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 bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Dead > Roster Outliers > Other Exclusions, © 2026 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 9 Jan 2026

Those listed below are not in the Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead Roster.
Part 1 - Will be included if sufficient additional information is found
✔︎ Hall, Peter
  • The 1946 Navy Dept. list of WWII dead for Iowa lists Peter Hall w/ next of kin cousin Juanita Hall living in Glenwood, Mills Co.
  • I cannot find any trace of Juanita Hall in Glenwood. The most-likely candidate for Peter Hall is the following:​
  • Hall Peter, SN 849-31-13, US Navy
  • b. 16 Aug 1923; entered service 20 Apr 1944 from Oklahoma City, OK; Nebraska credited with service; bur. Golden Gate Natl. Cem., San Bruno, San Mateo Co., CA.
  • Attack Transport USS Alhena (AKA-9); d. 10 Nov 1944 Seeadler Harbor, Manus Is., Admiralty Is.; explosion of Ammunition Ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11); 372 died, including three Alhena crew members.
​✔︎ ​Wilkinson, Robert L., d. 27 Mar ’45 (WWII-WilkinsonRobert) ​-
  • The Pott. Co. Roll of Honor lists Robert L. Wilkinson. 
  • I can't locate this individual either in military or other records. I can locate his likely family in a few city directories and newspaper articles.
Part 2 - Won't be included unless more information linking individual to the Pottawattamie area is found
​​​✔︎ ​Christiansen, Clarion Leroy, SN 345986, US Marine Corps, Palo Alto Co.
  • b. 23 Aug 1922 12 Mile Lake Twp., Emmet Co.; s/o Abraham C. Christiansen & Mathilda Josephsen; entered service 13 Jan 1942 from Graettinger, Palo Alto Co. at Des Moines; b. St. Paul's Luth. Cem., Walnut Twp., rural Graettinger.
  • Co. H, 2nd Marine Regt., 1st Marine Div.; KIA Guadalcanal 2 Nov 1942.
  • Only known Pott. area connection is appearance in the Pott. Co. iagenweb.org Lest We Forget project.
✔︎ Hartman, Melvin Joseph, SN 37-111-347, US Army, Palo Alto Co. (WWII-HartmanMelvinJ)
  • b. 11 Mar 1916 Currie, Murray Co., MN; s/o Fred Leo Hartman & Rosina Cecelia Csukker of Palo Alto Co.; entered service 3 Jan 1942 from Box 284, Graettinger, Palo Alto Co.; service credited to Palo Alto Co.; bur. Ft. Snelling Natl. Cem., Minneapolis, MN.
  • Co. M., 127th Inf. Regt., 32nd Inf. Div.; DNB 24 Mar 1943 Sydney, Australia.
  • No known Pott. area connection. I don't know why I flagged this name.
✔︎ Reed, John Dayton "Pops" Jr., SN 37-193-628, US Army Air Force, Wapello Co.
  • b. 6 Aug 1917 Muscatine, Muscatine Co.; s/o John D. Reed Sr. & Minnie M. James; m. Betty Adams, divorced 1942; m. Winifred A. Holsapple of Pennsylvania 1942; entered service 30 Apr 1942 from Ottumwa, Wapello Co.; cenotaph or burial Ottumwa Cem., Ottumwa, Wapello Co. 
  • Fifteenth Air Force; KIA over Austria 12 Mar 1944.
  • Only known Pott. area connection is appearance in the Pott. Co. iagenweb.org Lest We Forget project.
✔︎ Sonneborn, Gold, SN O-163-929, US Army, Phelps Co., NE (WWII-SonnebornGold)
  • b. 13 Sep 1896 Early, Sac Co. s/o Christian Sonneborn & Anna Schafer; m. Agnes B. Richmond 1921, three children; entered service 5 May 1941 from Des Moines; service credited to Phelps Co., NE, where he lived as an adult until the late 1930s; bur. Glendale Cem., Des Moines.
  • US Quartermaster Corps stationed at Ft. Crook, NE: d. 18 Jan 1942 Fitzsimmons Army Hospital, Aurora, Adams Co., CO; arteriosclerosis.
  • No known Pott. area connection. Iowa Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries database erroneously gave birthplace as Earling, Shelby Co. rather than Early, Sac Co.
✔︎ Williams, Harold Gene, SN 38-507-579, US Army Air Force
  • b. 7 Jan 1921 Greenbrier, Faulkner Co., AR; entered US Army Air Force 27 May 1943 from Rt. 3, Greenbrier; d. 19 Jul 1944 Saarbrücken, Germany.
  • Never lived in Iowa. Only known Pott. area connection is appearance in Iowa Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries database. Widow filed a bonus claim when she lived in Audubon in 1950, which she later withdrew.
Part 3 - Won't be included
✔︎ ​Pidgette, John Walter, SN 620-18-22, US Navy
  • b. 17 Feb 1919 Omaha, NE; entered US Navy 29 Dec 1941 from Atlantic, Cass Co.; d. 12 Nov 1981 Los Angeles, CA. 
  • ​WWII survivor. Record in Iowa Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries was a misfiled regular bonus case application.