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SW Iowa Counties
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bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Roster > Roster Sources > 1946 War Dept. Report, © 2023 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 25 May 2023. 
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WWII Army and Army Air Force Dead with Service Credited to a Southwest Iowa County
Below are lists for 19 counties excerpted from https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/army-casualties/iowa.html, the 1946 War Department report entitled WWII Honor List of Dead & Missing for Iowa. 
  • The 31-page report is organized by county lists and is not searchable.
  • The report has the following counts: KIA (Killed in Action) 3282, DOW (died of wounds) 481, DOI (died of injuries) 19, DNB (died non-battle) 1427, FOD 399 (finding of death), M (missing) 25, total 5633.
  • My Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead Roster includes almost all names in the Harrison, Shelby, Pottawattamie, Cass, Mills and Montgomery county lists. Audubon County names are currently in WWII Roster > Roster Additions.
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The Fifth Tier of Southwest Iowa Counties
Monona County
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Crawford County
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Carroll County
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Greene County
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​The Fourth Tier of Southwest Iowa Counties
Harrison County
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Shelby County
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Audubon County
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(1) ADNERSON, MYRON B. 37663577 PFC FOD
√ BAGLEY, CHARLES P. 0-765218 1 LT KIA
√ Benton, Raymond J. (Guthrie Co.)
√ BOYE, HAROLD C.         37346863 PVT KIA
√ BURKE, VERNON C. JR. 17068043 SGT KIA
√ CHRISTENSEN, DALE E. 02036049 2 LT KIA
√ CHRISTENSEN, ARNOLD C. 37752523 PFC KIA
√ COZINE, THOMAS V. 37421270 PFC DOW
√ CURTIS, ALTON B. 37692006 PVT KIA
√ ERICKSON, GORDON D. 37698140 PFC KIA
√√ HECKMAN, JOHN P. 37118341 CPL DOW
√ JENSEN, WAYNE E. 0-770293 2 LT DNB

√√ KITSON, DONALD E. 37750237 PFC KIA 
√ LANE, KIT C.         0-463136 CAPT DNB
√ LAYLAND, GERALD I. 37442645 PFC KIA
√√ LEWIS, HAROLD J. 37698156 PFC KIA
√ MADSEN, EARL H.         17197232 PFC DNB
√ MADSEN, ELMER H. 37691778 PVT KIA
√ MARDESEN, RAY W. 37037474 CPL KIA
√ MORROW, MARJORIE G. N-733475 2 LT KIA
√ NELSON, HERMAN L. 37047625 PFC DNB
√ NELSON, LEONARD M. 17043992 S SG DOW
(3) √ Nelson, Leonard Peter34-208-331 PVT KIA
√ OVERGAARD, ANDREW B. 37045092 S SG KIA
√ PEDERSEN, SILAS C. 01019087 2 LT KIA
√ PETERSEN, MARVIN L. 37752434 PVT DOW
(2) PHILLIPS, RAYMOND G. 0-736337 1 LT FOD
√ SANTILLAN, PAUL J. 37436475 S SG FOD
√ SCULLY, JOHN E.         37684887 SGT KIA
√ WAHLERT, ROBERT J. 37425956 PVT DNB
√ WELCH, HAROLD A. 37673375 PFC KIA
√ WELLS, ROBERT H. 37659382 PFC KIA
√ YOUNG, ROBERT E. 37676788 PVT KIA
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√√ - already in roster
​√ - in Roster Additions
(1) - Anderson, Myron B., Clayton Co.
(2) - Phillips, Raymond G., Newton, Jasper Co.
(3) - Nelson, Leonard P., 
b. Audubon Co. s/o John Nelson & Elvera Johnson, served from Dade Co., FL
(transcription by Cathy Schultz at  http://genealogytrails.com/iowa/audubon/wwii_army_air_force_deaths.htm)
Guthrie County
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​The Third Tier of Southwest Iowa Counties
Pottawattamie County
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Cass County
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Adair County
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The Second Tier of Southwest Iowa Counties
Mills County
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Montgomery County
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Adams County
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Union County
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​The First Tier of Southwest Iowa Counties
Fremont County
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Page County
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Taylor County
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Ringgold County
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Sources for Big Pigeon's War Dept., SW Iowa webpage:
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