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WWII Roster
website bigpigeon.us, webpage WWII Roster > Homes - © 2022 by Robert A. “Bob” Christiansen, updated 31 Jan 2022.

Viewed by home location, there are nine sublists of Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead Roster members:
  • Council Bluffs - held over half the population of Pottawattamie County.
  • Rural Pottawattamie County - the remainder of Pottawattamie County.
  • Cass County - east of Pottawattamie County.
  • Harrison County - north of Pottawattamie County.
  • Mills County - south of Pottawattamie County.
  • Montgomery County - south of Pottawattamie County and east of Mills County. (incomplete)
  • Shelby County - north of Pottawattamie County and east of Harrison County.
  • Other Iowa Counties.
  • Other States - Nebraska, Missouri and California were most common.

​About home locations:
  • I include some veterans, roster members who died after separation from service but before 1950.
  • Many roster members lived in multiple locations; I show no more than two locations.
  • A majority of roster members were from Pottawattamie County, whose only city is the county seat of Council Bluffs. The larger city of Omaha, Nebraska is across the Missouri River to the west.​ The Iowa counties bordering Pottawattamie County are much smaller in population.
  • Army/AAF records list the dead under the county of current residence when entering service (usually where working), rather than the county of permanent residence (e.g., where parents lived). Thus these records often show decedents in an unexpected county or state.
  • Navy/Marine records list the dead under the state of residence of next of kin; in these records a married decedent appears under his wife's county of residence rather than his parent's county. 

Links to my other webpages or reports containing information about roster members:
  • Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln HS WWII Dead - a list of dead from the 1946 ALHS yearbook.
  • ​Gold Star Avoca - webpage - deaths from all wars for Avoca, Iowa.
  • St. Paul's - report listing all WWII veterans of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Boomer/Neola.
  • WWII Dead - Allied Family Members - report, mostly relatives of my uncles and aunts.

Pottawattamie Area Demographics - 1940 and 2020.
  • This report gives population figures for Pottawattamie area counties and towns.
  • The following maps support this report.
1940 Pottawattamie Area Highways
1940 Pottawattamie Area Highways
Post WW II Pottawattame Area Railroads
1948 Pottawattamie Area Railroads
Images used on -
- this page: 
  • Pottawattamie Area, the page header index map, is courtesy of familysearch.org.
  • 1940 Pottawattamie Area Highways was found at  https://iowadot.gov/maps/msp/historical/pdf/1940-front.pdf.
  • 1948 Pottawattame Area Railroads is taken from the Rand McNally Handy Railroad Map of Iowa, is courtesy of Trains magazine, and was found at http://trains.rockycrater.org/graphics/pfmsig/atlas48/ia-1948.jpg.
- the nine Pottawattamie Area WW II Roster Members homes subpages:
  1. Council Bluffs - the 1942 Council Bluffs - Omaha map is courtesy of https://www.aaroads.com/nebraska/omaha/#iLightbox[image_carousel_1]/1, which also has 1956 and 1965 maps.
  2. Rural Pottawattamie County - 
  3. Cass County - the c. 1930 county map is taken from the Iowa Digital Library's Montgomery Co. Hixson atlas.
  4. Harrison County - the Harrison County map is courtesy of iagenweb.org/harrison.
  5. Mills County - the Mills County map is courtesy of iagenweb.org/mills.
  6. Montgomery County - header image found at http://iagenweb.org/montgomery/photos/1930mapMontgo.jpg
  7. Shelby County - the Shelby County map is courtesy of rootsweb.com/~iashelb.
  8. Other Iowa Counties
  9. Other States:
The Fifty United States map is courtesy of https://www.50states.com/cap.htm.
  • The California Counties map is courtesy of the California State Association of Counties.
  • The Missouri Counties and County Seats map is courtesy of geology.com.
  • The Nebraska Counties map is courtesy of www.siteatlas.com.
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