🔗==============>  View Home Locations of Roster Members <=====​======​🔗
​(incomplete)   ​Monona    Crawford    Carroll    Greene  
 (complete)   Harrison    Shelby    Audubon    Guthrie
​(complete)   Council Bluffs   Rural Pott. Co.   Cass    Adair  
(complete)   Montgomery    Mills    Adams    Union
(incomplete)   ​Fremont    Page   Taylor    Ringgold
(fragmentary) Other SW Iowa   Other Iowa   Border States   Other States
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Greater SW Iowa

WWII Dead

bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Dead > Residences, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 3 Jul 2025

The webpages accessed above list the record heading lines from both WWII Dead > Roster Records and WWII Dead > Ancillary Records. Shown are name, service number, service branch, and county/counties.

​​Commentary on these six rows of links:

• webpages from rows 2-4 contain almost-complete lists, organized by town. 
• Council Bluffs held over half the population of Pottawattamie County during WWII.
• Rural Pott. Co. denotes the remainder of Pottawattamie County, one of the largest counties in Iowa.
• row 6 webpages are very fragmentary and are organized by counties.
• Other SW Iowa - some WWII dead from the seven above counties whose names are not hotspots.
• Other Iowa - some WWII dead from the 80 remaining Iowa counties.
• Border States - some WWII dead from Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, & Wisconsin.
• Other States - some WWII dead from the 43 remaining states; California was far the most common.
• "vet" denotes a WWII veteran who died after separation from service and before eligibility for Iowa WWII veterans' bonuses expired in 1950. Full records for these veterans are not in WWII Dead > Roster Records webpages but rather in the WWII Dead > Ancillary Records webpages.​

Some roster members are included in two of the lists for several reasons:

• I sometimes learned from census records, obituaries, or family histories that the roster member had lived for considerable periods of time in multiple counties. 
• I included the home county as given in the 1946 War and Navy Departments lists of WWII dead or in county honor lists of WWII dead. Sometimes this was at variance with what one would otherwise expect to be the home county.
• WWII decedents who happened to live near a county border were often viewed as being from a nearby town in the adjoining county. I have attempted to include both counties.
• The decedent may have lived elsewhere but had parents or spouse living in a Pottawattamie area county.

I have resisted the urge to include names in more than two lists, even though this was sometimes difficult.

Links to my other webpages or reports containing information about roster members home locations:

• Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln High School WWII Dead - report listing dead from the 1946 ALHS yearbook.
• ​Gold Star Avoca - Big Pigeon 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 - out-of-date report, mostly relatives of my uncles and aunts.

Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Dead > Residences subpages
Images used on this page: 

• Greater SW Iowa, the page header index map, was found at an unknown location in famillysearch.org.

Images used on the WWII Dead > Residences 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. Harrison County - the Harrison County map is courtesy of iagenweb.org/harrison.
4. Shelby County - the Shelby County map is courtesy of rootsweb.com/~iashelb.
5. Audubon County - 
6. Cass County - the c. 1930 county map is taken from the Iowa Digital Library's Montgomery Co. Hixson atlas.
7. Montgomery County - header image found at http://iagenweb.org/montgomery/photos/1930mapMontgo.jpg
8. ​Mills County - the Mills County map is courtesy of iagenweb.org/mills.
9. Other SW Iowa Counties
10. Other Iowa Counties
11. Iowa's Six Border States - the Midwestern US map is courtesy of https://www.britannica.com/place/Midwest​.
12. 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.