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                              bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Dead > Roster > Roster Bs-Bz, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 23 Nov  2025
​                           Part 7-47 of the Pottawattamie Area World War II Dead Roster, nine "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; concussion from a truck accident.
  • WWII Japan > The Pacific Base Areas

† 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., XVIII Airborne Corps, attached to 12th Army Group; KIA 24 Mar 1945 in Landing Zone S, east of Rhine River, north of Wesel,  Rhineland-Westphalia, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Central Europe > Crossing the Rhine @ Operation Varsity​
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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.
  • WWII Japan > 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, eight miles 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.
  • WWII Germany > 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, eight miles east of Maastricht, Netherlands.
  • 821st Tank Destroyer Bn., 29th Inf. Div.; DNB 27 Jun 1945 Deichshausen, north of Bremen, Germany, accidental gunshot wound.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Comm. Zone

† Buss, Albert James, SN 01307365, US Army, Boone Co.
  • b. 13 Nov 1909 Pawnee, Harrison Co., MO; s/o Herman James Buss (b. Pocahontas Co.) & Maud Belle Blake (b. Harrison Co., MO); family lived in West Bend, Palo Alto Co. in 1910, moving to Boone, Boone Co. before 1920.
  • married Frances Elsie Reay of Des Moines Aug 1937 in Des Moines, she d. 1938; married Phyllis Enenbach of Manning, Carroll Co. Apr 1944 in Des Moines.
  • entered service 23 Dec 1941 from Manning, Carroll Co.; service credited to Boone Co.; buried Linwood Cem., Boone, Boone Co.
  • Co. E, 8th Inf. Regt., 2nd Bn., 4th Inf. Div. VII Corps, First Army; KIA 10 Aug 1944 NW of Mortain, Manche Dept., France; the 8th Infantry Regiment's 2nd Bn. was part of the northern wing of US forces resisting Operation Lüttich, the German counterattack centered near the town of Mortain about five files to the southeast.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Liberation > Normandy, Aug 1944 @ Mortain Counter-Attack

† 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 destroyer torpedo; 49 died.
  • WWII Japan > Solomon Islands > New Georgia Naval War @ Battle of Vella Levella ​
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