Council Bluffs Veteran's Plaza
Council Bluffs Veterans' Plaza
 bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Hub > Big Pigeon & WWII, © 2024 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 19 Jan 2024.
Big Pigeon's World War II component supports what I call the Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead Roster, which memorializes over 700 Iowans who once lived in the Pottawattamie area and who died in service during WWII.

The five modules comprising this component appear on the right of the top navigation bar, namely WWII Dead, WWII Hub, WWII US, WWII Japan, and WWII Germany.
To View Pottawattamie Area World War II Dead Roster Information
From within Big Pigeon's WWII Dead module, you can view information about roster members from three perspectives:
  1. WWII Dead > Roster Records - view alphabetical lists of roster members' records. These records, which contain very brief biographic data, occupy 24 webpages.
  2. WWII Dead > Residences - view lists of roster members by their home residence location (by town for the Pottawattamie area, otherwise by county or state).
  3. WWII Dead > Death Locations - view lists of roster members by death location. For combat deaths, this is generally the campaign or battle in which they became a fatality.
World War II Combat Summaries
I am endeavoring to organize and summarize the United States role in WWII combat. WWII Hub lists the combat summary webpages which comprise the WWII Japan and WWII Germany modules. It includes links to submodules, each treating a portion of WWII combat. Not all combat summary webpages are complete.
The WWII US Module
The WWII US module contains disparate webpages that do not fit in nicely elsewhere. This is mostly information of a non-combat nature about United States involvement in World War II. This module is largely independent of the Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead Roster project.
Linking the Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead Roster and the World War II Combat Webpages
Each roster member who died overseas appears in a list at the bottom of the corresponding WWII combat webpage. Via this webpage, website visitors may gain some understanding of how a member's death figured into the complexity of WWII combat. (Not all combat webpages are complete.)
Post-Separation Deaths
After leaving military service, many WWII veterans carried a physical or psychic burden, sometimes unknown to their family, friends and community. I once thought that looking at the causes of death of veterans who died within a few years of leaving service might cast some light on the nature of these burdens.
  • WWII Dead > Ancillary Records lists around 100 Pottawattamie area WWII veterans who died before the end of 1950, generally including the cause of death.
  • ​Such deaths are included in the Residences lists mentioned above but not in Roster Records or Death Locations.
Some General Information
  • A hotspot in the upper right corner of most webpages will send you up one level in the website hierarchy.
  • Arrows underneath this hotspot will access the previous or next webpage in a list of webpages.
  • You can usually enlarge an image by clicking on it.
  • All information herein is publicly available on the web.
Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Hub > Big Pigeon & WWII webpage: