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The Home Locations of the Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead
(incomplete)   ​Monona    Crawford    Carroll    Greene  
 (complete)   Harrison    Shelby    Audubon    Guthrie
​(complete)   Co. Bluffs   Rural Pott. Co.   Cass    Adair  
(complete)   Montgomery    Mills    Adams    Union
(incomplete)   ​Fremont    Page   Taylor    Ringgold
Other SW Iowa   Other Iowa   Border States   Other States

​​​                           bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Dead > Residences > Audubon Co., © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 5 May 2025
​                                               Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead - Audubon County, Iowa
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Audubon town:
  • Andersen, Edwin Pershing, SN 38-050-262, US Army Air Force, Audubon Co. & Harris Co., TX
  • Bagley, Charles Phelps, SN O-765281, US Army Air Force, Audubon Co.
  • ​Boye, Harold C., SN 37-346-863, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Brodie, Walter, SN 321-61-44, US Navy, Cook Co., IL & Audubon Co.
  • ​Burke, Vernon Clifford Jr., SN 17-068-043, US Army Air Force, Audubon Co.
  • ​Cozine, Thomas Verne, SN 37-421-270, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Curtis, Alton B., SN 37-692-006, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Erickson, Gordon Dale, SN 37-698-140, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Hansen, Warren Gamaliel, SN 859-83-39, US Navy, Audubon Co.
  • ​Jensen, Wayne Eugene, SN 0-770293, US Army Air Force, Audubon Co.
  • ​Kyhnn, George Russell, SN 37-698-181, US Army, Audubon & Marshall Cos. 
  • ​Lane, Kit Carson, SN O-463136, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • (vet.) ​​Law, Ford Leon, SN 37-442-637, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Madsen Earl Harvey, SN 17-197-232, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Madsen, Elmer Herman, SN 37-691-778, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​McCuen, Walter Rea, SN 321-29-61, US Navy, Audubon & Woodbury Cos.
  • Morrow, Marjorie Gertrude, SN N-733475, US Army, Kossuth & Audubon Cos.
  • (vet.) Robinson, Glen Earl, SN 620-34-83, US Naval Aviation, Audubon Co.
  • Santillan, Paul J., SN 37-436-475, US Army Air Force, Audubon Co.
  • ​Scully, John Edward, SN 37-684-887, US Army, Audubon & Webster Cos.
  • Welch, Harold Arthur, SN 37-673-375, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Winkel, Robert Leroy, SN 912315, US Marine Corps, Audubon Co.
  • Zaiger, Albert Charles, SN 620-04-88, US Navy, Audubon Co
  • ​Zaiger, Roy Jensen, SN 39-339-753, US Army Air Force, Audubon Co. & Washington Co., OR.

Rural Audubon, Douglas Twp.:
  • Firebaugh, Gordon Dale, SN 958-03-91, US Navy, Audubon Co.
  • Winther, Lawrence, SN 37-437-752, US Army, Cass & Audubon Cos.


Brayton, including Oakfield Twp.:
  •  (vet.) Andersen, Marinus, SN 37-659-598, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Bjorn, Paul Bartlett, SN 37-678-998, US Army, Audubon Co. & Cass Co. - Oakfield Twp.
  • Hansen, Maurice Edward, SN 37-659-408, US Army, Cass & Audubon Cos. - Oakfield Twp., Rt. 2, Atlantic
  • ​Overgaard, Andrew Bager, SN 37-045-092, US Army, Greeley Co., NE & rural Brayton, Audubon Twp.. Audubon Co.
  • Young, Robert Edson, SN 37-676-788, US Army, Audubon Co.

Exira:
  • Carley, Albert Boyd, SN 37-035-663, US Army, Audubon & Shelby Cos.
  • ​Jessen, Fred Nelsen, SN O-42591, US Marine Corps, Audubon Co.
  • Nelson, Merrill Marvin, SN 620-69-02, US Navy, Audubon Co.
  • ​Olsen, Eli, SN 321-40-00, US Navy, Audubon Co.
  • ​Petersen, Marvin Lee, SN 37-752-434, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Mardesen, Ray Wells, SN 37-037-474, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Rasmussen, Harley Norman, SN 37-691-442, US Army, Audubon & Guthrie Cos.
  • Wahlert, Robert Jacob, SN 37-425-956, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Wells, Robert Henry, SN 37-659-382, US Army, Audubon Co.

Gray:​
  • ​(vet.) Burger, Finley Dale, SN 37-673-430, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • Christensen, Dale Eldon, SN O-2-036049, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Kitson, Donald Edgar, SN 37-750-237, US Army, Audubon Co.​

Hamlin:
  • Christensen Arnold Christen, SN 37-752-523, US Army, Audubon Co.​

​Kimballton:
  • Christiansen, Peter Elmer, SN 321-47-30, US Navy, Audubon Co.
  • ​Jensen, Herluf Valdemar, SN 848-30-51, US Navy, Audubon Co.
  • (vet.) Larsen, Wilhelm Robert, SN 859-82-16, US Navy, Audubon Co.
  • Pedersen, Silas Clyde, SN O-1019087, US Army, Audubon & Shelby Cos.
  • Soe, Jens Folmer, SN O-903833, US Army, Audubon & Shelby Cos.

Other Audubon County residents: (will assign most of these to towns later)​​
  • Heckman, Fred Herman, SN 375-78-78, US Navy, Audubon Co.
  • Heckman, John Phillip, SN 37-118-341, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • Jensen, Carl Christian, SN 6-863-492, US Army, Audubon & Pott. Cos.
  • Jensen, Eldon Elmer, SN 887825, US Marine Corps, Audubon Co.
  • Kendle, Ross LaVar, SN 17-193-984, US Army, Audubon Co. & Morris Co., KS​
  • ​Lewis, Harold Joseph, SN 37-698-156, US Army, Audubon Co. (St. Paul's)
  • ​Nelson, Leonard Mortensen, SN 17-043-992, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • ​Nelson, Leonard Peter, SN 34-208-331, US Army, Audubon & Dade Co., FL Cos.​​​​
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Notes:
  • (vet.) = veteran, died after separation from service; record is in WWII Dead > Ancillary Records.

​Audubon County Sources:
  • https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Ahixson_56 - Hixson's Audubon Co. township map ~1930.
  • http://genealogytrails.com/iowa/audubon/wwii_army_air_force_deaths.htm - only Army & AAF deaths​.
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