​​​🔗=========>> High-Level World War II Modules and Key Submodules <<========🔗
     WWII Dead             WWII Hub             WWII US             WWII Japan           WWII Germany
Roster    Locality                               Overview    Sources                                         MTO    ETO

​​🔗==============>> the WWII Dead Module - major sections​​ <<=============🔗
​Roster     Format     Ancillary     Locality    Land-Air-Sea Dead     Service Data     Addenda
Sources     Outliers     Additions
​    –––––––––-------–– the full list of WWII Dead sections appears below ––––––––––––––––​

bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Dead, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 1 Nov 2025.
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Big Pigeon's WWII Dead module memorializes over 700 World War II dead, mostly from Pottawattamie County and nearby southwest Iowa counties, who together comprise my Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead roster. 
(view Wikipedia estimates of total deaths attributable to WWII)​
Links to all Big Pigeon's WWII Dead submodules:​​
  • Roster Pages (47 subpages) - individual records for roster members, each containing basic family and military service data.
  • Record Format - how to interpret a roster record.
  • Ancillary Pages (four subpages) - records for selected other Pottawattamie area WWII-era dead.
  • Locality Data (17 subpages) - home locations for roster members and ancillary WWII-era dead.​
  • Roster Dead - Land, Air, Sea (three subpages) - army dead by division, air dead by aircraft, navy dead by ship.
  • Service Data (13 subpages) - roster member military service data, including death date and location.
  • Roster Addenda (three subpages) - gateway to miscellaneous roster-related topics.    
  • Roster Sources (three subpages) - research resources placed here for convenience.
  • Roster Outliers (five subpages) - area dead veterans that fit into special categories.​
  • Roster Additions (five subpages) - pending roster and ancillary records; archives of some older records.
  • ​Roster Photos (ten subpages, inactive, limited content, will remove).​​ 
  • About the Roster - miscellaneous content not of general interest.   

Big Pigeon's WWII Dead module ...
  • provides multiple views of the Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead (e.g, alphabetically, by home location, and by service data).
  • is integrated with Big Pigeon's WWII US, WWII Japan and WWII Germany modules.
  •  includes almost all of the WWII military deaths associated with Audubon, Cass, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Pottawattamie, and Shelby Counties in southwest Iowa.
  • includes both personal information (e.g., parents) and military service data (e.g., unit). ​

Some other relevant Big Pigeon content:​