World War II

 

  1. Table One - Dead and Missing List
  2. Table Two - Additional Veterans List

WORLD WAR II HONOR LIST OF DEAD AND MISSING
FOR MITCHELL COUNTY, IOWA

LAST NAME, FIRST NAMESELECTIVE
SERVICE #
RANK STATUS
ANDERSON, RUDOLPH A. 37656070 PVT KIA
COONROD, DALE E. 37678360 PVT KIA
CORBESIA, RAYMOND J. 37045913 S SG KIA
CRAWFORD, ELDON E. 37420677 PFC KIA
DE GRAFF, HAROLD J. 37111053 SGT KIA
DIAZ, FELIX 37677247 S SG KIA
DIAZ, JOHN F. 17003899 PFC KIA
DREW, JAMES S. 0-696443 2 LT DNB
EBY, ROBERT N. 37048015 TEC4 DNB
ELLISON, HOWARD B. 37043022 PVT DOW
FREIN, JEROME W. 37111559 TEC5 DNB
COSSELIN, EARL E. 37678389 PVT DNB
GREEN, ROBERT C. 0-683128 2 LT KIA
HACKENMILLER, LEO A. 37044640 PFC KIA
HOBBS, HILMER W. 37665320 S SG KIA
LEBOW, STANLEY M. 37427434 PFC KIA
MARTIN, HIRAM K. 37191607 S SG KIA
MARVIN, LESTER F. 37112176 S SG KIA
MAYER, FREDERICK W. 37195132 TEC4 DNB
MAYER, LOREN J. 37047801 TEC4 KIA
OGDEN, MERLE V. 0-756007 2 LT DNB
ORMSBY, CLETUS T. 0-753718 1 LT KIA
ORMSBY, VIRGIL A. 37045916 PFC KIA
SLAICHERT, HARLEY G. 37111561 PFC KIA
SWITZER, VERNON D. 37111566 CPL KIA
TORGERSON, LESTER E. 6800653 CPL KIA
WAGNER, WILFRED S. 37433744 PVT DNB
WALK, WALTER E. 37433718 SGT DOI
WELLS, HOWARD E. 37046609 S SG DNB
WILLIAMS, ALBERT JR. 37665297 PFC KIA
WILLIAMS, LEONARD K. 37681997 PFC KIA
WRIGHT, GORDON E. 37039211 S SG DNB

      

KEY

KIA--Killed In Action
DOW--Died of wounds
DOI--Died of injuries
DNB--Died-non-battle
FOD--Finding of death (under Public Law 490)
M--Missing

Source: War Dept. June 1946 -- Submitted 09/2002 by Nettie Mae -- ClintonRoots@aol.com


 

ADDITIONAL WORLD WAR II VETERANS

NAME

BIRTH-DEATH

SERVICE & NOTES

Adams, Harold

1919-2013

US Army Medic

Adams, Jerome J.

1920-2003

US Army - S Sgt.

Allen, John Jay

1921-2005

US Army-Bataan Death March - Obit

Alley, Walter Vern, Jr.

1924-2007

Army Air Corps

Anderson, Rudolph A.

c1912-1944

US Army - Obit

Anhorn, Lyle 'Slug'

1924-1987

US Army Paratrooper - POW

Arickx, Leon

1918-1941

KIA US Navy
Pearl Harbor casualty

Bakkum, Glen A.

1921-1951

US Army - Corps. of Eng.

Ball, Leonard Galen

1905- ?

Army - Obit.

Bechtum, Kenneth Lee

1926-2007

US Navy - Radioman - Obit

Bechtum, Rollin F.

1927-1965

US Army - Obit

Beebe, Robert William

1918-1950

US Navy

Belz, Edith W.

1916-1973

PHM 2 USNR - Obit

Belz, Howard W.

1911-1989

US Army TEC 5

Bemus, Lyman John

1914-1996

US Navy

Berg, Max Dale

1922-1944

DNB - Naval Res.

Betow, Burton C.

1924-2005

US Army - Europe

Beuerman, Virgil A.

1915-1996

Capt. US Navy - WW II & Korea

Beyer, Arthur Otto William

1909-1965

US Army, Sgt., Bio
Medal Of Honor

Beyer, William R.

1911-1966

US Army - Obit

Bilharz, Kenneth Otto

1920-1944

US Army - Obit

Blake, Eugene

1920-1999

Army Air Force

Blaser, Richard

1918-2010

US Army

Blonigan, Edward

1902-1951

Unknown

Boening, Waldemar

1918-2005

Unknown

Boge, Eugene

1920-2001

US Army - Pacific

Bork, Wayne Ivan

1924-2011

US Army - Europe

Brandau, Erwin A.

1915-1961

US Army Air Force, Cpl.

Brandt, Walter O.

1915-1997

US Army

Brasch, Claire Clif.

1916-2012

US Marines

Brockney, Lester F.

1927-1987

US Army

Brewer, Meryl G.

1925-2013

US Navy 1943-46

Brumm, Dorothy A.

1921-2002

Nurse - Bur. Ft. Snelling

Brumm, Francis X.

1914-2006

US Army

Bundy, Glendon W.

1922-2005

US Army - Corporal

Bush, Brutis M.

1908-1987

Veteran

Carroll, Raymond P.

1926-1966

US Army Air Force, Pfc.

Carter, Ernest Ray, Jr.

1922-2009

Marines

Chancellor, Richard A.

1917-1987

US Army - Sgt.

Cheney, Lynn

1909-1995

US Army

Church, John H.

1925-2011

US Navy

Clausen, Leo

1918-2003

US Army - Pacific - Obit

Clayton, Harold

c1917-1988

US Navy - Obit

Clayton, Kenneth Randolph

1922-2003

US Navy - 1940-1967 - Obit

Clayton, Robert Lee

1920-1977

US Navy, Pearl Harbor Survivor - Obit

Condon, William

1927-2006

US Navy

Coonradt Dieterich, Janette

1924-1997

Marine Band

Coonradt, Glen Salathiel

1916-1944

US Marines - Pelileu - Obit

Copper, Gilbert F.

1923-2010

US Army - S. Sgt

Corbesia, Raymond

1919-1945

US Army Jan 29, 1945 Luzon

Counsell, Merlyn Chester

1920-2009

US Army

Covey, Grant

1900-1978

US Army - Pvt.

Cowell, Derald

1916-1981

Unknown service

Cowell, Lloyd V.

1925-1959

US Navy

Cox, Donald Stewart

c1922-1942

Merchant Marine - Obit

Crawford, Eldon

1920-1945

US Army - KIA - Obit

Culver, Robert Rush

1920-2004

US Army - Signal Corps, India

Danzow, Alfred Sofronie

1901-1971

Austria - See obit

Diaz, Lupe

1919-1944

US Army Air Corps

Drew, James S.

1918-1944

US Army Air Corps-medic, see obit.

Drew, Metz R.

1921-2011

US Army 348 Eng. BN

Diaz, Felix

1925-1944

Army Air Force

Dieterich, Arnold Elmer

1922-1999

US Marine Corps - Pacific - Bio

Dieterich, Walter L.

1906-1977

US Army Europe - POW

Duenow, William O.

1933-1996

US Army

Dunkelberg, Albert

1922-2003

US Navy

Dunlay, James Maurice

1919-2004

US Army Air Force

Dunlay, Vincent E.

1921-1986

US Army - Cpl. - Obit/Photo

Dunlay, Virgilia F.

1919-1987

US Navy - Lt.

Dunt, Dennis J.

1921-1997

US Army

Eide, Kenneth Orville

1912-1988

US Army

Eide, Robert P.

1918-1968

Veteran

Duren, Gerald

1920-1991

US Army

Duren, Steve

1924-2013

US Navy

Dvorak, Woodrow Richard

1919-2013

US Army

Eilers, Charles Lee

1919-2013

US Navy

Ellison, Howard

1918-1944

US Army - Obit

Enneberg, Charles F.

1913-1972

US Army - Obit

Erdmann, Harold W.

1911-1990

US Army - Sgt.

Fait, William

1914-1971

US Army

Falteisek, Robert W. Jr.

1915-1944

US Army

Fesenmeyer, Charles R.

1920-2011

Army Medical Corps.

Feuerhelm, Charles

1917-2002

US Army - 82nd Airborne

Fjelstul, Vernon

1925-1984

US Army

Ford, Daryl

1930-2012

US Navy WW II & Korea

Fossey, Darwin L.

1926-2004

US Navy

Foughty, Gerald F.

1915-2001

US Navy

Fox Leinenkugel, Mary

1920-2004

Nurse US Army

Frank, Orville W.

1911-1982

US Army

Gansen, Phillip Wallace

1916-1992

US Army - Sgt.

Gerk, Ervin Frederick

1917-1970

US Army

Gilles, Daniel

1923-2003

US Navy

Gilles, Wilfred J.

1916-1999

US Army

Goff, Glenn

1899-1974

Unknown

Goodbrand, Stanley L.

1916-1989

US Army

Griffith, Jack C.

1922-1979

US Army - Sgt.

Grinstead, Bill E.

1925-2013

US Army Air Corps

Groth, Irling

1910-1986

Unknown

Gunsallus, Robert

1920-2013

US Army

Gunsallus, William Keith

1927-1992

US Army - Pfc.

Halbach, Rose Catherine

1922-2003

Nurse

Halterman, James R.

1925-1994

US Navy

Halvorson, Alton Claire

1917-2013

US Army, Sgt., 113 Cav. Div., Signal Corps

Halvorson, Gerald L.

1919-2001

US Army - Europe - Bio

Halvorson, Louis J.

1921-1993

US Army

Hanna, William James

1926-2012

Marines - Pacific

Hansen, Homer K., Maj. Gen.

1922-2003

Army Air Force - Obit

Hartnell, Burton Thomas

1916-2007

US Army

Hartwig, Wilmer Ernest

1918-1993

Army Air Corps. - Sgt.

Heimer, William J. 'Buddy'

1924-1995

Army Air Corps.

Heimerman, Francis A.

1917-1998

Army Air Force

Heintzman, Peter

1921-1999

US Army

Hemann, Leo F.

1924-1974

US Navy

Hemann, Walter G.

1915-1988

"Veteran"

Hobbs, Hilmer W.

1924-1945

US Army - Battle of the Bulge - Obit

Hobbs, Merle H.

1921-1997

US Navy - Obit

Hoel, Merlin C.

1915-1968

Unknown

Hofland, Oscar Emmet

1909-1953

US Army

Hofland, Sidney Morris

1900-1987

US Army

Hollatz, Arthur C.

1912-1994

US Army

Horgen, Clarence Albert

1906-1983

Veteran

Horton, Patrick B.

1898-1956

US Army Infantry

Horton, Philip Starr

1921-2002

Army Air Corps.

Houck, Ralph Merton

1920-2010

US Army

Hubbard, Dale Frederick

1921-2006

US Navy - Hosp. Ship Tranquility

Hume, Thomas H.

1922-1979

Unknown

Hume, Thomas Hall

1896-1964

Unknown

Hungerford, Charles R.

1924-2003

Marines - Pacific

Jackson, Loren H.

1917-2004

"Veteran"

Jacobsen, Harley Erastua

1916-2001

US Army - Pacific

Jacobus, Ray W.

1900-1991

US Army

Jahn, Arthur Walter

1918-2007

Army Air Force

Janzow, Arthur William

1920-2011

US Navy

Jeffries, Ernest Fredrick

1928-2009

US Army - Cpl.

Jeffries, George H.

1906-1964

US Army

Jensen, Newlin

Veteran

Johnson, Conrad S.

1915-1977

US Army

Jorgensen, Ralph

1906-1983

Unknown

Kanzenbach, Herman A.

1907-1965

Unknown

Kapka, Kenneth E.

1915-1984

US Navy

Kathan, Maurice Gregory

1927-2007

Coast Guard

Kempf, Verne Maurice

1919-1961

US Army Air Forces

Kienast, Robert Raymond

1927-2001

US Army - Pacific

Kintner, LuVern Clayton

1922-1985

Veteran

Kirchoff, John D.

1926-2001

USMC

Kittleson, Galen, Sgt Maj.

1924-2006

US Army-Alamo Scout - Bio

Kittleson, Glen H.

 

US Army - S. Sgt. - Clipping

Kittleson, Paul E.

1921-1996

US Army Air Force

Kleckner, Maurice

1920-2006

US Navy (See notes)

Kleckner, Raymond Dean

1928-1987

US Navy - S1

Klemesrud, Kenneth

1908-1987

US Navy

Klink, David Carter

1914-1973

US Army - TEC 5

Koch, Willard L.

1920-2005

Marines

Koch, Lloyd

c1900-1959

Unknown - WW I & WW II

Kogle, Lloyd Emil

1916-2003

US Army - Europe

Kopploman, Daniel J.

1915-1971

Pvt. - Infantry

Koupal, Anton A.

1918-1944

US Army - DNB Texas; see obit.

Koschmeder, Fred J.

1920-1992

US AAC

Koster, Delmer D.

1924-1968

US Army Air Force

Koster, George, Jr.

 

US Army Air Force

Koster, Robert Allan

1922-1979

US Navy

Kraus, John

1922-2013

US AAC

Kubicek, Dale D. 'Pete'

1927-2010

US Marines

Kulsrud, Orville T.

1922-1953

US Marines - Pacific

Kurina, Tony Jerry

1920-2010

US Army - S. Sgt.

Laughlin, Robert Waldo

1921-1980

US Army

Lauterbach, Lewis G.

1919-2006

"Armed Services"

Lashbrook, Dean E.

1920-1996

US Army Air Force

Lashbrook, Kenneth E.

1917-2008

US Navy

Leeman, Albert

1920-2004

Army Air Corps.

Leidell, Myron Royter

1929-2009

US Army

Leinenkugel, Norman P. 'Bud'

1914-2005

US Army Air Force - 1st Lt.

Leraaen, Henry Oliver

1909-1994

US Army

Libersky, Ray Wayne

1920-2002

US Army - Africa/Europe

Lindley, Leon H.

1922-2002

Marines

Lingen, Edward M.

1905-1985

US Army

Lonergan, Roland E.

1923-2011

US Navy

Mallow, Giles Lea

1924-2003

US Navy - LST

Mallow, Imogene (Love)

1923-2003

US Navy

Marvin, Lester Francis

1919-1944

US Army

May, Richard R.

1917-2007

US Navy

Mayer, Leonard John

1925-2006

US Army - Philippines

Mayer, Loren J.

1919-1944

"Veteran"

Mayer, Ralph

1912-1972

"Veteran"

Machin, Harold Allen

1917-2010

Pacific Theater

Matthews, William R.

1920-2003

Sgt., Medical Corps/Signal Corps/Cryptography Spec.

McCarthy, Bernard H.

1912-1970

Veteran

McCarthy, James J.

1920-1993

US Army Air Force

McCarthy, Richard W.

1915-2007

US Army

McKinley, Donald J.

1921-1994

Navy pilot - Obit

McKinley, Hal Bryant

1924-2000

US Army Air Force, Sgt. - Obit

McKinley, Phillip M.

1919-1976

Sgt. US Army - Obit

Meinert, Albert J.

1903-1963

US Army

Melin, Jean Horner

1907-2002

WAC

Merritt, Marvin W.

1916-2005

US Army - Patton's

Meyer, Melvin J.

1908-1987

US Army

Michaels, LaVerne R.

1923-2004

US Army - Medic - Obit

Milhan, Ralph Lloyd

1927-2013

US Navy - Halsey's Task Force 58

Mootz, Justin Martin

1920-1956

US Navy - SKC

Morse, Lynn F.

1913-1998

Coast Guard

Moss, Clifford F.

1905-1987

Veteran

Muller, Loren F.

1922-2002

US Army

Naden, Robert William

1921-2002

Navy - LST 920 Pacific

Neeley, Elwyn R.

1922-1988

US Army, Philippines & Japan

Neeley, Jean Roland

1919-1989

US Army - TEC 4

Nemeth, Eddie

 

KIA

Newhouse, Glendale Burton

1919-2005

US Navy

Niess, Edmund Roman

1918-1944

US Navy (See notes below)

Niess, Francis Joseph

1920-1989

US Navy 1943-1953 (See notes below)

Niess, Matthew Joseph

1927-

US Army 1945-1947 (See notes below)

Oettchen, Robert L.

1918-1972

US Army

Ogden, Merle V.

1920-1944

Unknown

Onken, Art

 

US Navy

Onken, James

 

US Army Rifleman

Olson, Glenn C.

1909-1963

Unknown

Olswald, Clarence Lester

1920-2013

US Navy - Submarine

Otteson, Ernie

(living)

US Navy

Owen, William E., Dr.

1918-2002

US Navy - Physician

Pahl, Herman Henry

1894-1988

Unknown

Patterson, Max Lewis

1922-1998

US Navy

Pelleymounter, Roman V.

1927-2013

Army Air Corps. Sgt. - Bio See notes

Pelleymounter, Richard

1917-2002

US Army - Medic - Bio

Pelleymounter, Robert

1919-1989

Army Air Corps. - Bio

Pelleymounter, Bernard

c1924-????

Army Glider Corps. - Bio

Perau, Albert

1898-1961

US Navy

Perau, Allan

1924-2002

US Navy

Perau, Reuben

1914-1959

US Army

Petefish, Charles

1922-2003

US Army - Pacific

Peterson, Carl B.

1925-1992

USAF

Piper, Donald E.

1922-1993

US Navy - EM3

Pitra, Frank R.

1910-2005

Army Air Corps

Potter, Alton

1914-1984

Veteran

Prestegaard, Juel A.

1927-2010

US Army

Priem, Eugene Norman

1926-1963

US Army

Priem, Lawrence

1906-1966

US NAVY - 1st Marine Div.

Prochaska, Charles J.

1925-2011

US Army - 101st Airborne - Obit

Quindt, Harvey W., Sgt.

1924-2000

US Air Force - Obit

Regan, Vernon Francis

1922-1997

US Army-Purple Heart

Rhoads, Darwin "Dusty"

1920-2000

US Navy

Rice, Charles

1921-2001

Army Air Corps - Pacific

Richmond, Howard James

1925-2002

US Navy - Signalman

Roethler, Wallace E.

1924-2004

US Navy

Rogers, Bernard E.

1915-2007

US Navy

Rosel, Robert Wilmer

1926-2007

US Navy

Rowe, Paul

1914-1984

US Army

Scharper, William

1926-2011

US Army - Pacific

Schlampp, Raymond Udelle

1916-1945

Army - KIA

Schlick, Clayton C.

1916-2003

US Navy

Schmidt, Arthur

c1920-1944

KIA - Waist Gunner

Schmidt, Alfred, C.P.O.

?

Navy

Schmidt, Alvin, Cpl.

?

Army?

Schmidt, Clifford, Cpl.

?

Army?

Schwab, Adolph A.

1912-2003

US Army, TEC 5, Bronze Star Medal

Seaver, Conrad M.

1905-1967

US Army Air Force

Secrest, Charles D.

1913-2000

US Army - Sgt.

Setka, Stanley James

1918-2011

US Army - N. Africa/Italy

Severson, Orville D.

1921-1956

Iowa Nat G. - Europe - Obit

Sheldon, Leonard Earl

1915-1981

US Army - Pacific

Sheldon, Walter William

1913-1994

 

Sloan, Mark E.

1924-2011

US Navy

Sprung, Russell Earl

1926-2005

US Army Air Force

Steffen, Frank J.

1914-1955

US Navy

Steffen, Fred H.

1912-1991

US Army

Steffen, Milton "Mike"

1923-2013

US Navy

Stolzenberg, Sylvester N.

1919-1979

US Army

Stott, Sidney

1926-2003

US Army

Stout, William

1924-2003

US Army - Europe

Suchy, William

1911-1986

Unknown

Switzer, Dale Lewis

1917-2003

US Army

Switzer, Glen Junior

1923-1951

US Navy

Tesch, Otto H.

1914-2006

US Army

Thome, Arthur J.

1905-1965

WW II - Nat. Cem. Mpls

Thompson, James Carl, Sr.

1924-2009

US Navy

Thoresen, Leonard

1917-2013

US Army

Tireman, Howard Leonard

1911-1971

US Army - Europe

Tonn, Albert Mike

1905-1980

US Army

Tonn, Leo

1908-1975

US Navy Obit

Turner, Ralph

 

KIA

Valasek, William Lee

1919-2003

Army Air Corps, India-China

Viskocil, Edward

1920-2008

Marine Air Corp.

Vols, Albert

1921-2007

US Army - TEC 5

Vulk, Frank

c1917-2009

US Navy 1936-1958 WW II & Korea Obit

Walk, Walter E.

1921-1945

US AAF

Weber, Edmund

1914-2003

Unknown

Werner, Leon H.

1924-2006

US Army

Wetzel, Frank B.

1908-1985

US Navy

Wilden, Leslie W. 'Mike'

1902-1981

Veteran

Willis, Rex James

1910-2004

US Army - Pacific

Williams, Jr., Albert

1923-1944

US Army KIA France - Pfc.

Williams, Guy C.

1915-2002

US Army

Williams, Leonard Keith

1925-1945

US Army KIA France, Pfc.

Winkels, Gilbert N.

1923-1944

Pfc., US Army, 82nd Airborne

Wirth, William John

1915-1993

US Army, Lt. Col.

Wolff, Theodore W.

1914-1969

Pvt. "HQ 2 AGF REPL DEPOT"

Zacharda, Edward Charles

1918-2009

US Navy

Ziegler, Cyril Joseph

1921-1975

US Army Air Force

      KEY

DNB - Died Non-Battle
KIA - Killed In Action

Notes:

1. Edmund Niess: Source was Tim Niess TNiess@ifbf.org
  E. Niess was killed at Pago Pago, in the South Pacific, in a Japanese destroyer attack on his US Navy PT boat - in February 1944. Edmund was born on August 2, 1918 and died Feb. 20, 1944.

2. Maurice Kleckner enlisted in 1939 and was discharged in 1945. He sailed
on the U.S.S. Helena, and was a Pearl Harbor survivor. See his obituary.

3. Roman V. Pelleymounter enlisted on 19 JUL 1945 at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.

4. Francis Joseph Niess was born Nov. 6, 1920 and died June 15, 1989 at Itasca, Minnesota. Served in Navy from Apr. 20, 1943-1953, discharged with rank of Chief of Staff.

5. Matthew Joseph Niess was born April 6, 1927. He served in the US Army from 1945-1947, stationed in Berlin as an MP. He was discharged as a Corporal.


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