Source: website bigpigeon.us, webpage WW II Dead > The Roster.
© 2021 by Robert A. “Bob” Christiansen, updated 8 Mar 2021.

Pottawattamie County, Iowa Area WW II Dead - The Roster:
  • Because of roster length, it is divided alphabetically into eleven parts.
  • Recent additions are listed below.
  • Click here to access ==>  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 organization and the many abbreviations used.

Recent Roster Entries:
  • 8 Mar 2021: Curnes, Alvin Hezekiah, Pott. Co. (d. after separation from service)
  • 7 Mar 2021: Aid, Alvin Eldred, Page & Taylor Cos.
  • 6 Mar 2021: Garrett, Elmer Earl "Bud", Fremont Co.
  • 6 Mar 2021: Moore, Devore Franklin, Harrison Co.
  • 5 Mar 2021: Gustafson, Carl Lynn, Emmet Co.
  • 2 Mar 2021: Windle, Fay Richard, Fremont Co.
  • 2 Mar 2021: Keuter, Ambrose J., Crawford Co.
  • 1 Mar 2021: Firebaugh,Gordon Dale, Audubon Co.
  • 28 Feb 2021: Rethmeier, William F. "Jack", Crawford Co.
  • 28 Feb 2021: Seitz, Charles Raymond Jr., Mills Co.
  • 28 Feb 2021: Eggers, Edward, Crawford Co.
  • 27 Feb 2021: Thomsen, Walter Peter Henry, Crawford Co.
  • 25 Feb 2021: Lesch, Joseph Ferdinand, Harrison Co.
  • 23 Feb 2021: Simpson, Harold Elwood, Montgomery Co.
  • 22 Feb 2021: Cargill, Lawrence Elroy, Fremont Co.
  • 21 Feb 2021: Andersen/Anderson, Harold Martin, Shelby Co.
  • 20 Feb 2021: Wright, David Frederick, Crawford Co.
  • 19 Feb 2021: Briggs, Orval Pershing, Montgomery Co.
  • 18 Feb 2021: Kitson, Donald Edgar, Audubon Co.
  • 17 Feb 2021: Holiday, Albert Henry, Harrison & Ringgold Cos.
  • 14 Feb 2021: Gallup, Eugene Maxwell, Harrison Co.
  • ​3 Feb 2021: Bray, Gordon Lee, Rt 1, Underwood, Pott. Co. (d. after separation from service)

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.​