Where can you find a list of US army soldiers KIA in France in 1944?

Answer 1

I do not know that such a list was ever prepared. There were overall casualty reports filed by the different commands from time to time. These would be in the National Archives, and so far as I am aware have never been complied into a master list. Some units, such as the infantry divisions, and sometimes regiments, published their own histories after the war, and almost all include a "roll of honor" of those lost. Sometimes these are alphabetical, sometimes chronologically, and sometimes additionally divided by the campaigns in which the unit fought. Many men were lost while serving in separate battalions, and usually these are not to be found in the unit histories, as these battalions, being small, had an insufficient market to make for a viable book. Many newspapers published daily a casualty list of all the men lost, with the date and theater of operations frequently included. Some units who enetered France in 1944 were edging onto German soil by September, and I doubt there would be any easy way to separate out their casualties lost "in France" without close attention to daily operational reports. The American Battle Monuments Commission, which operates and maintains the American Cemeteries in Europe, has a database which lists each man still buried in the cemeteries. (abmc.gov). The remains of many men were returned to the states after the war at the request of the next of kin, and there are no cemeteries in Germany, all men killed there being removed to a permanent cemetery in France, The Netherlands or Italy.