Pigeons at Home

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bigpigeon.us webpage Home - Pigeon Central, updated by RAC 24 Dec 2021.               ==> Scroll to see this website's directory of webareas.

Home - Brief News:

• 24 Dec 2021: Access a list of WWI Iowa dead at World Wars > WWI > Iowa in WWI.
• 10 Dec 2021: 7 December was the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other Allied bases. The Buy Bonds poster is courtesy of https://pearlharbor.org.
• 4 Dec 2021: I have rearranged the order of major webareas. Family now comes first, followed by St. Paul's and then Pottawattamie County. The remainder of the website, still incomplete, is devoted to the World Wars.
• 4 Dec 2021: WW II Dead > Roster Central > Post-Separation Deaths now lists 58 area WWII veterans who died within a few years of leaving service.
• 21 May '21: WW II Dead > Roster Central now has links to Pott. Co. Area WW II Dead roster content.
• 25 Apr '21: Updated Kasserine Pass in WWII Germany > The MTO > North Africa & Sicily > Tunisia.

WW II Remember Pearl Harbor poster

Pigeon Central - the directory of webareas -- scroll, then click a webarea hotspot to see all pages therein:

• ​Home - Pigeon Central - get news, see credits and sources, see webarea directory.
•     Usage Hints - enlarge, navigate, search, contact
•     Acknowledgments 
•     Resources - the websites & webpages used by Big Pigeon, except for WWII.
•     Resources - WWII - the WWII websites & webpages used by Big Pigeon. 
•     Project Management Webpages - Public 
•     Project Management Webpages - Private ​​
• Family - my extended family history
•     Christiansen - Christian Christiansen and Ane Kirstine “Anna” Jensen volume.
•     Rasmussen - Lars Christian Rasmussen and Karen Marie Andersen volume.
•     Larsen  - Niels (Christensen) Larsen and Maren Larsen (and their Larson Descendants) volume.
•     Hansen - Peter Hansen and Dorthe Hansen volume.

•     Allied Families - various reports on families that married into my family.
• St. Paul's - St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Boomer Township, rural Neola, Iowa​
• Pott. Co. - aspects of Pottawattamie County, Iowa history
•     Pottawattamie Area Early History - fragmentary information about the  pre-settlement period.
•     Big Pigeon Area - historical material about the Big Pigeon area of Pottawattamie County.
•     Avoca - limited material about the Avoca, Iowa area
•     Pott. Co. Addendum - county-wide local history material
• ​    LDS History - aspects of Mormon history related to Pottawattamie County
•     A House Divided - a mostly-Mormon Danish immigrant extended family partly from Pottawattamie County.

• WWII Dead - access the Pottawattamie County area WW II Dead Roster webarea.
•     Roster Central - links & explanatory material for the WW II Dead Roster webarea.               ​
• World Wars 
•     WWII Outlines - outlines of WW II - Japan and WW II - Germany webareas.
• ​WWII - Japan
•     Japan Ascendant 
•     Naval War with Japan 
•     Japan Lashes Out 
•     Japan Overreaches 
•     South & SW Pacific 
•     North Pacific
•     Central Pacific 
•     Philippines Liberated 
•     Iwo Jima & Okinawa 
•     China-Burma-India Theater 
•     Japan Overpowered
• ​WWII - Germany 
•     Battle of the Atlantic 
•     The MTO - Mediterranean Theater of Operations
•         North Africa & Sicily, Nov '42 - Aug '43
•         The Italian Mainland, Sep '43 - May '45
•         The MTO Sea War
•         The MTO Air War
•         The MTO Communications Zone
•     The ETO - European Theater of Operations
•         Normandy Campaign, Jun - Jul '44.
•         France Liberated, Jul - Sep '44.
•         Arnhem & Antwerp, Sep - Nov '44.
•         The Rhineland Campaign - 1944, Sep - Dec '44.
•         Lorraine & Alsace, Sep '44 - Mar '45.​
•         Ardennes /The Bulge Overview, Dec '44 - Jan '45.
•         The Rhineland Campaign - 1945, Feb - Mar '45.
• ​        The Central Europe Campaign, Mar - May '45.
•        The ETO Air War
•         The ETO Sea War
•         The ETO Communications Zone

​Sources for the Home - Pigeon Central webpage:

• The webpage header image, Pigeons at Home, courtesy of Ian Murray, is found at https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1455294​​