IOWA’s HONOR ROLL
Here are more Iowans who have been killed in action. The final line beneath each picture gives the geographical location in which the man was killed. Additional Honor Roll pictures will be carried on future Sundays.
Source: The Des Moines Register, Sunday, January 2, 1944 (photo included)
Jack Austin Yarham was born June 28, 1920 to Edward Raymond “Ray” and Viola Bell Jones Yarham. He died Sept. 20, 1943 and is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Petty Officer Yarham served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Pinckney (APH-2) and died in the South Pacific area while in the service of his country.
Source: ancestry.com
