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                              bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Dead > Roster Hub > Roster Cp-Cz, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 18 May 2025
​                           Part 10/46 of the Pottawattamie Area World War II Dead Roster, nine "Cp-Cz" records
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† Crawford, George Almon, SN 320-36-81, US Navy, Harrison Co.
  • b. 31 Jan 1901 New Market, Taylor Co.; s/o Wilbur C. Crawford (b. Wyandotte Co., KS; d. 1940) & Susie Eyre (b. Peoria Co., IL); parents divorced; mother married William D. Arthur 1916.
  • pre-WW II service; next of kin sister, Mrs. Gladys Knierim, Dunlap, IA; body not recovered; memorialized Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • ​Escort Carrier USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73); KIA 25 Oct 1944 off Samar, Philippines; Gambier Bay sunk by Japanese shells, about147 died.
  • Battle off Samar - Philippines Liberated > Battle of Leyte Gulf.

† Crawford, William Frank Jr., SN 620-07-89, US Navy, Cass Co.
  • b. 28 Mar 1920 Anita, Cass Co.; s/o William F. Crawford Sr. & Daisy C. Jenkins, both b. Cass Co.
  • entered service 13 Oct 1941 from Anita, Cass Co; next of kin mother, Mrs. Daisy Crawford, Anita, IA; body not recovered; memorialized Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • Destroyer USS Barton (DD 599) ; KIA 13 Nov 1942 Ironbottom Sound, north of Guadalcanal, Solomon Is.; Barton sunk by two Japanese Long Lance torpedoes; 164 died, 68 survived.
  • first phase of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - South & SW Pacific > Solomons Naval War.

† Crockett, Oliver Eldon, SN 37-490-415, US Army, Gentry Co., MO & Pott. Co.
  • b. 24 Oct 1922 Gentry Co., MO; s/o Oliver M. Crockett & Stella B. Kier, both b. Gentry Co.; raised in Gentry Co.
  • lived in Co. Bluffs as young adult.
  • entered service Feb 1944 from Gentry Co., MO; service credited to Gentry Co., MO; buried Brittany American Cem., St.-James, Manche Dept., Normandy, France.
  • 23rd Inf. Regt., 2nd Inf. Div., VIII Corps; KIA 11 Sep 1944 near Brest, Brittany, France.
  • Battle of Brittany - The ETO > Liberation > Brittany.

† Crook, Lyle William SN 0-1-286-445, US Army, Cerro Gordo Co.
  • b. 11 Feb 1913 rural Sheffield, Franklin Co.; s/o Frank J. Crook (b. Butler Co.) & Esther L. Leider (b. Iowa).
  • married Mabel M. Hansen Mar 1934 in Manly, Worth Co.; she b. Audubon Co. and moved to Sheffield, Franklin Co. in late 1920s, one child, divorced; married Eva Stoma Dec 1942 in Rapides Parish, LA, one child.
  • entered service 8 Feb 1941 from Mason City, Cerro Gordo Co., service credited to Montgomery Co., reason unknown; buried Rhone American Cem., Draguignan, Provence, France.
  • 146th Inf. Regt., 36th Inf. Div., VI Corps, Seventh Army; KIA 28 Aug 1944 Montelimar, Drôme, Rhône-Alpes, southern France.
  • The ETO > Liberation > Southern France.
  • Notes: Posthumous Silver Star.

† Crose, James Harvey, SN 37-470-848, US Army Air Force, Pott. Co.
  • b. 3 Sep 1923 Omaha; s/o Arthur J. Crose (b. Tulare Co., CA) & Katherine A. Fisher (b. Wisconsin); family lived in Omaha & Co. Bluffs.
  • entered service 29 Jan 1943 from Co. Bluffs; service credited to Pott. Co.; buried Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • 498th Bomber Sqdn., 345th Bomb. Gp., Fifth Air Force; on Liberty Ship SS Thomas Nelson; KIA 12 Nov 1944, Dulag Harbor, Leyte Gulf, Philippines; kamikaze attack, Thomas Nelson survived; 136 died of whom 133 were Army Air Force personnel.
  • Air Force War with Japan > Fifth Air Force.

​† Curry, Jack Benton, SN 98,652, US Merchant Marine, Pott. Co.
  • b. about 1917 New Mexico; s/o Arthur B. Curry (b. Vernon Co., WI; d. 1933) & Ada Montgomery (b. Kaufman Co., TX; d. 1940); family moved to Omaha before 1920 and to Co. Bluffs before 1925.
  • body not recovered.
  • ​Tanker Pan Massachusetts fireman/wiper; d. 19 Feb 1942, off Cape Canaveral, FL; Pan Massachusetts torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-128; 20 died, 18 survived.
  • WWII Germany > Battle of the Atlantic.

† Curtis, Alton B., SN 37-692-006, US Army, Audubon Co.
  • b. 20 Mar 1909 Douglas Twp., Audubon Co.; s/o Ned Curtis (b. Avoca, Pott. Co.) & Augusta Volkman (b. Germany; d. 1944); family moved to Nebraska in the late 1920s.
  • returned to Audubon Co. in early 1930s; married Kathryn J. Ripley 1934 in Audubon, three children.
  • entered service 14 Mar 1944 from Audubon, Audubon Co.; service credited to Audubon Co.; buried Lorraine American Cem., St. Avold, Lorraine, France.
  • 328th Inf. Regt., 26th Inf. Div., XII Corps, Third Army; KIA 15 Nov 1944 NE of Nancy, near Wuisse, Moselle Dept., Lorraine, France.
  • The ETO > War of Attrition > Lorraine/Third Army.

† Curtis, Edwin Palmer, SN 316-72-93, US Navy, Harrison Co.
  • b. 25 Dec 1920 Missouri Valley, Harrison Co. s/o Simon P. Curtis (b. Iowa) & Eva E. Jenkins (b. St. Johns Twp., Harrison Co.); family lived in St. Johns Twp., rural Missouri Valley and moved to Oregon in 1941.
  • entered service 12 Dec 1940 from Rt. 2, Missouri Valley, Harrison Co. at Omaha, NE; buried Forest View Cem., Forest Grove, Washington Co., OR.
  • previous service on heavy cruiser USS Chester (CA-27); ​d. 30 Sep 1943 Mare Island, Vallejo, Solano Co., CA; drowned.

† Cutler, Donald Lee, SN 39-603-009, US Army, Pott. Co.
  • b. 12 Nov 1917 Shenandoah, Page Co.; s/o Lee Roy Rowe (b. St. Joseph, MO) & Myrtle M. Dodge (b. Saline Co., NE); parernts divorced; mother married George N. Cutler of Shenandoah Jul 1922 in Omaha; Donald Lee Rowe became Donald Lee Cutler; mother and stepfather divorced; mother married Harry C. Baxter of Co. Bluffs.
  • farmhand in Haakon Co., SD in 1940.
  • ​enlisted 1 Oct 1941 at Missoula, Missoula Co., MT from Big Horn Co., MT;  service credited to Pott. Co.; buried Lorraine American Cem., St. Avold, Lorraine, France.
  • Co. E, 254th Inf. Regt., 63rd Inf. Div., Seventh Army; KIA 8 Apr 1945 near Weißbach, SW of Würzburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
  • The ETO > Central Europe > Central Germany.

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