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                    bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Dead > Roster > Roster I, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 22 Nov 2025
​                     Part 20/47 of the Pottawattamie Area World War II Dead Roster, eight "I" records
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  † Imrie, Donn Harold, SN 37-490-433, US Army, Harrison Co.
  • b. 31 Jan 1925 Modale, Harrison Co; s/o Harold A. Imrie (b. Livingston Co., IL) & Georgia A. Thompson (b. Little Sioux, Harrison Co.).
  • entered service 11 Feb 1944 from Modale, Harrison Co.; service credited to Harrison Co.; buried Netherlands American Cem., Margraten, east of Maastricht, Netherlands.
  • 407th Inf. Regt., I02nd Inf. Div., XIIII Corps, Ninth Army; KIA 30 Nov 1944 approaching the Roer River, near Welz or Flossdorf, south of Linnich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Rhineland, Fall 1944 > Operation Queen

† Ingalls, Paul Irvin, SN 17-003-249, US Army Air Force, Pott. Co.
  • b. 4 Apr 1919 Co, Bluffs; s/o Warren D. Ingalls (b. Des Moines Twp., Mahaska Co.; d. 1932) & Goldie Hoyt (b. Co. Bluffs).
  • entered service 11 Aug 1940 from Co. Bluffs; service credited to Pott. Co.; buried Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, HI.
  • 392nd Bomb Sqdn., 30th Bomb. Gp, Seventh Air Force; the group, but perhaps not the squadron, was based at Nanumea, Ellice Islands; B-24 aerial photographer; KIA (sic, perhaps WIA) 28 Dec 1943 Marshall Is. (admitted to hospital on Canton Is. with a hemorrhaging bullet wound in thorax).
  • WWII Japan > Air Force War with Japan > Seventh Air Force
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† Irlbeck, Henry Joseph, SN 37-071-640, US Army, Carroll Co.
  • b. 22 Dec 1908 Maple River Twp., Carroll Co.; s/o Charles Karl Irlbeck (b. Germany) & Mary Anna Schumacher (b. Germany).
  • moved from Maple River to the town of Carroll as a young man.
  • entered service 30 Jun 1941 from Carroll, Carroll Co.; service credited to Carroll Co.; buried St. Francis Cem., Maple River, Carroll Co.
  • 63rd Inf. Regt., 6th Inf. Div., I Corps, Sixth Army; KIA 24 Feb 1945 Shimbu Line, central Luzon, Philippines.
  • WWII Japan > Philippines Liberated > Luzon > Shimbu Line
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† Isaac, William Bruce, SN 39-212-924, US Army, King Co., WA
  • b. 26 Mar 1925 Des Moines, Polk Co.; s/o Clarence B. Isaac (b. Aurora, Kane Co., IL; d. 1926) & Laurel Lee McKown (b. Red Oak, Montgomery Co.); mother moved family from Chicago area to Seattle, WA around 1930. 
  • entered service 10 Jul 1943; service credited to King Co., WA; buried Evergreen Cem., Red Oak, Montgomery Co.
  • 413th Inf. Regt., 104th Inf. Div., VII Corps, First Army; KIA 21 Nov 1944 near Eschweiler NE of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  • WWII Germany > The ETO > Rhineland, Fall 1944 > Queen/Hürtgen

† ​Isbell, Arnold Jay, SN O-56866, US Navy, Harrison Co. & District of Columbia
  • b. 22 Sep 1899 Oto, Woodbury Co.; s/o Charles L. Isbell (b. Aplington, Butler Co.; d. 1942) & Mary E. Arnold (b. Iowa City, Johnson Co.); family moved to Logan, Harrison Co. 1900.
  • 1920 US Navy Academy graduate; married Margarita Mayes 1924, two children.
  • entered service 24 Jul 1917 from Logan, Harrison Co.; next of kin wife, Mrs. Margarita Mayes Isbell, 3901 Jocelyn St, DC; buried at sea; memorialized Courts of the Missing, Natl. Cem. of the Pacific, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii; cenotaph Logan Cem., Harrison Co.
  • at time of death Isbell was attached as an observer to carrier USS Franklin (CV-13), Task Force 58.2, engaged in air strikes off the Japanese home islands; scheduled to assume command of USS Yorktown (CV-10); KIA 19 Mar 1945 kamikaze; 807 died, Franklin survived.
  • Military Note: Isbell had previously commanded hunter-killer Task Group 21-14, based on escort carrier USS Card (CVE-11); its first two patrols from July–November 1943 resulted in the sinking of eight, possibly nine, German submarines in the North Atlantic.
  • Military Note: even though the Franklin survived, the death toll was highest of any US Navy ship in WWII except for the loss at Pearl Harbor of the USS Arizona.
  • Note: namesake destroyer USS Arnold J. Isbell (DD-869) was in service from 1946 to 1972.
  • WWII Japan > Naval War with Japan > Third & Fifth Fleets

† Isom, Lyman LeRoy, SN 316-62-54, US Navy, Harrison Co.
  • b. 19 Apr 1921 Brookings, Brookings Co., SD; s/o Lee R. Isom (b. Monona Co.) & Katie M. Duff (b. Brookings Co., SD); family moved to rural Harrison Co. in early 1930s and settled in Lincoln Twp., rural Woodbine.
  • entered service 3 Jan 1940 from rural Missouri Valley, Harrison Co.; next of kin father, Mr. Lee Roy Isom, Woodbine, IA; body not recovered; memorialized Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines
  • submarine USS Triton (SS 201); KIA 15 Mar 1943 in sea lanes NW of Admiralty Islands, Triton sunk by Japanese destroyers; 74 died, none survived.
  • WWII Japan > Naval War with Japan > US Submarine Force

† Iverson, Elmer F. Jr., SN O-729-176, US Army Air Force, Pott. Co.
  • b. 30 Jun 1920 Centerville, Turner Co., SD; s/o Elmer F. Iverson Sr. (b. Brookings Co., SD) & Helen E. Stubkjaer (b. Kingsbury Co., SD); family lived in Fremont, Dodge Co., NE and Clinton, Clinton Co, moving to Co. Bluffs from Clinton about 1940.
  • entered service 16 Jan 1942 from Co. Bluffs; service credited to Pott. Co.; buried Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
  • 374th Troop Carrier Gp., Far East Air Service Command, Fifth Air Force; Douglas A-20 Havoc #44-46400 pilot; d. 20 Nov 1945 Philippines; flight from Tacloban, Leyte to Clark Field, Luzon disappeared, solo - no passengers or other crew.
  • WWII Japan > The Pacific Base Areas

† Ivy, Dorsie Eugene, SN O-191494, US Naval Aviation, Pott. Co.
  • b. 7 Dec 1917 California, Moniteau Co., MO; s/o Orien Ivy (b. Camden Co., MO) & Sarah E. Bantrup (b. Moniteau Co., MO).
  • married Mercedes Billie Hon of Glenwood, Mills Co. Jul 1939 at Glenwood, two children.
  • entered service 22 Oct 1942 from Co. Bluffs; buried Glenwood Cem., Mills Co.
  • unit unknown, d. 9 Jun 1943, Naval Air Station Hutchinson, Reno Co., KS; crash during flight training.​

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