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  • WWII dead found in the 1946 US Navy Dept. list of Navy/Marine Corps/Coast Guard WWII Iowa dead from Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Fremont & Page Counties.
† Bartlett, Raymond Edward, SN 375-166, US Marine Corps, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 19 Dec 1913 East Boyer Twp., Crawford Co.; s/o William Cook Bartlett & Lena Marie Bohnker.
  • entered service 7 Apr 1942 from Denison, Crawford Co.; next of kin nother, Mrs. Lena M. Bartlett, 1811 Third Avenue, North Denison, Iowa; buried Vail Cem., Crawford Co.
  • Co. C, 1st Bn., 24th Marine Regt., 4th Marine Div.; KIA Saipan, Mariana Is. 17 Jun 1944.
  • WWII Japan > Central Pacific > Mariana Islands @ Saipan
† Black, Isaac Albert, SN 316-59-87, US Navy, Page Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 19 Apr 1921 Sidney, Fremont Co.; s/o Isaac Albert/Allen Black Sr. & Ella Marie Godwin; family lived in Shenandoah, Page Co., moving to Omaha in the late 1920s and returning to Shenandoah in the early 1930s.
  • entered service 11 Sep 1939 from Shenandoah, Page Co.; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines; next of kin parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Allen Black, 917 W. Sheridan, Shenandoah, Iowa.
  • heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30), the US Asiatic Fleet flagship; KIA 1 Mar 1942, Battle of Sunda Strait, between Java & Sumatra, Netherlands Indies; Houston sunk by Japanese destroyer torpedoes; 793 died; BNR.
  • WWII Japan > Japan Lashes Out > Netherlands Indies Lost @ sinking of USS Houston
† Carstens, Lawrence Conrad, SN 859-20-66, US Navy, Monona or Crawford Co. (WWII-CarstensLawrenceC)
  • b. 24 Sep 1922 Charter Oak, Crawford Co.; s/o Conrad Henry Carstens & Ellen Grace Aronson.
  • entered service 18 Apr 1943 from Ute, Monona Co.; next of kin parents, Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Carstens, Rt. 2, Ute, Iowa; body not recovered; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Pacific American Cem., Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13), Task Force 58.2, engaged in air strikes off the Japanese home islands; KIA 19 Mar 1945 70 miles off Shikoku, Japan; Franklin hit by two bombs; 807 dead, Franklin survived; BNR
  • WWII Japan > Naval War with Japan > Third & Fifth Fleets @ air attack on USS Franklin
​​† Christiansen, Albert Glyde, served with inconsistent names, including Albert Clyde Christensen, SN 562-70-71, US Navy, Woodbury & Monona Cos. (WWII-ChristiansenAlbertGlyde)
  • b. 2 Jan 1922 Castana, Monona Co.; s/o Albert Christiansen & Cora May Clingenpeel.
  • entered service Aug 1942 from Smithland, Woodbury Co.; body not recovered; next of kin father, Mr. Albert Christensen, Smithland, Iowa; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.​
  • USS Almandite (PY-24); died 28 May 1943 in an unknown location in the Pacific; BNR.
  • WWII Japan > Pacific Bases
† Clark, Darwin Lawrence, SN 321-42-11, US Naval Aviation, Monona Co. (WWII-ClarkDarwinL)
  • b. 13 Nov 1921 Rodney, Monona Co.; s/o Lawrence Rex Clark & Leone Thelma Rasmussen (d. Apr 1942).
  • entered service 7 May 1940 from Rodney, Monona Co. in Des Moines; body not recovered; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu. Oahu, HI.
  • Torpedo Sqdn. VT-8, carrier USS Hornet (CV-8); Douglas TBD Devastator radioman-gunner with pilot Henry Russell Kenyon Jr.; KIA 5 Jun 1943 off Midway Is., Hawaii Territory; BNR.
  • Notes:  In this action, all 15 planes of Torpedo Squadron VT-8 were lost, only one VT-8 airman survived; Clark and Kenyon were awarded posthumous Distinguished Flying Crosses; destroyer escort USS Henry R Kenyon (DE-683) was in service from 1943 to 1947.
  • WWII Japan > Japan Overreaches > Battle of Midway
† Crowell, Rex Delos, SN 621-89-21, US Navy, Monona Co. (WWII-CrowellRexDelos)
  • b. 9 Dec 1921, Ashton Twp, Monona Co.; s/o Delos Byron Crowell & June Catherine Hindman; family moved from Whiting, Monona Co. to Los Angeles Co., CA in the summer of 1943.
  • entered service 13 Oct 1942 from Whiting, Monona Co.; next of kin father, Mr. Dolos B. Crowell, 5879 Rose St., Long Beach, Calif; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, North Africa American Cem., Carthage, Tunisia; cenotaph Whiting Cem., Monona Co.
  • destroyer USS Osmond Ingram (DD-255), part of antisubmarine hunter-killer Task Group 21.13 centered on escort carrier USS Bogue (CVE-9); aircraft and destroyers of TG 21.13 participated in a 27-hour action in the mid-Atlantic west of the Canary Islands against the German submarine U-172; just before the U-172 sank midday 13 Dec 1943, the Osmond Ingram foredeck was hit by machine gun fire from the U-172; Rex Cowell was the only Osmond Ingram fatality; 46 U-172 personnel were taken prisoner; BNR.
  • WWII Germany > Battle of the Atlantic
† Dickson, Keith Romaine, SN 560-437, US Marine Corps, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 28 Oct 1926 Glidden, Carroll Co.; s/o Ernest Albert Dickson & Ella Fern Cross.
  • entered service Mar 1944; next of kin parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Dickson, Gen. Del., Glidden, Iowa; buried West Lawn Cem., Glidden, Carroll Co.
  • 4th Marine Division; WIA Apr 1945 Iwo Jima, Japan; DOW Iwo Jima.
  • WWII Japan > Iwo Jima-Okinawa > Iwo Jima
† Dinwiddie, William, SN 704-36-40, US Naval Aviation, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 30 Aug 1923 Onawa, Monona Co.; s/o Howard Edward Dinwiddie & Minnie Louise Dehn.
  • married Norma Simpson of Castana, Monona Co. Oct 1944 in Neuces Co., TX.
  • entered service 3 Mar 1943 from Onawa, Monona Co.; buried Onawa Cem.
  • unit unknown, Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Oxnard, Ventura Co. CA; d. 7 Mar 1945 near Oxnard; aircraft crashed offshore into shallow water.
† Gowey, Claude Olliver, SN 393-32-93, US Navy, Monona Co. & Oregon (WWII-GoweyClaudeOlliver)
  • b. 5 May 1921 Onawa, Monona Co.; s/o Claude Evaston Gowey & Julia Anna Adams; family moved to a farm between Tangent and Shedd, Oregon in 1936.
  • entered service 1938; next of kin mother, Mrs. Hazel Mae Shipley, Rt. 4, Hillsboro, Ore.
  • battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37); during the 7 Dec 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu Is., Hawaii Territory, the Oklahoma was hit by three Japanese aerial torpedoes and capsized; 429 died; KIA 7 Dec 1941.
  • Notes: in 1943, Oklahoma was righted and the unidentified dead interred in mass graves; Oklahoma sank while being towed to California for salvage; Claude Gowey's body was later identified using DNA analysis.
  • War with Japan > Japan Lashes Out > Pearl Harbor, 1941 @ loss of USS Oklahoma
† Gries, Richard Charles, SN 958-12-25, US Navy, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 27 Nov 1922 Lemmon, Perkins Co., SD; s/o Charles Albert Gries & Selma M. Schrader; family moved to Grant Twp., Monona Co. in late 1920s.
  • married Pearl Louise Martz Mar 1942 in Onawa, Monona Co., one child.
  • entered service 5 Mar 1945 from Grant Center, Monona Co.; next of kin wife, Mrs. Pearl Louise Gries, Grant Center, Iowa; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35); KIA 30 Jul 1945 in the Philippine Sea en route from Guam to Leyte; Indianapolis sunk by Japanese submarine I-58; 879 died, 316 survived; BNR.
  • WWII Japan > Naval War with Japan > Third & Fifth Fleets @ sinking of USS Indianapolis
† Griswold, Donald Thomas Jr., SN O-104-218; US Naval Aviation, Page Co. (WWII-GriswoldDonT)
  • b. 8 Jul 1917 Bryan, Brazos or Wise Co., TX; s/o Donald Thomas Griswold Sr. (b. Montrose, Lee Co.) & Margaret North (b. Yoakum, DeWitt Co., TX); family moved from Texas to Clarinda, Page Co. in 1922; father was county agent in Page Co.
  • 1941 Iowa State University graduate.
  • entered service 24 Feb 1941; next of kin father, Mr. Don Griswold, Clarinda, Iowa; body not recovered; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Pacific American Cem., Honolulu, Oahu, HI; cenotaph Clarinda Cem.
  • Scout Bombing Sqdn. VS-8, aircraft carrier USS Hornet; Douglas SBD Dauntless pilot; KIA 6 Jun 1942 with radioman-gunner Kenneth Bunch during Battle of Midway while attacking Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, which sank near dusk on 6 June.
  • Notes: Griswold and Bunch were awarded posthumous Distinguished Flying Crosses; namesake destroyer escort USS Griswold (DE-7) was in service from 1943 to 1945.
  • WWII Japan > Japan Overreaches > Battle of Midway.
† Hayhurst, Maynard James, SN 985-014, US Marine Corps, Monona Co. (WWII-HayhurstMaynard)
  • b. 6 May 1919 Baleton, Lyon Co., MN; s/o Benjamin Harrison Hayhurst & Nancy Elizabeth Chamberlain; family moved to rural Rodney, Grant Twp., Monona Co. in early 1920s.
  • living in Will Co., IL in 1940; married Marjorie Lynette Nieland 5 Apr 1941 in Frankfort, Will Co., IL; one child.
  • entered service 28 Jun 1944; next of kin wife, Mrs. Maynard J. Hayhurst, Route 1, Box 29, Frankfort, Ill; buried Momence Cem., Momence, Kankakee Co., IL.
  • 28th Replacement Draft, 3rd Marine Division. KIA 17 Mar 1945 Iwo Jima, Japan.
  • WWII Japan > ​Iwo Jima-Okinawa > Iwo Jima
† Holmes, Donald Royce, SN 756-93-00, US Naval Aviation, Monona Co. (WWII-HolmesDonaldRoyce)
  • b. 9 Jun 1923 Whiting, Monona Co.; s/o John Whiting Holmes & Gladys Marvel Jennewein.
  • entered service 11 Dec 1942 from Whiting, Monona Co.; buried Whiting Cem.
  • unit unknown, based at Naval Air Station, MacKimmon Field, St. Simons Island, Glynn Co., GA; d. 28 Jul 1945 off St. Simon's Island; disappeared on a night flight, body later recovered.
† Jensen, Chris Alstrum, SN 860-18-63, US Navy, Woodbury Co. (WWII-JensenChrisAlstrum)
  • b. 5 Dec 1907 Ute, Monona Co.; s/o Jacob Jensen & Catherine Anderson.
  • entered service 25 Feb 1944 from Castana, Monona Co.; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35); KIA 30 Jul 1945 in the Philippine Sea en route from Guam to Leyte; Indianapolis sunk by Japanese submarine I-58; 879 died, 316 survived; BNR.
  • WWII Japan > Naval War with Japan > Third & Fifth Fleets @ sinking of USS Indianapolis
† Johnson, Martin Raymond, SN 345-935, US Marine Corps, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 10 Apr 1922 rural Moorhead, Spring Valley Twp., Monona Co.; s/o Martin Johnson & Hannah Sorensen.
  • entered service 10 Jan 1942 from Moorhead; buried Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • Co. I, 3rd Bn., 2nd Marine Regt. Regt., 2nd Marine Div.; KIA 20 Nov 1943 Tarawa, Gilbert Is.
  • WWII Japan > Central Pacific > Gilbert Islands @ Battle of Tarawa
† Kee, Darrell Edward, SN 633-62-80, US Navy, Monona Co. (WWII-KeeDarrellEdward)
  • b. 5 Jul 1921 Rodney, Monona Co.; s/o Israel Abernathy "Isa" Kee & Delores Mae "Dolly" Henry.
  • moved to Long Beach, CA in 1941 to work in aircraft industry.
  • entered service 16 Jun 1942 from Rodney, Monona Co. at Los Angeles, CA; body not recovered; memorialized Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines; cenotaph Little Sioux Twp. Cem., Smithland, Woodbury Co.
  • battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40); KIA 6 Jan 1945, Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines; kamikaze, 30 dead including captain; New Mexico survived and continued operations; BNR.
  • WWII Japan > Philippines Liberated > Philippines Naval War
† Kellogg, Wilbur Leroy, SN 372-14-26, US Navy, Page Co. & Fremont Co., CO (WWII-KelloggWilburLeroy)
  • b. 17 Dec 1918 Trinchera, Los Animas Co.. CP; s/o Walter Leroy Kellogg & Dora Annabelle Davis (d. 1926); after mother's death, Wilber & siblings lived with maternal grandparents James & Mary Davis near Florence, Fremont Co., CO; father married Ruth Lucille Moore 1930 in Clarinda, Page Co.
  • enlisted in Denver from Florence, CO 3 Apr 1940; next of kin father, Mr. Walter Leroy Kellogg, Shenandoah, Iowa; body not recovered; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • battleship USS Arizona (BB-39); during the 7 Dec 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu Is., Hawaii Territory, the Arizona was hit by several aerial bombs; exploded and sank; 1,177 died; KIA 7 Dec 1941; BNR.
  • Notes: The sunken Arizona settled in shallow water and remains today as a memorial.
  • WWII Japan > Japan Lashes Out > Pearl Harbor @ sinking of USS Arizona
† Mercer, George Bruce, SN 361-372, US Marine Corps, Monona Co. (WWII-MercerGeorgeBruce)
  • b. 8 May 1924 Ashton Twp., Monona Co.; s/o Charles Miller Mercer (d. 1939) & Ruth Annis Riggs; parents divorced in late 1920s; father moved to Alliance, NE in 1926; mother married Herbert Henry Sager in 1929 and remained in Monona Co.
  • married Donna Jean Carlson Mar 1944, divorced.
  • entered service 20 Jan 1942 from Waterloo, IA; buried Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • 28th Marine Regt., 5th Marine Div.; KIA 26 Mar 1945 Iwo Jima; gunshot wound in chest.​
  • WWII Japan > Iwo Jima-Okinawa > Iwo Jima.
† Prichard, Bryant Ernest, SN O-125958, US Naval Aviation, Monona Co. (WWII-PrichardFamily)
  • b. 8 Jan 1920 West Fork Twp., Monona Co.; s/o Ernest Albert Prichard & Lessie Ernestine Baker.
  • entered service 2 Jan 1941 from Onawa, Monona Co.; body not recovered; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Natl. Memorial Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • dive bomber squadron VB-16, USS Lexington (CV-16); Douglas SBD Dauntless pilot; lost at sea 9 Dec 1943 as the Lexington was en route from hostilities in the Gilbert Islands to Pearl Harbor; BNR.
  • WWII Japan > Naval War with Japan > Third & Fifth Fleets
† Quick, Paul Mathies, SN 620-52-76, US Navy, Page Co. (WWII-QuickPaulMathies)
  • b. 26 Jul 1916 Monroe, Jasper Co.; s/o Henry Clyde Quick & Maggie Fennema.
  • married Mary Eva Stealy Dec 1941 in Shenandoah, Page Co.
  • entered service 5 May 1942 from Shenandoah, Page Co.; next of kin wife, Mrs. Mary Eva Quick, formerly 108 E. Clarinda St., Shenandoah, Iowa; new address: 225 W. Main St., c/o J. B. Griffin Co., Norfolk, Va; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy.
  • minesweeper USS Sentinel (AM-113), Task Group 86.3; attacked and sunk by Germany aircraft off Licata, Sicily 10 Jul 1943; nine dead; BNR.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > MTO Naval War @ invasion of Sicily
† Rohwer, Richard James, SN 621-93-61, US Navy, Crawford Co. (WWII-RohwerRichardJames)
  • b. 25 Aug 1925 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o Alfred C. Rohwer & Ella T. Stieren.
  • entered service 23 Jul 1943 from Denison, Crawford Co.; next of kin parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Rohwer, 26 No. 16th St., Denison, Iowa; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • destroyer USS Callaghan (DD-792); KIA 28 Jul 1945; kamikaze attack by an obsolete aircraft; Callaghan sunk, 47 died.
  • WWII Japan > Iwo Jima-Okinawa > Naval Battle of Okinawa
† Shaffer, Dean Dwight, SN 621-92-99, US Naval Aviation, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 19 Feb 1926 Turin, Monona Co.; s/o Theodore Harold "Ted" Shaffer & Tracy Matilda Mallum.
  • entered service 16 Jul 1943 from Mapleton, Monona Co.; body not recovered; cenotaph in Soldier Lutheran Cem., Soldier, Monona Co.c
  • torpedo squadron VT-88; based at Naval Auxiliary Air Facility, Hyannis, Cape Cod, MA ; d. 16 Oct 1944, two aircraft, each with a crew of two, disappeared over water off Cape Cod while on a routine night training flight, all four dead; BNR.
  • ​RAC: use to add Cleo Clinton Struble and Willis Raymond Polly to St. Paul's
† Sumner, Franklin Eli, SN 620-46-80, US Navy, Monona Co. (WWII-SumnerFranklinEli)
  • b. 23 Oct 1912 Ute, Monona Co.; s/o James Eli Sumner & Ida Ruth Ainsworth.
  • employed by Iowa Ordnance Plant in Burlington, Des Moines Co. before entering service; married Phyllis _____ while living in Burlington.
  • entered service 8 Mar 1942 from Burlington; buried St. Clair Cem., Ute, Monona Co.
  • 17th Naval Construction Bn., Argentia, Newfoundland; injury followed by long periods of hospitalization; d. 30 Dec 1944 in Brooklyn Naval Hospital, NY.​
† Tillis, Arnold Kelly Jr., SN 872-23-89, US Navy, Monona Co. (WWII-TillisArnoldKellyJr)
  • b. 5 Aug 1924 Sergeant Bluff, Woodbury Co.; s/o Arnold Kelly Tillis Sr. & Elsie Arnold; family lived in Sioux City in 1925, moving to Onawa, Monona Co. in late 1920s.
  • entered service 10 Nov 1943 from Onawa; next of kin parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kelly Tillis, Sr., Onawa, Iowa; buried Onawa Cem.
  • attack transport USS Alpine (APA-92); WIA 18 Nov 1944 when Alpine struck by kamikaze while debarking troops off Leyte; five died; Alpine survived and retired to Manus, Admiralty Islands; DOW 24 Nov 1944.
  • WWII Japan > Philippines Liberated > Philippines Naval War
† Watson, Willis Nathan, SN 321-52-88, US Naval Aviation, Monona & Woodbury Cos. (WWII-WatsonWillisNathan)
  • b. 7 Sep 1923 Whiting, Monona Co.; s/o Paul Nathan Watson & Dora Ellen Dahl (d. 1925); father married Anna Agnes Johnson in 1927.
  • married Lyda Dora Whitfield of Texas Sep 1942, one child.
  • entered service 7 Sep 1940 from grandparents Dahl home, Sloan, Woodbury Co.; body not recovered; cenotaph Hite Cem., Monona Co.
  • unit unknown; died 8 Nov 1945 40 miles from San Diego, CA; aircraft exploded over the water while on a practice bombing flight; all five died; BNR.
​† Wibholm, Ole Christian Jr., SN 510-703, US Marine Corps, Page Co. (WWII-WibholmOleChristianJr)
  • b. 6 Oct 1917 Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark; s/o Ole Christian Wibholm Sr. & Katrine Jorgensen; family immigrated to Woodward, Dallas Co. about 1924 and moved to Clarinda, Montgomery Co. around 1932.
  • student at Iowa State College in Ames before entering service.
  • entered service 15 Dec 1942; next of kin parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ole C. Wibholm, Sr., 223 Mishna (sic, Nishna) St., Clarinda, Iowa; buried Clarinda Cem.
  • HQ Co., 2nd Bn., 8th Marine Regt., 2nd Marine Div.; WIA 30 Jun 1944 Saipan, Mariana Islands; DOW 4 Jul 1944 Eniwetok, Marshall Islands.
  • WWII Japan > Central Pacific > Mariana Islands @ Saipan

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  • WWII dead found in honorstates.org from Harrison, Shelby, Audubon, Pottawattamie, Cass, Mills and Page counties:​
  • 12 have records in my St. Paul's database, four in a family database.
  • most were born in the Pottawattamie area, but moved before entering service in WWII. ​

​† Acker, Doyle Robert, SN O-1-297-295, US Army, Dodge Co., NE (St. Paul's)
  • b. 14 Aug 1915 Red Oak, Montgomery Co.; s/o Frank E. Acker & Virginia Mildred Roberts; family moved to Nebraska before 1920.
  • married Edna Eileen Horn in 1936, three children.
  • service credited to Dodge Co., NE; buried Ridge Cem., Fremont, Dodge Co., NE. 
  • 121st Inf. Regt., 8th Inf. Div., VIII Corps, First Army; KIA 11 Jul 1944 St.-Patrice-de-Claids, Manche Dept., Normandy, 25 miles NW of St. Lo, France.
  • Notes: posthumous Silver Star.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Normandy, July 1944
  • honorstates: Montgomery Co. & Dodge Co., NE lists
​​† Anderson, James David, SN 950-555, US Marine Corps, Pott. Co. & Douglas Co., NE (WWII-AndersonJamesDavid)
  • ​b. 28 Nov 1922 Oakland, Burt Co., NE; s/o David Anderson (b. Cuming Co., NE; d. 1922) & Florence A. Sanders (b. Burt Co., NE); mother married Axel William Anderson (b. Sweden) in 1926; family lived in Co. Bluffs, moving to rural Omaha in early 1940s.
  • Thomas Jefferson High School, Co. Bluffs graduate; farmhand in Cuming Co., NE before entering service.
  • entered service 14 Mar 1944; next of kin parents, Mr. and Mrs. Axel W. Anderson, 95th and Maple St., Omaha, Nebr; buried with parents & stepfather West Side Cem., Oakland, Burt Co., NE.
  • Co. I, 3rd Bn., 7th Marine Regt., 1st Marine Div.; KIA 19 Jun 1945 Okinawa, Ryukyu Is., Japan.
  • WWII Japan > Iowa Jima & Okinawa > Okinawa Land Battle
  • honorstates: Pott. Co. list; 
​† Anderson, Shird G., SN 13-034-732, US Army, Mercer Co., WV (WWII-AndersonShirdG)
  • b. 20 Apr 1920 Macedonia, Pott. Co.; s/o Jesse Monroe Anderson & Rosa Nicholson (b. North Carolina). 
  • living with stepfather, Jackson Crockett, and mother in Mercer Co., WV in 1940.
  • entered service 3 May 1941 at Roanoke, VA from Mercer Co., WV; service credited to Mercer Co.; buried Raleigh Natl. Cem., Raleigh, Wake Co., NC.
  • 19th Inf. Regt., 24th Inf. Div.; DNB 11 Oct 1942 Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii Territory.
  • honorstates: Pott. Co. list
† Ash, Merlin Thomas, SN 39-278-839, US Army Air Force, Douglas Co., NE & Los Angeles Co., CA (St. Paul's)
  • b. 30 Jun 1922 Tennant, Shelby Co.; s/o Joseph T. Ash & Myrtle Mellerup; family moved to Omaha in 1920s and to Los Angeles Co., CA in late 1930s.
  • service credited to Los Angeles Co., CA; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Netherlands American Cem., Margraten, Netherlands.
  • 752nd Bomb. Sqdn., 458th Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force; based at Horsham St. Faith, five miles north of Norwick, Norfolkshire, England; Consolidated B-24 Liberator #42-52348 Lady Shamrock; flight engineer with pilot George J. Koehn; skeleton crew of seven delivering fuel to St. Dizier, 80 miles west of Nancy in northeastern France; returning from mission, aircraft was fired on, exploded over Dutch coast, and fell into sea; six died, tail gunner survived as POW; FOD/KIA 24 Sep 1944; BNR.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force
  • honorstates: Shelby Co. list
† Brinkman, Eugene Henry, SN 915-625, US Marine Corps, Harrison Co. & Dodge Co., NE (St. Paul's)
  • b. 8 Jul 1919 Co. Bluffs; s/o Fredrick August Brinkman & Rose Shannon; family moved to Missouri Valley area, Harrison Co. in late 1920s.
  • married Madeline Bell Dryden Apr 1940 in Logan, Harrison Co., two children, one died in infancy.
  • service entry date unknown; next of kin wife, Mrs. Madeline Brinkman, 341 W. Vine St., Fremont, Nebr; buried Memorial Cem., Fremont, Dodge Co., NE.
  • Co. G, 3rd Bn., 29th Marine Regt., 6th Marine Div.; KIA 29 May 1945 Okinawa, Ryukyu Is., Japan.
  • WWII Japan > Iwo Jima-Okinawa > Okinawa Land Battle
  • honorstates: Harrison and Pott. Co. lists
​​† Chase, Charles Raymond, SN 20-708-038, US Army, St. Louis Co., MO (WWII-ChaseCharlesRaymond)
  • b. 2 Jan 1916 Co. Buffs; s/o Frank Chase (buried with infant son in St. Joseph Cem. in Council Bluffs) & Catherine Higgins; family moved to St. Louis, MO in 1918.
  • entered service 23 Dec 1940 at St. Louis, MO; buried Jefferson Barracks Natl. Cem., St. Louis, MO.
  • Co. D, 1st Bn., 138th Inf. Regt., 35th Inf. Div.; d. 29 Dec 1941 at Fort Ord, Monterey Co., CA; meningitis.
  • honorstates: Pott. Co. list; from St. Louis Co., MO with Co. Bluffs connections
† Cullison, Shelby Jay, SN O-375-550, US Army, Shelby Co. & Los Angeles Co., CA (St. Paul's)
  • b. 23 May 1918 Harlan, Shelby Co.; s/o Shelby McCabe Cullison (b. Harlan, Shelby Co.; d. 1925) & Myrtle Benedict (b. Woodbine, Harrison Co.); family lived in Los Angeles, CA after father's death.
  • unknown date of service entry; buried Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • Battery E, 60th Coast Artillery Regt. (antiaircraft, semimobile) based at Fort Mills, Corregidor Is., Luzon, Philippines.; POW with fall of Corregor; DNB 28 Mar 1943 Japan.
  • WWII Japan > Japan Lashes Out > The Philippines Lost
  • Note: as of Mar 2026, you can find a history of Battery E during the Loss of the Philippines at https://corregidor.org/ca/btty_erie/e.htm
  • ​honorstates: Shelby Co. list
† Irish, Robert Clement, SN 321-52-29, US Navy, Mills & Woodbury Cos. (St Paul's)
  • b. 19 Mar 1921 Oak Twp., Mills Co.; s/o Claude Cleveland Irish & Ona Mae Kidder; family moved to rural Omaha around 1929 and to Salix, Woodbury Co. in early 1930s.
  • entered service 26 Nov 1940; next of kin father, Mr. Claude C. Irish, Salix, Iowa; buried St. Joseph Cem., Salix, Woodbury Co.
  • USS Nevada (BB-36); during the 7 Dec 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu Is., Hawaii Territory, the Nevada was hit by a torpedo and at least six bombs; 60 crew died; the Nevada managed to get underway and was then intentionally grounded; the Nevada was subsequently returned to service; KIA 7 Dec 1941 Pearl Harbor.
  • WWII Japan > Japan Lashes Out > Pearl Harbor
  • honorstates: Mills Co. list
​† Jensen, Milo Nelson, SN T-128-007, US Army Air Force, Black Hawk Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 31 May 1919 Reinbeck, Grant Twp., Grundy Co.; s/o Jens Christian Jensen (b. Denmark) & Elsie Marie Nielsen (b. Denmark; d. 1941); family moved to Waterloo, Black Hawk Co. before 1925.
  • entered service 1 Feb 1943 from Waterloo, Black Hawk Co. at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, MO; body not recovered; memorialized East Coast Memorial, Battery Park, Manhattan, NY.
  • Consolidated B-24L #44-49918 Liberator copilot with pilot Robert S. Murphy; on ferry flight originating in Palm Beach, FL, aircraft with a crew of nine disappeared over northern Brazil on hop from Atchison Field, near Georgetown, British Guiana to Belem, Brazil; DNB  4 Jan 1945.
  • honorstates: Harrison Co. list
​† Palmer, Ray Allen, SN 37-231-237, US Army, Richardson Co., NE (WWII-PalmerRayAllen)
  • b. 20 Mar 1916 Anita, Cass Co.; s/o Walter Henry Palmer (d. 1932) & Amelia "Millie" Snowden; family moved to Rulo, Richardson Co., NE in early 1930s.
  • entered service 13 Oct 1942; service credited to Richardson Co., NE; buried Rulo Cem., Rulo, Richardson Co.
  • Co. F, 128th Inf. Regt., 32nd Inf. Div., I Corps, Sixth Army; KIA 4 Apr 1945
  • WWII Japan > Philippines Liberated > Luzon
  • honorstates: Cass Co. list
† Sharkey, Willard Campbell, SN O-662-731, US Army Air Force, Antelope Co., NE (St. Paul's)
  • b. 1 Jun 1917 Persia, Harrison Co.; s/o Joseph P. Sharkey & Daisy Campbell (d. 1940); family moved to Nebraska before 1920, settling in Elgin, Antelope Co.
  • graduate of University of Nebraska.
  • enlisted 7 Nov 1941 at Fort Crook, NE; body not recovered; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Pacific American Cem., Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • 26th Bomb. Sqdn, 11th Bomb. Gp., Seventh Air Force; based at Tarawa, Gilbert Is.; Consolidated B-24J Liberator #42-73015 pilot; KIA 29 Jan 1944 returning from a mission over the Marshall Islands; aircraft ditched in rough seas after encountered bad weather, off course, and out of fuel; five died during ditching, five survived on life rafts and were rescued five days later by a New Zealand PBY amphibious aircraft; BNR.
  • WWII Japan > Air Force War w/ Japan > Seventh Air Force
  • honorstates: Harrison Co. list
† Simunaci, Francis William, SN 316-74-70, US Navy, Otoe Co., NE (St. Paul's)
  • b. 21 Feb 1920 Atlantic, Cass Co.
  • next of kin wife, Mrs. Josephine Margia Simunaci, 615 Raymond St., New Castle, Pa.
  • submarine USS Corvina (SS-226)
  • WWII Japan > Naval War > US Submarine Force
† Simunaci, Anton Ambrose, served as Simmunaci, Tony A, SN 20-721-562, US Army, Otoe Co., NE (St. Paul's)
  • b. 11 Nov 1921 Atlantic, Cass Co.
  • entered service 1941 from Otoe Co., NE with Nebraska National Guard; buried Golden Gate Natl. Cem., San Bruno, San Mateo Co., CA.
  • Americal Division; KIA 22 Nov 1942 Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
  • WWII Japan > Solomons > Guadalcanal
about Francis William and Anton Ambrose Simunaci:
  • sons of Anton Ambrose Simunaci (b. Croatia, Austro-Hungarian Empire) and Anna Olga Langenfeld (b. Westphalia, Shelby Co.); family lived in Carroll, Carroll Co. in 1927 and in Creston, Union Co. 1930–32, moving to Nebraska City, Otoe Co., NE in early 1930s and to Omaha in the early 1940s.
  • honorstates: Cass Co. list
† Voss, Edward Leroy, SN 17-124-050, US Army Air Force, Harrison Co. & Buffalo Co., NE (St. Paul's)
  • b. 28 Dec 1920 Magnolia, Harrison Co.; s/o Theodore Voss (b. Pott. Co.; d. 1930) & Sarah Anna Whisler (b. Cheyenne Co., KS); family moved to central Nebraska after father's death; mother married Anton D. Somer 1932; he d. 1941.
  • enlisted 26 Oct 1942 at Fort Crook, NE from Buffalo Co., NE; service credited to Buffalo Co.; buried Bancroft Cem., Bancroft, Cuming Co., NE.
  • 2500th Army Air Force Base Unit, Randolph Field, Bexar Co., TX; DNB 9 Sep 1945 Corpus Christi, Neuces Co., TX; motorcycle accident.
  • honorstates: Harrison Co. list
† Walling, Floyd Stewart, SN 316-75-73, US Navy, Douglas Co., NE (St. Paul's)
  • b. 29 Dec 1010 Glenwood, Mills Co.; s/o Harry Walling & Ethel Belle Howard
  • next of kin mother, Mrs. Ethel B. Walling, 1110 N. 20th St., Omaha, Nebr.; cenotaph in Westlawn Hillcrest Cem., Omaha
  • submarine USS Kete (SS-369); KIA 20 Mar 1945; while returning from its second war patrol; actual date unknown; Kete disappeared somewhere between Osumi Strait south of Kyushu, Japan and Midway Island; 87 died, none survived.
  • WWII Japan > Naval War with Japan > US Submarine Force
  • honorstates: Mills Co. list
† Winey, Donald James, US Merchant Marine, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 9 Oct 1921 Crawford Co.; s/o Raleigh David Winey & Iva Esther Mason.
  • motor tanker Atlantic Sun, convoy ON-167, Reyklavik, Iceland to New York; d. 15 Feb 1943 150 miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland; Atlantic Sun torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-607; 68 died, one survived taken as prisoner.
  • WWII Germany > Battle of the Atlantic
  • development notes: honorstates.org
​
Part 2 Do Not Add  - spurious records from the seven-county Pottawattamie area from late 2025 honorstates.org.
✓ Alter, Arthur, SN 6-522-322, found in honorstates Pott. Co.
  • Arthur Alter b. Pittsburgh, PA; perhaps confused with Earl Carlton Alter of Persia, Harrison Co., whose wife lived in Avoca, Pott. Co.
✓ Jacobson, Donald Charles, aka Charles Donald, found in honorstates Pott. Co.
  • no Pott. area connection found with him or his father.
✓ Mink, Myron Edwin, found in honorstates Pott.  Co.
  • perhaps his home in Council, ID was confused with Council Bluffs, IA.

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  • most of the remaining dead from the 1946 US War Dept. list of WWII dead for Monona Co., IA.
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† Chedester, Roland Davis, SN 37-194-485, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-ChedesterRolandD)
  • b. 25 Feb 1918 Monona Co.; s/o Jesse Francis Chedester (b. Anthon, Woodbury Co.) & Hattie Davis (b. Charter Oak, Crawford Co.).
  • service entry date unknown; buried Jordan Twp. Cem., Moorhead, Monona Co.
  • 175th Inf. Regt., 29th Inf. Div., XIX Corps, First Army; KIA 24 Jun 1944 near Villiers-Fossard, north of St. Lo, Manche Dept., Normandy, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, Jun 1944
† Conyers, Harry Dale, SN O-1-107-356, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 5 Mar 1922 Moorhead, Monona Co.; s/o Fred Alvin Conyers & Lillian Henrietta "Lillie" Saline.
  • buried Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy; cenotaph in Spring Valley Cem., Moorhead.
  • Co. C, 313 Engineer Combat Bn., 88th Inf. Div., II Corps, Fifth Army; KIA 5 Jun 1944 Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Cassino/Anzio to Rome > Drive on Rome
​† Docken, Willard Maurice, SN 37-699-223, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 9 Dec 1919 Sloan, Woodbury Co.; s/o Oscar Theodore Docken & Mildred Hulda Alberta Baker.
  • married Helen Evelyn Collins from Monona Co. Sep 1939 at Logan, Harrison Co.
  • entered service 29 Jun 1944 from Onawa, Monona Co.; buried Onawa Cem.
  • Co. E., 41st Armored Inf. Regt., 2nd Armored Div., XIX Corps, Ninth Army; KIA 3 Mar 1945 in Verburg, Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  • ​WWII Germany > The ETO > To the Rhine > Operations Veritable/Grenade
​† Dunham, George Kenneth, SN 37-470-203, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-DunhamGeorgeK)
  • b. 19 Dec 1920 Creston, Union Co.; s/o Benjamin Franklin Dunham & Pearl Lenore Conrad; family moved to Onawa in early 1920s.
  • entered service 21 Jan 1943 from Onawa, Monona Co.; buried Clarinda Cem., Clarinda, Montgomery Co.
  • 423rd Inf. Regt., 106th Inf. Div., VIII Corps, First Army; the 423rd was surrounded in the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge and surrendered 19 Dec 1944; DNB 28 Mar 1945 Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Ardennes/The Bulge > The Bulge Begins
​† Else, Oren Edmon, SN 37-074-581, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 10 Dec 1918 Soldier Twp., Crawford Co.; s/o Johannes Gottlieb Else & Anna Marie Friedricke Teut (d. 1927).
  • entered service 2 Oct 1941 from rural Mapleton, Monona Co.; buried Mt. Hope Cem., Mapleton.
  • Co. K, 163rd Inf. Regt., 41st Inf. Div.; Sixth Army; KIA 20 May 1944 Tor River, near Arara, Netherlands New Guinea.
  • WWII Japan > New Guinea > Western New Guinea.
† Engelke, Ralph E. William, SN 37-194-454, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-EngelkeRalphEWilliam)
  • b. St. Clair Twp., Monona Co.; ​s/o Ernest Andrew Engelke & Edna Johanne Wilhelmina Bartels.
  • buried Normandy American Cem., Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados Dept., Normandy, France.
  • 358th Inf. Regt., 90th Inf. Div., VII Corps, First Army; KIA 11 Jun 1944 Calvados Dept., Normandy, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Normandy, Jun 1944
† Goodall, Lyle Everett, SN 17-067-177, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 28 Nov 1919 Maple Twp., Monona Co.; s/o John Goodall & Ida Grace Burkett.
  • buried Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy.
  • Medical Detachment, 18th Inf. Reg., 1st Inf. Div., II Corps, Seventh Army; KIA 19 Jul 1943 Sicily, Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Sicily to Naples > Sicily
† Gotto, Anthony Bernard, SN 37-036-000, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 14 Sep 1909 Westphalia, Shelby Co.; s/o Mathias Gotto & Anna Windeshausen.
  • service credited to Monona Co.; buried St. Mary's Cem., Mapleton, Monona Co.
  • 184th Inf. Regt., 7th Inf. Div., XXIV Corps, Tenth Army; KIA 20/22 Apr 1945, Okinawa, Ryukyu Is., Japan.
  • WWII Japan > Iwo Jima & Okinawa > Okinawa Land Battle
† Hittle, Richard Leo, SN 37-476-346, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (WWII-HittleRichardLeo)
  • b. 8 Oct 1923 Monona Co., s/o Clarence Andrew Hittle & Laura Margaret McKee.
  • buried Onawa Cem., Monona Co.
  • Consolidated B-24H Liberator #42-95467 crew member; DNB 25 Apr 1944 near Yuma, AZ; mid-air collision with B-24J Liberator 44-40608 which was en route from plant to Tucson, AZ for final assembly; seven dead from first aircraft, five from second; no survivors from either aircraft.
​​​​† Horner, Clarence Meredith, SN 37-694-126, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 19 Jun 1911 Smithland, Woodbury Co.; s/o Clarence Horner & Nellie Ham.
  • married Mildred Ella Collins.
  • entered service 30 Mar 1944 from Onawa, Monona Co. at Camp Dodge, Polk Co.; body not recovered; memorialized Wall of the Missing, Lorraine American Cem., St. Avold, Moselle Dept., France;
  • 137th Inf. Regt., 35th Inf. Div., XII Corps, Third Army; FOD/KIA 17 Dec 1944; while on a patrol crossing the Biles River, boat overturned and he was pulled under by his equipment and drowned.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Lorraine-Alsace, 1944 > Lorraine/Third Army.​
† Johnston, Walter Emory, SN 37-755-455, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-JohnstonWalterEmory)
  • b. 14 Mar 1920 Little Sioux Twp, Woodbury Co.; w/o Earl Benton Johnston & Minnie Emaline Clift.
  • ​buried Willow Cem., Holly Springs, Woodbury Co.
  • 17th Inf. Regt., 7th Inf. Div., XXIV Corps, Tenth Army; KIA 6 Jun 1945 Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
  • WWII Japan > Iwo Jima & Okinawa > Land Battle of Okinawa
​​​​† Kelley, Harry Junior, SN 37-194-493, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (WWII-KelleyHarryJ)
  • b. 21 Jan 1919 Blencoe, Monona Co.; s/o Harry H. Kelley & Mary H. Whiteman.
  • buried Graceland Cem., Blencoe, Monona Co.
  • 509th Bomb. Sqdn., 351st Bomb Gp., Eighth Air Force; stationed at Polebrook, Northampshire, England; B-17F #42-29491 crew member; collision with B-17 #42-29865 during a practice flight near Polebrook; DNB 7 May 1943, along with the entire crew of both planes.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force​​
† Kemp, John Jacob, SN O-454-328, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-KempJohnJ)
  • b. 10 Nov 1917 Sioux City, Woodbury Co.; s/o John Nicholas Kemp & Claire Maris Dorneden.
  • married Beulah Vine Wolfe Apr 1943 in Des Moines, one child.
  • buried St. Mary's Cem., Remsen, Plymouth Co.
  • Battery C, 882nd Field Artillery Bn., 70th Inf. Div., XXI Corps, Seventh Army; KIA 17 Mar 1945 near Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Operation Undertone
† Kettler, Frances S., SN 37-651-314, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-KettlerFrancisS)
  • b. 18 Jul 1921 Sioux City, Woodbury Co.; s/o Frank Henry Kettler & Ida Josephine Henkels (d. 1925); father married Lillian Guillaume of Vermillion, SD Oct 1932 in South Sioux City, NE.
  • married Genevieve Florence Sandvold of Monona Co. Oct 1941 in Mapleton, Monona Co., one child.
  • entered service 19 Dec 1942 from Mapleton, Monona Co.; buried Arlington Natl. Cem., Arlington Co., VA.
  • 405th Inf. Regt., 102nd Inf. Div, XIII Corps, Ninth Army; KIA 7 Dec 1944 near Linnich, Roer River, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Rhineland, 1944 > Operation Queen
† Kiepe, Herman Carl Heinrich, SN 37-037-541, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-KiepeHermanC)
  • b. 5 Apr 1915 Charter Oak, Crawford Co.; s/o Herman Fred Kiepe & Dorothea Sophie Kuhlmann.
  • entered service 25 Apr 1941 from rural Ute, Monona Co.; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, North Africa American Cem., Carthage, Tunisia; cenotaph in St. Clair Cem., Ute.
  • Co. L, 134th Inf. Regt., 34th Inf. Div., II Corps; reported missing near Fondouk, Tunisia 27 Mar 1943.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > North Africa > Tunisia.
† Koll, Norbert Donald, SN O-726-258, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (WWII-KollNorbertD)
  • b. 13 May 1919 Mapleton, Monona Co.; s/o Albert Valentine Koll & Luella Christina Van Dan Acker.
  • attending Creighton University in Omaha before entering service; entered service 7 Nov 1941 from Mapleton, Monona Co.; group burial Zachery Taylor Natl. Cem., Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY.
  • 324th Bomb. Sqdn., 91st Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force based at Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire SW of Cambruidge; Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress #42-3053 Desperate Journey pilot; d. 21 May 1943 over Wittmund, Lower Saxony, Germanay on mission to Wilhelmshavn, Germany; aircraft hit by German fighter fire and broke up; eight died, two survived.
  • Notes: The Memphis Belle, the first Army Air Force B-17 to complete 25 combat missions, also flew with the 234th Bomb. Sqdn.
† Kraft, Robert Eli, SN O-730-929, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (WWII-KraftRobertEli)
  • b. 29 Oct 1919 Mapleton, Monona Co.; s/o Eli Wilbur Kraft & Geneva Esther Towers.
  • buried Epinal American Cem., SE of Epinal, Vosges Dept., Lorraine, France; cenotaph Mt. Hope Cem., Mapleton, Monona Co.
  • 14th Photo Recon Sqdn., 7th Photo Recon Gp, Eighth Air Force, based at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire; North American B-25C-5 Mitchell # 42-53357 Miss Nashville pilot; KIA 26 Oct 1944 near Chalons-sur-Saone, Saone-et-Loire Dept., France; shot down by ground fire.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force
† Lane, Lloyd Lincoln, SN 37-036-613, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 12 Feb 1916 Remsen Co, ND; s/o Francis Marion Lane & Helma Christiansen; family moved to Castana, Monona Co. in 1929.
  • service credited to Monona Co.; buried Henri-Chapelle American Cem., Belgium; cenotaph Mt. Hope Cem., Mapleton, Monona Co.
  • 3rd Armored Field Artillery Bn., 9th Armored Division, VIII Corps, First Army; KIA 31 Oct 1944.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Rhineland, 1944
† Mander, Loren Denmond, SN 20-703-360, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 7 Apr 1917 Whiting, Monona Co.; s/o Leonard Mander & Addaline Kathrine Darrough.
  • married Irma M. Barsby 1941 in Plymouth Co.
  • ​buried Whiting Cem., Monona Co.
  • 133rd Inf. Regt., 34th Inf. Div., VI Corps, Fifth Army; KIA 2 Dec 1943 near Colle a Volturno, Molise, Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Naples to Cassino/Anzio > The Bernhardt Line
† Norby, Herbert Gilmore, SN 37-035-945, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-NorbyHerbertGilmore)
  • b. 12 Jul 1915 Spring Valley Twp., Monona Co., IA; s/o Ole G. Norby & Ada Maria Wingate.
  • buried Soldier Lutheran Cem., Soldier, Monona Co.
  • 184th Inf. Regt., 7th Inf. Div., XXIV Corps, Tenth Army; KIA Okinawa, Ryukyu Is., Japan.
  • WWII Japan > Iwo Jima-Okinawa > Okinawa Land Battle
​† O'Leary, John Joseph "Jack", SN 37-428-214, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-O'LearyJohnJ)
  • b. 14 Aug 1920 Oklahoma City, OK; s/o Joseph John O'Leary & Marguerie Sarah Setchell.
  • entered service 19 Aug 1942 from rural Blencoe, Monona Co.; buried Graceland Cem., Blencoe.
  • Co. F, 11th Inf. Regt., 5th Inf. Div., XX Corps, Third Army; DOW 21 Dec 1944.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO 
† Orr, Rlley Eugene, SN 17-033-340, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (WWII-OrrRileyE)
  • b. 19 Feb 1918 Onawa, Monona Co.; s/o Charles Orr & Zada Conway.
  • buried Cambridge American Cem., Coton, Cambridgeshire, England.
  • 788th Bomb. Sqdn., 467th Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force; stationed at Rackheath Air Field, six miles NE of Norwich, Norfolkshire, England; Consolidated B-24 gunner with pilot James Roden; KIA 22 Apr 1944 over Norfolkshire; German fighters followed the group back to England from a mission over Hamm, Germany and shot down two aircraft as they made a night landing.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force​
† Parker, Milton Horace SN 37-271-835, US Army, Woodbury & Monona Cos. (WWII-ParkerMiltonH)
  • b. rural Sloan, Lake Twp., Monona Co.; s/o Horace Benjamin Parker & Alice Brenden.
  • entered service 17 Sep 1942 from Rt. 1, Sloan, Woodbury Co.; cenotaph Fairview-Albaton Cem., Albaton, Monona Co.; burial location unknown.
  • Co. H or I, 22nd Inf. Regt., 4th Inf. Div., Seventh Army; KIA 11 Apr 1945 south of Bad Mergentheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Central Europe > Southern Germany
† Philbeck, Tommie M., SN O-352238, US Army, county? (WWII-PhilbeckTommieM)
  • b. 20 May 1912 Fayetteville, Washington Co., AR; s/o John W. Philbeck & Stella Maris.
  • married Marjorie E. Elam Jul 1937 Washington Co., AR, one child.
  • buried Lorraine American Cem., St. Avold, Moselle Dept., France.
  • commanded Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Monona Co. in late 1930s; commanded Special Weapons Troop, 2nd Cavalry Regt., 2nd Cavalry Div. at Camp Funston, KS in 1941.
  • 190th Tank Bn., 9th Armored Div, VIII Corps, First Army; commanded Task Force Philbeck in early stages of the Battle of the Bulge; KIA Belgium 24 Dec 1944.
  • WWII Germany > Ardennes/The Bulge > The Bulge Grows
† Rowland, Gene Burton, SN 17-097-946, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (WWII-RowlandGene)
  • b. 8 Nov 1921 Turin, Monona Co.; s/o Orvel Rowland & Fay Elsie Brown (d. Mar 1924).
  • entered service 13 Jun 1942 from Rt.1, Turin, Monona Co.; group burial Zachary Taylor Natl. Cem., Louisville, Clark Co., KY.
  • 840th Bomb. Sqdn., 483th Bomb. Gp., Fifteenth Air Force; based at Sterparone, Foggia area, Italy; Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress #44-6349 radio operator with pilot Joseph F. Condraski; KIA 13 Sep 1943; aircraft lost in raid on Blechhammer synthetic oil refinery in Upper Silesia, Poland near Auschwitz; nine died, one bailed out and became a POW.
† Schmidt, Marcus William, SN 37-196-233, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-SchmidtMarcusW)
  • b. 11 Sep 1906 Ute, St. Clair Twp., Monona Co.; s/o William John Schmidt (d. 1942) & Anna Carolina Mohr.
  • entered service around 21 Aug 1942 from Ute, Monona Co.; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cem., Coton, Cambridgeshire, England.
  • 35th Signal Construction Bn.; KIA 28 Apr 1944 off Slapton Sands, Devon, England; on unknown Landing Ship Tank which was sunk by German E-boats.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Comm. Zone @ Operation Tiger
† Simmons, Warren, SN 37-472-835, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-SimmonsWarren)
  • b. 26 Feb 1923 Western Grove, Newton Co., AR; s/o Claude Rooth Simmons & Bertha D. Rowland; family moved to Monona Co. in early 1930s and to Onawa in late 1930s.
  • entered service 10 Feb 1943 from Onawa, Monona Co.; buried Onawa Cem.
  • Co. F, 152nd Inf. Regt., 38th Inf. Div., XI Corps; KIA 11 Feb 1945 Luzon, Philippines.
  • WWII Japan > Philippines Liberated > Luzon
† Steward, Guy Bernard, SN 37-470-317, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 1 Jan 1921 Blencoe, Monona Co.; s/o Mark David Steward & Lucy Ann Richardson.​
  • entered service 14 Jan 1943 from Onawa, Monona Co.; buried Graceland Cem., Blencoe, Monona Co.
  • Co. L, 71st Inf. Regt., 44th Inf. Div., XV Corps, Seventh Army; KIA 26 Oct 1944 in the Foret de Parroy near Embermenil NE of Luneville. Meurthe-et-Moselle Dept., Lorraine, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Lorraine-Alsace 1944 > Lorraine/Seventh Army
† Struble, Cleo Clinton, SN O-740913, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 19 Aug 1922 Turin, Monona Co.; s/o Merril Frederick Struble & Ruby Gladys Amundsen.
  • married Ila May Evans of Wise Co., TX Mar 1943 in Ada Co., ID.
  • entered service 27 Jun 1942 from Turin, Monona Co.; buried Onawa Cem., Monona Co.
  • 322nd Bomb. Sqdn., 91st Bomb. Gp.; based at Bassingbourn, 11 miles SW of Cambridge, England; Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress #42-30624 Queen Bee pilot; KIA 27 Sep 1923; aircraft shot down by enemy aircraft 27 Sep 1943 11 miles west of Emden, Lower Saxony; five survived as POWs; one died as POW; four KIA.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force.
† Tharp, Earl Sherman, SN 37-449-902, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 4 Jun 1920 Ute, Monona Co.; s/o Marion Ambrose Tharp (d. 1938) & Elsie Angeline Churchill (d. 1927).
  • married Audrey Mae Monson of Minnesota 1941; buried  Normandy American Cem., Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France.
  • 365th Bomb. Sqdn., 305th Bomb. Gp. based at Cheveston, NW of Cambridge, England; Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress #42-29647 gunner with pilot Harold C. Pierce; KIA 13 May 1943 over NW France; shot down by Luftwaffe aircraft after bombing aircraft factory at Meaulte, 20 miles NE of Amiens, France; five crew died, four POWs. one evaded capture..
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force
† Uhl, Robert E., SN 37-699-230, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-UhlRobertE)
  • b. 23 Apr 1926 Sioux City, Woodbury Co.; s/o Clifford Edward Uhl Sr. & Mercedes Elizabeth Reinbolt.
  • married Shirley May Zediker from Mapleton, Monona Co. Sep 1943 in Mapleton, one child.
  • entered service Jun 1944 from Mapleton, Monona Co.; buried St. Mary's Cem., Mapleton.
  • Co. K, 47th Inf. Regt., 9th Inf. Div., VII Corps, First Army; KIA 2 Apr 1945 Lahn River, near Berghausen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Central Europe > Past the Rhine
† Wendland, John Julian William, SN 37-449-206, US Army, Monona Co. (WWII-WendlandJW)
  • b. 27 Jan 1913 Gosper Co., NE; s/o Johann Gottlieb Wendland (d. 1912) & Emma Bertha Sydow; mother married William Gustaf Schievelbein.
  • employed in Mapleton, Monona Co in 1940; unknown date of service entry; service credited to Monona Co.; buried Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy.
  • 39th Field Artillery Bn., 3rd Inf. Div., Fifth Army; DNB Italy 16 Jun 1944, pneumonia.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Northern Italy > Rome to the Arno
†  Williamson, Earle H., SN O-672916, US Army Air Force, Potter Co., TX??? (WWII-WilliamsonEarleH)
  • b. 22 Oct 1915 Mapleton, Monona Co.; s/o Harry Williamson (d. 1940) & Minnie Sedam; family moved to Salinas, Monterey Co. in late 1930s.​
  • enlisted in US Navy 7 Apr 1934 from Sioux City; worked with Navy radio networks; married Bonnie Mae Hall from Texas in Jan 1937 in Salinas, Monterey Co., CA.
  • entered Air Force service at Lubbock, Potter Co., TX 21 Mar 1942; service credited to Potter Co.
  • DNB 22 Dec 1943 India.
  • WWII Japan > China-Burma-India Theater > India, 1942-45
† Woods, Odell Seaton, SN O-429141, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (WWII-WoodsOdellSeaton)
  • b. 23 Jul 1920 Onawa, Monona Co.; s/o John Oliver Woods & Minnie Helene Seaton.
  • after High School graduation, attended Morningside College in Sioux City,  IA; married Dixie Lee Ashburn of Sherman, TX Nov 1943 in Durant, Bryan Co., OK.
  • entered service 11 Mar 1941 at Omaha; body not recovered; memorialized Wall of the Missing, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI; cenotaph Belvidere Cem., Turin, Monona Co.
  • 30th Bomb.  Sqdn., 19th Bomb. Gp., XXI Bomber Cmd., Twentieth Air Force, based at North Field, Guam, Mariana Is.; Boeing B-29 Superfortress #42-63567 City of Providence aircraft commander/pilot; KIA 10 Jun 1945 after bombing a Tokyo area Nakajima Aircraft Company plant; aircraft hit by Japanese fighters off the Tokyo area south coast; two lived, nine died; BNR.
  • WWII Japan > US Air Force War with Japan > Twentieth Air Force

Part 3 Do Not Add  - 1946 US War Dept. Monona Co. list of dead with no known Pottawattamie area connection.
✓ Hintz, Lester I, SN O-1-392828, (WWII-HintzLesterINotFromArea)
  • b. Canada; s/o Walter & Minnie Hintz who were b. Minnesota; lived in Twin Falls, ID.
✓ Johnson,  Kenneth L., SN 37-441-920 (no database)
  • no connection found to Monona Co. or the greater Pottawattamie area.
✓ Magee L C, SN 37-615-601 (no database)
  • lived in Missouri, no connection found to Monona Co. or the greater Pottawattamie area.
✓  Mandelbaum, Norman W, SN O-426029, US Army Air Force (no database)
  • b. 16 Jan 1919 Des Moines; family lived in Des Moines.
✓ ​ Pointer, John H., SN O-696880, (no database)
 
​              ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::  Part 4, two additions  ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
  • The following are miscellaneous roster additions.

† Holtorf, Vernon Franz Walter, SN 37-111-487, US Army, Crawford & Monona Cos. (WWII-HoltorfVernonF)
  • b. 8 Jun 1920 Ute, Monona Co.; s/o Arthur Holtorf & Marie Anna Emma "Mamie" Keller.
  • married Margaret Henriette Kiepe, daughter of Carl Kiepe & Louise Anna Kuhlmann.
  • service credited to Crawford Co.; buried St. Clair Cem., Ute, Monona Co.
  • 126th Inf. Regt., 32nd Inf. Div., I Corps; KIA 14 Dec 1942 Papua, New Guinea.
  • WWII Japan > New Guinea > Papua, SE New Guinea @ Buna Campaign
† Voss, Vernon Anton Christian, SN 37-111-486, US Army, Crawford Co. (WWII-VossVernon)
  • b. 13 Dec 1918 Crawford Co.; s/o Christian Frederick Voss & Annie Arp (d. 1919).
  • buried Morgan Cem., Schleswig, Crawford Co.
  • Co. H, 2nd Bn., 126th Inf. Regt., 32nd Inf. Div., I Corps; KIA 29 Oct 1942 near Jaure, Kapa Kapa Trail, Papua, New Guinea; three died from strafing attack by Japanese aircraft.
  • Note: the 2nd Battalion left Gaba Gaba (aka Kapa Kapa) SE of Port Moresby on 6 Oct 1942 charged with the arduous task of crossing the Owen Stanley mountains on foot; other US battalions committed early in the Papaua Campaign were flown over the Owen Stanleys.
  • WWII Japan > New Guinea > Papua, SE New Guinea

                          ==== Part 5 - Already in WII Dead but with Incomplete or Incorrect Information === 
None at this time 

                      === Part 6 - Possible Future Roster Additions, do not add at this time === Black, Robert LeRoy, SN 37-666-410, US Army (WWII-NotFromAreaBlackRobertL)
  • b. 23 Aug 1923 Keokuk, Lee Co.; s/o Harry Lafayette Black & Jessie Hope Boyd, both b. Bloomfield, Davis Co.
  • entered service 27 Mar 1943 from Bloomfield, Davis Co.; service credited to Davis Co.; buried Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy.
  • Co. E, 143rd Inf. Regt., 36th Inf. Div., II Corps, Fifth Army; KIA 9 Dec 1943 near San Pietro Infine, Caserta, Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Naples to Rome > The Bernhardt Line @ Battle of San Pietro Infine.
  • on Montgomery Co. memorial, in Iowa Bonus Case Files w/ mother Jessie Black living in Bloomfield, Davis Co.
​† Bromley, Merris D. (WWII-BromleyMerris)
​† Brown, Eldon Lowell (WWII-BrownEldonLowell)
​† Brown, Jack C. (WWII-BrownJackC)
​† Foster, Charles H., civilian, US War Dept. (WWII-FosterCharlesH)
  • b. 25 Aug 1910 (birth location and parents currently unknown but ABMC reports mother was Mrs. Sally F. Dudley).
  • civilian employee of the Army Adjutant General Corps from Nebraska; buried Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • stationed in the Philippines supporting the US Army; captured with the fall of Corregidor in May 1942; d. 24 Dec 1942, Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija Province, Central Luzon, Philippines​.
  • WWII Japan > Japan Lashes Out > The Philippines Lost
  • on Montgomery Co. memorial, NOT in Iowa Bonus Case Files.
? Hatch, Edward,
  • found only on Montgomery Co. memorial, NOT in Iowa Bonus Case Files; perhaps confused with Edward Hatch, a Civil War brevet major general from Montgomery Co. listed on a nearby memorial.​
Montgomery, William Merlin, SN 37-425-971, US Army (no database yet)
  • b. 26 Sep 1917 Promise City, Wayne Co.; s/o John Albert Montgomery & Edith Maude Holliday; family lived in Johns Twp., Appanoose Co. in 1940.
  • entered service 10 Aug 1942 from Centerville, Appanoose Co.; service credited to Appanoose Co.; buried Promise City Cem., Wayne Co.
  • Battery D, 817th AAA Bn.; d. 10 Jan 1944 near Pomona, CA; 
  • unknown initial source for this record; in Iowa Bonus Case Files
Warren, Robert L., SN ... KIA Dunlap, Harrison Co. (can't find) (no database yet)
  • In the Iowa WWII Dead to date roster in the 31 Oct 1943 Des Moines Register, the Harrison County list includes Robert  L. Warren from Pisgah, killed in action. I can't find any record of this individual.

Updating Roster Records:
  • ​When updating, use the last update log in Roster Additions > 2025 Additions Log as template.
  • the most-recent 75 additions were completed Nov 2025.
  • The 16 previous additions were completed 31 Jan 2024.
  • Ancillary records should not be included here.
  • Parentheses at the end of a record heading line specify my source database for that individual.
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