Pottawattamie County Area

Pigeon Central

WW II Dead

 Source: website bigpigeon.us, webpage WW II Dead > Members' Homes.
​© 2020 by Robert A. “Bob” Christiansen, updated 6 Nov 2020.

Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead Roster - Their Homes:

• Viewing the WW II Dead roster members by their home locale.
• Many had lived in multiple locales; I show no more than two locales.

I divided roster members' home locales into four areas:

• Council Bluffs - held over half the population of Pottawattamie County.
• Rural Pottawattamie County - the remainder of Pottawattamie County.
• Other Iowa Counties - mostly neighboring counties.
• Other States - Nebraska, Missouri and California were most common.

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​About these four webpages:

• Most roster members were from Pottawattamie County, Iowa, whose only city is the county seat of Council Bluffs. The larger city of Omaha, Nebraska is across the Missouri River to the west.​ 
• Army/AAF records list a dead veteran 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 roster members in an unexpected county or state.
• Navy/Marine records list a dead veteran under the state of residence of next of kin; in these records a married veteran 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 WW II 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 WW II veterans of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Boomer/Neola.
• WW II Dead - Allied Family Members - report mostly relatives of my uncles and aunts.

Images used on this page and the four Roster Members Homes webpages:
This page: 

• Pottawattamie County Area index map is courtesy of familysearch.org.

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 includes maps from 1956 and 1965.

2 - Rural Pottawattamie County:

3 - Other Iowa Counties:

• The Harrison County, Iowa Civil Township map is courtesy of iagenweb.org/harrison.
• The Mills County, Iowa Civil Townships map is courtesy of iagenweb.org/mills.
• The Shelby County, Iowa Civil Township map is courtesy of rootsweb.com/~iashelb.
• The California Counties map is courtesy of the California State Association of Counties.
• The Nebraska Counties map is courtesy of www.siteatlas.com.

4 - 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.