Cerro Gordo County Iowa
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Cerro Gordo County Iowa
Military Index

 

U.S. DRAGOONS, IOWA TERRITORY

  • On The Trails of the Dragoons

     

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    CIVIL WAR

  • CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS
        Roster of Co. B 32nd Iowa Volunteer Infantry

             1883 Civil War Pensioners

             COTTRELL Civil War Pension

             McLAUGHLIN Civil War Pension

             Pvt. Charles B. SENIOR'S Civil War Letters

             African-American Civil War Veterans

             Capt. Henry I SMITH, Medal of Honor Recipient

             Saga of Mason City's Civil War Statue

  • G.A.R. Organized, 1881

  • Company A, 6th Infantry, 1887


    Iowa in the Civil War
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    Special Project
     
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    SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

  • Before They Went To War

  • 100 Mason Cityans Enter War With Spain, 1898

  • SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR VETERANS

      Mark S. "Matt" BARRON   Stephen E. BARRON   William BELL   Pvt. William O. DEMO    Pvt. William KEELING

     

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    MASON CITYANS on MEXICAN BORDER

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    [Globe-Gazette, June 01, 1953, Section 5, Page 11] Shown above is the 2nd Iowa Regiment, including A and D Companies from Mason City, which served on the Mexican border in 1916. The picture was taken at Las Balmas, near Brownsville, Tex., Jan. 26, 1917, shortly before the regiment returned to Iowa. In the row of officers in the foreground are Lt. Hanford MacNider, Capt. J. M. Heffner, Capt. Ory W. Garman and Lt. Con Helbig.

    The picture is the property of W. H. Paxton, a member of D Company.

    Shortly after returning to Mason City in March, 1917, the two local companies were mustered into service for World War I.

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    Iowa in the Great War
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    Special Project
    WORLD WAR I

  • Cerro Gordo World War I Roll of Honor Index
  • Mason Cityans Help Defeat Kaiser
        Globe-Gazette, Mason City Centennial Issue, Monday, June 01, 1953

  • Lt. General Hanford MacNIDER & The American Expeditatory Forces

  • MOLE & THOMAS' WWI PHOTOGRAPHY

  • MEDICAL PROFESSIONS IN WWI

  • War I Vets Organize, 1919

  • VFW Post Organized in Mason City, 1922

  • World War I Exhibit

    WORLD WAR I VETERANS:

       Pvt. Charles BORDEAN    Pvt. Milton D. (Olver) "Dutch" FULGHUM    Pvt. James M. GALLAGHER    Pvt. Arthur HARRIS    Cpl. Henry HOPP    Pvt. Harry A. KIMBALL
     
       Pvt. Louis J. PION    Pvt. Pvt. Axel C. RASMUSSEN    2nd Lt. Clarence E. SCHIDE    Pvt. George Carl SHEPPELMAN    Pvt. James L. SUTTON

     

  • POST-WAR VETERANS:

             Naval Cadets, 1936

             Clear Lake Sailors, 1939

     

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    Iowa in WWII
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    Special Project
     
    WORLD WAR II

  • Before December 7, 1941
        Auxiliary Flag
        Dr. H. G. MARINOS, U.S. Army
        Bob WINCHELL, U.S. Navy

  • PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS REMEMBERS
        Jim O'BRIEN  Dan KELLEY  Maurice KLECKNER  Robert LEAMAN  Harlan SEARLE

  • REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR
        Jack CAPUTO  Chuck HARRIS  Harlan SEARLE

  • WORLD WAR II DIRECTORY, Mason City

  • Northern Iowans in WWII, 1942

  • THE MIGHTY 8th, U.S.A.A.F

  • Mason City's Marines, 1942

  • WWII MIA, POW & Casualties, Globe Gazette, Nov. 03, 1945

  • Cerro Gordo Co. Soldiers, Battle of Midway Island, June 4-7, 1942

  • Cerro Gordo Co. Heroes Day, 1942

  • Globe-Gazette Military News, August 02, 1944
       SURNAMES: ANDERSON, ANGELL, ARNOLD, BENTS, BLANCHETT, CHRISTENSEN, COLER, CRANE, DAHLSTROM, ELMAN, ENEBNET, FLICKENSTEIN, FLUGUM, FOSNESS, GALLUP, GIBBONS, GOWDY, GRUIS, FUERTIN, HAGEN, HALLDORF, HELGESON, HENRICKSON, HILLILAND, HUSETH, JACOBSEN, JOHNSON, KELSO, LEFFLER, LOCKRUM, MAGNANI, MARCHI, MARZEN, McGIRR, McNAMARA, MILLER, MOLANDER, MULLEN, MYERS, MYRE, OLSON, ORMSBY, PLATH, POTTER, RIEHLE, RODGERS, RUTH, RYE, SASSE, STRAND, SZYMECZKE, TATONE, TERRY, VAAGEN, VOLDING, WAGNER, WATTS, WHITLOW, ZIMMERMAN

  • W.R.C. Memorial Service, August of 1944
        Honoring Pfc. GARCIA, PlSgt. CROSS, Pfc. SCHULTZ, Sgt. WALDMOE, PHM HURIT, Sgt. ANDERSON, Sgt. FOWLER,
        SM WENTWORTH, Sgt. McDOUGLE, Cpl. DYE, Pfc. SPRINGER, Pvt. PAXTON, 1st Lt. GROW, Pvt. FRAZIER, SSgt. RUHNKE.

  • Navy Mothers Club, Clear Lake 1945

  • Mason Cityans on All Warfronts
        Globe-Gazette, Mason City Centennial Issue, Monday, June 01, 1953

    WWII VETERANS:

       Iona AHRENS
       "Rosie the Riveter"
       Sgt. Joseph B. AMOS
       K.I.A. Iwo Jima
       S1C Virgil "Whitey" BARKHURST
       Clear Lake
       Raymond BEITH
       USMC, 1942
       2nd Lt. Roger H. BLEWETT
       B-17 pilot
       SSgt. Thomas J. BOYLE
       Japanese POW
       Capt. Walt BRAMBALL
       of Mason City
       2nd Lt. James R. BROWN
       German POW
       Pvt. William Anthony BURKE
           "Brave Son, Brave Mother"
       Pvt. John D. CANNELLA
       Japanese POW
       SGT. Lawrence George CARMANY
       & obituary
       PFC Eugene CHRISTENSON
       V-Mail
       Lt. Arthur L. CLARK
       gravestone photograph
       Lt. Ray Ellison CLOUGH
       German POW
      BKR 2/C June Georgetta COX
       WAVES, August 1944
       Pfc. George H. COFFIN
       German POW
       Sgt. William Charles CROSS
       USMC K.I.A. June 15, 1944
       Pfc. Robert H. DAHL
       German POW
       2nd Lt. Robert W. DANAHER
       German POW
       Pfc. Alex James DIETZ
       German POW
       Sgt. Wayne R. EALY
       Awarded Bronze Arrowhead
       Cpl. Leland Dale FAKTOR
       Doolittle Raider
       GM 3/C Marion Eugene FINDLING
       died in service
       Lt. Charles A. FISCHER
       German POW
       Pfc. Donald Rex FORD
       K.I.A. Battle Tarawa
       Robert E. "Bob" GIBSON
       Remembers Iwo Jima
       Pvt. Keith L. HAIGHT
       German POW
       Cpl. Dick HALFORD
       In England
       SSgt. Everett HANSON
      
       Lt. Donald Grady HARRER
       German POW
       Joe HEARITY
       USMC, 1942
       Lt. Homer HOCKENBERRY
       June of 1942
       Rolan HOWARD
       K.I.A. Pearl Harbor, USS Arizona
       Sgt. Bynum C. JACOBSEN
       Paratrooper
       Cpl. Donald J. JENSEN
       German POW
       MM1/C Melvin LASKOWSKI
       Pearl Harbor
       Cpl. Alvin Jerome LAVIN
       German POW
       Pvt. Ora Dutson LYMAN
       German POW
       Pvt. Lloyd A. LYON
       W.I.A. Guadacanal
       Pvt. Harold A. MANSMITH
       Torpedoman 1/C
       SSgt. Roy B. MARTIN, Jr.
       German POW
       Seaman Lester "Ike" MOON
       Torpedoman 1/C
       Lt. Benny J. NOZICKA
       German POW
       Clarence T. OLSON
       Shipfitter 3/C
       SSgt. Phil ONG
       German POW
       SSgt. Paul PATTERSON
        in Holland
       Pvt. Ervin PEDERSEN
       M.I.A.
       Pvt. Kathryn A. PRAMER
       WAC in England
       Jim RANSOM
       WWII & Korea
       Keith ROLL
       U.S. Army
       Thomas RYE
       in Iceland
       Pvt. Karl V. SCHNEIDER
       Panama Zone
       S2C Ray SMITH
       Received Discharge
       2nd Lt. Melvin J. SPENCER
       German POW
       PHM Donald E. TAPSCOTT
       Japanese POW
       1st Sgt. George A. TIMM Jr.
       Japanese POW
       Richard UFFORD
       Memorial Service
       Lt. Richard E. VAUGHN
       German POW
       FM 1/C Melvin O. WHITNEY
       aboard USS Marblehead
       Sgt. Sherman E. WICKRE
       German POW
       Robert E. WIDDRINGTON
       Memorial Service
       Harold YOUNGER
       A Veteran Remembers

  • Stalag Luft I Liberated, Barth, Germany

  • Remembering Pvt. Robert THOMAS

  • Pvt. Stanley A. ARNESON, Fallen Sept. 22, 1951

  • WWII Veterans Honor Flight

  • WWII Marine Veterans Share Stories, 2016
        Larry CRONIN, John EASON, Ernie HUDSON and Gene PFERTZEL

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  • Cpl. William J. CRAWFORD, 1951

  • Richard MENNEN, World II & Korean War Veteran

       

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    KOREAN WAR

  • KOREAN WAR CASUALTIES

  • KOREAN WAR VETERANS:
       Cpl. Carl Jacob CLAUS
       K.I.A. North Korean
       Jerry Michael KARR
       U.S. Air Force
       John R. KING
       U.S. Air Force
       Cpl. Alvin Jerome LAVIN
       K.I.A. South Korea
       Edmund Marvin MULLEN
       of Rockwell
       Bob NEWMAN
       U.S. Army
       Jim RANSOM
       U.S. Army
       Edwin WASZAK
       of Dougherty

  • THEY SERVED WITH HONOR
        KOREAN WAR VETERANS REMEMBER:
    A. James "Jim" Bonner    Russel "Russ" Borchardt    Robert "Bob" Echelbarger
    Nels Goldberg    Roland Gorkowski    Marlyn Hanson
    Chuck Harris    Harold Hopp    Harlan & Leighton Kreider
    Mel Kruckenberg    Kenneth Meacham    Wayne Osgood
    Roger Paulson    Keith Reason    Joe Rooney

  • Korean War Exhibit

     

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    VIETNAM WAR

    Vietnam by the numbers
    115,000 Iowans served in all branches of military during the Vietnam War years, 1964 to 1973.
    Their average age was 19. Most were in Vietnam for at least one year.
    ~ Globe Gazette, May 05, 2016

  • Vietnam War Era Veterans:
       PFC Ronald L. ROMIG
       USMC
       PFC Harlan W. SNOW
       Returns to Duty

  • VIETNAM WAR CASUALTIES

  • Lt. Col. Ted WOLFRAM III, WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War Veteran

  • Remembering Vietnam M.I.A.s

  • Remembering Vietnam Heroes

  • Operation LZ, 2015

  • Index of They Served With Honor
         Stories about North Iowa's Vietnam War Veterans, The Globe Gazette 2015 - 2016:
    Lee Aldrich  Teddy F. Bassett Jr.  George Bennet  J. O. Bensen
    Dan Bilharz  Ed Buchanan  Jim Cleveland  Kenny Coe
    Randy DeBour  Alan Ebert  Jim Eggers  Jim Farghum
    Mike Foster  David Frederick  Dan Gatton  David Haugen
    Bob Havner  Denny Hull  Larry Kearney  Jerry Kelley
    Jerry Knoll  Jim Knutson  Don Latham  Steve Lane
    Jay Lee  Bob Lembke  Chuck Machin  Patrick Mackin
    Jim Marlow  Bob Marreel  Ernie L. Martinez  Carlos Melendez
    Jerry Merrick  Bob Mogk  Dennis Murra  Stephen Olmstead
    Glen Pannkuk  Dick Parcher  Larry Paul  Mark Reinsmoen
    Ron Richtsmeier  Bob Rodgers  John Ross  Mavis "May" Schmidt 
    Stuart Simonson  Ron Smith  David Steinberg  Ron Stroup
    Chuck Thome  Dean Thome  Rod Tripp  David Tvedt
    Frank Uhde, Sr.  Herb Waugh  Gary Wattnem  Dennis Withers
    Jim Zacharias

     

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    SPECIAL FORCES

  • Cmd Sgt. Maj. Gale C. KITTLESON, WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War Veteran

     

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    GULF WAR & WAR on TERRORISM

  • SSgt. Peter BIEBER

  • Capt. Dwayne EDEN

  • Ken and Jenni GAULEY

  • Lt. Gabriel HAUGLAND

  • Bob KENNY

  • Spec. Joshua Lincoln "Josh" KNOWLES

  • Jake MILLER

  • Spec. Brody MORAN

  • 1st Sgt. Steve NELSON

  • Capt. Logan PALS

  • John SANCHEZ

  • TyAnne SCHULTE

  • USAF Veteran William STUFLICK

  • Veterans Remember War on Terror

  • GULF WAR & WAR on TERRORISM CASUALTIES
        SPS Dustin Scot COLBY   SPC Joshua Lincoln KNOWLES

  • 1133rd Transportation Company, Iowa National Guard, Mason City

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  • Pfc. Wyatt PAULUS, USMC, 2014

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    CERRO GORDO COUNTY'S AMERICAN LEGION & VFW POSTS
     
  • Anton Juhl Post 440, American Legion, Thornton

  • Clausen-Worden Post 101, American Legion, Mason City

  • Clear Lake Post 222, American Legion, Clear Lake

  • Clear Lake V.F.W. Post 4868, Clear Lake, established 1945

  • Dougherty Post 354, Dougherty

  • Mason City V.F.W. Post 733, Mason City

  • Rockwell Legion, Post 208

  • Thornton Post 171, American Legion, Thornton

  • William J. Schmalle Post 171, American Legion, Meservey

    VETERAN'S DAY

  • Clear Lake, 1990

  • Mason City, 2008

  • Mason City, 2014

  • Mason City, 2016

  • 1133rd Transportation Company, Iowa National Guard, Mason City

  • Medal of Honor Recipients

  • Dedication of Veterans Monument, Mason City, November 11, 2004

  • Veterans Monument Names Index, Mason City

  • Veterans Monument, Ventura

  • Sacrifice Not Forgotten, Mason City War Monument, 2009

  • Rock Falls Military Honor Roll

  • Remembering The Forgotten

  • Memorial Day 2015

  • Dr. John ASLAKSON, Taps

      Korean War Monument & Vietnam Monument at Washington, D. C. photographs by Sharon R. Becker

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