World War II
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...
