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Summary:
  • Part 1, remaining entries from the 1946 US War Dept. list of WWII dead for Monona Co., Iowa
  • Part 2, remaining entries from the 1946 US War Dept. list of WWII dead for Crawford County, Iowa​
  • Part 3, remaining entries from the 1946 US War Dept. list of WWII dead for Carroll County, Iowa​
  • Part 4, remaining entries from the 1946 US Navy Dept. list of Iowa WWII dead for Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Fremont and Page counties
  • Part 5, WWII dead found through honorstates.org

*Part 1, remaining entries from the 1946 US War Dept. list of WWII dead for Monona Co., Iowa
  • 35 additions, 22 with records in the underlying St. Paul's database.​​
† 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.).
  • entered service 7 May 1942; buried Jordan Twp. Cem., Moorhead, Monona Co.
  • Co. E, 175th Infantry Regt., 29th Infantry 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.
  • joined Iowa National Guard Mar 1940, later called to Federal service; buried Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy; cenotaph in Spring Valley Cem., Moorhead.
  • Co. C, 313rd Engineer Combat Bn., 88th Infantry 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 Infantry 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 Infantry Regt., 106th Infantry Div., VIII Corps, First Army; the 423rd was surrounded in the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge and surrendered 19 Dec 1944; prisoner of war, 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 Infantry Regt., 41st Infantry 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. (St. Paul's)
  • b. Ute, St. Clair Twp., Monona Co.; ​s/o Ernest Andrew Engelke & Edna Johanne Wilhelmina Bartels.
  • entered service 7 May 1942 from Ute, Monona Co.; buried Normandy American Cem., Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados Dept., Normandy, France.
  • HQ Co., 1st Bn., 358th Infantry Regt., 90th Infantry 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.
  • entered service 24 Apr 1942 from rural Mapleton, Monona Co.; buried Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy.
  • Medical Detachment, 18th Infantry Reg., 1st Infantry 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.
  • entered service 12 Mar 1941 from Rt. 3, Castana, Monona Co.; buried St. Mary's Cem., Mapleton, Monona Co.
  • Co. L, 184th Infantry Regt., 7th Infantry Div., XXIV Corps, Tenth Army; KIA 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. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 8 Oct 1923 Onawa, Franklin Twp., Monona Co., s/o Clarence Andrew Hittle & Laura Margaret McKee.
  • entered service 16 Mar 1943 from rural Blencoe, Monona Co.; buried Onawa Cem., Monona Co.
  • unknown military unit; Consolidated B-24H Liberator #42-95467 crew member; d. 25 Apr 1944 fifteen miles east of 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 May 1935 at Logan, Harrison Co.; three children.
  • 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.
  • Co. K, 137th Infantry Regt., 35th Infantry 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 & Woodbury Cos. (WWII-JohnstonWalterEmory)
  • b. 14 Mar 1920 Little Sioux Twp, Woodbury Co.; s/o Earl Benton Johnston & Minnie Emaline Clift.
  • ​entered service 10 Oct 1944 from Hornick, Monona Co.; buried Willow Cem., Holly Springs, Woodbury Co.
  • Co. L, 17th Infantry Regt., 7th Infantry 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 --> St. Paul's)
  • b. 21 Jan 1919 Blencoe, Sherman Twp., Monona Co.; s/o Harry H. Kelley & Mary H. Whiteman.
  • entered service 7 May 1942 from rural Blencoe, Monona Co.; buried Graceland Cem., Blencoe.
  • 509th Bomb. Sqdn., 351st Bomb Gp., Eighth Air Force, based at Polebrook, Northampshire, England; B-17F #42-29491 Queen of the Skies gunner instructor with pilot Roy Snipes; collision with B-17 #42-29865 during a training flight near Polebrook; DNB 7 May 1943, along with the entire ten-man crews 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.
  • entered service 13 Aug 1941 from Mapleton, Monona Co.; buried St. Mary's Cem., Remsen, Plymouth Co.
  • married Beulah Vine Wolfe Apr 1943 in Des Moines, one child.
  • Battery C, 882nd Field Artillery Bn., 70th Infantry Div., XXI Corps, Seventh Army; KIA 17 Mar 1945 near Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Operation Undertone
† Kettler, Frances Shirley SN 37-651-314, US Army, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • 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 Infantry Regt., 102nd Infantry 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. (St. Paul's)
  • 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 Infantry Regt., 34th Infantry Div., II Corps; FOD/KIA; 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. (St. Paul's)
  • 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 Cambridge; Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress #42-3053 Desperate Journey pilot; KIA 21 May 1943 over Wittmund, Lower Saxony, Germany on mission to Wilhelmshaven, 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. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 29 Oct 1919 Mapleton, Monona Co.; s/o Eli Wilbur Kraft & Geneva Esther Towers.
  • service entry data unknown; 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, England; 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 entry data unknown; 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.
  • ​entered service 10 Feb 1941 from rural Whiting, Monona Co.; buried Whiting Cem.
  • Co. L (Sioux City), 133rd Infantry Regt., 34th Infantry 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
† McShannon, John Douglas, SN 37-095-364, US Army, Monona Co. & Big Stone Co., MN (St. Paul's)
  • ​b. 17 May 1919 Soldier, Monona Co.; s/o William McShannon & Anna Christina Christensen.
  • married Carol Irene Jensen of Mapleton, Monona Co. 12 Jul 1943.
  • entered service 12 Nov 1941 from Rt. 1, Soldier; service credited to Big Stone Co., MN; buried St. Clair Cem., Ute, Monona Co.
  • Co. B, 83rd Reconnaissance Bn., 3rd Armored Div.; KIA 24 Dec 1944 Manhay, Arrondissement de Marche-en-Famenne, Luxembourg Province, Belgium.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Ardennes/The Bulge > The Bulge Grows
† 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.
  • entered service 12 May 1941 from Moorhead, Monona Co.;  buried Soldier Lutheran Cem., Soldier, Monona Co.
  • Antitank Co., 184th Infantry Regt., 7th Infantry 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. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 14 Aug 1920 Oklahoma City, OK; s/o Joseph John O'Leary (d. 1930) & Marguerie Sarah Setchell (d. 1923).
  • Jack and his sister were raised by a relative, Miss Mary Ellen Marley, of rural Blencoe, Monona Co.
  • entered service 19 Aug 1942 from rural Blencoe, Monona Co.; buried Graceland Cem., Blencoe.
  • Co. F, 11th Infantry Regt., 5th Infantry Div., XX Corps, Third Army; DOW 21 Dec 1944.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Lorraine-Alsace, 1944 > Lorraine/Third Army
† Orr, Rlley Eugene, SN 17-033-340, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 19 Feb 1918 Onawa, Monona Co.; s/o Charles Orr & Zada Conway.
  • entered service 29 Dec 1941 from Onawa, Monona Co.; buried Cambridge American Cem., Coton, Cambridgeshire, England.
  • 788th Bomb. Sqdn., 467th Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force, based at Rackheath Air Field, six miles NE of Norwich, Norfolkshire, England; Consolidated B-24 #42-52536 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.; service credited to Woodbury Co.; buried Fairview-Albaton Cem., Albaton, Monona Co.
  • Co. H or I, 22nd Infantry Regt., 4th Infantry 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-352-238, US Army, Monona Co. (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.
  • service entry data unknown; service credited to Monona Co.; 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. (St. Paul's)
  • 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, Apulia, 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. (St. Paul's)
  • 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 Infantry Regt., 38th Infantry Div., XI Corps. Eighth Army; 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 Infantry Regt., 44th Infantry Div., XV Corps, Seventh Army; KIA 26 Oct 1944 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-740-913, 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, Germany; 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.
  • service entry data unknown; 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. (St. Paul's)
  • 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 Infantry Regt., 9th Infantry 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 of Gosper Co.
  • employed in Mapleton, Monona Co in 1940; service entry data unknown; service credited to Monona Co.; buried Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy.
  • 39th Field Artillery Bn., 3rd Infantry Div., Fifth Army; DNB Italy 16 Jun 1944, pneumonia.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Northern Italy > Rome to the Arno
†  Williamson, Earle Harry, SN O-672-916, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (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 Jan 1937 in Salinas, Monterey Co., CA.
  • entered Air Force service at Lubbock, Potter Co., TX 21 Mar 1942; service credited to Potter Co., TX; buried Mt. Hope Cem., Mapleton, Monona Co.
  • unit unknown; DNB 22 Dec 1943 India.
  • WWII Japan > China-Burma-India Theater > India, 1942-45
† Woods, Odell Seaton, SN O-429-141, US Army Air Force, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • 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 Command, 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 1 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-426-029, US Army Air Force (no database)
  • b. 16 Jan 1919 Des Moines; family lived in Des Moines.
✓ ​ Pointer, John H., SN O-696-880, (no database)
 
*Part 2, remaining entries from the 1946 US War Dept. list of WWII dead for Crawford County, Iowa
  • 33 entries, 25 with records in the underlying St. Paul's database.
  • This list was built in July 2026.
† Busskohl, Leo J. A., SN 37-434-204, US Army, Crawford Co. (WWII-BusskohlLeo)
  • b. 15 Jan 1920 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o Onno Fredrick "Fred" Busskohl & Anna Amelia Helena Retman.
  • entered service 21 Sep 1942 from Deloit, Crawford Co.; buried Henri-Chapelle American Cem., Verviers, near Liege, Belgium.
  • 76th General Hospital, near Liege, Belgium; KIA 8 Jan 1945; one of 25 men from the hospital killed by a V-I flying bomb.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Ardennes/The Bulge > The Bulge Contained
† Cassady, Charles Gray, SN O-729-809, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (WWII-CassadyCharlesG)
  • b. 9 Jun 1917 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o Ralph Sears Cassaday & Bernice Ada Gray.
  • married Mary Jean Crowell of Waterloo, Black Hawk Co. Aug 1940 in Lincoln, Lancaster Co., NE; one child died at birth.
  • entered service 22 Jan 1942 at Fort Des Moines, IA; buried Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands.
  • 27th Photo Reconnaisance Sqdn., 7th Recon. Gp., Eighth Air Force, based at Mount Farm, north of Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England; North American F-5B-1-LO Mustang #42-67366 pilot; photo-recon mission over railroad marshaling yards Hasselt, Belgium; KIA 8 Jun 1944 Veldhoven, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands; 
† Fineran, John Gregory, SN 37-691-397, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 19 Jun 1919 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o James Edward Fineran & Sarah Magdalene Bauman.
  • entered service 28 Feb 1944 at Camp Dodge, Johnson, Polk Co.; buried St. Rose of Lima Cem., Denison, Crawford Co.
  • Co. D, 88th Infantry Training Bn., Camp Roberts, San Luis Obispo Co., CA; DNB 3 Apr 1944 San Luis Obispo Co., suicide by hanging.
† Gluesing, Vernon Eddie, SN 37-439-945, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 1 Dec 1921 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o Alfred Jurgen Johansen Gluesing & Rose Marie Caroline Hammer.
  • entered service 4 Nov 1942; buried Morgan Cem., Schleswig, Crawford Co.
  • 457th Anti-Aircraft Bn. (Automatic Weapons), First Army; KIA 21 Jun 1944 Normandy, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, Jun 1944.
† Hargens, Earl Edward, SN 37-659-194, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 11 Dec 1922 Battle Creek, Crawford Co.; s/o Jurgen Christian Hargens & Matilda Wilhelmina Schultz (d. 1923); father married Laura A. Henkel 1926.
  • entered service 18 Jan 1943 from Denison, Crawford Co.; buried St. Clair Cem., Ute, Monona Co.
  • HQ and Base Service Sqdn., 413th Air Service Gp., Eighth Air Force, supported the 305th Bomb. Gp.; DNB 30 Nov 1945 motorcycle accident, Liege, Belgium.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Comm. Zone
† Heide, Axel William Edward, served as Axel E. Heide, SN 37-680-576, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 9 May 1918 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o Henry Chris Heide & Ellla Marie Wadke.
  • married Loretta Catherine Roth of Carroll Co. Sep 1941 in Carroll, Carroll Co., two children.
  • entered service 9 Feb 1943 from Denison, Crawford Co.; buried Mt. Olivet Cem., Carroll.
  • Battery B, 602nd Field Artillery Bn., 6th Army Group; a glider field artillery battalion used during Operation Dragoon, the southern France invasion in August 1944); DNB 12 Mar 1945.
  • The ETO > To the Rhine > Operation Undertone
† Hinrichsen, Carl Edward, SN 37-195-897, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 2 May 1915 Charter Oak, Crawford Co.; s/o Herman Nick Hinrichsen & Christina Wilhelmine "Minnie" Hagge.
  • entered service 21 May 1942 from rural Charter Oak, Crawford Co.; buried Morgan Cem., Schleswig, Crawford Co.
  • Co. C, 338th Infantry Regt., 85th Infantry Div., II Corps, Fifth Army; WIA probably during Battle of Monte Altuzzo, SE of El Giogi Pass in the Northern Apennnine Mountains, 13–18 Sep 1944; DOW 6 Oct 1944 in hospital, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Northern Italy > Fifth Army, Fall 1944
† Holtorf, Vernon Franz Walter, SN 37-111-487, US Army, Crawford & Monona Cos. (St. Paul's)
  • 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.
  • entered service 4 Jan 1942 from Rt. 2, Charter Oak, Crawford Co.; buried St. Clair Cem., Ute, Monona Co.
  • Co. F, 2nd Bn., 126th Infantry Regt., 32nd Infantry Div., I Corps; KIA 14 Dec 1942 Papua, New Guinea.
  • Note: Crawford Co. roster member Vernon Voss, SN 37-111-486, also served in the 2nd Battalion, which 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 Stanley range.
  • WWII Japan > New Guinea > Papua, SE New Guinea @ Buna Campaign
† Klinker, Norman Pershing, SN O-389-207, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • 8 Dec 1918 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o Peter John Klinker & Garnet Lucille Norman.
  • Harvard Law School student at time of enlistment.
  • entered service 12 Feb 1942 at Fort Bragg, NC; buried Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy.
  • 93rd Armored Field Artillery Bn., Fifth Army.; KIA 6 Jan 1944 near San Vittore, Lazio, Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Naples to Cassino/Ansio > The Bernhardt Line
† Klinker, Vernon Carl, SN 37-195-251, US Army, Crawford Co. (WWII-KlinkerVernonC)
  • b. 10 May 1920 Hanover Twp., Crawford Co.; s/o Herman Karsten Klinker & Marie Amanda Maack.
  • entered service 19 May 1942 from Denison, Crawford Co.; buried Morgan Cem., Schleswig, Crawford Co.
  • 169th Infantry Regt., 43rd Infantry Div. XIV Corps; DOW 2 Aug 1943 New Georgia, Solomon Is.
  • WWII Japan > Solomons > New Georgia​
† Krohnke, Jurgen George "Jerry", SN 37-041-426, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 9 Nov 1918 Rt. 1, Schleswig, Crawford Co.; s/o George J. Krohnke (d. 1940) & Augusta Anna Tech (d. 1918); father married Bessie G. Phillips 1922.
  • entered service 20 Mar 1941 from Rt. 2, Denison, Crawford Co.; buried Henri-Chapelle American Cem., Verviers, near Liege, Belgium.
  • 125th Cavalry Reconnaisance Sqdn., 113th Cavalry Reconnaisace Gp., supporting the 30th Infantry Div., XIX Corps, First Army; KIA 20 Sep 1944 Bocholtz, Netherlands NW of Aachen, Germany.
  • Note: today a bronze plaque in Bochhlotz marks the spot where Tec5 Jerry Krohnke was killed.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Northern France & Belgium
† Kuehl, Willie Albert Andreas, served as Willie A Kuehl, SN 37-190-067, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Pauls)
  • b. 31 Oct 1917 Morgan Twp., Crawford Co.; s/o William "Claus" Kuehl & Wilhelmina "Minnie" Wiedemann.
  • married Blondina Emma Fick Dec 1942 in Taylor, Williamson Co., TX.
  • entered service from Schleswig, Crawford Co.; buried Morgan Cem., Schleswig.
  • Co. K, 359th Infantry Regt., 90th Infantry Div., VIII Corps, First Army; KIA  7 Jul 1944 near Pretot, Manche Dept., Normandy, France
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Normandy, Jul 1944 @ Battle of La Haye-du-Puits
† Kuhlmann, Elmer Herman, SN 37-190-975, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 3 Apr 1920 Charter Oak, Crawford Co.; s/o Herman Heinrich Peter Kuhlmann & Clara Emma A. Schultz.
  • entered service 1 Apr 1942 from Rt. 3, Denison, Crawford Co.; buried St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Charter Oak.
  • Co. B, 39th Engineering Bn., 90th Infantry Div., II Corps, Fifth Army; KIA 24 May 1944 Lazio, Italy.
  • Note: The 39th Engineer Combat Battalion was also known as the 2nd Bn., 39th Engineer Combat Regiment.
  • ​WWII > The MTO > Cassino/Anzio to Rome > Breakthrough & Breakout
​​† Lane, Bernard Martin, SN 37-072-259, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 11 Nov 1917 Vail, Crawford Co.; s/o Patrick Martin Lane & Margaret Tressa Hassett.
  • entered service 10 Jul 1941 from Rt. 1, Vail, Crawford Co.; buried St. Anne's  Cemetery, Vail.
  • Co. A, 745th Military Police Bn.; DNB 9 Dec 1944 in hospital, Hawaii from shock after a vehicle accident.
  • WWII Japan > Pacific Bases
† ​Maas, Leroy Albert, SN 37-190-050, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 20 Jun 1915 Liston Twp., Woodbury Co.; s/o August Friedrich Wilhelm Maas (d. 1943) & Adelia B. Clubine (d. 1915); father married Anna Louise (Wiegel) Zobel.
  • married Caroline Wilhelmine Schwartz Dec 1939 at Schleswig, Crawford Co.; one child.
  • entered service 2 Feb 1942 from Ricketts, Crawford Co.; buried Normandy American Cem., Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France.
  • 358th Infantry Regt., 90th Infantry Div., VIII Corps, First Army; KIA 4 Jul 1944 near Pretot, Manche, Normandy, France.WWII Germany > The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, Jul 1944 @ Battle of La Haye-du-Puits
† ​Mason, Maurice James, SN 17-021-153, US Army, Crawford & Black Hawk Cos. (WWII-MasonMauriceJ)
  • b. 8 Jun 1922 Lenox, Taylor Co., IA; s/o Kevin Irwin Mason & Clara Grace Gillette.
  • grocery clerk in Denison, Crawford Co. before entering service.
  • entered service 15 Oct 1940 from Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., service credited to Crawford Co.; buried Florence American Cemetery, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
  • 15th Infantry Regt., 3rd Infantry Div., VI Corps, Fifth Army; KIA 30 Jan 1944 Anzio Beachhead, Lazio, Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Naples to Cassino/Anzio > Battle of Anzio
† ​McMinimee, James Burton, SN O-769-676, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 14 Apr 1924 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o Herbert Reuben McMinamee & Nina M. Christensen.
  • enlisted 14 Dec 1942, active duty 24 Feb. 1943; buried Oakland Cem., Denison, Crawford Co.
  • 434th Army Air Force Base Unit; based at Santa Rosa Army Airfield, NW of Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA, a base for training Lockheed Lightning pilots: P-Lockheed 38J Lightning #44-23430 pilot; d. 16 Nov 1944; aircraft crashed north of airfield at Geyserville, Sonoma Co.
† Morton, John Merle, SN O-759-712, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 16 Dec 1922 Kiron, Crawford Co.; s/o Clarence Eugene Morton & Neva Christina Noreius.
  • entered service 3 Jul 1942 from Denison, Crawford Co.; buried Kiron Cem., Crawford Co.
  • 511th Bomb. Sqdn., 351st Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force, based at Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England; Boeing B-17G Fiying Fortress #42-38146 Queen of the Skies pilot; mission attacking Leuna oil refinery near Merseburg, west of Leipzig, Germany; KIA 29 Jun 1944; aircraft hit by flak and exploded midair, no survivors from crew of nine.
  • WWII  > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force
† ​Olson, Harold Herbert, SN 37-697-961, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 15 May 1925 near Dow City, Crawford Co.; s/o Milo E. Olson & Emma Alvena Specht.
  • entered service 6 Jun 1944 from Rt. 1, Dow City; buried Memorial Park Cemetery, Sioux City, Woodbury Co.
  • Headquarters Co., 145th Infantry Regt., 45th Infantry Div., XV Corps, Seventh Army; DOW 1 Apr 1945 in 20th Field Hospital, Schwirzheim, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate​, Germany.
  • ​WWII Germany > The ETO > Central Europe > Southern Germany
† ​Pieper, Philip Yale, SN 17-021-152, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 1 Apr 1919 Vail, Crawford Co.; s/o Philip Lester Pieper & Susan Faye Hutchinson (d. 1927); father married Tillie Lochmiller Mar 1931 in Denison, Crawford Co.
  • entered service Oct 1940 from Rt. 4, Denison; buried Natl. Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu., Oahu, HI.
  • Co. L, 305th Infantry Regt., 77th Infantry  Div., XXIV Corps; DNB 14 Jun 1944 Hawaii; complications of brain injury while playing sports.
  • ​WWII Japan > Pacific Bases
† Rath, Walter Paul John, served as Walter J Rath, SN O-669-108, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 19 Jan 1919 Washington Twp., Crawford Co.; s/o John Henry Rath & Catherine Jurgensen.
  • entered service 3 Sep 1941 from Denison, Crawford Co.; buried Zachary Taylor Natl. Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY.
  • 379th Bomb. Sqdn., 310th Bomb. Gp., Twelfth Air Force; based on Corsica, France; KIA; North American B-25 Mitchell #43-27649 Stud navigator with pilot Walter J. McKenna; FOD/KIA 18 Jan 1945; aircraft hit by flak while attacking a bridge on the route leading to Brenner Pass; crashed near Cavion Veronese NW of Verona; crew of seven all dead.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > MTO Air War
† Rice, Donald Francis, SN T-007-068, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 21 Feb 1920 Dow City, Crawford Co.; s/o Myron Paul Rice & Lillian Genevieve Dougherty.
  • entered service 6 Feb 1941 from Deloit, Crawford Co.; buried St. Rose of Lima Cem., Denison, Crawford Co.
  • 700th Bomb. Sqdn., 445th Bomb. Gp.; Eighth Air Force; based at Tibenham, SW of Norwich, Norfolk, England and flying B-24 bombers; DNB 22 Apr 1945 Wordwell Hall, five miles north of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England; cause of death unknown.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force
† Rossman, Alfred Raymond Jr., SN O-795-078, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (WWII-RossmanAlfredR)
  • b. 31 Oct 1917 White Lake, Aurora Co., SD; s/o Alfred Rossman Sr. & Mary Ellen "Nell" White; family moved to Crawford Co. in late 1920s.
  • entered service 23 Apr 1921 from Westside, Crawford Co.; buried St. Ann's Cem., Vail, Crawford Co.
  • 6th Ferrying Sqdn., 1st Ferrying Gp., India-China Wing, Air Transport Command; based at Chabua Field, Upper Assam, India; DNB 23 Apr 1943 India, cause of death unknown.
  • WWII Japan > China-Burma-India Theater > India, 1942–45
† Schlimgen, Joe Thomas, SN  6-936-007, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (WWII-SchlimgenJoeT)
  • b. 15 Oct 1921 Ida Grove, Ida Co.; s/o Joseph Gerhardt Schlimgen & Helen Agnes Rohrer.
  • entered service 7 Dec 1939 from Schleswig, Crawford Co.; body not recovered, memorialized Courts of the Missing, Natl. Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • assigned to 36th Bomb. Sqdn, 28th Composite Gp. at Fort Randall, Cold Bay, Alaska; DNB 5 Jul 1942 near Cold Bay; crash of 42nd Troop Carrier Sqdn. Douglas C-53B Skytrooper #41-20048 from Elmendorf Air Base, Anchorage to Fort Randall; no survivors from crew of four and twelve passengers.
  • WWII Japan > North Pacific > Alaska
† Schoenfeld, Delbert Herbert, SN 37-663-725, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 26 Oct 1923 Schleswig, Hanover Twp., Crawford Co.; s/o Herbert C. Schoenfeld & Anna S. Preul.
  • entered service 3 Mar 1943 from Schleswig, Crawford Co.; buried Henri-Chapelle American Cem., Verviers, near Liege, Belgium.
  • 36th Armored Infantry Regt., 3rd Armored Div., VII Corps, First Army; KIA 17 Oct1944 Stolberg, SE of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Rhineland, 1944 > Aachen
† Sharp, Harold Scott, SN O-746-196, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 17 Oct 1920 Union Twp., Crawford Co.; s/o Milford Thomas Sharp & Anna Laura Scott.
  • entered service 15 Jul 1942 from Dow City, rural Crawford Co.​; buried Arlington Natl. Cem., Arlington Co., VA.​
  • 337th Bomb. Sqdn., 96th Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force; based at Snetterton Heath, Norfolk, England; Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress #42-39356 Flak-Happy copilot with pilot Edmund Bolsted; KIA 8 Oct 1943; aircraft hit by flak on mission over Bremen, Germany and crashed near Neuscharrel, Lower Saxony about 60 miles west of Bremen; seven crew died, three survived as prisoners.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force
† Speck, Herman F., SN 37-444-843, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 17 Sep 1914 Crawford Co.; s/o Charley Speck & Maria Gesche Koerner.
  • entered service 17 Nov 1942 from Rt. 2, Denison, Crawford Co.; buried Oakland Cem., Denison.
  • HQ Battery, 1st Bn., 260th Coast Artillery Regiment (anti-aircraft) based in the Seattle, WA area; DNB 13 Aug 1943 near Dow City, Crawford Co.; automobile accident while home on leave.
† Stricker, Thomas A., SN O-661-571, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (WWII-StrickerThomasA)
  • b. 17 Jun 1917 Kiron, Crawford Co., IA; s/o William Allison Stricker & Alma Elizabeth Sofia Palm.
  • entered service 5 Nov 1941 at Kelly Field, TX; body not recovered, memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cem., Coton, Cambridgeshire, England.
  • 401st Bomb. Sqdn., 91st Bomb. Gp.; based at Bassingbourn, 11 miles SW of Cambridge, England; Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress #42-5362 Short Snorter II co-pilot with pilot Beman E. Smith; FOD/KIA 26 Feb 1943 over North Sea; aircraft shot down by German fighters after aborting mission to Bremen area due to mechanical problems; crew of ten lost.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force
† Stump, William Erwin, SN O-776-115, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (WWII-StumpWilliamE)
  • b. 21 Jan 1924 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o G. Webb Stump & Eulalia Elizabeth Summers.
  • married Lillian Margaret O'Brien of Winnebago Co., WI 14 Jul 1945.
  • entered service 24 Feb 1943 from Denison, Crawford Co.; buried Oakland Cem., Denison.
  • based at Carlsbad Army Air Field, Carlsbad, Eddy Co., NM; pilot of aircraft used for training navigators and bombardiers; DNB 26 Jul 1944 Carlsbad, NM; traffic accident.
​† Tripp, Glenn Art, SN 37-071-646, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 1 Jun 1914 Grove Twp., Shelby Co.; s/o George Samuel Tripp (d. 1940) & Mary Lorena Galland.
  • service entry data unknown; buried Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • 63rd Infantry Regt., 6th Infantry Div., 6th Army; KIA 26 Feb 1945 Luzon, Philippines.
  • Notes: possible Silver Star recipient.
  • WWII Japan > Philippines Liberated > Luzon
​​† Voss, Vernon Anton Christian, SN 37-111-486, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 13 Dec 1918 Crawford Co.; s/o Christian Frederick Voss & Annie Arp (d. 1919); father married Minnie Boeck Dec 1939.
  • entered service 5 Jan 1942 from Rt. 2, Denison, Crawford Co.; buried Morgan Cem., Schleswig, Crawford Co.
  • Co. H, 2nd Bn., 126th Infantry Regt., 32nd Infantry Div., I Corps; DOW 29 Oct 1942 near Jaure, Kapa Kapa Trail, Papua, New Guinea; three died from strafing attack by Japanese aircraft.
  • Note: Crawford Co. roster member Vernon Holtorf, SN 37-111-487, also served in the 2nd Battalion, which 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
† Weiss, Donald Leroy, SN O-437-629, served as Weiss, Don D and Weiss Don L, US Army Air Force, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 17 Apr 1916 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o Albert Weiss & Carrie Leona Brown.
  • entered service 12 Jul 1941 from Denison, Crawford Co.; buried Normandy American Cem., Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados, Normandy, France.
  • commanding officer, 555th Bomb. Sqdn., 386th Bomb. Gp., Ninth Air Force, based at Great Dunrow, Essex, NE of London, England;  Martin B-26 Marauder B-26 #42-96087 pilot; KIA 22 Jun 1944 over Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France; aircraft hit by flak; all six crew members and one passenger, the group flight surgeon from Fort Dodge, Iowa, died.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Ninth Air Force.
​​† Wellner, Martin John, SN 37-190-051, US Army, Crawford Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 8 May 1918 Ute, St. Clair Twp., Monona Co.; s/o Herman John Carl Ludwig Wellner & Anna Wilhelmine Caroline Timm.
  • entered service 2 Apr 1942 from rural Schleswig, Crawford Co.; buried Normandy American Cem., Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados Dept., Normandy, France.
  • 359th Infantry Regt., 90th Infantry Div., VIII Corps, First Army; KIA 4 Jul 1944 near Pretot, Manche, Normandy, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Normandy, Jul 1944 @ Battle of La Haye-du-Puits

Part 2, Do Not Add  - 1946 US War Dept. Crawford Co. list of dead with no known Pottawattamie area connection.
​✓ Van Horn, Robert L. (no database)

*Part 3, additional entries from the 1946 War Dept. list of WWII dead for Carroll County, Iowa
  • 28 entries, 20 with records in the underlying St. Paul's database.
  • built in August 2026.
  • Erwin Lowell Ewart and Alfred John Beck were brothers-in-law.
  • Bruning, Gute and Van Erdwyck were related.
† Albers, Woodrow Lee, SN 37-194-837, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 4 Apr 1913 Sheridan Twp., Carroll Co.; s/o Bernhard Edward Albers & Christina Elizabeth Emmick.
  • entered service 17 May 1942 from Lidderdale, Carroll Co.; buried Immanuel Cem., Lidderdale.
  • 3887th Quartermaster Truck Co.; DNB 6 Oct 1944 in Pantin, a NE Paris suburb containing military warehouse facilities; drowned in canal after a truck accident.
  • ​WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Comm Zone
​† Bails, Lawrence Royal, SN 37-662-577, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 12 May 1920 Coon Rapids, Carroll Co.; s/o Royal Estel Bails & Margaret Louise McCann.
  • married Genevie Carolyn Johnson Dec 1940 in Coon Rapids, one child.
  • entered service 23 Feb 1943 from Coon Rapids; buried Orange Twp. Cem., rural Coon Rapids, Guthrie Co.
  • Co. F, 2nd Bn., 148th Infantry Regt., 37th Infantry Div., I Corps; KIA 15 Apr 1945 northern Luzon, Philippines.
  • WWII Japan > Philippines Liberated > Luzon @ Battle of Baguio
† Beck, Alfred John, SN 37-112-441, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 14 Feb 1917 Carroll, Carroll Co.; s/o John J. Beck & Anna Winterscheidt.
  • married Margaret N. McFee 8 Aug 1942 in Carroll; one child.
  • entered service 1 Feb 1942 from Carroll; buried Mt. Olivet Cem., Carroll.
  • Sqdn H, 348th Army Air Force Base Unit (a combat crew training station specializing in photo reconnaisance),  based at Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma City, OK; d. 2 Feb 1945.at Will Rogers Field from unknown causes.
​† Bekehermes, Sylvester Herman, SN 37-420-639, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 24 Jul 1918 Butte Twp., Boyd Co., NE; s/o Henry Bekehermes & Catherine Elizabeth Kennebeck; in 1926 family moved to a Carroll Co. farm between Dedham and Coon Rapids.
  • entered service 8 Jul 1943 from Coon Rapids, Carroll Co.; buried St. Joseph Cem., Dedham, Carroll Co.
  • Co. E, 13th Mountain Medical Bn. supporting US Army forces in northern Burma; drowned 21 Jul 1944 with two others while crossing a river on a boat near Shaduzup, Burma.
  • WWII Japan > China-Burma-India Theater > Burma, 1941-45
​† Bernholtz, Julius Anthony, SN 37-115-398, US Army Air Force, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 3 Jan 1920 Kniest Twp., Carroll Co.; s/o Henry Joseph Bernholtz & Philomena Dorothy "Minnie" Kokenge.
  • entered service 1 Mar 1942 from Rt. 2, Carroll; buried Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cem., Mt. Carmel, Carroll Co.
  • 3706 Army Air Force Base Unit, Sheppard Field, Wichita Co., TX; d. 31 Oct 1944 at Sheppard Field from a skull fracture when hit with a piece of timber while fighting with another soldier.
† Blubaugh, George F., SN 37-735-107, US Army, Carroll & Guthrie Cos. (WWII-BlubaughGeorgeF)
  • b. 28 Apr 1920 Melrose, Wayne Twp., Monroe Co.; s/o Joseph James Blubaugh & Delia Duval; family moved to Seely Twp., Guthrie Co. in late 1930s.
  • entered service 20 Jul 1944 from Rt. 2, Coon Rapids; buried Luxembourg American Cem., Hamm, Luxembourg.
  • 346th Infantry Regt., 87th Infantry Div., VIII Corps, Third Army; WIA NW of St. Vith, Belgium, near Manderfeld, Germany; DOW 2 Feb 1945.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Siegfried Line, 1945 > VIII Corps to Prum
† Bruning, Norman Joseph Henry, SN 37-658-664, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 22 Aug 1922 Breda, Carroll Co.; s/o Joseph Edward Bruning & Clara Schaefer.
  • entered service 28 Jan 1843 from Breda; buried St. Bernards Cem., Breda.
  • 510th Bomb. Sqdn., 351st Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force, based at Polebrook, Northamptonshire, England; Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress #42-31975 Queen of the Air tail gunner with pilot Horace Edwin Hopkins; KIA 27 May 1944; en route to bomb railroad marshalling yards at Ludwigshaven, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; formation was attacked by a large number of German fighters; Queen of the Air's nose was hit by cannon fire and aircraft spiraled out of control and crashed near Gerardmer in the Vosges Mountains in northeastern France; eight died from crew of ten, one became a POW, and one evaded capture and reached Switzerland.
  • ​WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force
† ​Cory, Robert Wilson, SN 37-040-416, US Army, Carroll Co. (WWII-CoryRobertW)
  • b. 28 Feb 1913 Carroll, Carroll Co.; s/o Thaddeus Lincoln Cory & Rosa Dora Hilgenberg (d. 1942).
  • service entry date unknown; buried Keokuk Natl. Cem., Keokuk, Lee Co.
  • Headquarters Battery, 3rd Field Artillery Bn., 3rd Infantry Div., VI Corps, Fifth Army; DOW 3 Mar 1944 from artillery fire, Anzio Beachhead, Lazio, Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Naples to Cassino/Anzio > Battle of Anzio
† ​Ehlers Elmer Henry, SN O-2-058-747, US Army Air Force, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 21 May 1921 Arcadia, Washington Twp., Carroll Co.; s/o Julius Carl Ehlers & Minnie Louise Wilfang.
  • employed by federal government in Washington, DC before entering service.
  • entered service 27 Oct 1942 from Rt. 1, Arcadia, Carroll Co.; buried Arcadia Cem.
  • 46th Troop Carrier Sqdn., 317th Troop Carrier Gp., Fifth Air Force; based on Leyte, Philippines; Curtis C-46 Commando pilot or copilot; KIA 11 Mar 1942 in Mt. Pinitubo area, Zambales Province, Central Luzon, Philippines.
  • WWII Japan > Air Force War with Japan > Fifth Air Force
† Enfield, Leo Laverne, SN 37-665-404, US Army, Carroll Co. (WWII-EnfieldLeoL)
  • b. 26 May 1924 Coon Rapids, Carroll Co.; s/o Lloyd Earnest Enfield & Ada Pearl Ogborn.
  • entered service 13 Mar 1943 from Coon Rapids; buried Epinal American Cem., Epinal, Vosges Dept., Lorraine, France.
  • Co. M, 313rd Infantry Regt., 79th Infantry Div., XV Corps, Seventh Army; wounded by shrapnel from artillery burst; DOW 21 Oct 1944 in hospital, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Lorraine-Alsace, 1944 > Lorraine/Seventh Army @ Battle of Forêt de Parroy
† Ewart, Erwin Lowell, SN O-762-723, US Army Air Force, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 16 Sep 1917 Carroll, Carroll Co.; s/o William John Ewart & Isa Mae Sharp; parents divorced before 1930 and Irwin and his mother subsequently lived with her parents in Carroll.
  • married Lois Virginia McFee Jan 1942 in Pierce Co., WA.
  • entered service 20 Feb 1941 from Carroll, Carroll Co.; buried Carroll Cem.
  • 475th Bomb. Sqdn., 335th Bomb. Gp., stationed at Barksdale Field, Shreveport, LA; Martin B-26B Marauder #41-32065 pilot or co-pilot; d. 8 Mar 1944 five miles SW of DeQuincy, LA; mid-air collision with a Curtis P-40 Warhawk,
† Feld, Melvin Leo, SN 37-675-422, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 22 Mar 1925 Carroll, Carroll Co.; s/o Joseph John Feld & Catherine Marie Wilden.
  • entered service 9 Aug 1943 from Carroll; buried Mt. Olivet Cem., Carroll.
  • Co. G or K, 36th Armored Infantry Regt., 3rd Armored Div., VII Corps, First Army; KIA 2 Aug 1944 near the Sienne River, Manche, Normandy, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Liberation > Normandy, Aug 1944
† Fox, Thomas Joseph, SN 37-659-210, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 27 Apr 1924 Templeton, Carroll Co.; s/o John A. Fox (d. 1936) & Teresa Bastendorf.
  • entered service 30 Jan 1943 from rural Templeton; buried Lorraine American Cem., St. Avold, Moselle Dept., France.
  • 137th Infantry Regt., 35th Infantry Div., XII Corps, Third Army; KIA 11 Nov 1944 near Fonteny, SE of Metz, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Lorraine-Alsace, 1944 > Lorraine/Third Army.
† Gerken, Cletus Anthony, SN 37-665-378, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 12 Oct 1823 Arcadia, Carroll Co.; s/o John Bernard Gerken & Mary Helen Terlisner.
  • entered service 20 Mar 1943 from rural Arcadia; buried St. John's Cemetery, Arcadia.
  • Co. A, 14th Armored Infantry Bn., First Armored Div., IV Corps, Fifth Army; KIA 26 Apr 1945 near Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Northern Italy > Past the Po
† Gute, Irwin Richard, SN 37-667-758, US Army Air Force, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 7 Feb 1924 Breda, Carroll Co.; s/o Herman Gute & Amelia Theresa Jennewein.
  • entered service 11 Apr 1943 from rural Breda; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Sicily-Rome American Cem., Nettuno, Lazio, Italy; cenotaph in St. Bernards Cem., Breda.
  • 780th Bomb. Sqdn., 465th Bomb. Gp., Fifteenth Air Force, based at Panatella Air Base south of Foggia, Italy; Consolidated B-24J Liberator #42-51020 Liberator crew member with pilot Leroy O. Buck; KIA 24 Aug 1944; aircraft was returning from bombing a synthetic fuel plant at Pardoubice, Czechoslovakia when three engines failed; aircraft ditched in the Adriatic Sea; nine died, co-pilot survived.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > MTO Air War
† Hall, Cecil Eugene, SN 37-036-587, US Army, Carroll & Guthrie Cos. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 16 Nov 1906 Bayard, Guthrie Co.; s/o Roy Earl Hall & Mary Belle Rosenblad (d. 1919).
  • entered service 20 Jul 1942 from rural Coon Rapids; buried Highland Cem., Bayard, Guthrie Co.
  • Co. C, 52nd Armored Infantry Bn., 9th Armored Div., III Corps, First Army; KIA 4 Mar 1945 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > To the Rhine > Operation Lumberjack​
† Kies, Orville William, SN 37-665-489, US Army, Carroll & Sac Cos. (WWII-KeisOrvilleW)
  • b 8 Nov 1922 Carnavan, Sac Co.; s/o Frebert Otto Kies & Caroline Ackerman.
  • entered service 20 Mar 1943 from Breda, Carroll Co.; buried Immanuel Cem, Carnavan, Sac Co.
  • 22nd Infantry Regt., 4th Infantry Div., VII Corps, First Army; KIA 26 Jul 1944 NW of St. Lo, Manche Dept., Normandy, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Normandy Campaign > Normandy, Jul 1944
† Koester, Cyril Albert, SN 37-652-334, US Army Air Force, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 6 Jan 1921 Carroll Co.; s/o John J. Koester & Emma Stangl.
  • entered service 2 Feb 1943 from Dedham, Carroll Co.; buried St. Joseph Cem., Dedham.
  • 15th Academic Sqdn., Chanute Field, Rantoul, Champaign Co., IL.; d. 29 Jan 1944 from peritonsillar abscess.
† Lynn, Joseph Paul, SN 37-678-978, US Army Air Force, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 4 Aug 1925 Greene Co.; s/o John Vincent Lynn & Catherine Ann Campbell.
  • entered service 24 Oct 1942 from Coon Rapids, Carroll Co.; buried Coon Rapids Cem.
  • unit unknown, on Consolidated B-24M Liberator #44-50371 with pilot Howard P. Copeland; en route from Grenier Field, NH to Italy; heavily loaded aircraft crashed in Bermuda Bay during takeoff from Kindley Field, Bermuda; five died, four survived.
​† ​Morman, Alvin John, SN O-763-437; US Army Air Force, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • ​b. 16 Dec 1920 McAllen, Hidalgo Co., TX; s/o Aloysius John Morman & Kathryn Bertha Trecker.
  • entered service 23 Feb 1943 from Coon Rapids, Carroll Co.; buried Ardennes American Cem., near Liege, Belgium.
  • 568th Bomb. Sqdn., 390th Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force, based at Framlingham, Suffolk, England; Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress #44-8426 pilot; KIA 14 Jan 1945; aircraft shot down by enemy fighters while on mission to Berlin and crashed at Wachow, Brandenburg, Germany; four crew members were killed and four survived and taken as prisoners; one crew member may have evaded capture.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force.
​† ​Mueller, Victor Alfred, SN 19-048-668, US Army, Carroll Co. (WWII-MuellerVictorAlfred)
  • b 9 Feb 1920 Carroll, Carroll Co.; s/o Rev. Albert John Ludwig Mueller (d. 1936) & Emma Albertina Trupke.
  • entered service 24 Feb 1940 from Carroll, Carroll Co. at Fort MacArthur, CA; body not recovered; memorialized Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  •  KIA 15 Dec 1944, Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines; prisoner on Japanese Hell Ship Oryoku Maru that was attacked by US aircraft and then ran aground.
  • WWII Japan > Japan Lashes Out > The Philippines Lost
† Schlorholz, Bernard Jacob, SN 37-652-274, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 12 Dec 1921 near Breda, Wheatland Twp., Carroll Co.; s/o Abel John Schlorholtz & Emma Martha Becker.
  • entered service 2 Jan 1943 from Rt. 1, Breda; buried Wheatland Cem., Carroll Co.
  • 814th Tank Destroyer Bn., attached to 7th Armored Div., XX Corps, Third Army; KIA 13 Sep 1944 near Metz, Moselle Dept., Lorraine, France.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Lorraine-Alsace 1944 > Lorraine/Third Army
† Sifford, Ross Jr.  SN O-1-013-522, US Army, Carroll & Sac Cos. (WWII-SiffordRossL)
  • b. 25 Jun 1917 Wall Lake, Sac Co.; s/o Ross Lewis Sifford Sr. & Hazel Pickett; family moved to Carroll, Carroll Co. in late 1930s.
  • entered service 11 Jul 1941 from Carroll; buried Fort Snelling Natl. Cem, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Co. A, 752nd Tank Bn.; KIA 5 Jun 1944 near Highway 2, north of Rome, Italy; killed by German tank fire while in support of 351st Infantry Regt., 88th Infantry Div.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Cassino/Anzio to Rome > Drive on Rome
† Sprimont, Leonard Forrest, SN 37-665-344, US Army, Carroll Co. (WWII-SpirmontLeonardF)
  • b. 18 Oct 1921 Harrison Twp., Boone Co.; s/o Willard Ralph Sprimont & Fern Marks; family moved to Richland Twp., Carroll Co., between Glidden and Coon Rapids, in early 1930s.
  • entered service 14 Oct 1943 from Rt. 3, Glidden, buried West Lawn Cem., Glidden.
  • Co. B, 15th Inf. Regt., 3rd Inf. Div., VI Corps, Fifth Army; KIA 24 May 1944 Anzio Beachhead, Lazio, Italy.
  • WWII Germany > The MTO > Cassino/Anzio to Rome > Breakthrough & Breakout
† Teter, Winston Curtis, SN 37-683-815, US Army Air Force, Carroll & Guthrie Cos. (WWII-TeterWinstonC)
  • b. 13 Apr 1921 rural Coon Rapids, Orange Twp., Guthrie Co.; s/o Milton Oscar Teter & Margaret Elizabeth "Marjorie" Beatty.
  • married Dorothy Lucile Phelps of Coon Rapids Nov 1944 in Highland Co., FL.
  • entered service 2 Feb 1944 from Rt. 3, Coon Rapids; buried Orange Twp. Cem., rural Coon Rapids, Guthrie Co.
  •  427th Bomb. Sqdn., 303rd Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force, based at Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, England; B-17G #42-39885 Sweet Rose O'Grady waist gunner with pilot Wilfred M. Walder, Jr; KIA 19 Feb 1945; hit by shrapnel from flak during raid on coking plant at Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; aircraft survived and returned to base with his body.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force.
† Van Erdewyk, Leo Joseph, SN 6-933-606, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 23 Jul 1916 Breda, Carroll Co.; s/o Frank Hubert Van Erdewyk & Mary A. Berger (d. 1917); father married Lena Snyder of Breda in 1923 in Sioux City.
  • married Margie Jeanette Biggers of North Carolina May 1943 in Charlotte, NC.
  • entered service 1 Aug 1939 from Breda at Fort Crook, NE; buried Ardennes American Cem., Verviers, near Liege, Belgium.
  • First Sergeant, Co. B., 506th Parachute Infantry Regt.,101st Airborne Infantry Div., British 12 Corps; KIA 6 Oct 1944 near Opheusden, Niimegen Island, Netherlands.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Netherlands, Fall 1944 
† Wissler, Woodrow Wilson, SN O-1-011-732, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 3 Jul 1917 Carroll,, Carroll Co.; s/o Edwin Arthur Wissler (d. 1936) & Olive Connie Cranston.
  • married Virginia May Buehler of Odebolt, Sac Co. Oct 1943 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY.
  • entered service 13 Jan 1941 from Carroll; buried Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • 715th Amphibian Tractor Bn. & HQ Co., 19th Armored Group, Kaiaka Camp, Oahu, HI; DNB 10 Oct 1944 in hospital from accidental discharge of firearms.
  • WWII Japan > Pacific Bases
† Wittry, Carl Joseph, SN 37-035-985, US Army, Carroll Co. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 24 Mar 1919 Mt. Carmel, Kniest Twp., Carroll Co.; s/o Nicholas Martin Wittry & Anna Magdalena Rettenmeier (d. 1922); father married Ella Hanna Fendrich in 1924.
  • married Marie Tarcissa Nieland of Breda, Carroll Co. Dec 1942 in Breda.
  • entered service 12 Mar 1941 from Rt. 2, Arcadia, Carroll Co.; buried Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cem., Mt. Carmel.
  • 184th Infantry Regt., 7th Infantry Division, XXIV Corps, Tenth Army; DOW 1 May 1945 Okinawa, Ryukyu Is., Japan.
  • WWII Japan > Iwo Jima-Okinawa > Land Battle of Okinawa

Part 3 Do Not Add  - 1946 US War Dept. Carroll Co. list of dead with no known Pottawattamie area connection.
✓ Guess, William H - lived on Carroll St. in Keokuk, Lee Co.
✓ Hildreth, Wayne Jr. - lived in Marshall Co.

*Part 4, remaining entries from the 1946 US Navy Dept. list of Iowa WWII dead for Monona, Crawford, Carroll, Fremont and Page counties
  • list includes Marine Corps and Coast Guard and includes non-combat related deaths known to me.
  • out of area names found: Chapman
  • 27 entries, 19 from records in the underlying St. Paul's database; eight from independent records.
† 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 mother, 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 and Crawford Cos. (St. Paul's)
  • 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, National Cem. of the Pacific., 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
​​​​† Chapman, Robert
  • , SN 321-42-21, US Navy, Crawford Co. & Marion Co., OR (WWII-ChapmanRobertL)b. 29 Jan 1922 Denison, Crawford Co.; s/o Worth Harlow Chapman (d. 1923) & Florence Lucretia Huckstep.
  • entered service 14 Feb 1940 from Vail, Crawford Co. at Des Moines; next of kin mother, Mrs. Florence Lemcke, Rt. 6, Box 586-B, Salem, Ore.; body not recovered; memorialized Walls of the Missing, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • served on battleships USS California and USS Pennsylvania and on escort carrier USS Liscombe Bay with Task Force 52; KIA 24 Nov 1943 near Makin Atoll, Gilbert Is.; Japanese submarine I-175 sank Liscome Bay during the US Tarawa/Makin invasion; KIA 24 Nov 1943, Liscombe Bay sunk by torpedo from Japanese submarine I-175; 644 died, 272 survived.
  • WWII Japan > Naval War with Japan > Third & Fifth Fleets
† Christianson, Albert Glyde, served using inconsistent names, including Albert Clyde Christensen, SN 562-70-71, US Navy, Woodbury & Monona Cos. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 2 Jan 1922 Castana, Monona Co.; s/o Albert Christianson/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. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 13 Nov 1921 Rodney, Monona Co.; s/o Lawrence Rex Clark & Leone Thelma Rasmussen (d. 1942).
  • entered service 7 May 1940 from Rodney, Monona Co. in Des Moines; next of kin father, Mr. Lawrence Clark, Rodney, Iowa; 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 father Mr. Claude E. Gowey, Rt. 1, Tangent, Ore.; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • 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, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific., 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; BNR.
  • 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. (St. Paul's)
  • 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. (St. Paul's)
  • 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. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 5 Dec 1907 Ute, Monona Co.; s/o Jacob Jensen & Catherine Anderson.
  • married Rachel Olive Newman of Ute Feb 1929; five children.
  • entered service 25 Feb 1944 from Castana, Monona Co.; next of kin wife, Mrs. Rachel Olive Jensen, 609 W. 6th St., Sioux City, 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
† 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, Monona Co.; next of kin parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, Moorhead, Iowa; 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. (St. Paul's)
  • b. 5 Jul 1921 Rodney, Monona Co.; s/o Israel Abernathy "Isa" Kee & Delores Mae "Dolly" Henry; family 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; next of kin parents, Mr. and Mrs. Israel Kee, 2611 E. 4th St., Long Beach, Calif; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets 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.. CO; 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 3 Apr 1940 in Denver, CO from Florence, CO; 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 of rural Onawa in 1929 and remained in Monona Co.
  • living with mother and stepfather in Lincoln Twp., Monona Co. in Apr 1940; married Donna Jean Carlson Mar 1944 in Waterloo, Black Hawk Co., divorced.
  • entered service 20 Jan 1942 from Waterloo, IA; next of kin wife, Mrs. Donna J. Mercer, 620 Grant Ave., Waterloo, Iowa; buried Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • Co. F, 2nd Bn., 28th Marine Regt., 5th Marine Div.; KIA 26 Mar 1945 Iwo Jima; gunshot wound in chest.​
  • WWII Japan > Iwo Jima-Okinawa > Iwo Jima.
† Patten, Clarence Sr., US Navy, and Carroll Co. (St. Pauls)
  • b. 2 Aug 1889 Huron, Beadle Co., SD; s/o Albert Patten & Mary Newmay, raised in Lanesboro, Carroll Co, lived in Odebolt.
  • married Anna Belotti 1910; eight sons, all of whom served in the US Navy during WWII.
  • entered service about 1942; d. 7 Mar 1945 in hospital, Seattle, King Co., WA; buried Greenlawn Cem., Lamar, Chase Co., NE.
† Prichard, Bryant Ernest, SN O-125-958, US Naval Aviation, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • 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.; next of kin mother, Mrs. Lessie E. Prichard, Braddock, ND; 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, 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. (St. Paul's)
  • 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; body not recovered; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • destroyer USS Callaghan (DD-792); KIA 28 Jul 1945 on picket line off Okinawa; kamikaze attack by an obsolete aircraft; Callaghan sunk, 47 died; BNR
  • 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 Soldier Lutheran Cem., Soldier, Monona Co.
  • 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.
† Sumner, Franklin Eli, SN 620-46-80, US Navy, Monona Co. (St. Paul's)
  • 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, Des Moines Co.; 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. (St. Paul's)
  • 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 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

*Part 5, WWII dead found through honorstates.org.
  •  Checked Harrison, Shelby, Audubon, Pottawattamie, Cass, Mills and Page counties.
  • 16 entries; 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.
  • unknown service entry data; service credited to Dodge Co., NE; buried Ridge Cem., Fremont, Dodge Co., NE. 
  • 121st Infantry Regt., 8th Infantry 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
​​† 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
​† 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 Infantry Regt., 24th Infantry Div.; DNB 11 Oct 1942 Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii Territory.
† 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
† 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 data 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
​​† Chase, Charles Raymond, SN 20-726-038, US Army, St. Louis Co., MO (WWII-ChaseCharlesRaymond)
  • b. 2 Jan 1916 Co. Buffs; s/o Frank Chase (b. IL; buried with infant son in St. Joseph Cem. in Council Bluffs) & Catherine Higgins (b. MD); family moved to St. Louis, MO in 1918 and later to University City, MO.
  • entered service 23 Dec 1940 at St. Louis, MO, service credited to St. Louis Co.; buried Jefferson Barracks Natl. Cem., St. Louis, MO.
  • Co. D, 1st Bn., 138th Infantry Regt., 35th Infantry Div.; d. 29 Dec 1941 at Fort Ord, Monterey Co., CA; meningitis.
† 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 service entry data, service credited to Los Angeles Co., CA; 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 Corregidor; 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
† 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); KIA 7 Dec 1941 Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii Territory; during the 7 Dec 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Nevada was hit by a torpedo and at least six bombs; 60 crew died; Nevada managed to get underway and was then intentionally grounded; Nevada was subsequently returned to service; .
  • WWII Japan > Japan Lashes Out > Pearl Harbor
​† 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 Liberator #44-49918 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; BNR.
​† 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 Infantry Regt., 32nd Infantry Div., I Corps, Sixth Army; KIA 4 Apr 1945
  • WWII Japan > Philippines Liberated > Luzon
† 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, National Cem. of the Pacific., Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • 26th Bomb. Sqdn, 11th Bomb. Gp., Seventh Air Force, based on 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
† Simunaci, Francis William, SN 316-74-70, US Navy, Otoe Co., NE (St. Paul's)
  • b. 21 Feb 1920 Atlantic, Cass Co.
  • married Josephine Mary Morgan from Pennsylvania  Jun 1943 at New London, CT, one child.
  • entered service 21 Jan 1941; next of kin wife, Mrs. Josephine Margia Simunaci, 615 Raymond St., New Castle, Pa; body not recovered; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI; cenotaph Oak Park Cem., New Castle, Lawrence Co., PA.
  • submarine USS Corvina (SS-226); KIA 17 Nov 1943 south of Truk, Caroline Islands, Pacific; on its first patrol, Corvina was sunk by torpedoes from the Japanese submarine I -176 while surfaced at night recharging its batteries; no survivors from the crew of 82; BNR.
  • 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 Co. A, 134th Infantry Regt. of the Nebraska National Guard; buried Golden Gate Natl. Cem., San Bruno, San Mateo Co., CA.
  • 164th Infantry Regt., 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 the early 1930s and to Omaha in the early 1940s.
† 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; d. 9 Sep 1945 Corpus Christi, Neuces Co., TX; motorcycle accident.
† 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.
  • service entry data unknown; next of kin mother, Mrs. Ethel B. Walling, 1110 N. 20th St., Omaha, Nebr.; body not recovered; memorialized Courts of the Missing, National Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI; 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; BNR.
  • WWII Japan > Naval War with Japan > US Submarine Force
† 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 from 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 as a prisoner.
  • WWII Germany > Battle of the Atlantic
​
Part 5 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, Charles Donald, aka Donald Charles (WWII-JacobsonCharlesDonald)
  • b. 18 Aug 1922 Dawson, Richardson Co., NE; s/o Seth August Jacobson (d. Aug 1937) & Abigail Alice Van Every (d. Feb 1935).
  •  found in honorstates Pott. Co.; no Pott. area connection known 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.


                          ==== Part 6 - Already in WII Dead but with Incomplete or Incorrect Information === 
None at this time 

                      === Part 7 - 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 Infantry Regt., 36th Infantry 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.
  • assigned to support of the US Army in the Philippines; 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, Los Angeles Co., 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)
  • the Harrison County list in the Iowa WWII Dead to date roster in the 31 Oct 1943 Des Moines Register includes Robert  L. Warren from Pisgah, killed in action. I can't find any record of this individual.

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