Veterans by War / Era: World War II (149 veterans)
| Name | Branch | Date | Place | Service | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eldon Curtis Aanenson | US Army | Aft 22 Jan 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Quentin Carlyle Aanenson | US Army | Bet 2 Aug 1942 and 9 Jan 1946 | the US Army during World War II as a fighter pilot | ||
| Frank Absher | US Marine Corps | 28 Apr 1930 | the US Marines during World War II | ||
| Raymond E Alger | US Marine Corps | the US Marines during World War II in Saipanas as Military Police | |||
| Glenn W Allstot | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| George Monroe Bailey | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Earl Francis Barham | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Kenneth Russel Beaubien | US Air Force | the US Air Force during World War II and the Korean War as a Staff Sergeant | |||
| Shelby Martin Blankenship | US Army | Bet 24 Nov 1942 and 4 Sep 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Walter Francis Louis Bober | US Army | Bet 11 Jul 1944 and 5 Aug 1946 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Heinrich Wilhelm (Henry) Bock | US Army | Bet 24 Jun 1941 and 9 Jun 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Warren Willard Bock | US Army | Bet 27 Mar 1946 and 8 Apr 1947 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Roland Bolte | US Army | Bet 8 Mar 1944 and 10 Jan 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Roscoe Orville Bonderman | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Albert William Brandt | US Navy | From 1943 to 1945 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Worrell Edward Bremer | US Navy | Bet 1945 and 1946 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Elmer Morris Brown | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Leonard W Buchmeier | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Leo Robert Busboom | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Wendell Rosby Carr | US Army | From 18 Sep 1942 to 29 Oct 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Erwin Herman Claus | US Navy | Military | the US Navy during World War II in the South Pacific and was a survivor of the ship Astoria, which sank 9 Aug 1942, in the invasion of Guadalcanal | ||
| Leonard Herman Claus | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Charles Henry Closen | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Francis Edward Closen | US Army | the US Army during World War II | Notes from research of Frank Schaefer: According to World War II casualty lists, PFC Francis E Closen's (#16017270) body was not found. He was originally listed as Missing In Action. He is listed in the casualty list... | ||
| Homer George Arthur Cole | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Charles R Cornelius | US Army | From 5 Mar 1941 to 30 Oct 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Dan Baker Cornelius | US Army | From 28 Apr 1943 to 3 Feb 1946 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Frank E Cornelius | US Army | From 2 May 1944 to 31 Dec 1945 | the US Army during World War II serving in the Asiatic Pacific Theater | He attained the rank of First Lieutenant. | |
| Glen LaVerne Cornelius | US Army | From 23 Feb 1945 to 13 Dec 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Homer Earl Cornelius | US Army | From 31 Jul 1943 to 19 Feb 1946 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Howard Layton Cornelius | US Army | From 22 Jul 1943 to 3 Nov 1944 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Lester Brierly Cornelius | US Army | From 1 Apr 1941 to 30 Jan 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Paul Maurice Cornelius | US Navy | From 24 Aug 1942 to 29 Dec 1945 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Quentin Cornelius | US Army | From 28 Jan 1942 to 12 Nov 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Wilbur Stanton Cornelius | US Army | From 5 Oct 1942 to 7 Nov 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Wylie R Cornelius | US Navy | From 20 Jun 1944 to 17 May 1946 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Frank L Crescenzi | US Army | the US Army during World War II and the Korean War | |||
| Dale Edward Cruthis | US Army | From 12 Mar 1943 to 17 Dec 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Trist Franklin Davis | US Army | the US Army during World War II as a 1st Lieutenant in the 76th Infantry Division | |||
| William Lowell Devore | US Army | From 26 Oct 1944 to 30 Oct 1946 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Lyle Douglas Dirks | US Army | 1942–1945 | the US Army Air Corps during World War II as a pilot of a B-17, flying more than 30 missions | ||
| Harold E Elgert | US Army | Bet 1942 and 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Edwin William Engerer | US Air Force | Bet 1951 and 1953 | the US Air Force during World War II and the Korean War | ||
| Roy Thomas Eskew | US Army | From 9 Mar 1944 to 18 Apr 1946 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Hugh Edwin Fitzgerald | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Paul Leon Foster | US Army | 25 May 1942 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Ralph Earston Foster | US Air Force | the US Air Force during World War II | |||
| LeRoy Harley Frazier | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| John Richard Fritz | US Army | Bet 25 Aug 1941 and 26 Oct 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Bill John Garretts | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Vernon Aloys Garretts | US Navy | Bet 1942 and 1945 | the US Navy during World War II serving as a member of the First Naval Construction Battalion | He served in the South Pacific during the years 1942 and 1943. In 1944, he was selected to attend the Navy V12 Program, where he attended the University of Northwestern. | |
| Herbert Gerstenkorn | US Army | Bet 22 Oct 1942 and 29 Aug 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Bernard William Glade | US Air Force | the US Air Force during World War II as a navigator | |||
| Duane L Glade | US Army | the US Army Air Corps during World War II as Captain and pilot of a B-24 bomber | He flew 85 bombing missions in the European Theater. | ||
| Kenneth Warren Glade | US Army | the US Army Air Corps during World War II as a crew chief on B-26 bombers | |||
| Leonard Glade | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Theodore F Gudat | US Army | the US Army Air Corps during World War II | |||
| David Alexander Halseide | US Navy | Bet 30 Oct 1942 and 2 Oct 1948 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Captain Ralph Morgan (Swede) Hanson | US Navy | Bet 19 Jun 1942 and 1 Jul 1972 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| John William (Bill) Harper | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Henry John Hartwig | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Dr Harral R Haven | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Edmond (Eddy) Calvin Haynes | US Army | From 22 Jan 1941 to 22 Oct 1943 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Marvin John Heikes | US Army | Bet 10 Feb 1941 and 27 Dec 1944 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Alvin Hitzeman | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Eugene Edwin Hitzeman | US Army | Bet 1942 and 1945 | the US Army during World War II serving in the South Pacific | ||
| Lillian Clara Hitzeman | US Navy | Bet Mar 1943 and Mar 1945 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Bee Hobbs | US Army | From 5 Oct 1943 to 24 Jan 1946 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Charles Carl Honold | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Jerald Oliver Hopkins | US Army | Bet 1941 and 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| John (Johnnie) Chester Huffman | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Horace Homer Jarvis | US Army | the US Army during World War II and the Korean War and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal | |||
| DuWayne Julius Jensen | US Navy | From 13 Jan 1942 to 16 Nov 1947 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Jack Weldon Jessip | US Navy | Bet 1943 and 1946 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| John Robert Johnson | US Navy | Bet 1 Jul 1943 and 19 Jul 1946 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Roy Estel Jourdan | US Army | 24 Aug 1942 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Arthur Guy Kummell, Jr | US Navy | 1944 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Charles (Chuck) Thomas Rinkel, Jr | US Army | 11 Apr 1945 | Levenworth, Levenworth, Kansas, United States | the US Army during World War II, enlisting | |
| Charles Earle Potter, Jr | US Navy | Bet 27 Nov 1944 and 1956 | the US Navy during World War II in the Seabees | ||
| Fred Whitaker Kaaz, Jr | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II, as a pilot of a Curtiss Seahawk | |||
| George William Comstock, Jr | US Navy | the US Navy aboard the USS Ranger during World War II | |||
| John Misecko, Jr | US Army | the US Army Air Corps during World War II | |||
| Orlando Ross Cornelius, Jr | US Army | From 3 Aug 1940 to 29 Sep 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Owen Raymo Helm, Jr | US Army | the US Army during World War II, serving in Europe | |||
| Perry Otto Pederson, Jr | US Army | Bet 1943 and 1946 | the US Army during World War II in the 96th Infantry Division | He served in the Pacific where he took part in the invasion of Leyte, Philippines and the invasion of Okinawa | |
| Ralph Parker, Jr | US Army | Bet 25 Apr 1944 and 1 Jun 1946 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Robert Klemme | US Army | Bet 1941 and 1945 | the US Army during World War II serving with the Third mechanized cavalry under General Patton | ||
| Herman Richard Kuhns | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II in the Seebees | |||
| Melvin Eugene Ladson | US Navy | 26 Oct 1943–16 Jun 1945 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Marion George Laubscher | US Navy | From 25 Jan 1944 to 6 May 1946 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Glenn Manning | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Russell Raymond Manning | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| George Robert Maxwell | US Army | Bet 2 Aug 1941 and 20 Sep 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Charles Francis McHenry | US Navy | Bet 29 Oct 1943 and 3 Dec 1945 | the US Navy during World War II | He enlisted in the Seabees and entered active service on 29 Oct 1943. Spent 12 months with the 76th Naval Construction Battalion on Guam Island building airstrips and housing. Awarded the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Meda... | |
| Eldo F Meier | US Army | From 1941 to 25 Sep 1943 | the US Army during World War II and died in North Africa | ||
| Milburn (Mike) Bennett Mein | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Roy Milton | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Christian (Chris) Mortensen | US Army | Abt 1944 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Norman Theodore Mortensen | US Army | 5 Jun 1943 | the US Army during World War II in the South Pacific starting | ||
| Rudolph Lauritz (Pete) Mortensen | US Army | Bet 15 Oct 1942 and 13 Aug 1943 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Arthur Clayton Noble | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Daniel Constant Ostermann | US Navy | Bet 1945 and 1946 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Marion Paul | US Army | Bet 14 Nov 1942 and 25 Mar 1944 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Richard P Peterson | US Army | Bet 28 Aug 1942 and 18 Jan 1946 | the US Army during World War II with a rank of Master Sergeant | ||
| Lyle Kenneth Philiph | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Clarence Frank Piepho | US Navy | 1942–1945 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Donald Edward Piepho | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Harvey Lee Piepho | US Army | Bet 1941 and 1945 | the US Army during World War II | He served in various stations in manufacture, renovation and storage of ammunition and explosives and was assigned to the Manhattan Project, Wendover, Utah in 1944. | |
| Donald Edward Pressler | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Phillip Patrick Prior | US Navy | 14 Jan 1942 | the US Navy during World War II, enlisting | ||
| Jens Moller Rasmussen | US Army | 12 Sep 1942 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Ole Marcus Reiken | US Marine Corps | the US Marines during World War II | |||
| Harold Charles Retzlaff | US Marine Corps | Bet 22 Jun 1942 and 19 Jan 1946 | the US Marines during World War II | ||
| Marvin Eugene Rider | US Air Force | the US Air Force during World War II and the Korean War | |||
| Elroy Henry Riechers | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Paul Gregory Roach | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Harold Earnest Rudi | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II | |||
| Kenneth Arthur Rueter | US Army | the US Army as a Captain during World War II in the Pacific Theatre and received the Bronze Star | |||
| Elmer B Sasse | US Army | Bet 19 Sep 1942 and Nov 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Cline Conrad Schmidt | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Eugene Carl Schmidt | US Army | Bet 20 Nov 1944 and 22 Nov 1946 | the US Army during World War II in the Philippines as a military police officer | ||
| Lorraine Pauline Schmidt | US Army | Military | the US Army Nurse Corp during World War II as Lieutenant and was eventually sent to England where she served some of her time in London during the blitz of the German rockets V1 and V2 | ||
| Earl Wesley Schroeder | US Army | Bet 1942 and 1946 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Carlye Forest Seegers | US Army | Bet 1941 and 1945 | in the US Army during World War II | ||
| Charles William Seegers | US Army | Bet 14 Nov 1942 and 28 Jan 1946 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Vernon L Seegers | US Marine Corps | the US Marines during World War II | |||
| Paul Elner Seybert | US Navy | the US Navy during World War II earning the rank of Lieutenant JG | |||
| Harold Daniel Shepherd | US Army | From 25 May 1943 to 14 Nov 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| John Eugene Shepherd | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Bernard Victor Sondergard | US Marine Corps | Bet 8 Dec 1941 and 1945 | the US Marines during World War II | He served as a sergeant in the US Marine Corps, seeing all of his duty in the South Pacific, from 1942 to 1945. He was in the first battle of Guadal Canal. | |
| Luverne Fredrick Sondergard | US Marine Corps | Bet 8 Dec 1941 and 1945 | the US Marines during World War II | He served as a sergeant in the US Marine Corps, seeing all of his duty in the South Pacific, from 1942 to 1945. He was in the first battle of Guadal Canal. | |
| Harry Lawrence Spencer | US Army | Bet 10 Oct 1942 and 11 Dec 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| David Noble Wilder, Sr | US Air Force | Bet 14 May 1944 and 24 Jun 1953 | the US Air Force during World War II | ||
| Dwayne Herman Domeier, Sr | US Marine Corps | the US Marines during World War II | |||
| Herbert Atwood (Herb) Taylor, Sr | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Stephen Earl Jennings, Sr | US Army | 25 Feb 1941 | the US Army Air Corp during World War II | ||
| Walter Leonard Stephen | US Army | Bet 1941 and 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Carroll Guy (Jerry) Strailman | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Christopher Columbus Suits | US Navy | Bet 1941 and 1945 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| Alfred Leroy Switzer | US Navy | Bet 3 Sep 1941 and 3 Dec 1945 | the US Navy during World War II | ||
| John Melvin Thompson | US Air Force | Bet 21 Feb 1943 and 7 Apr 1946 | the US Air Force during World War II | ||
| Harvey John Traster | US Army | Bet 2 Nov 1942 and 6 Nov 1945 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Alvin Harold Walker | US Marine Corps | San Juan Capistrano, Orange, California, United States | the US Marines during World War II | ||
| Ervin Martin Wassman | US Army | Bet 15 Jun 1942 and 4 Dec 1945 | the US Army during World War II | He served in the Pacific Theater, Ulithi, being wounded in the Philippines for which he was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. | |
| Lester (Bud) Westphal | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Alonzo Wheeler | US Army | Bet 26 May 1946 and 7 Aug 1947 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Richard (Dick) Paul Wilcox | US Army | Bet 27 Feb 1943 and 24 Aug 1997 | the US Army during World War II | ||
| Reinard Arthur Wulkow | US Army | the US Army during World War II | |||
| Walter Raymond (Nick) Zwilling | US Air Force | 14 Nov 1945 | the US Army Air Force during World War II |