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American Jews have served in the Armed Forces of the United States since at least the Revolutionary War. As more Jews immigrated to the United States more and more served in America's various wars- including an estimated 500,000 during World War II. Throughout America's history Jews have served as General Officers and Admirals as well as in other officer and enlisted ranks; and the Medal of Honor has been awarded to over 30 members of the armed forces of Jewish descent (they can be found here: Jewish Medal of Honor Recipients.
Although most of the names currently listed below are General and Flag Officers, this project is intended to catalog all Jews who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States.
An excellent reference work that is useful for the identification and cataloging of Jewish military service members is The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf published by Gregg Press Boston 1972 in cooperation with the Boston Public Library in their American Revolutionary Series. This book covers service members identified as Jewish by name from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War. Originally published by The Levytype Company Philadelphia 1895. Copyright 1895. ISBN 0-8398-2179-4. The book contains detailed profiles of many high ranking officers as well as lists of men by State and Unit. There is no index of names of individual service members. Both Union and Confederate units and states are included.
Links:
- Jews in Green
- Wikipedia Jewish Americans in the Military
- Wikipedia Military History of Jewish Americans
- Florida Atlantic University List of Jewish General and Flag Officers
- Jewish War Veterans
- National Museum of American Jewish Military History
United States Army
- Lieutenant General Howard Bromberg
- Lieutenant General Bennet Sacolick
- Lieutenant General David Fridovich
- Lieutenant General H. Steven Blum
- Lieutenant General Milton Foreman
- Lieutenant General Sidney T. Weinstein
- Lieutenant General Lee Barkin
- Lieutenant General Stanley H. Hyman
- Lieutenant General William P. Levine
- Lieutenant General Julius Klein
- Lieutenant General Samuel T. Lawton
- Lieutenant General Irving J. Phillipson
- Major General Maurice Rose
- Major General Roger Sandler
- Major General Robert B. Solomon
- Lieutenant General David Twiggs (CSA)
- Major General Jeffrey A. Jacobs
- Major General Julius Ochs Adler
- Major General Robert Bernstein
- Major General (?) Melvin Rosen
- Major General Sidney Shachnow
- Major General Ben Sternberg
- Major General John Twiggs (Colonial Milita)
- Brigadier General Jack Bohm
- Brigadier General Abel Davis
- Brigadier General Israel Drazin
- Brigadier General Herman Feldman
- Brigadier General William M. Goodman
- Brigadier General Edward S. Greenbaum
- Brigadier General Sidney Gritz
- Brigadier General Maurice Hirsch
- Brigadier General Raymond Jacobson
- Brigadier General Ephraim F. Jeffe
- Brigadier General Myron S. Lewis
- Brigadier General George Luberoff
- Brigadier General William Meyer
- Brigadier General Alfred Mordechai, Jr
- Brigadier General Edward M. Morris
- Brigadier General Leopold C. Newman
- Brigadier General Fred Rosenbaum
- Brigadier General David Sarnoff
- Brigadier General Philip Sherman
- Brigadier General Joseph R. Smith
- Brigadier General David Zalis
- Brevet General Leopold Blumenberg
- Brevet Lieutenant General Frederick C. Salomon
- Brevet Brigadier General Frederick Knefler
- Brevet Brigadier General Charles Salomon
- Colonel Max Friedman
- Chaplain (Colonel) Jacob Goldstein
- Colonel Jack H. Jacobs (MOH)
- Chaplain (Colonel) Bonnie Koppel
- Colonel Harry Lindauer
- Colonel Seth L. Morgulas
- Colonel Marcus Spiegel
- Captain Ben L. Salomon (MOH)
- First Lieutenant (?) Edwin Loewus
- First Lieutenant Frederick Loewus
- First Lieutenant Yetta Moskowitz
- First Lieutenant Donald K. Schwab (MOH)
- Second Lieutenant Louis C. Mosher (MOH)
- Second Lieutenant Frances Slanger
- Second Lieutenant Raymond Zussman (MOH)
- Chaplain Jacob Frankel
- Sergeant Major Abraham Cohn (MOH)
- First Sergeant Sydney G. Gumpertz (MOH)
- Color Sergeant Leopold Karpeles (MOH)
- Staff Sergeant Leonard Nimoy
- Sergeant George Geiger (MOH)
- Sergeant Henry Heller (MOH)
- Sergeant Isadore S. Jachman (MOH)
- Sergeant Phillip C. Katz
- Sergeant Benjamin Kaufman (MOH)
- Sergeant William F. Leonard (MOH)
- Sergeant Alfred B. Nietzel (MOH)
- Sergeant William Sawelson (MOH)
- Sergeant William Shemin (MOH)
- Sergeant Jacob Trautman (MOH)
- Sergeant Jack Weinstein (MOH)
- Corporal Isaac Gause (MOH)
- Corporal Tibor Rubin (MOH)
- Private First Class Leonard Kravitz (MOH)
- PFC Bernard Vogel: Company D, 422 Infantry, 106th Infantry Division
- Private David Goodman (MOH)
- Private Abraham Greenawalt (MOH)
- Private Benjamin Levy (MOH)
- Private David Orbansky (MOH)
- Private Simon Suhler (Enlisted under the name Charles Gardner) (MOH)
- Leonard Schlussel
United States Navy
- Admiral Jeremy Boorda
- Commodore Uriah P. Levy
- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
- Vice Admiral Joseph Taussig
- Rear Admiral Maurice H. Rindskopf
- Rear Admiral Rabbi Aaron Landes
- Rear Admiral Robert H. Wertheim
- Lieutenant Edouard Izac (MOH)
- Boatswain’s Mate Second Class John Otto Siegel (MOH)
United States Air Force
- General Norton Allen Schwartz
- General David L. Goldfein
- Lieutenant General Jack Weinstein
- Sergeant John L. Levitow
United States Marine Corps
- General Robert Magnus
- General Charles Krulak
- Lieutenant General Victor H. Krulak
- Major Levi Twiggs
- Sergeant Foster J. Harrington
- Private Samuel Gross (MOH)
- Private William Zion (MOH)