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Pigeons at Home
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bigpigeon.us webpage Home - Pigeon Central, updated by RAC 25 Jan 2021.

​--- Home - Brief Notes:
Jan '21: About my Pott. Co. Area WW II Dead roster:
  • view 35 recent additions and access the full 400+ member roster:  WW II Dead > The Roster 
  • view roster members by home town, county, or state: WW II Dead > Their Homes
  • ​view roster members by death location: WW II Dead > Where They Died
  • World Wars > My WW II Project explains bigpigeon's World War II - related webareas.
Oct '20: Integrated the Home and Pigeon Central webpages (see below).
-- Pigeon Central - Access a bigpigeon.us webarea by clicking on one of the following links :
 
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Home - Pigeon Central - get news, access Big Pigeon's webareas
    Usage Hints - enlarge, navigate, search, contact
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​Pott. Co. - aspects of Pottawattamie County, Iowa history
    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.

WW II Dead - access the Pottawattamie County area WW II Dead roster webarea.
  • The Roster - access point for eleven WW II Dead roster webpages.               
  • Their Homes - where roster members lived broken up into seven areas.
  • Their Deaths - roster deaths - Japan, Germany (Atlantic, MTO, ETO), stateside​, after separation.
  • Roster Usage - understanding and using the WW II Dead roster.
  • Roster Background - background information for the WW II Dead roster.
  • Roster Links - links to web resources used to build the WW II Dead roster.​
  • Roster Photos -  in its early stages, currently has only 17 images.​
  • Roster Outliers - names of Pott. Co. dead veterans that fit into special categories.

World Wars 
    My WW II Dead Project
    WW II - External Links - links to web resources used in my WW II summary.

​WW II - Japan
    Japan Ascendant 
    Naval War with Japan 
    Japan Lashes Out 
    Japan Overreaches 
    South & SW Pacific 
    North & Central Pacific 
    Philippines Liberated 
    Iwo Jima & Okinawa 
    China-Burma-India Theater 
    Japan Overpowered

​WW II - 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

St. Paul's - St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Boomer Township, rural Neola, Iowa
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Family
- my extended family history
    Allied Families - various reports on families that married into my family.

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