Source: website bigpigeon.us, webpage WW II Dead > Roster Outliers.
© 2021 by Robert A. “Bob” Christiansen, updated 23 Feb 2021.
I built my roster of Pottawattamie County area WW II Dead using three major secondary sources:
Part 1 - Names found in Iowa WW II Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries - being addded to my WW II Dead roster.
Selected Iowa WW II Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries records
Decedents with Pottawattamie County claimant:
Aylsworth, James Frankline 23 Oct 1915 Co. Bluffs (9 Feb ’43 - 23 Dec ’44); d. 18 Nov ’47
Barritt, Glen Hough (SP) 7 Jan 1904 Co. Bluffs (25 Jan ’44 - 18 Nov ’45); d. 3 Aug ’49
Brooks, Newell Harvey 23 Jun 1925 Co. Bluffs (19 Jun ’43 - 4 Apr ’46); d. 27 Dec ’48
Casson, John R. Jr. (SP) 29 Apr 1920 McClelland (20 Apr ’42 - 16 Feb ’46); d.. 27 Dec ’48
Champlin, Harold J. 9 Dec 1918 Co. Bluffs (9 Sep ’42 - 16 Oct ’45); d. 29 Mar ’47
Christensen, Chester Lloyd 3 Sep 1927 Co. Bluffs (19 Oct ’45 - 2 Dec ’46); d. 12 Sep ’48
Curnes, Alvin Hezekiah 19 Jan 1906 Co. Bluffs (14 Oct ’42 - 29 Sep ’44); d. 25 Sep ’48
Curran, Walter Francis (SP) 5 Oct 1909 Co. Bluffs (24 Sep ’42 - 2 Oct ’45); d.12 May ’49
Desmond, Bernard P. 10 May 1916 Co. Bluffs (2 Feb ’42 - 1 Dec ’45); d. 10 May ’47
Fedor, Joseph James 4 Oct 1925 Co. Bluffs (12 Nov ’43 - 15 Apr ’46); d. 18 Jan ’49
From, Glen F 4 May 1010 Co. Bluffs (3 Apr ’44 - 6 Dec ’45); d. 20 Jan ’48
Grate, Forest Glenn 20 Oct 1928 Co. Bluffs 11 Feb 1946 - 24 Aug ’48); d. 24 Aug ’48
Joy, Gene Raymond (SP) 30 Aug 1921 Honey Creek (28 Feb ’44) - 23 Jan ’46); d. 29 Sep ’49
Lovejoy, Harry W. 21 Jul 1915 Co. Bluffs (5 Sep ’42 - 30 Dec ’45); d. 22 Aug ’48
Miner, Frank J. (SP) 10 Oct 1915 Co. Bluffs (10 Dec ’42 - 16 Nov ’45); d 16 Feb ’48
Spidell, George William 23 Jan 1924 Co. Bluffs (29 Jan ’41 - 1 Apr ’47); d. 1 Sep ’48
Thompson, Oxal Ray 22 Feb 1922 Co. Bluffs (6 Jan ’43 - 8 Nov ’45); d. 28 Jul ’48
Decedents with Harrison County claimant:
Adams, David Jackson 15 Sep 1925 Missouri Valley - (Dec ’43 - 4 May ’46); d. 29 Aug ’47
Donahoe, Jack 16 Oct 1910 Missouri Valley - (6 Sep ’42 - 31 Jan ’45); d. 6 Apr ’48
Eggers, Edward 5 Jun 1912 Dunlap - (19 May ’42 - 9 Jul ’43); d. 9 Jul ’43
+ Gallup, Eugene Maxwell (SP) 24 Nov 1919 Logan - (28 Oct ’42 - 24 Apr ’44); d. 24 Apr ’44
Gustafson, Carl Lynn 15 Dec 1913 Mo. Valley (29 Mar ’41 - 11 Feb ’45); d. 11 Feb ’45
Keuter, Ambrose J. (SP) 17 Sep 1918 Dunlap - (28 Jun ’44 - 5 May ’45); d. 5 May ’45
Lesch, Joseph F. 2 Sep 1922 Dunlap - (Jan ’43 - 15 Apr ’45); d. 15 Apr ’45
Moore, Devore Franklin (SP) 24 Jun 1922 Mo. Valley - (18 Feb ’43 - 7 Feb ’45); d. 7 Feb ’45
Parks, Ward Merritt (SP) 21 May 1921 Persia - (20 Jan ’44 - 4 Feb ’46); d. 14 Jul ’47
Pitt, Sidney Bird (SP) 20 Dec 1901 Logan - (6 Nov ’42 - 8 May ’44); d. 11 Jul ’48
Rethmeier, William F. (SP) 28 Feb 1912 Dunlap - (9 Mar ’43 - 30 May ’44); d. 30 May ’44
Thomsen, Walter P. H. 16 Sep 1922 Dunlap - (28 Dec ’42 - 26 Jan ’44); d. 26 Jan ’44
+ Wright, David F. 12 Oct 1917 Dunlap - (29 Mar ’41 - 1 Mar ’45); d. 1 Mar ’45
Decedents with Mills County claimant:
+ Briggs, Orval Pershing 17 Sep 1918 Emerson - (6 Mar ’40 -13 Nov ’42); d. 13 Nov ’42
+ Cargill, Lawrence E. (SP) 6 Aug 1922 Tabor - (20 Nov ’42 - 8 May ’44); d. 8 May ’44
Comba (Combs), Richard Aaron 16 Apr 1920 Pacific Jct. - (10 Sep ’40 - 25 Oct ’45); d. 24 Sep ’49
Edie, Marion Robert 11 Apr 1926 Emerson - (25 Mar ’44 - 22 Mar ’47); d. 14 Jun ’47
Edie, Roland L. 30 May 1918 Emerson - (18 Nov ’40 - 16 Dec ’44); d. 14 Dec ’49 Garrett, Elmer E. (SP) 7 May 1918 Glenwood - (Jun 42 - 3 Dec ’44); d. 3 Dec ’44
+ Holiday, Albert Henry 3 Jun 1920 Glenwood - (10 Sep ’41 - 11 Jun ’44); d. 11 Jun ’44
+ Kitson, Donald E. 30 Apr 1923 Anderson (sic, Audubon, Audubon Co.); d. 8 Apr ’45
Messinger, Jack 12 Sep 1922 Glenwood - (10 Feb ’41 - 2 Nov ’45); d. 8 Nov ’48
Seitz, Charles R. Jr. (SP) 21 Sep 1918 Glenwood - (1 Jun ’41 - 7 Sep ’44); d. 7 Sep ’44
+ Simpson, Harold E. 6 Nov 1919 Emerson - (23 Jun ’44 - 12 Jan ’45); d. 12 Jan ’45
Smith, Jack F. 10 Sep 1910 Glenwood - (26 Mar ’42 - 4 Dec ’43); d. 1 Jan ’48
Sobbing, Ivan A. 21 Nov 1924 Emerson - (16 Jul ’42 - 6 Nov ’45); d. 21 Aug ’48
Windle, Fay R. 21 Jul 1925 Tabor - (14 Sep ’43 - 18 Aug ’44); d. 18 Aug ’44
Decedents with Shelby County claimant:
+ Anderson, Harold M. (SP) 12 Jun 1919 Harlan - (8 May ’41 - 7 Jun ’42); d. 7 Jun ’42
Bird, John H. 20 Mar 1916 Irwin - (16 Dec ’40 - 24 Aug ’43); d. 24 Jan ’48
Blackwell, Kenneth Chester 3 Jan 1919 Defiance - (20 Aug ’40 - 19 Jul ’47); d. 8 Nov ’48
Firebaugh, Gordon Dale 15 Sep 1922 Harlan - (21 Jan ’45 - 3 Sep 1945); d. 3 Sep ’45
Jacobsen, William C. 18 Oct 1911 Harlan - 29 Apr ’42 - 31 Aug ’45); d. 18 Aug ’48
Klinkefus, Harold Emerson 12 Nov 1914 Harlan - (15 Nov ’44 - 5 Nov ’45); d. 18 May ’49
Sternberg, Herbert N. (SP) 11 Mar 1905 Defiance - (7 Nov ’42 - 11 Jun ’43); d. 19 Mar ’44
Part 2 - Roll of Honor/Veteran's Plaza names - lack family/military data - not in my WW II Dead roster.
Part 3 - Roll of Honor/Veteran's Plaza names - area connection unknown - included in my WW II Dead roster.
Part 4 - Major differences between Roll of Honor/Veteran's Plaza names and WW II Dead roster names.
Part 5 - Roll of Honor names not in my WW II Dead roster.
Part 6 - Veteran's Plaza WW II section names not in my WW II Dead roster.
Part 6A - Belongs in the Veteran's Plaza WW I section:
Part 6B - WW II veteran who died later than 1949 and thus not qualified for my WW II Dead roster:
Part 6C - Enlisted after WW II ended, belong in the Veteran's Plaza Died While Serving in the Military section:
Part 6D - Died in the Vietnam War, belong in the Veteran's Plaza Vietnam section:
Sources for the WW II Dead - Outliers webpage:
© 2021 by Robert A. “Bob” Christiansen, updated 23 Feb 2021.
I built my roster of Pottawattamie County area WW II Dead using three major secondary sources:
- Iowa Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries (requires ancestry.com membership to acccess). The beneficiaries of Iowa WW II veterans who were on active duty before 2 Sep 1945 or 31 Dec 1946 (I've seen both dates) and were deceased before 1950 (I don't know the exact cutoff) were entitled to a payment of up to $500, providing certain additional conditions were met.
- http://iagenweb.org/wwii/WWIIRollofHonor/PottawattamieRollofHonor.html - denoted below by RofH. This was developed presumably using as the major source WW II era articles from the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
- http://genealogytrails.com/iowa/pottawattamie/veterans_plaza.htm - names inscribed on the Veteran's Plaza wall at Bayliss Park in Council Bluffs, denoted below by VP.
Part 1 - Names found in Iowa WW II Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries - being addded to my WW II Dead roster.
- Most on the following list of WW II veterans died after release from service but before 1950.
- As time permits, I am adding these names to my WW II Dead roster, starting with those who died before release from service.
- I have excluded veterans who entered service after the Japanese surrender on 2 Sep 1945.
Selected Iowa WW II Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries records
- claimant from Pott. Co. area but decedent not in My WW II Dead Roster as of 1 Feb 2021.
- data shown: decedent’s name, birth date, claimant’s town; service dates; death date
- + means added to the roster, (SP) means in my St. Paul’s database
Decedents with Pottawattamie County claimant:
Aylsworth, James Frankline 23 Oct 1915 Co. Bluffs (9 Feb ’43 - 23 Dec ’44); d. 18 Nov ’47
Barritt, Glen Hough (SP) 7 Jan 1904 Co. Bluffs (25 Jan ’44 - 18 Nov ’45); d. 3 Aug ’49
Brooks, Newell Harvey 23 Jun 1925 Co. Bluffs (19 Jun ’43 - 4 Apr ’46); d. 27 Dec ’48
Casson, John R. Jr. (SP) 29 Apr 1920 McClelland (20 Apr ’42 - 16 Feb ’46); d.. 27 Dec ’48
Champlin, Harold J. 9 Dec 1918 Co. Bluffs (9 Sep ’42 - 16 Oct ’45); d. 29 Mar ’47
Christensen, Chester Lloyd 3 Sep 1927 Co. Bluffs (19 Oct ’45 - 2 Dec ’46); d. 12 Sep ’48
Curnes, Alvin Hezekiah 19 Jan 1906 Co. Bluffs (14 Oct ’42 - 29 Sep ’44); d. 25 Sep ’48
Curran, Walter Francis (SP) 5 Oct 1909 Co. Bluffs (24 Sep ’42 - 2 Oct ’45); d.12 May ’49
Desmond, Bernard P. 10 May 1916 Co. Bluffs (2 Feb ’42 - 1 Dec ’45); d. 10 May ’47
Fedor, Joseph James 4 Oct 1925 Co. Bluffs (12 Nov ’43 - 15 Apr ’46); d. 18 Jan ’49
From, Glen F 4 May 1010 Co. Bluffs (3 Apr ’44 - 6 Dec ’45); d. 20 Jan ’48
Grate, Forest Glenn 20 Oct 1928 Co. Bluffs 11 Feb 1946 - 24 Aug ’48); d. 24 Aug ’48
Joy, Gene Raymond (SP) 30 Aug 1921 Honey Creek (28 Feb ’44) - 23 Jan ’46); d. 29 Sep ’49
Lovejoy, Harry W. 21 Jul 1915 Co. Bluffs (5 Sep ’42 - 30 Dec ’45); d. 22 Aug ’48
Miner, Frank J. (SP) 10 Oct 1915 Co. Bluffs (10 Dec ’42 - 16 Nov ’45); d 16 Feb ’48
Spidell, George William 23 Jan 1924 Co. Bluffs (29 Jan ’41 - 1 Apr ’47); d. 1 Sep ’48
Thompson, Oxal Ray 22 Feb 1922 Co. Bluffs (6 Jan ’43 - 8 Nov ’45); d. 28 Jul ’48
Decedents with Harrison County claimant:
Adams, David Jackson 15 Sep 1925 Missouri Valley - (Dec ’43 - 4 May ’46); d. 29 Aug ’47
Donahoe, Jack 16 Oct 1910 Missouri Valley - (6 Sep ’42 - 31 Jan ’45); d. 6 Apr ’48
Eggers, Edward 5 Jun 1912 Dunlap - (19 May ’42 - 9 Jul ’43); d. 9 Jul ’43
+ Gallup, Eugene Maxwell (SP) 24 Nov 1919 Logan - (28 Oct ’42 - 24 Apr ’44); d. 24 Apr ’44
Gustafson, Carl Lynn 15 Dec 1913 Mo. Valley (29 Mar ’41 - 11 Feb ’45); d. 11 Feb ’45
Keuter, Ambrose J. (SP) 17 Sep 1918 Dunlap - (28 Jun ’44 - 5 May ’45); d. 5 May ’45
Lesch, Joseph F. 2 Sep 1922 Dunlap - (Jan ’43 - 15 Apr ’45); d. 15 Apr ’45
Moore, Devore Franklin (SP) 24 Jun 1922 Mo. Valley - (18 Feb ’43 - 7 Feb ’45); d. 7 Feb ’45
Parks, Ward Merritt (SP) 21 May 1921 Persia - (20 Jan ’44 - 4 Feb ’46); d. 14 Jul ’47
Pitt, Sidney Bird (SP) 20 Dec 1901 Logan - (6 Nov ’42 - 8 May ’44); d. 11 Jul ’48
Rethmeier, William F. (SP) 28 Feb 1912 Dunlap - (9 Mar ’43 - 30 May ’44); d. 30 May ’44
Thomsen, Walter P. H. 16 Sep 1922 Dunlap - (28 Dec ’42 - 26 Jan ’44); d. 26 Jan ’44
+ Wright, David F. 12 Oct 1917 Dunlap - (29 Mar ’41 - 1 Mar ’45); d. 1 Mar ’45
Decedents with Mills County claimant:
+ Briggs, Orval Pershing 17 Sep 1918 Emerson - (6 Mar ’40 -13 Nov ’42); d. 13 Nov ’42
+ Cargill, Lawrence E. (SP) 6 Aug 1922 Tabor - (20 Nov ’42 - 8 May ’44); d. 8 May ’44
Comba (Combs), Richard Aaron 16 Apr 1920 Pacific Jct. - (10 Sep ’40 - 25 Oct ’45); d. 24 Sep ’49
Edie, Marion Robert 11 Apr 1926 Emerson - (25 Mar ’44 - 22 Mar ’47); d. 14 Jun ’47
Edie, Roland L. 30 May 1918 Emerson - (18 Nov ’40 - 16 Dec ’44); d. 14 Dec ’49 Garrett, Elmer E. (SP) 7 May 1918 Glenwood - (Jun 42 - 3 Dec ’44); d. 3 Dec ’44
+ Holiday, Albert Henry 3 Jun 1920 Glenwood - (10 Sep ’41 - 11 Jun ’44); d. 11 Jun ’44
+ Kitson, Donald E. 30 Apr 1923 Anderson (sic, Audubon, Audubon Co.); d. 8 Apr ’45
Messinger, Jack 12 Sep 1922 Glenwood - (10 Feb ’41 - 2 Nov ’45); d. 8 Nov ’48
Seitz, Charles R. Jr. (SP) 21 Sep 1918 Glenwood - (1 Jun ’41 - 7 Sep ’44); d. 7 Sep ’44
+ Simpson, Harold E. 6 Nov 1919 Emerson - (23 Jun ’44 - 12 Jan ’45); d. 12 Jan ’45
Smith, Jack F. 10 Sep 1910 Glenwood - (26 Mar ’42 - 4 Dec ’43); d. 1 Jan ’48
Sobbing, Ivan A. 21 Nov 1924 Emerson - (16 Jul ’42 - 6 Nov ’45); d. 21 Aug ’48
Windle, Fay R. 21 Jul 1925 Tabor - (14 Sep ’43 - 18 Aug ’44); d. 18 Aug ’44
Decedents with Shelby County claimant:
+ Anderson, Harold M. (SP) 12 Jun 1919 Harlan - (8 May ’41 - 7 Jun ’42); d. 7 Jun ’42
Bird, John H. 20 Mar 1916 Irwin - (16 Dec ’40 - 24 Aug ’43); d. 24 Jan ’48
Blackwell, Kenneth Chester 3 Jan 1919 Defiance - (20 Aug ’40 - 19 Jul ’47); d. 8 Nov ’48
Firebaugh, Gordon Dale 15 Sep 1922 Harlan - (21 Jan ’45 - 3 Sep 1945); d. 3 Sep ’45
Jacobsen, William C. 18 Oct 1911 Harlan - 29 Apr ’42 - 31 Aug ’45); d. 18 Aug ’48
Klinkefus, Harold Emerson 12 Nov 1914 Harlan - (15 Nov ’44 - 5 Nov ’45); d. 18 May ’49
Sternberg, Herbert N. (SP) 11 Mar 1905 Defiance - (7 Nov ’42 - 11 Jun ’43); d. 19 Mar ’44
Part 2 - Roll of Honor/Veteran's Plaza names - lack family/military data - not in my WW II Dead roster.
- Andersen, Andrew - RofH, VP
- Blair, Clyde T. - VP
- Petersen, Merle J. RofH, VP
- Porter, Dale L. - VP
- Saunders, William “Jim” - VP
- Weide, Elaine G. - VP
- Wilkinson, Robert L., d. 27 Mar ’45 - RofH
Part 3 - Roll of Honor/Veteran's Plaza names - area connection unknown - included in my WW II Dead roster.
- Anderson, Virgil Wendell, SN T-003902, USAAF, Buena Vista & Pott. Cos. - RofH, VP
- Hansen, Matthias Peter, SN 39-839-172, US Army, Humboldt Co., CA - RofH, VP
- Jensen, Carl Christian, SN 6-863-492, US Army, Audubon & Pott. Cos. - RofH, VP
- Rhoads, Guy Benjamin, SN 648-06-39, US Navy, Custer Co., NE - RofH, VP
- Sturd, Clarence Vincent, SNs 37-112-253 & 37-142-251, US Army, Harvey Co., KS, VP
Part 4 - Major differences between Roll of Honor/Veteran's Plaza names and WW II Dead roster names.
- Alter, Earl Carlton, SN O-157398, US Naval Aviation, of Persia, IA, appears as Carlton, Earl in RofH.
- Duffy/Lein, Robert Eugene, SN 17-197-256, appears in army records under this serial number both as Lein Robert E and Duffy Robert E. His mother was divorced from Lawrence D. Lein and married to Edward P. Duffy.
- McLoud, James Fredrick of Walnut, Pott. Co. served from Washington Co., Oklahoma as Long, Fred O., SN 37-442-043, US Army. He appears as McLoud, James Fredrick in RofH and as Long, Fred O. in VP.
Part 5 - Roll of Honor names not in my WW II Dead roster.
- Petersen, Jack Millard, SN 648-08-27, US Navy; b. 18 Oct 1921 Co. Bluffs; s/o Harley Petersen & Frances H. Millard of Co. Bluffs; entered service 4 Jan 1942 from Co. Bluffs; released 5 Nov 1945; d. 4 Mar 1973; probable confusion with Jack Peterson of Harlan, Shelby Co., s/o Harlan Peterson, who was lost at sea in the Atlantic Ocean during WW II and is included in my WW II roster.
Part 6 - Veteran's Plaza WW II section names not in my WW II Dead roster.
Part 6A - Belongs in the Veteran's Plaza WW I section:
- Smith, Ruby - b. 13 Jan 1888 Pott. Co.; d/o Willard E. Smith & Susan Knox of Grove Twp.; WW I Red Cross volunteer from Macedonia, Pott. Co.; d. 16 Oct 1918 in New York during the influenza pandemic on her way to France; bur. Macedonia Cem.; Macedonia's Ruby Smith Post 648 of the American Legion carries her name.
Part 6B - WW II veteran who died later than 1949 and thus not qualified for my WW II Dead roster:
- Cain, Orville J. - Orville James Cain, SN 250572, Sgt., USMC; b. 9 Feb 1909 s/o James E. Cain & Catherine E. Schriver who lived in Nebraska and then settled in rural Carson, Pott. Co.; 1st Defense Bn., Wake Island; POW near Shanghai, China; m. Bernice Rose Viola Kunze; d. 8 Oct 1987; bur. Wheeler Grove Cem. near Carson.
- Wall, Charles E. - Charles Elmer Wall b. 18 Mar 1923 near Griswold, Pleasant Twp., Cass Co.; s/o Vernon E. Wall & Edith Moore; served in ETO in WW II; m. Betty J. Briles; d. 7 Feb 1995; bur. Mt. Olivet Cem., Cheyenne, WY.
- Winger, Ancil W. - Ancil Wayne Winger, SN 3164416, Electrician's Mate 3/c, US Navy; b. 29 Oct 1916 Plattsmouth, NE s/o Earl Winger & Gladys Edie; raised in Co. Bluffs; parents at 1607 4th Ave. during WW II; submarine USS Perch (SS-176), damaged by Japanese destroyer torpedoes and scuttled NW of Surabaya, Java 3 Mar 1942; POW (of the crew of 54, five died in captivity, 49 survived WW II); remained in service after WW II; married Elizabeth Jane "Betty" Wise 1954; d. 8 May 1986, bur. Ft. Logan Nat'l Cem., Denver, CO.
Part 6C - Enlisted after WW II ended, belong in the Veteran's Plaza Died While Serving in the Military section:
- Grate, Forest G., USAF - b. 20 Oct 1928; s/o Forest Glenn Grate & Perninah Jean “Jennie” Penman; enlisted Feb 1946; Sgt. 1100th Sta. Med, Gp.; d. 24 Aug 1948 in two-plane collision near Newton, NJ; bur. Memorial Park Cem., Co. Bluffs.
- Hathaway, Joseph L., US Army - b. 7 Oct 1929; s/o Gaylord Roy Hathaway & Lessie Pearl German; enlisted 16 Jan 1946; d. 17 Jul 1949 in Germany; bur. Memorial Park Cem., Co. Bluffs.
- Phipps, Louis C., SN 3180449, US Navy - b. 8 Dec 1930; s/o Carroll Wilfred Phipps & Sarah Arlene Colwell; enlisted 19 Feb 1948; d. 6 Aug 1951 at Moffett Field, Santa Clara Co., CA; bur. Cedar Lawn Cem., Co. Bluffs.
- Pierson, Lawrence E., US Navy - b. 2 Jan 1930 Co. Bluffs; s/o Leo Dallas Pierson & Eva Umble; enlisted 1948; d. at home on leave 3 Jul 1950; bur. Memorial Park Cem., Co. Bluffs.
Part 6D - Died in the Vietnam War, belong in the Veteran's Plaza Vietnam section:
- Leighton, Earl L., SN B608294, USN - b. 22 Oct 1937 Colorado; s/o Ellsworth Sherbeck Leighton & Erma Gertrude Kirby; enlisted ~ 1957 from Omaha; d. 17 Jan 1969 Bien Hoa, Dong Hai, Vietnam; bur. Cedar Lawn Cem., Co. Bluffs.
- Schickner, Bernard E. - SSN 485-54-3089, US Army; b. 10 Feb '45; entered service 3 Jan '66, released 16 Dec '68; d. 4 Apr '72; bur. Hardin Twp. Cem. SE of McClelland, IA.
- Schmidt, Howard D. This is Dale Howard Schmidt, 1947-1968, who died in Vietnam, and who also appears in the Veterans Plaza Vietnam section as Dale H. Schmidt. There is a memorial to Dale on the grounds of the Twisted Tail restaurant in Beebeetown, Iowa erected by his friend, Eddie Spencer.
Sources for the WW II Dead - Outliers webpage:
- The webpage header photo, Ruby Smith Grave, Macedonia, Iowa, is courtesy of findagrave.com.