National WW II Memorial
National WW II Memorial
 Source: website bigpigeon.us, webpage WW II Dead > The Roster
© 2020 by Robert A. “Bob” Christiansen, updated 24 Sep 2020.
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Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead - The Roster
  • Because of the roster length, I have divided it alphabetically into eleven parts.
  • click here to access a part ==>  AB    C        DEF   GHI   JKL   M     NO   PQR   S       TUV   WXYZ
Some abbreviations used in the roster:
  • Co. Bluffs – Council Bluffs, Iowa; Pott. Co. – Pottawattamie County, Iowa; Omaha – Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska.
The Using the Roster webpage describes roster record organization and the many abbreviations used therein.

Header Images used on this page and the eleven WW II Dead roster webpages:
  • ​The webpage header photo, National WW II Memorial, courtesy of https://washington.org/dc-guide-to/national-world-war-ii-memorial.
  • AB - Cabanatuan List of Dead courtesy of en.wikipedia.org. The three Bostedt brothers, and others from my roster, died at the Cabanatuan POW Camp in central Luzon, Philippines.
  • C - 8th AF Base Duxford, courtesy of airspacemag.com. Duxford, England, south of Cambridge, is Europe's largest air museum. It was a 8th Air Force base during WW II.
  • DEF - Barak Obama at Midway Island, courtesy of Reuters News Service. Two men from my roster died during the Battle of Midway.
  • ​GHI - Battle of the Bulge Memorial, courtesy of dreamstime.com. The memorial is in Mardasson, a few miles northeast of Bastogne, Belgium. Nineteen men from my roster died in the Battle of the Bulge.
  • JKL - Marine Corps Memorial - Arlington, VA, courtesy of wikimedia.org. This memorial depicts the second flag raising on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. Six men in my roster died on Iwo Jima - they were all still alive when the flag was raised early in the battle.
  • M - USS Arizona Memorial - Pearl Harbor, courtesy of visitpearlharbor.org. Three men in my roster died from the attack at Pearl Harbor.
  • NO - Pacific War Memorial, courtesy of http://ttnotes.com/pacific-war-memorial.html. This memorial is on Corrregidor Island, which guarded the entrance to Manila Bay in the Philippines.
  • PQR - Hiroshima Memorial, courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org. All but two of Roy M. Pedersen Jr.'s fellow crew members died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6 Aug 1945.
  • S - National D-Day Memorial, courtesy of cbs.com. This memorial, in Bedford, VA, lists all 4,400 Allied troops known to have died on D-Day. 19 were from the small town of Bedford. Two US Navy men in my roster died supporting the Normandy invasion.
  • TUV - Wereth 11 Memorial, courtesy of http://lestweforget.hamptonu.edu. The Wereth 11 were eleven  members of the Black 333rd Field Artillery Bn., prisoners of war executed by German forces on the outskirts of Wereth, Belgium in the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge.
  • ​WXYZ - Okinawa - American Dead, courtesy of https://www.dvidshub.net, a Defense Department service.  All known dead from the Battle of Okinawa are listed on the panels at the Okinawa Peace Memorial Dead. Something like 200,000 died, including 12,500 Americans.​