • Telegraphist Maurice Dunkley
  • Tenente Italo Ferraresi
  • Teniente Rodolfo Cisneros

T, continued

  • Thérèse Bouchard
  • Third Officer Rosalind Keane
  • Tirailleur Mamadou Diarra
  • Tirailleur Ousmane Coulibaly
  • Tomiko Shimizu
  • Torpedoman's Mate Lester Jaworski
  • Trooper Cyril Entwistle
  • Trooper Desmond Halliday
  • Trooper Earl Bjornson
  • Trooper Ronald Pickersgill
  • Trooper Snowy Baxter

U: 5 names

  • Ułan Bronisław Zaremba
  • Ułan Jerzy Skowroński
  • Ułan Stefan Wilczek
  • Ume Hashimoto
  • USO Singer Ginny Carlisle

V: 6 names

  • VAD Nurse Joan Tilbury
  • VAD Nurse Peggy Marsden
  • Vojín Bohumil Novotný
  • Voyenfeldsher Anatoly Drobyshev
  • Voyenfeldsher Nina Akimova
  • Voyentekhnik Lev Gurevich

W: 13 names

  • WAC Corporal Lillian Booker
  • Waist Gunner Arlo Skaggs
  • War Correspondent Lorna Ellery
  • War Correspondent Russell Haig
  • Warrant Officer Alvin Hostetler
  • Warrant Officer Ern Maddigan
  • WASP Pilot Virginia Ashcroft
  • WAVES Yeoman Rosemary Flynn
  • Welder Mae Ellen Casteel
  • Wing Commander Lionel Hathersage
  • Wren Audrey Pike
  • Wren Sheila Trethewey
  • Wu Shulan

Y: 6 names

  • Yefreytor Antonina Kotova
  • Yefreytor Aram Hakobyan
  • Yefreytor Fyodor Klimov
  • Yefreytor Zakhar Nechaev
  • Yeoman Carl Swenson
  • Ypolochagos Dimitris Rigas