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WWII Roster
bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Roster > Roster Residences, © 2023 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 10 Feb 2023.
Viewing the Roster by Members' Home Locations
Every Roster Record and Other WWII Era Dead listee appears in one or two of these twelve webpages.
  • Council Bluffs - held over half the population of Pottawattamie County.
  • Rural Pottawattamie County - the remainder of Pottawattamie County.
  • Audubon County - east of Shelby County. (incomplete)
  • Cass County - east of Pottawattamie County.
  • Harrison County - north of Pottawattamie County.
  • Mills County - south of Pottawattamie County.
  • Montgomery County - south of Pottawattamie County and east of Mills County.
  • Shelby County - north of Pottawattamie County and east of Harrison County.
  • Other Southwest Iowa Counties - the eleven counties adjoining the above six counties.
  • Remaining Iowa Counties - the 82 remaining Iowa counties.
  • Iowa's Six Border States - Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, & Wisconsin.
  • Remaining States - California was far the most common.
About the webpages shown above:
  • These lists consist of the heading lines of roster records (name, service number, service branch, counties).
  • Webpages 1-8 are nearly complete, except for Audubon Co.
  • Webpages 2-8, for Pottawattamie area counties, are organized by town.
  • The fragmentary webpages 9-12 are organized by counties.
  • "vet" denotes a veteran who died after separation from service but before 1950. Full records for these veterans are not in WWII Roster > Roster Records but rather in WWII Roster > Other WWII Era Dead webpage.​

Some roster members are included in two of these lists for several reasons:
  • I sometimes learned from census records, obituaries, or family histories that the the roster member had spent considerable periods of time in two counties. 
  • I often included the home county or town as given in the 1946 War and Navy Departments lists of WWII dead or in county honor lists of WWII dead, even when this was at variance with what one would otherwise expect to be the home county.
  • WWII decedents who happened to live near a county border were often viewed as being from a nearby town in the adjoining county. I have attempted to include both counties.
  • The decedent may have lived elsewhere but had next of kin living in a Pottawattamie area county.

Links to my other webpages or reports containing information about roster members home locations:
  • Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln High School WWII Dead - report listing dead from the 1946 ALHS yearbook.
  • ​Gold Star Avoca - Big Pigeon webpage - deaths from all wars for Avoca, Iowa.
  • St. Paul's - report listing all WWII veterans of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Boomer/Neola.
  • WWII Dead - Allied Family Members - out-of-date report, mostly relatives of my uncles and aunts.
Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Roster > Roster Residences subpages
Images used on this page: 
  • Pottawattamie Area, the page header index map, is courtesy of familysearch.org.​
Images used on the eleven Pottawattamie Area WW II Roster Members homes subpages:
  1. Council Bluffs - the 1942 Council Bluffs - Omaha map is courtesy of https://www.aaroads.com/nebraska/omaha/#iLightbox[image_carousel_1]/1, which also has 1956 and 1965 maps.
  2. Rural Pottawattamie County - 
  3. Cass County - the c. 1930 county map is taken from the Iowa Digital Library's Montgomery Co. Hixson atlas.
  4. Harrison County - the Harrison County map is courtesy of iagenweb.org/harrison.
  5. Mills County - the Mills County map is courtesy of iagenweb.org/mills.
  6. Montgomery County - header image found at http://iagenweb.org/montgomery/photos/1930mapMontgo.jpg
  7. Shelby County - the Shelby County map is courtesy of rootsweb.com/~iashelb.
  8. Other SW Iowa Counties
  9. Other Iowa Counties
  10. Iowa's Six Border States - the Midwestern US map is courtesy of https://www.britannica.com/place/Midwest​.
  11. Other States:
The Fifty United States map is courtesy of https://www.50states.com/cap.htm.
  • The California Counties map is courtesy of the California State Association of Counties.
  • The Missouri Counties and County Seats map is courtesy of geology.com.
  • The Nebraska Counties map is courtesy of www.siteatlas.com.
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