World War II

First Lieutenant Robert Austin Alexander was born January 12, 1921 to Robert Alexander and Joanna Lamp. He grew up in Davenport, Iowa. Robert went to Iowa State College as part...

Captain Carl R. Alfred was born in Barney, Iowa to Albia Alfred and Rozetta Dagget on January 31, 1917. For a time, he lived in Altwater, Ohio. Carl studied Dairy...

Robert Ward Allen was the son of W. M. Allen of Michigan. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1935 and received a Master's degree at the University of Michigan...

Leslie Lee Allen was born in Crowley, Colorado on October 5, 1925 to Robert L. Allen and Julia V. Andrews. For a time, he lived in Denver. He went to...

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: Romanian Reason: MIA

Sergeant James Agnew Anderson was born March 29, 1914 at Oak Park, Illinois to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Anderson. He was also related to Olive J. Reed. James worked...

Captain Rollo C. Andross ("Andy") was born to John C. Andross and Addie E. Loving on May 5, 1918. He grew up in Granada, Iowa. Rollo graduated from Iowa State...

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...

Captain Don Armstrong was born to John Henry Armstrong and Eve Mae Crider on February 25, 1915. He grew up in Brooklyn, Iowa. Don was married to Helen Ruth Kubacky...

Lieutenant Donald Charles Arp came to Iowa State College from his hometown Marion, Iowa. He graduated in 1938 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and was employed at Deere and...

Year at ISU: 1947 Private First Class Steve Norman Aszalos was born on June 19, 1925 to Steve Aszalos and Irma Yhranik in Cleveland, Ohio. He had a brother-in-law named...

Year at ISU: 1944 Private First Class Edward Earl Augustine was born in Rose Hill, Iowa on December 7, 1922. He grew up in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Edward left Iowa State...

Year at ISU: 1941 Second Lieutenant Dwight Garfield Bacon was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January 10, 1918. He was the son of Dr. L. F. and Violet Bacon....

Year at ISU: 1943 Ralph Warren Bailey was born on Christmas Day, December 25, 1920 to Ray Bailey and Effie Ennis. After the deaths of both parents, he lived with...

Year at ISU: 1938 - Two Year Captain Phillip Wagner Bailey completed his flight training at Iowa State College for the Army Air Corps. As of December 31, 1942, he...

Sergeant Ner Jason Bailey was born on April 2, 1919 to Orlando Bailey and Gertrude Rankin, and grew up in Maquoketa, Iowa. He graduated from Iowa State in 1941 and...

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...

Our files contain only fragmented information about Dr. Robert Carl Banks. Robert's hometown was Tipton, Iowa. He went on to become part of the class of 1943, DVM. He died...

Second Lieutenant Donald W. Barger was born to William H. Barger and Margaret A. Bruce on November 28, 1917 in Grant Township, Ledyard, Iowa. He called Swea City, Iowa his...

Year at ISU: 1940 - Dairy Industries Our records contain only bare fragments of information on Robert J. Barney, who went missing in action sometime in September 1942 in India....

Year at ISU: 1944 - Civil Engineering Master Technical Sergeant Robert L. Bass was born to Vallie L. Bass and Frances Anderson in Stratford, Iowa on September 27, 1921, but...

Year at ISU: 1945 Captain Norbert Beckman was born in Jordan, Minnesota on April 2, 1923 to Frank and Katherine Beckman. When he went to Iowa State College, he pledged...

Year at ISU: 1942 - Creamery Operations (two year) Major Don Merrill Beerbower was born on August 26, 1921 in Saskatchewan, Canada. His family later moved to Hill City, Minnesota....

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...

Year at ISU: 1945 Lieutenant Bruce H. Bell was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Bruce H. Bell, Sr. and Louella Wiggins on August 28, 1923. Bruce attended ISC from September...

Ensign James Robert Beneke was born to George Beneke and Marie Wollenberg on January 18, 1920 in Waltham, Minnesota. He grew up in Austin, Minnesota and he had a brother...

Ensign Herald Clark Bennion was born to his parents Edwin Bennion and Mary Clark on September 12, 1914. He grew up in Farmington, Utah with his brother, Hugh C. Bennion....

In north-central Des Moines, just west of where 6th Avenue crosses the Des Moines River, is a small house located at 615 Hickman Avenue. Faced in red brick and situated...

Year at ISU: 1947 Private Edward Leon Biehunko was the son of Edward L. Biehunko, Sr. and Elisabeth Eissler. His birthday was September 13, exact year unknown. He grew up...

Second Lieutenant Bernard Sewell Black was born in Brooksville, Maine on June 25, 1923 to Eugene M. Black and Clemency Guttrich. He graduated from Iowa State College in Aerospace Engineering...

Captain Samuel R. Blackman was born in Parson, West Virginia on November 8, 1916 to Joseph F. Blackman and Myrtle Paugh. He received his second lieutenant commission upon graduating from...

Year at ISU: ca. 1943 Private First Class Robert Nichols Blume was born April 5, 1925 in Ithaca, New York to Adrian F. Blume and Jeanette A. Nichols. His last...

Private First Class Eldon Ralph Boots was born in Oelwein, Iowa on October 19, 1919. He attended Oelwein and New Hampton public school. In 1937, he enrolled at Iowa State...

Year at ISU: 1945 Private First Class A. Stripling Boynton was born on August 8, 1923 to Reuben R. Boyton and Ruth Stripling. He lived in Pleasant Plain, Illinois. A....

Year at ISU: 1944 - Dairy Industry Ensign Daniel Starr Branstiter came from Sumner, Nebraska. He was born on January 21, 1922 to Daniel Elsie Branstiter and Blanche M. Snodgrass....

Captain Hugh Wallace Breakenridge was born in Traer, Iowa on July 19, 1919 to William J. Breakenridge and S. Edith McMillan. His hometown was Dinsdale, Iowa. He graduated from Iowa...

Year at ISU: 1945 Second Lieutenant Edwin Gordon Breaw was born to Rev. Walter L. Breaw and Elva A. Cullen on March 26, 1923, and grew up in Alden, Iowa....

Year at ISU: 1944 First Lieutenant LaVerne Roy Breman was born on September 29, 1921 to Earl M. Breman and Millie M. Campfield. He had a sister named Sarah Breman....

Berry Brevik (Civil Engineering 1918), letter to the Alumni Association, August 28, 1945: "Attention: "Red" Barron Our son, Richard Stanley Brevik, ex '47, in Aeronautical Engineering, enlisted in the Army...

Year at ISU: 1941 Private First Class Richard J. Bridgeman was born September 18, 1919 to Roy Bridgeman and C. Jeronimus. He grew up in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Richard...

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....

Year at ISU: 1940 First Lieutenant William Frederick Brinkman was born to his parents Dr. W.F. Brinkman and Inez Essick on January 1, 1920. He grew up in Pochantas, Iowa....

Year at ISU: 1942 First Lieutenant Omer Kingston Brokaw was born on June 6, 1920 to Omer L. Brokaw and Marguerite D. Jennings. He attended Iowa State College with his...

His only record in his file comes from the February 1947 issue of the Iowa State College Alumnus: "No word has been at the College concerning the death of Private...

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: Subic Bay, Phillipines

Year at ISU: 1941 Citation: "Cairo, Egypt August 19, 1942 CHARLES O. BROWN, JR. 1st Lieut., AAF is herewith cited for gallantry in action with the enemy. On June 15,...

Year at ISU: 1933 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1916 Died: Germany

Charles Buffington was born on September 26, 1919 to Charles Rollin Huffington and Irene Griggs. He grew up in Glennwood, Iowa. While at Iowa State College, he was friends with...

Robert Burchard was born on January 20, 1919 to Frederick A. Burchard and Stella M. Johnson. He had one sister, Evelyn Spencer, who graduated from Iowa State in 1938. Staff...

Second Lieutenant Robert LeRoy Burnett was born on September 9,1923 in Fairfield, Iowa to parents Roy C. Burnett and Mary E. McCormick. They raised Robert in nearby Batavia, Iowa. Robert...

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Phillipines

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1945 - Aerospace Engineering Captain William Howard Butler was born to Thomas A. Butler and Corinne Cox on March 31, 1919. He grew up in Indianola, Iowa....

Year at ISU: 1943 First Lieutenant William J. Caldwell Jr. was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on July 1, 1921 to William Caldwell and Stella Selacek. William graduated from McKinley...

Corporal Robert F. Carlon was born on June 29, 1912 to Harry F. Carlon and Lulu M. Evans. He grew up in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Robert married Helen Rillihan in February...

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Midway

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1943

Year at ISU: 1940 George Howard Clarke was born on October 20, 1916 to John Clarke, who founded the Clarke Hybrid corn company in Grundy County, and Ruth Hauser. George...

Gerald was born on August 7, 1921 and raised by his parents, Harry Alfred Cleckner and Mildred Lela Blue, in Webster City. He graduated from Webster City High School in...

Year at ISU: 1945 Corporal Charles Claire Clow was the son of Charles Claire Clow from Lisbon, North Dakota. Charles pledged to Sigma Nu fraternity at Iowa State College on...

Year at ISU: 1938 Guy was the son of Mr. G. L. Clubb. Guy died on January 16, 1944. Our information on Guy Leon Clubb is incomplete. If you have...

Year at ISU: 1947 Gordon was born on October 11, 1924, in Los Angeles to Mary Bohr. He grew up in Grosse Point, Michigan with two sisters - Joan and...

Year at ISU: 1939 Edwin was from Grand Junction, Iowa. He was the son of John Cody and Sarah Lipke - his date of birth is unknown. Private First Class...

Year at ISU: 1946 Private First Class Donald Edward Cole was born in Waterloo, Iowa to Robert A. Cole and Mary Louise Peek. He grew up in Moline, Illinois, and...

Year at ISU: 1945 - General Engineering George was from Elgin, Illinois. His mother was Irma S. Coleman. First Sergeant George R. Coleman gave his life during the Battle of...

Sergeant Hugh D. Colgan was born June 19, 1912. His hometown was Corning, Iowa, but he graduated from Des Moines Catholic High School in 1929. Hugh earned a Bachelor of...

Robert was born September 13, 1923 to Albert M. Compton and Addie Mae Hubbard. Aviation Cadet Robert Douglas Compton came to Iowa State College from his hometown, West Des Moines,...

Second Lieutenant Guy Hallett Conger was born in Roulea Saskatchewan, Canada, May 23, 1922 to Guy R. Conger and LaVere Hallet. His last home address was in Sac City, Iowa....

Year at ISU: 1944 - Electrical Engineering Second Lieutenant Donald W. Copeland was born at Newcastle, Wyoming, on September 17, 1921 to Wayne H. Copeland and Mabel Norgard. His last...

Staff Sergeant Raymond Joseph Corbesia was born in Faribault, Minnesota on March 17, 1919 to Emil and Grace Simon Corbesia. Robert had a brother, Sergeant First Class Floyd Corbesia, stationed...

Year at ISU: 1946 - Engineering Staff Sergeant William Bruce Croft was born in Marshalltown, Iowa on June 21,1923 to Leroy W. Croft and Gladys A. Cronk. For a time,...

Sergeant Dean Carleton Culbertson was born in Nevada, Iowa, on March 5, 1915. He grew up in Fayette, Iowa. Dean graduated from Fayette High School and attended Upper Iowa University...

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Utah | Reason: Murdered

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Phillipines

Year at ISU: 1942 - Pre Vet Second Lieutenant John Wallace Currie was born in Odebolt, Iowa, on August 22, 1915 to John Currie and Nellie Smith. He entered the...

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Over Austria

Year at ISU: 1932 Died: Middle East

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Italy

Year at ISU: 1945

Year at ISU: 1941

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: 1941 Died: Japan

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Kansas

Thomas Henry Delamore left Iowa to join the United States Army on December 1, 1939. During World War II, as his primary placement, he served in the Philippines at the...

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: Burma

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: New Guiena

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Guadal Canal

Sam had five brothers - one of which who was present during the fall of the Philippines in 1942. Dobervich graduated from North Dakota State College in Fargo, North Dakota....

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1938 Died: Moemfoor Island

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: South Pacific

Year at ISU: 1941

Year at ISU: 1938 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1937 Died: South China Sea Reason: POW

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: Oregon

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Florida

Year at ISU: 1944

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: Austria

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: France Awards: Silver Star

Year at ISU: 1938 Died: New Caledonia

Year at ISU: 1938 Died: Paulu

All of we know of Joseph Frank Ellis, according to his scant record, was that he came from Eau Claire, Wisconsin and was formerly of the class of 1945. His...

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: North Sea

Ernest was born on June 6, 1922 to Benjamin F. Engeman and Emma Heisen Engeman. He grew up in Fort Madison, Iowa. After studying Aerospace Enginneering for a time at...

Year at ISU: 1941 First Lieutenant Burton Clyde English was born in Lake View, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Thomas English on March 14, 1920. His last home address was in...

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: San Diego

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: Sicily, Italy

John's father, Edward Estel, raised him and his two sisters in Waterloo, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa State College in 1938 with a Bachelor of Science, John worked for the...

Allen was born in Gleghorn, Iowa, on January 5, 1916 to Emil Ewoldt and Sarah Hyndman, but grew up in Hartley, Iowa. He left Iowa State College to be inducted...

Second Lieutenant Byron J. Fisher was born to Guy and Ida Fisher on November 19, 1920. He grew up in Danbury, Iowa. While at Iowa State College, Bryon studied Civil...

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Sicily, Italy

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Australia

Year at ISU: 1938 Died: Italy

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Phillipines

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: Germany

Jack's Story The Gold Star Hall at Iowa State University contains many extraordinarily brave men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice in service to the United States. But it...

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: New Hampshire Reason: Accident

Year at ISU: 1934

Year at ISU: 1937 Died: Michigan Reason: Cancer

Year at ISU: 1941 First Lieutenant James Philip Geiger was known as "Phil" to his friends and family. He was born to Ralph S. Geiger and Marie A. O'Neill on...

Year at ISU: 1944 Second Lieutenant Robert Geoffroy was born to Howard Oscar Geoffroy and Eva E. Williams on January, 27th, 1922. He grew up an only child in Sterling,...

Year at ISU: 1927 Captain Leslie B. Gilbert's hometown was Madison, Wisconsin. His mother was Esther Gilbert, and he had two brothers: Army Captain Gerald Gilbert who served in the...

Born on August 30, 1921, Gilbert was the son of Daniel Gilbert and Henrietta Gonder of Polo, Illinois. The family eventually moved to Rippey, Iowa. Dwight graduated from Grand Junction...

Year at ISU: 1946 Richard was born on May 5, 1924 to Elliot E. Gilmore and Hazel Evans Gilmore. He grew up in Omaha, Nebraska with his brother, Elliot Eugene...

Died: North Sea

Reason: Killed in Action

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Ohio

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Hollandia

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Germany Reason: POW

On April 28, 1943, the United States Navy commissioned the USS Griswold, an Evarts-class destroyer escort ship. Deployed to the Pacific theater that summer, the ship was named for a...

Year at ISU: 1942 Richard graduated from Iowa City High School in 1938, and had attended Iowa State College for three years before joining the Army Air Corps in March,...

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Southwest Pacific

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: Netherlands

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: Luxemburg

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Arizona

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: South Carolina

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: Florida

Year at ISU: 1942

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: South Carolina

Year at ISU: 1938 Died: Texas Reason: Illness

William F. Hedges was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up on the lower east side near the Indiana border. He attended Iowa Sate College from Fall 1942 to Winter...

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: Bahamas

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Iowa Reason: Train Accident

Year at ISU: 1944 - Chemical Engineering; may have been a member of Beta Theta Pi, Tau Sigma chapter Second Lieutenant John H. Hickey was known as "Jack." Other records...

Year at ISU: 1940 Corporal Joseph Lee Higgins was born on October 11, 1916 to Joseph Fosse Higgins and Ruby Rose Greene. He grew up in Keswick Iowa. Joseph entered...

Year at ISU: 1945 Private First Class Jack W. Hill was born in Sioux City, Iowa, but grew up in Woodbine, Iowa. He enlisted at Fort Crook, Nebraska on March...

Year at ISU: 1942 Edward G Hodgson came from Hawarden, Iowa and was the son of Mr. Guy Hodgson. A single note in his file reads: "Edw. Hodgson died Dinjau...

Year at ISU: 1942

Year at ISU: 1940 Awards: Distinguished Service Cross

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: England

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Lahoma, Oklahoma

Year at ISU: 1933 Died: Phillipines

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: France

Years at ISU: 1942 Died: Singapore

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: Florida

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: Sitka, AK

Year at ISU: 1938

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: North Africa

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Alaska

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Atlantic

Year at ISU: 1941 Robert was from Virginia and he died on February 22, 1944. Our records on Second Lieutenant Robert W. Jones are very scant. If you have any...

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: China

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: Phillipines Sea

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Phillipines

Year at ISU: 1920 Died: Newfoundland, Canada

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: South Pacific Ocean

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: New Guinea

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: South Pacific Ocean

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1935 Died: North Africa - He was an Army Ranger

Year at ISU: 1941-1943 Died: Ottumwa, Iowa Former prominent athlete killed at Ottumwa Spirit Lake Beacon – September 23, 1943 Dayle B. Klett, the son of Charles and Mabel Klett,...

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: North Carolina

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: Japan

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Tunisia

Year at ISU: 1945 - Civil Engineering Merle Kratzer was from Manchester, Iowa. He died February 2, 1945 in Italy. Our record of Second Lieutenant Merle T. Kratzer is incomplete....

If you have any information on Albert Kresie, please contact the Memorial Union.

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Mediterranean Sea

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: Arizona

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: New Guinea

Year at ISU: 1944

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Austria

Year at ISU: 1937 Died: Non-battle death

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1944

We have little information on Roy Lund. He went missing in action during a flight over the Solomon Islands on February 13, 1943. Only a single photocopy of a card...

Year at ISU: 1947 - Army Student Training Program Our record of Theodore Wyman Magruder is scant. His hometown was Winfield, Missouri. His father was A. B. Magruder. Theodore was...

Year at ISU: 1945 First Lieutenant Charles Maring, Jr. was born on October 18, 1922 to Charles E. Maring and Ruth Copeland. He grew up in Grinnell, Iowa. Charles graduated...

We are extremely grateful to Del Marks for providing an exceptional number of artifacts and memories about two of our honorees - his classmate and friend, Galen Dean Grethen, and...

Year at ISU: 1942 - Ceramic Engineering Lieutenant Russell Leonard Mathern was from Gladbrook, Iowa and had a mother who lived in Waterloo, Iowa. Russell died on Thursday, August 9,...

Year at ISU: 1913

Year at ISU: 1946 Private First Class LeRoy Davidson McCall was born to Mr. and Mrs. L. D. McCall. His father was a deputy sheriff. He had one sister and...

Died: France

Year at ISU: 1943 Lieutenant Junior Grade James O. Mcintyre was born January 25, 1921. He came to Iowa State College from his hometown of Cresco, Iowa. He studied Dairy...

Year at ISU: 1898

Year at ISU: 1942 Cadet Glenn J. McKean was from Doliver, Iowa. He was in the Creamery Operations two-year program at Iowa State College Glenn died sometime in early 1942....

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: Luxembourg

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Japan

If you have any information on William McMannama, please contact the Memorial Union.

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: California

Year at ISU: 1935-1940 Died: San Francisco Bay, California Howard Medin was born on December 2nd, 1917, in Algona, IA, the youngest of Rose and Samuel Medin’s four boys. He,...

Year at ISU: 1942

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Burma

Year at ISU: 1937 Awards: Distinguished Service Cross

If you have any information on Harold Miller, please contact the Memorial Union.

Year at ISU: 1938 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1935 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: California

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Okinawa, Japan

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Phillipines

Year at ISU: 1942 Captain Fred Albert Monthei was killed in action in Yugoslavia on March 24, 1944. Our record of Captain Monthei is far from completed - if you...

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: France Awards: Silver Star

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Germany

Lieutenant Colonel John Robert Morrison was born in Valentine, Nebraska on January 21, 1910. His last home address was in Clarksville, Tenessee. After graduating from Iowa State in Civil Engineering,...

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1942

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: New Britain

Sergeant Arthur Myers was from Scotia, New York. He graduated ISU with a degree in Forestry in 1940. The Alumni Office received the following letter dated October 26, 1945: "This...

Year at ISU: 1926 Lieutenant Colonel William "Spike" Lester Nave was born to Clarence Anthony Nave and Elizabeth cable on August 2, 1903. He grew up near Cleveland, Ohio. He...

Year at ISU: 1947 Private William Atlee Nelson was born in Gary, Indiana on August 11, 1925 to Forrest A. Nelson and Virginia K. Kelly. He later lived in Galesburg,...

Year at ISU: 1940 First Lieutenant Robert Johns Nelson was born in Pontiac, Michigan on August 24, 1916. He later lived in Red Oak, Iowa. His parents were Laurence A....

Year at ISU: 1945 Private First Class Homer Gurton Nelson was born to his parents, Gurton N. and Mildred Thompson Nelson on May 8, 1923. He had two sisters: Mrs....

Year at ISU: 1944 - General Engineering Second Lieutenant LeRoy George Nemmers was born September 27, 1922 Leroy G. Nemmers, Sr. and Blanche F. Agard. He grew up in Spencer,...

Captain Donald Newton Nibe was born in Jewell, Iowa on March 1, 1914. He also lived in nearby Story City. His parents were Helmer (?) J. Nibe and Christine Peterson....

Captain Edwin Charles Novak was born to Charles J. Novak and Mary F. Mittvalsky on May 19, 1912. He grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and graduated from Washington Senior...

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: 1940 Died: Italy

Kenneth Norman Okeson was born in Wakefield, Nebraska on February 2, 1917 to Andrew and Marie Okeson. Wakefield is a bit west and south of Sioux City, just over the...

Private First Class J. Harold Olmstead's record is far from complete. Only a single note exists in his file: "Scranton, IA. J. Harold Olmstead, Sci (Ex 1944). Reported drowned, USS...

Year at ISU: 1945

In 2006, Mike Ostlund published the first edition of Find ‘Em, Chase ‘Em, Sink ‘Em, an expansive research monograph on the service and disappearance of the USS Gudgeon during the...

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Nevada

Year at ISU: 1935 Lieutenant Donald D. Patterson was born in Kelsey, Iowa, on April 23, 1913 to Elizabeth Fink. He he had three brothers and one sister. They grew...

Second Lieutenant Arthur Knox Patterson Lieutenant Patterson was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina on February 14, 1918 to S. Lee Patterson and Emma Ware Patterson. He had one sister...

Year at ISU: 1941 - Mechanical Engineering Captain Henry Clark Paul, Jr. was born in Mahwah, New Jersey on April 23, 1913 to Henry Clark Paul and Mildred Hahn. Henry...

From The DELTA - Sigma Nu magazine May 1944: "Lieutenant RICHARD HAMMOND PENDARVIS, Γ Σ (Iowa State) 382 USNR, was killed September 10, 1943 in an airplane accident at La...

A single note in his file reads: "Wesley Niles Perkins, ASTP Ex. '47. He is buried at Hamm, Luxembourg - Killed in Action Jan 1, 1945. C.E. Perkins (father)." If...

A single, brief note, in E Oakley Peterson's alumni file reads: "Lt. E. Oakley Peterson, Dike, Ia, Ex 1942, M.E. Killed in Action. Wife: Boone IA." If you have any...

Year at ISU: 1941 - Forestry First Lieutenant Sidney W. Peterson came from Fairmont, Minnesota. He was the son of Mr. Joseph S. Peterson. Sidney was first declared missing in...

Year at ISU: 1946 - Gen. Ag The mother of Gene Lundell Peterson wrote the following letter to the Alumni Association on November 1, 1945: "Dear Sir, In the Oct....

Year at ISU: 1927 Lieutenant Colonel John Clarence Petty was born in Adel, Iowa to Charles C. Petty and Mabel Spangler. His grandmother was Mrs. A.M. Spangler who lived in...

First Lieutenant Marshall L. Phillips was born in Jefferson, Iowa on March 20, 1920 to Ralph Sebastian Phillips and Florence Mae Morain.. He grew up in Boone, Iowa. Marshall went...

Year at ISU: 1945 Second Lieutenant Reed Lynn Pietscher was born on January 19, 1922 to Walter H. Pietscher and Hattie H. Schlotfeldt. He grew up in Princeton, Iowa. Reed...

Ronald Orville Pigg was born on September 13, 1910 in Massena, Iowa to Arthur R. Pigg and Myrtle Irons Pigg. He lived in Omaha, Nebraska for a time when he...

Year at ISU: 1947 Private Robert Page Ployhar was born October 26, 1925 to Percy Page Ployar and Margaret Mishelam Ployhar. He grew up in Valley City, North Dakota. Robert...

Major Edwin Charles Pumroy died on his 37th birthday while leading a patrol near Champenoux, France on September 22, 1944. He had just earned the Silver Star just barely a...

Staff Sergeant Robert Vance Rannells, radio operator on a B-29 bomber the "Joltin' Josie - The Pacific Pioneer", was born January 9, 1918 to W. C. Rannells and Adah Crowe....

First Lieutenant Charles Henry Rannells II was born to Charles H. Rannells, Sr. and Winifred Huie. He may have been related to Robert V. Rannells, given that they were both...

Maurice Raskin was born in Woodbury, Iowa in 1919 and attended high school in Sioux City, Iowa. Maurice was part of a meatpacking family that had survived the depression and...

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Ohio

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Italy

2d. Lt. Richard B. Reed '42 was a Boston native who lived in Chicago before coming to lowa State in 1943. He was with the U. S. Army Air Forces,...

George Edmund (Eddie) Reilly was born November 20, 1906 to James Reilly and Beatrice (Simon) Reilly. He grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State College in...

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: Texas

Died: North Africa

Hampton was born in 1917 in Virginia and served as a First Lieutenant & Pilot on B-24D "Pistol Packin Mama" #42-40594, 321st Bomber Squadron, 90th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army...

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Austria

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: South Pacific

Year at ISU: 1942 We don't have much information on John H. Ronk. He was in the Dairy Plant Operations two-year program while at Iowa State College. A single photocopied...

Year at ISU: 1947

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: Texas

Captain Robert Cameron Russell was born to his parents, France W.H. and Ada C. Russell. He grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio with a sister named Jeanenne and a brother...

William Allen Rutledge was born on November 12, 1917. He grew up in Sharpsburg, Iowa. While attending Sharpsburg High School, he played basketball and baseball. At Iowa State College, he...

Second Lieutenant Elmer D Rydberg's sister, Grace, wrote the following to the Alumni Assocition dated December 31, 1944: "Elmer enlisted April 1942 - called for training July 1942 - classified...

Second Lieutenant Merle Leander Sandal was born on March 16, 1918 to Martin A. Sandal and Alice E. Nelson. He grew up in Stanhope, Iowa. He died after 13 months...

Our record of George M. Saunderson is far from complete. We only have a single photocopied card in his file which reads: "Sioux City - George McCullough Saunderson. Gen E...

Russel was born to his parents, Conrad C. Scharnberg and Viola A. Matthiesen, on January 2, 1921. He grew up in Everly, Iowa, with one brother, First Lieutenant Robert Lee...

Year at ISU: 1942 - Dy. H. Lieutenant Junior Grade James Franklin "Frank" Scooby was born October 19, 1919 to Chester R. Schoby and Myrtle Brown. He also had a...

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: South China Sea Reason: Died on U.S.S. Snook (Submarine)

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Southwest Pacfic Ocean

Year at ISU: 1935 Died: Alaska Reason: Accident

Years at ISU: 1942 Died: Arkansas Reason: Died November 5 (Unknown Year)

Year at ISU: 1941 Lieutenant Charles Raymond Seitz grew up in Glenwood and studied General Engineering at Iowa State College. His father, Captain R. Seitz, Sr., had also attending Iowa...

Only two cards exist in Lieutenant Colonel Charles P. Sheffield's file with the following information: #1. "Charles Paul Sheffield, Pout. H. Ex. '39." #2: "Lt. Col. Charles Paul Sheffield, Ex...

Year at ISU: 1941 Second Lieutenant Rex Allen Shirk was born in Grundy County, Iowa on February 21, 1919 to Asa J. Shirk and Burdine Allen. He played football for...

Lt. J.G. Harold D. Shrider's brother, Gene Shrider Mills, sent the following letter to the Alumni Office, dated April 5, 1944: "Harold was born in Fremont, Nebraska, March 9, 1914....

Staff Sergeant Hilbert Steindler Siegel was born to Morris Siegel and Sadie Heindler in Butte, Montana, sometime in 1920. Later, he called Cedar Rapids, Iowa his home. Hilbert entered the...

Second Lieutenant Ross Sifford, Jr. was born to Ross Sifford (Ex. 1905) and Hazel Pickett at Wall Lake, Sac County, Iowa on July 25, 1917. He later called Caroll, Iowa...

Year at ISU: 1943 - Electrical Engineering First Lieutenant Curtis H. Sigler was born in Omaha, Nebraska on December 8, 1921 to John M. Sigler and Emma Johannsen-Sigler. He also...

Year at ISU: 1942 - Electrical Engineering Aviation Cadet Arnold Ernest Sindlinger was born to George and Edyth Sindlinger on August 8, 1919. He grew up in Fort Dodge, Iowa....

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: California

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: Arizona

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: California Reason: Blimp Crashed

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: Luxemburg

Year at ISU: 1943 First Lieutenant Frank Allen Smith was born on January 23, 1919 to Harrison Smith and Mary Donnelly. He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. Frank graduated...

Year at ISU: 1945 Air Cadet Donald Ray Smith was born on March 7, 1923 to Glen W. Smith and Edith Hubrecht. He grew up in Iowa Falls, Iowa with...

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1945 Private Loren Wilhoit Smock was born to his parents, Frederick L. Smock and Sabra Wilhoit on December 2, 1923. He grew up in Winona, Minnesota. His...

Year at ISU: 1928 Died: Japan | Reason: POW

Our only record of Harold A. Soper is a single photocopy of a card in his alumni file that reads: "2nd Lt. Harold Arthur Soper. Class: Dy Pl Op. '42...

We only have scanned notes on 2nd Lieutenant Sorensen which read: "LaVern R. Sorensen - '41. Engr. Ser. Deere Tractor Works. Waterloo, Iowa. Killed in Action." Father (?): Mr. Fred...

Alan Southworth was born to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Southworth, sometime in 1926. He had three sisters: Mrs. O. L. Smith, Undine Southworth (a Home Economics senior at...

Stanley was born in 1925 to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Steiner. He had two sisters and one brother, Vernon, who served as a chief petty officers in the Pacific. Robert...

Fred was born to Emmy Stenstrom in White Plains, New York, but grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. Fred graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1939....

Year at ISU: 1944 - Mechanical Engineering We have little information on Wilbur C. Steven. He was from Sexton, Iowa. Wilbur died aboard the U.S.S. Cowpens aircraft carrier on January...

Year at ISU: 1943 First Lieutenant John C. Stever was born in Fairfield, Iowa to Mr. Ralph H. Stever. John served in the Army Air Forces. Letter to Alumni Association,...

Year at ISU: 1945 Sergeant Frank Eugene Stewart was born in Boone, Iowa and later lived in Packwood, Iowa. His parents were George H. Stewart and Calista A. Clark. Frank...

Captain Edward Stewart's name was added to the Gold Star Hall in September 2003 because of his grandson, Matt Husby. Husby was sitting outside the Memorial Union by the fountain...

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: Holland

Year at ISU: 1941-1943 - Chemical Engineering Stolp was from Aurora, Illinois. Our record of Foster S. Stolp is far from complete. If you have any information on Stolp, please...

Year at ISU: 1943 First Lieutenant Marc E. Strumpell came from Dubuque, Iowa. From the Des Moines Register, December 31 1943: "DUBUQUE - First Lieutenant Marc Strumpell, fighter plane pilot,...

Year at ISU: 1944 (two year) Lieutenant William Stump was born on January 21, 1924 to Webb Stump and Eula E. Summers, and was baptized as a Methodist in Denison,...

Year at ISU: 1944 Max was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Stump. He had considerable ability as an athlete. He played baseball in DeSoto and, on several occasions, with...

Wayne grew up in Burlington, Iowa and graduated from Burlington Junior College in 1935 and Iowa State College in 1937. He played football in high school and junior college, and...

Year at ISU: 1944 Thomas went missing in action, and the finding of his death was January 12, 1945. His mother was Mrs. Agnes Sutherland. He was friends with Captain...

Year at ISU: 1945 Daniel was born on November 30, 1922 to Cecil C. Teeters and Grace Varley. He grew up in Madison Wisconsin. Daniel enlisted in the Army Air...

Year at ISU: 1941

Year at ISU: 1933 Died: Florida

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: South Pacific

Year at ISU: 1945 Died: Florida

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Germany

Year at ISU: 1938 Died: England

Captain Burton C. "Stretch" Thomson '37. of Swea City, Iowa, played basketball two years for lowa State before earning his degree in veterinary medicine. He was stationed with the Army...

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Alaska

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Germany Awards: Silver Star

Year at ISU: 1947 Died: Luxembourg

Year at ISU: 1940 1st. Lt. Russell E. Trenary '40 was born in Platteville, Wisconsin and later lived in Cedar Rapids. He was in the US Army Air Forces. Trenary...

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: Japan

Charles H. Tustison was born in Yates Center, Kansas on May 11, 1910, the youngest of four children to Charles C. and Dora Tustison. He graduated from Yates Center High...

2ND LIEUTENANT US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II Ronald Thomas Twito enlisted in the Naval Air Cadet program at Iowa State University in the spring of 1942 from Lake Mills,...

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: France

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: North Carolina

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Singapore

Year at ISU: 1943 Died: Germany

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...

Year at ISU: 1939 Died: Texas

Second Lieutenant Merle E. Vanderhorst grew up in Oskaloosa, Iowa. He was the son of Bert Vanderhorst. Merle would have graduated with the Class of 1946 at Iowa State in...

Aviation Machinist Mate Second Rank James Richard Vawter's hometown was Des Moines, Iowa. He was the son of Dick Mavity and Susanna Faris. James left Iowa State College sometime before...

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,...

First Lieutenant Marvin Vinson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Vinson. He had a brother named Robert who was an aviation cadet at the time of his...

Norman was born in St. Joseph, Missouri and lived for a time in Clearfield, Iowa. He graduated from nearby Blockton High School, where he was active in class plays and...

Little information is known about Gerald Wachal, Jr., who studied Chemical Engineering at Iowa State College sometime before 1945. His file contains only the following note, written by his mother,...

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Over Tennessee, USA | Reason: Parachute malfunction

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Bougainville

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: Normandy

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Austria

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Germany Awards: Silver Star

Civilian Life Schuyler Bertrom Wheeler was born 11 August 1915 to Schuyler J. and Eva (Carlson) Wheeler on a farm near Boone, Iowa. He was graduated from Boone High School...

Year at ISU: 1946 Robert was born to Bernard Wheelock and Mary Maliet on May 11, 1925. He grew up in Zearing, Iowa. Robert had two brothers, Paul and Carl,...

US MARINE CORPS WORLD WAR II Corporal Ole Wibholm was born in Demark along with his sister Esther. He had another sister named Ingebord. Their parents, Ole and Kathrin, came...

Year at ISU: 1946 - Engineering We only have scant information on First Lieutenant Harry J Widows. He was from Glenwood Iowa and his parents were Mr. and Mrs. N....

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,...

Usually, the Gold Star Hall Committee selects the honorees for each year’s ceremony. Once a name is chosen, we then try to contact family members and do extensive research to...

Died: Okinawa, Japan

Died: Colorado

Civilian Life Meredith (Tim) DeRoy Winter was born on 26 February 1919 in Dysart, Iowa. He graduated as the valedictorian of his high school class in 1936 and enrolled at...

Year at ISU: 1930 Died: Virginia

Year at ISU: 1941 Died: Iwo Jima

Year at ISU: 1946 Died: Michigan

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: Mediterranean Sea

Year at ISU: 1942 Died: Texas

We only have a single note in Paul C. Young's file: "We have had no word re. Paul C. young other than word from Beta House that he is dead....

Year at ISU: 1940 Died: North Africa

Year at ISU: 1940 Zeigler was born in Muscatine, Iowa to H. W. Zeigler and Geneva M Shiek on February 5, 1919, but grew up in Anamosa, Iowa. Lee entered...

Year at ISU: 1944 Died: California

Year at ISU: 1938 Died: Georgia

Frank was born to W. Leland Zink and Cynthia Mary McKibben on October 17, 1926 in Stuttgart, Arkansas. He grew up in Plano, Illinois. Frank was a member of Sigma...