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                         bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Dead > Roster Hub > Roster X-Y-Z, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 30 Oct 2025
                      Part 46/46 of the Pottawattamie Area World War II Dead Roster, six "X-Y-Z" records
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† Yergey, Stanley Allen, SN 0-717-010, US Army Air Force, Douglas Co., NE

• b. 23 Feb 1923 Omaha; s/o John M. Yergey Sr. (b. Montgomery Co.) & Charlotte M. Smith (b. Iowa Co.).
• married Virginia Gantz of Omaha 1944 in Omaha.
• entered service Mar 1943 from Omaha; service credited to Douglas Co., NE; group burial Santa Fe Natl. Cem., Santa Fe Co., NM.
• 853th Bomb. Sqdn., 491th Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force, based at Metfield, Suffolk, England; Consolidated B-24 Liberator #44-10485 Dorty Treek bombardier; KIA 26 Nov 1944; aircraft shot down between Sarstedt and Heisede, south of Hanover, Germany; four died, Lt. Yergey's remains found in the aircraft.
• WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force

† Young, Robert Edson, SN 37-676-788, US Army, Audubon Co.

• b. 14 Feb 1926 rural Brayton, Exira Twp., Audubon Co.; s/o Leroy E. "Roy" Young (b. Benton Co.) & Ellen E. Jones (b. Brayton, Audubon Co.).
• entered service 10 Sep 1943 from Rt. 1, Brayton, Audubon Co.; service credited to Audubon Co.; buried Normandy American Cem., Colleville-sur-Mer, Calvados Dept., Normandy, France.
• 137th Inf. Regt., 35th Inf. Div., V Corps, First Army; KIA 30 Jul 1944 SE of St. Lo, Manche Dept., Normandy, France.
• WWII Germany > The ETO > Liberation > Operation Cobra

​† Zaiger, Albert Charles, SN 620-04-88, US Navy, Audubon Co.

• b. 13 Dec 1919 Douglas Twp., Audubon Co.; s/o George J. Zaiger & Ethel R. Templeman, both b. Audubon Co.; George Zaiger family moved to town of Audubon in 1940s.
• entered service Aug 1941 from Audubon, Audubon Co.; next of kin father, Mr. John George Zaiger, Audubon, IA; body not recovered; memorialized Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cem., Luzon, Philippines.
• heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38); KIA 13 Nov 1942 Ironbottom Sound, north of Guadalcanal, Solomon Is.; San Francisco hit by multiple Japanese shells; around 100 died.
• WWII Japan > Solomon Islands > Guadalcanal Naval War @ First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

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† Zaiger, Roy Jensen, SN 39-339-753, US Army Air Force, Audubon Co. & Washington Co., OR

• b. 13 Jan 1925 Kennard, Washington Co., NE; s/o Christian F. Zaiger (b. Audubon Co.) & Anna M. Jensen (b. Shelby Co.); Christian Zaiger family lived in rural Audubon Co. 1935, in Yamhill Co., OR 1940,  and in Washington Co., OR 1942.
• entered service from Washington Co., OR 16 Sep 1943; service credited to Washington Co., OR; body not recovered; memorialized Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cem., Coton, Cambridgeshire, England.
• 836th Bomb. Sqdn., 487th Bomb. Gp., Eighth Air Force; based at Lavenham, Suffolk, England; Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress #42-97398 waist gunner with pilot Claude E. Gatlin Jr.; KIA 31 Dec 1944; aircraft disappeared after takeoff on mission to Hamburg, Germany, never seen in formation, presumed lost over North Sea; crew of nine lost.
• WWII Germany > The ETO > ETO Air War > Eighth Air Force

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about Albert and Roy Zaiger:

• cousins, both being grandsons of John Zaiger and Elizabeth Dreher.

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† Zangerle, John Mathew, SN 37-146-204, US Army, Shelby & Dubuque Cos.

• b. 26 May 1911 Dubuque, Dubuque Co.; s/o Frank Zangerle (b. Luxembourg; d. 1942) & Crescentia Schuets/Schultz (b. Austria); family moved to rural Shelby Co. before 1920, living first in Union Twp. and then in Washington Twp.
• lived in Dubuque Co. in 1935 and Omaha in 1940.
• service credited to Dubuque Co.; buried St. Marys Cem., Portsmouth, Shelby Co.
• 129th Inf. Regt., 37th Inf. Div., XIV Corps, Sixth Army; KIA 15 Feb 1945 Manila, Luzon Philippines.
• Military Note: posthumous Silver Star recipient.
• WWII Japan > Philippines Liberated > Luzon @ Battle of Manila

​† Zentz, Ervin Emory, SN 37-699-101, US Army, Pott. Co. & Valley Co., NE

• b. 25 Jun 1921 Ord, Valley Co., NE; s/o Emory W. Zentz (b. Co. Bluffs) & Eva E. Hoisington (b. Madison Co., IA); family moved from Ord to Minden, Pott. Co. in the early 1940s and returned to Ord in the late 1940s.
• married Verna L. Stowell of Nebraska Jan 1938 in Grand Island, Hall Co., NE, three children; lived in Arcadia Twp., Valley Co., NE in 1940.
• enlisted 26 Jun 1944 at Omaha from Iowa; service credited to Douglas Co., NE; buried Ord Cem., Valley Co., NE.
• Co. B, 756th Tank Bn., 3rd Inf. Div., XV Corps, Seventh Army; WIA 18 Apr 1945 near Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany; DOW 21 Apr 1945 in hospital, France.
• WWII Germany The ETO > Central Europe > Southern Germany @ Battle of Nuremberg

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