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                              bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Dead > Roster Hub > Roster Bs-Bz, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 18 May 2025
​                           Part 6/46 of the Pottawattamie Area World War II Dead Roster, eight "Bs-Bz" records
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† Buffington, Charles Rollin III, SN 0-461-238, US Army, Mills Co.
  • b. 26 Sep 1919 Boise, Ada Co., ID; s/o Charles R. Buffington Jr. (b. Mills Co.) & Irene M. Griggs (b. Yolo Co., CA); family moved to rural Glenwood, Mills Co. in the mid 1920s.
  • entered service 8 Jun 1942 from Rt. 3, Glenwood, Mills Co.; service credited to Mills Co.; buried Glenwood Cem.
  • Hq. Battery, 189th Field Artillery Bn., 45th Inf. Div., Camp Pickett, Nottaway Co., VA; d. 11 Apr 1943 at Camp Pickett; light aircraft he was flying lost control and crashed.

† Bull, Lester Orville, SN 37-260-503, US Army, Montgomery Co.
  • b. 18 Nov 1921 Hastings, Mills Co.; s/o Charles O. Bull & Nettie M. Margerum (d. 1939), both b. Montgomery Co.; family moved to Villisca, Montgomery Co. before 1924.
  • entered service 24 Aug 1942 from Villisca, Montgomery Co.; serviced credited to Montgomery Co.; buried Nodaway Cem., Adams Co.
  • Co. B., 27th Replacement Bn., New Caledonia, South Pacific; DNB 21 Aug 1943 from concussion in a truck accident.
  • WWII Japan > The Pacific Bases.

† Burch, Robert Joseph, SN 37-478-134, US Army, Harrison Co.
  • b. 18 Feb 1924 Meadow Grove, Madison Co., NE; s/o Harold H. Burch (b. Washington Co., OK) & Bane E. Cress (b. Smyth Co., VA); family moved to Logan, Harrison Co. late 1920s.
  • entered service 9 Apr 1943 from Missouri Valley, Harrison Co.; service credited to Harrison Co.; buried Golden Gate Natl. Cem., San Bruno, San Mateo Co., CA.
  • 194th Glider Inf. Regt., 17th Airborne Div.; KIA 24 Mar 1945 in Landing Zone S, east of Rhine River, north of Wesel,  Rhineland-Westphalia, Germany.
  • Operation Varsity - The ETO > Central Europe > Crossing the Rhine.​
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​† Burd, Ross Darwin, SN 17-038-346, US Army Air Force, Shelby Co.
  • ​b. 19 Feb 1921 Des Moines; s/o Cecil R. Burd & Mary Blanche Carter, both b. Madison Co.; parents divorced; lived at Elim orphanage, Elk Horn, Shelby Co. with his three brothers for much of his childhood.
  • farmhand living with Viggo Nielsen family in Clay Twp., Shelby Co. in 1940; entered service 30 Dec 1941 from Rt. 2, Exira, Audubon Co.; service credited to Webster Co., reason unknown; body not recovered; memorialized Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • 403rd Bomb. Sqdn., 43rd Bomb. Gp., Fifth Air Force; based at Jackson Drome, aka 7 Mile Drome, near Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea; Consolidated B-24D Liberator #42-40934 gunner with pilot Hughie R. Bonner; KIA/FOD 13 Oct 1943; aircraft crashed near Amphlett Islands north of Milne Bay, Papua on mission to Rabaul, Bismarck Is.; crew of 10 all died.
  • Air Force War with Japan > Fifth Air Force. 

​† Burke, Vernon Clifford Jr., SN 17-068-043, US Army Air Force, Audubon Co.
  • b. 15 Aug 1923 Rockwell City, Calhoun Co. s/o Vernon C. Burke Sr. (b. Merrick Co., NE) & Marguarite A. Munsell (b. Michigan); family moved to Carroll Co. in the 1920s and to Audubon Co. in the early 1930s.
  • entered service 5 Jul 1942 from Audubon, Audubon Co.; service credited to Audubon Co.; buried Netherlands American Cem., Margraten, SE of Maastricht, Netherlands.
  • 548th Bomb. Sqdn., 38th Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force based at Great Ashfield, 10 miles east of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England; Boeing B-17 #42-31847 Flying Fortress tail gunner with pilot Howard M. Worster; KIA 12 May 1944 2 miles west of Langenhain-Ziegenberg & 6 miles west of Bad Nauheim, Hesse, Germany; aircraft attacked by Luftwaffe fighters & crashed; nine died from crew of ten.
  • The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force.

† Busey, Robert William, SN 37-467-059, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • b. 23 Apr 1923 Co. Bluffs; s/o Leslie T. Busey (b. Nebraska) & Maude Miller; family moved to Woodbury Ave. in rural Co. Bluffs before 1925; parents divorced in 1940s.
  • married Leatrice Bankus of Marysville, CA, formerly of Co. Bluffs, Aug 1942 in Rock Port, Atchison Co., MO, one child.
  •  entered service 12 Sep 1942 from Co. Bluffs; service credited to Pott. Co.; buried Netherlands American Cem., Margraten, SE of Maastricht, Netherlands.
  • 821st Tank Destroyer Bn., 29th Inf. Div.; DNB 27 Jun 1945 Deichshausen, north of Bremen, Germany, accidental gunshot wound.
  • The ETO > ETO Comm. Zone.

† Butler, Ralph Joseph, SN 37-420-384, US Army, Woodbury & Monona. Cos.
  • b. 5 Dec 1906 rural Oakland, Pott. Co.; s/o Uriah Butler (b. Keokuk Co.; d. 1931) & Rosina Fussner (b. Adams Co., IN; d. 1943); family lived in Kennebec Twp., Monona Co. in 1910, in Francis Twp., Holt Co., NE, and Jordan Twp., Monona Co. in 1925.
  • ​married Bonnie Myers of Rodney, Monona Co., divorced.
  • entered service 22 Jun 1942 from Sioux City, Woodbury Co.; service credited to Woodbury Co.; buried Mt. Hope Cem., Mapleton, Monona Co. 
  • HQ, 1277th Service Command Service Unit, Pine Camp, now Fort Drum,  Jefferson Co., NY; d. 30 Sep 1944 Boonville, Oneida Co., NY, struck by automobile while walking.​

† Butts, Amos Albert, SN 816-85-59, US Navy, Fremont Co.
  • ​b. 10 Jun 1923 Shenandoah, Fremont Co.; s/o William A. Butts (b. Ringgold Co.) & Rena J. Mott (b. Carroll Co., MO).
  • entered service Dec 1941 from Farragut, Fremont Co.; next of kin father, Mr. William Albert Butts, Farragut, IA; buried Keokuk Natl. Cem., Keokuk, Lee Co.
  • Destroyer USS Selfridge (DD-357); KIA 6 Oct 1943 off Vella Levella Is., Solomon Is.; Selfridge damaged by Japanese torpedo; 49 died.
  • Battle of Vella Levella - South & SW Pacific > Solomons Naval War.

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