World War II
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: 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....
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: 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...
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...