All Gave Some - Some Gave All
All Gave Some - Some Gave All
bigpigeon.us webpage WWII > WWII References, updated by RAC 17 Apr 2022. 

Links to the web resources used to develop Big Pigeon's WWII-related webareas are distributed in three webpages:Home > Resources contains links to web and print resources used in other portions of Big Pigeon.

About the page header photos used in the WWII References webarea:
  • ​The WWII References header photo, All Gave Some, Some Gave All, is courtesy of aaronfairbairn.com.
  • The Free Sites header photo, US Cemetery, Sicily, 1944 shows one of the temporary cemeteries used to hold our overseas war dead in WWII. These cemeteries held the dead reinterred from battlefield burial sites. After WWII ended, next of kin chose to either repatriate the dead or have the dead transferred to a permanent overseas cemetery.
  • The Pay Sites header photo, Walnut Eagle, is courtesy of  walnutiowa.org. It shows the memorial to war veterans from the Walnut, Iowa area. Starting in 2007, most Pottawattamie County communities installed public memorials to the war veterans from their area. Each memorial featured a bronze eagle statuary done by Russ Christensen of Neola, Iowa. http://www.eaglesofhonorproject.com is an older website telling of this project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCRlqz6eF08 is video of each memorial compliments of Western Iowa Television.
  • The Personnel Lists header photo shows the WWII 7th Service Command headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska. During WW II, the 7th Service Command performed numerous rear-echelon US Army tasks over a nine-state area including Iowa. Headquarters was in the 1933 art deco Federal Building at 15th and Dodge in Omaha, which still survives as a hotel. Iowa's presence in the 7th Service Command area is the reason that the second digit of my 1954 service number was 7. Enlistees numbers started with 17, draftees with 37.