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 Source: website bigpigeon.us, webpage WW II Dead.
© 2021 by Robert A. “Bob” Christiansen, updated 29 Jan 2021.


This webarea consists of webpages related to my Pottawattamie County, Iowa area WW II Dead roster of around 500 United States servicemen and women who died in WW II. This roster includes:
  • Almost all WWII-related deaths from Pottawattamie, Harrison, Mills, and Shelby Counties. 
  • Both personal information (e.g., parents) and military data (e.g., unit). 

Related to this webarea are my summaries, as yet incomplete, of United States military activity during WW II, which comprise the WW II - Japan and WW II - Germany webareas.

The WW II Dead roster and the WW II summaries are integrated thusly:
  • A WW II - Japan or WW II - Germany webpage often ends by listing the area WW II dead from events described in that webpage.
  • The World Wars > WW II Outlines webpage outlines both the WW II - Japan and WW II - Germany webareas, with corresponding counts of roster fatalities.

You can view the WW II Dead roster on-line from three perspectives:
  • Alphabetically - in eleven parts, with member's personal and military data.
​          ​access a part here ==>  AB    C        DEF   GHI   JKL   M     NO   PQR   S       TUV   WXYZ
  • By members' home location  - Council Bluffs, rural Pott. Co., other Iowa counties, other states.
  • By members' death location - War with Japan, War with Germany, stateside.
The Pott. Co. Area WW II Dead Roster Summary Data report provides aggregate data.

Additional WW II Dead webpages:  ​
  • Roster Usage - understanding and using the WW II Dead roster.
  • Roster Background - background information related to the WW II Dead roster.
  • Roster Links - links to web resources I used to build the WW II Dead roster.​ Other military-related links are at World Wars > WW II - Links.
  • Roster Photos -  in its early stages, currently has only 17 images.​
  • Roster Outliers - names of Pott. Co. dead veterans that fit into special categories.
 
My excerpts from government WW II Dead lists:
  • PottCoWWiiUSArmy&USAAFdead - 1946 War Dept. list of Pott. Co. dead & missing; all but one listed are in my WW II Dead roster; not searchable.
  • PottCoWWiiUSNavy&UXMCMCdead - Navy Dept. list of dead with next of kin in Pott. Co. (and some in adjoining counties); all but one listed are in my WW II Dead roster.
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Sources for the WW II Dead webpage:
  • The webpage header image shows the Pottawattamie County Veteran's Plaza in Council Bluffs on the east side of Bayliss Park. See more at http://genealogytrails.com/iowa/pottawattamie/veterans_plaza.htm.
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Epigraph from Veterans Plaza Memorial, Bayliss Park, Council Bluffs, Iowa
 In honor of the veterans in my WW II Dead roster to whom we owe so much, I have included the following eloquent and moving epigraph, The Glory of their Spirit by the late Richard W. Peterson of Council Bluffs.

When destiny demanded and country called,
they in answer left our rolling hills
and great river valley, and learned the arts of war. Then, on and beneath restless waves of the deep,
in endless skies and across vast oceans to island shores, on broad plains and barren hillsides, in dark forests,

on snow-covered mountains and in the rubble of smashed villages
and cities they faced and fought, with valor and dedication,
those who challenged our ideals and freedom and,
in the very vortex of combat, were then greeted and embraced by Death. The soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen were not born

to die in the youth of their lives – yet they did.
They were not born to die death of violence – yet they did.
By cruel and brutal circumstances of war, they gave their lives
that we might live our lives and years in liberty and peace.
Never should we forget their ultimate sacrifice.
We now in their memory carve their names in stone,
and enshrine them in our hearts;
we now cast in eternal bronze, figures who in sorrow and
in the long, long thoughts of youth
reflect on the last measure of devotion given by those we now honor, and we join their mute and motionless yet eloquent presence
in their silent meditation,
Thinking not only of the passing of the departed patriots,
But remembering the glory of their spirit.


© Richard W. Peterson, reprinted with permission of Kip (Peterson) Sherbondy.
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