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First Lieutenant Eugene Mortimer Armstrong was born May 19, 1919 to William B. Armstrong and Ruth S. Gallup. He had a brother named Bruce. They lived in Ames, Iowa. After...

Year at ISU: 1942 George Winsel Baker was born in South Bend, Indiana on August 15, 1918. He was only six weeks old when his father, George A. Baker, died...

Elson E. Behnke was born in Plymouth, Iowa to Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Benke. They later moved to Ames, Iowa. Elson graduated from Ames High School an attended Iowa...

Died: Quang Tri, Vietnam Reason: Killed in Action

Ensign Donald C. Briggs was born in Ames, Iowa on January 11, 1916 to Jane Briggs. While attending Iowa State College, he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity....

Died: Suchon, North Korea Reason: MIA Captain Ramon Roderick Davis was a veteran of two wars serving in both World War II and the Korean War as a fighter pilot....

Year at ISU: 1940 The Davis family was a devoted family to both Iowa State and our nation’s armed forces. Going back to Harry K. Davis Sr who was a...

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Australia

Emmett Floyd was the son of Mrs. Ester E. Floyd. He came to Iowa State College from here in Ames, Iowa as a member of the Student Army Training Corps....

Second Lieutenant Clyde Irving Griffith was born in Ames, Iowa to Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Griffith. He graduated from Iowa State College with Bachelor's of Science in Civil Engineering....

Died: Binh Dinh, Vietnam Reason: Killed in Action

Jay Russell Melick was the son of Mrs. S.M. Melick and grew up in Ames, Iowa. He graduated from Iowa State's two-year agriculture program in 1918. Mrs. Melick, circa 1922,...

Lieutenant James Lee Merrick, Jr. was born was born on Tuesday, September 21st, 1943, to James Lee Merrick, Sr. and Mary Watkins (formerly Merrick) right here in Ames, Iowa. As...

Died: Quang Nam, Vietnam Reason: Helicopter Crash

James Joseph O'Neil was born in Ames, Iowa on September 8, 1921. He was the second eldest son of Patrick Henry O'Neil and Gertrude Allen Cooper of Ames, Iowa. His...

Charles henry O'Neil was born in Ames, Iowa on December 14, 1918. He attended St. Cecilia's Catholic School and Ames High School. Charles continued his education at Iowa State College...

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: Texas

Stephen Abram Rushing grew up in Live Oak, Florida and was the oldest of the four children in the Rushing family – two boys, two girls. In 1965 his father...

Year at ISU: 1945 Ensign Tom C. Van Alyea '45, of Park Ridge, Ill., earned his wings in February 1945. He was among 18 Navy flyers killed in the crash...

Russell Manning Vifquin Jr was born on April 1, 1918 in Ames, IA. He was the first of four children born to Iowa State Professor Russell Vifquain and his wife,...

Year at ISU: 1942 2d. Lt. Louis H. Willson 44, of Ames, was the bombadier on a B-17G, 303rd Bomber Group and 360th Bomber Squadron, on a mission over Magdeburg,...