World War II
1939-1945 and the years following
Aikens, Philip Raymond, 1939-40, USMC
Allred, Robert E., 1934-35, USAF
Anderson, Ernest L., 1941-43, USAF
Anderson, Franklin J., 1938-40, USAF
Anderson, Frederick E., 1934-38, USA
Anderson, James M., Jr., 1936-37, USAF
Anderson, Lawrence D., 1939-40, USN
Angel, James Alfred, 1933-37, USAF
Arnold, Robert Dodge, 1936-40, USA
Asa, Marion Lee, 1941-42, USN
Baker, Lowell Dean, 1937-40, USAF
Baker, Marshall C., 1941-43, USN
Baker, Robert Ward, 1934-40, USA
Baldwin, Thomas Arlando, 1925-30, USN
Ballard, Ted Allen, 1939-41, USAF
Barlow, Howard H., 1916-20, USA
Barnes, Dale E., 1929-33, USA
Beck, Sumner L., 1936-38, USAF
Bell, Robert M., 1941-43, USA
Bigelow, Kenneth James, 1938-40, USN
Blandin, Carl Wilkes, 1937-39, USAF
Blaul, Milton A., Jr., 1938-39, USAF
Blaylock, John Robert, 1937-41, USAF
Bloethe, Leonard Walter, 1938-42, USA
Bloom, Francis A., 1937-38, USA
Bolte, Rudolph Eugene, 1930-34, USA
Bottorff, Robert Thomas, 1941-42, USAF
Boulton, Verne James, 1925-26
Bowers, John E., 1944, USAF
Brearton, William S., 1936-38, USAF
Brennan, Martin King, 1935-38, USAF
Briggs, Robert Karl, 1939-43, USA
Brooks, Bruce B., 1938-42, USAF
Brooks, Robert Lester, 1935-41, USNR
Brown, Robert Elson, 1936-39, USAF
Burk, Theora Bruce, 1939-41, USAF
Burriss, Zedford W., 1933-37, USMC
Bush, Donald M., 1936-38, USAF
Butsch, James A., 1936-41, USAF
Buttler, Richard C., 1938-39, USAF
Cadwell, Newell Lewis, 1931-35, USA
Cain, Bryce Max, 1939-40, USAF
Callan, William C., Jr., 1941-42, USN
Camery, Donald E., 1944-45, USA
Carlson, Morris A., 1938-41, USAF
Carrigg, Paul Robert, 1936-40, USA
Carroll, Edward M., 1932-36, USA
Cavanagh, Thornton James, 1937-41, USAF
Clark, Charles, E., 1934-35, USA
Clark, George D., 1939-41, USAF
Cockburn, George H., Jr., 1936-37, USA
Coen, Robert John, 1936-41, USAF
Connor, Howard B., 1931-40, USAF
Coon, Bernard H., 1941-43, USA
Cornick, Ray Leland, 1934-35, USAF
Cox, Marble E., 1939-43, USN
Crampton, Walter L., 1933-37, USA
Cripe, Kenneth, 1941-42, USN
Cronin, Robert Charles, 1940-41, USN
Cross, Jerome Ryland, 1938-39, USAF
Curel, Frank J., 1924-28, WC
Decker, William Joseph, 1935-39, USN
Dedrick, Emerson Robert, 1939-41, USMC
Demaree, Robert Chester, 1935-41, USN
Derrer, Verne Howard, 1933-37, USCG
Donohoe, Charles Joseph, 1934-39, USA
Drewelow, Raymond J., 1939-40, USAF
Dreyer, Milton, 1935-36
Drobner, Martin Sanford, 1942-43, USA
Drummond, Willis Hinton, 1918-24, USA
Duckett, Carlton Lewis, 1937-40, USA
Dunham, George Kenneth, 1939-43, USA
DuPre, Richard L., 1941-42, USAF
Dutton, Finley J., 1942-43, USAF
Earley, Joe Campbell, 1937-40, USAF
Ebert, Paul Eugene, 1939-40, USAF
Eby, Robert Nichols, 1937-40, USA
Eckles, Wayne Osten, 1935-38, USAF
Eddy, Albert Charles, 1939-41, USAF
Eland, Thomas, 1935-38, USA
Ellis, Alfred Reese, 1930-33, USAF
Emerson, Dewitt, 1913-18, USN
Erbacher, John Marvin, 1938-39, USA
Evans, John Hakes, 1936-42, USMC
Evans, William Ellis, 1940-41, USAF
Feldman, Norbert Bert, 1939-41, USA
Filmer, Lionel Everett, 1941-43, USMC
Finton, Norman W., 1936-39, USA
Fisher, Lester Harold, 1938-39, USA
Folkedahl, Willis H., 1940-42, USN
Ford, Robert Douglas, 1943, USA
Forman, Percy, 1935-39, USAF
Fortune, Joseph E., 1932-35
Frandsen, Earl C., 1934-39, USA
Fraser, Hugh Kirk, 1936-40, USA
Friesner, Curtis David, 1929-30, USA
Gardner, Robert E., 1941-43, USA
Garner, William F., 1940-42, USNF
Garton, William, 1893-98, USN
George, Keith Edward, 1929-37, USA
Gibson, Clifford E., 1944-45, USAF
Gilleard, W. Burdell, 1938-41, USA
Goodrich, James Penn, 1934-42, USN
Goodyear, Donovan, 1935-41, USAF
Goss, Eugene Leonard, 1938-42, USA
Graham, John Earl, 1941-42, USN
Gray, James Arwin, 1942-43, USMC
Greene, Hiram Moe, 1932-36, USN
Greene, Johan Sherman, 1927-34, USA
Greve, Jack Frederic, 1940-42, USAF
Grimes, Ray Willford, 1939-41, USN
Grossman, Daniel, 1939-39, USA
Gunderson, Jerome A., 1942-43, USAF
Guthrie, Bernie Vincent, 1939-40, USAF
Haines, John Wister, 1933-37, USA
Hamilton, Lloyd Emerson, 1933-36, USA
Hanna, Charles William, 1936-39, USN
Harlan, Martin Edward, 1934-38, USMC
Harris, Marion Edward, 1933-38, USAF
Harrison, Glenn Ellwood, 1921-28, USA
Hartigan, Charles W., 1925-29, USA
Hawkins, James M., Jr., 1941-43, USMC
Hayes, Robert A., 1936-39, USA
Healy, Arthur Wesley, 1935-38, USA
Heaton, Charles Curtis, 1939-40, USAF
Henthorne, William W., 1938-42, USA
Hess, Donald William, 1934-39, USAF
Heyerdale, William W., 1928-32, USA
Higbee, Glenn W., Jr., 1937-39, USNR
Hill, George E., 1937-39, USN
Hinman, Theodore L., 1937-42, USAF
Hinrichs, Christian E., 1942-43, USA
Hinsch, William R., Jr., 1934-38, USA
Hintz, Owen M., 1938-42, USN
Hise, Daniel E., 1934-42, USAF
Hitch, Mary Helen, 1930-33, ARC
Hoag, Richard Nevin, 1935-37, USAF
Hoffman, William Louis, 1900, USA
Hoffmann, John M., 1928-32, USA
Holcomb, Verle Page, 1940-42, USA
Holsteen, Theodore F., 1932-33, USAF
Hommel, John Mahlon, 1939-40, USA
Hopley, George Peter, 1941-43, USA
Hopp, Marshall S., 1940-41, USNR
Hordzwich, Charles K., 1939-41, USA
Houck, Lee, 1940-43, USAF
Hovey, Glenn Clarke, 1940-41, USAF
Hoyt, Robert Samuel, 1940-43, USA
Hughes, Hayden T., 1938-41, USAF
Humphrey, Howard C., 1939-41, USAF
Hupp, Howard T., 1929-33, USA
Ingraham, Benjamin A., 1934-41, USN
Irwin, Bruce James, 1938-39, USN
Irwin, James Quentin, 1940-41, USAF
Jacobsen, Herman H., 1917-23, USA
Jacobson, Alan Roy, 1940-42, USAF
Jenkinson, Rogers L., 1938-41, USN
Jensen, Lyle M., 1940-42, USA
Johann, Robert Kaylor, 1938-41, USA
Johnson, Donald Lyle, 1942-43, USA
Johnson, George Walter, 1940-41, USA
Johnson, Kendrick L., 1937-38, USAF
Johnson, Richard Merrill, 1937-39, USA
Johnson, Robert J., 1935-39, USA
Johnson, Walter W., 1929-32, USA
Jones, Robert L., 1939-41, USN
Joslyn, Harper S., 1935-38, USN
Kadgihn, Robert Colville, 1937-41, USA
Kalen, John J., 1939-41, USMC
Kell, Richard T., 1937-38, USA
Kelly, Robert A., 1942-43, USAF
Kemp, John J., 1937-41, USA
Kemp, Sheldon R., 1928-33, USA
Kennedy, Harry Elmo, 1935-39, USN
King, Donald Young, 1938-42, USAF
Kinnan, Leonard Edward, 1931, USN
Kinnick, Nile Clarke, Jr., 1936-41, USN
Klassie, Marlin Eugene, 1942-43, USAF
Klinker, Norman Pershing, 1936-38, USA
Knipe, James Stuart, 1936-43, USA
Kopp, Carlyle Joseph, 1937-38, USN
Kraschel, James Norman, 1942-43, USAF
Kratz, John Henry, Jr., 1938-41, USA
Krouch, Dean Richard, 1934-37, USN
Kunz, Julius, Jr., 1936-41, USAF
Lamb, Laird Bushnell, 1934-38, USAF
Lampman, Leslie F., Jr., 1939-40, USAF
Large, Harry Jack, 1940-42, USNR
Leamer, Robert R., 1922-28, USN
Leffingwell, Charles E., 1934-38, USA
Leighty, Charles, 1936-38, USAF
Lentsch, Urban B., 1932-33, USA
Lewis, Charles Reed, 1939-42, USA
Lewis, Joseph Wayne, 1940-41, USAF
Lewis, Virgil Lee, 1926-30, USA
Lind, Harold Leroy, 1939-43, USMCR
Lindholm, Jennings P., 1934-42, USA
London, Sidney, 1937-41, USA
McCammon, John Purdue, 1925-31, USA
McCauliff, Lon Hathway, 1936-40, USAF
McClenahan, Charles Leo, 1935-39, USA
McClure, Robert Phillip, 1938-41, USN
McCormick, Archie Lee, 1938-41, USA
McDonald, Charles F., Jr., 1940-43, USA
McDonald, Eugene Thomas, 1940-41, USA
McDonnell, Edward T., 1935-38, USNR
McElroy, John Robert, 1936-41, USA
McKone, Francis A., 1927-29, USN
MacDonald, Jack G., 1939-41, USA
Mace, Glenn E., Jr., 1942-43, USA
Maddox, James S., 1935-37, USMM
Magoon, Donald James 1939-41, USA
Mahoney, Edward James, 1938-42, USAF
Mahood, Robert E., Jr., 1939-41, USAF
Marnette, Thomas H., 1927-31, USA
Marshall, Leonard P., 1937-40, USAF
Martin, Donald Charles, 1940-42, USAF
Martin, J. Deane, 1939-42, USN
Martin, Wayne A., 1935-39, USA
Marvin, Wayne Samuel, 1939-43, USA
Mellor, John Reed, 1940-41, USA
Meyer, George H., 1942-43, USA
Meyers, John Frederick, 1903-07, POW
Miehe, Robert Eugene, 1938-42, USA
Miller, Duncan R., 1929-35, USA
Miller, Helen Bernice, 1932-38, ARC
Miller, Jerry Richard, 1941-43, USAF
Miller, John Scarborough, 1941-43, USAF
Miller, Warren Reid, 1941-42, USA
Moll, Vincent Kenyon, 1942-43, USA
Montgomery, John Alton, 1941-43, USA
Montieth, Robert Laomi, 1935-39, USAF
Morden, Richard Paul, 1929-34, USA
Morgan, Milton Ronald, 1933-37, USA
Morse, Chester A., 1937-38, USA
Motis, Dale C., 1936-37, USA
Mounce, Keith Leslie, 1941-43, USA
Mulroney, Richard Leo, 1942-43, USA
Murphy, Bernard V., Jr., 1933-37, USN
Myers, Edward Payson, 1934-38, USAF
Nagle, Paul F., 1921-23, USN
Nasby, Clinton B., 1922-26, USA
Nehlsen, H. Edward, 1938-42, USAF
Newman, Shelby Fearn, 1933-38, USA
Newton, Norman Bryce, 1937-38, USA
Nichols, Jack Arnold, 1938-40, USMC
Norby, Charles Harold, 1930-35, USN
Norvell, Max William, 1938-39, USA
Nygard, John Wallace, 1929-30, USA
O’Brien, Edward R., Jr., 1935-37, USA
O’Brien, Terence Michael, 1937-38, USA
O’Malley, Daniel Himrod, 1937-40, USN
Orr, Robert Roy, 1936-40, USAF
Parker, Joe Clem, 1940-41, USAF
Parry, Charles W., 1943-44, USA
Pastovich, Paul Don, 1939-41, USAF
Patton, Shirley Lee, 1939-41, USA
Patty, Norman Wilson, 1942-43, USA
Peeples, Horace Greely, 1942-43, USA
Pehle, Richard Charles, 1937-40, USA
Pelzer, Henry Louis, 1940-43, USA
Pelzer, Loren Parker, 1937-40, USN
Perkins, Inman Laurence, 1938-41, USA
Perlin, Alexander, 1936-39
Pickering, Chester Thomas, 1938-41, USAF
Pierce, William Lloyd, 1939-40, USA
Pinneo, Harry Burdette, 1940-41, USAF
Prichard, Bryant Ernest, 1937-39, USN
Proehl, Arthur Herman, 1942-43, USAF
Provin, Clarence Wayne, 1942-44, USA
Pruce, Sidney, 1941-43, USA
Raftis, Daniel James, Jr., 1940-42, USN
Rannells, Charles H., Jr., 1931-36, USA
Ray, Philip Louis, 1932-37, USA
Rayburn, John Richard, 1942-43, USN
Reece, Mayo James, 1939-41, USAF
Reid, Jack Alfred, 1938-42, USN
Remer, Richard Henry, 1940-42, USAF
Rempe, Harry C., 1929-30, USN
Richardson, Jack Hal, 1935-40, USA
Richardson, William R., 1923-27, CS
Rinehart, Clark Franklin, 1936-37, USN
Ritchey, Wayne, 1935-36, USAF
Roberts, Gleanna, 1937-41, WASPS
Rochex, William Earl, 1939-41, USA
Rocksien, Lee C., USA
Rohlfs, Frederick Theodore, 1931-36, USA
Rohner, Edward J., 1939-42, USN
Ronan, David Thompson, 1939-40, USN
Roth, I. Stanley, 1929-33, USMC
Rothfus, Robert M., 1938-42, USAF
Rowan, Patrick, 1943-44, USA
Rummells, Khairom H., 1939-43, USA
Ruppert, Ralph E., 1941-43, USA
Russell, William John, 1934-36, USMC
Ryan, Keith M., 1940-43, USMC
Sandler, Norman Wesley, 1938-40, USN
Sargeant, Warren D., 1925-30, USN
Schillig, Philip Joseph, 1941-42, USA
Schmidt, Robert Ruben M., 1940-41, USA
Scott, Charles Edwin, 1940-41, USA
Sebastian, Maximo, 1941-42, USA
Shannon, Robert Harwood, 1936-38, USAF
Shaw, Robert J., 1912-16, USA
Shyshka, Lubomir Philip, 1939-42, USAF
Siddens, Jack K., 1932-36, USA
Sifford, Ross L., Jr., 1940-41, USA
Simonsen, Foster N., 1940-41, USN
Smith, Josephine Mitchell, 1932-35, WAC
Smith, Kenneth James, 1940-42, USMC
Smith, Martin Henry, Jr., 1937-41, USAF
Smith, Richard Albert, 1929-30, USA
Smith, Ronald R., 1935-38, USAF
Snyder, Wallace F., 1925-31, USA
Sogge, Robert Jorgen, 1935-39, USN
Southern, Deane Howard, 1942-43, USA
Southern, Lowell Eldon, 1939-43, USA
Sparks, Francis Wayne, 1937-40, USAF
Stanley, Horace M., 1938-41, USN
Stauffer, Edward Henry, 1938-42, USMC
Steele, Dixon Frederick, 1939-43, USN
Steiner, Fred Alvin, 1918-22, USA
Stewart, James Reese, 1936-41, USN
Stoddart, William Paul, 1931-33, USA
Story, Sydney Allyn, 1939-41, USAF
Stoy, Earle G., 1928, USAAF
Straub, Merton G., 1939-41, USAF
Stricker, Thomas Allison, 1937-39, USAF
Strohm, Albert Louis, 1942-43, USAF
Sturges, Chester James, 1917-22, USA
Sullivan, William L., 1942-44, USAF
Swan, John William, 1936-41, USA
Swanson, Charles E., Jr., 1941-43, USA
Swanson, Frank Alfred, Jr., 1923-26, USA
Sweeney, Robert C., 1936-37, USN
Taylor, Donald Burton, 1941-42, USN
Taylor, Lauren John, 1940-41, USAF
Thatcher, Orville Donald, 1932-37, USAF
Thiessen, Ralph A., 1941-42, USAF
Thomas, Marvin L., 1923-26, USA
Thompson, Donald Wilbur, 1939-42, USA
Thompson, John N., 1942-43, USMC
Thorngren, Paul Merle, 1938-40, USAF
Toms, Bishop Milton, 1939-41, USAF
Toyne, Helen Murphy, 1918-24, POW
Traner, James Rea, 1942-43, USA
Treimer, Wayne Woodrow, 1936-40, USAF
Tussing, Harold E., 1933-42, USN
Ufford, Richard C., 1939-42, USA
Vagts, Vernon August, 1939-43, USA
Vander Wilt, Herman, 1934-37, USA
Van der Zee, John Jacob, 1931-35, USAF
Van Meter, Donald D., 1934-36, USN
Vannatta, Thomas O., 1935-37, USMC
Van Tassel, Lawrence W., 1938-41, USAF
Vargon, Victor, 1938-42, USAF
Vesole, Kay Kopl, 1936-39, USN
Wagner, Charles William, 1942-43, USA
Walker, Norman Earl, 1924-26, USA
Walters, Clifford Raymond, 1933-39, USN
Wanamaker, Carl, 1930-31, USA
Ward, Robert E., 1937-41, USAF
Watts, Burton L., 1940-41, USAF
Weidenfeller, Clemens, 1935-37, RCAF
Weiss, Don L., 1937-41, USAF
Welbourn, Eldred Orville, 1939-43, USA
Westberg, Joseph Walter, 1934-36, USAF
Whalen, Robert Tremaine, 1936-40, USMC
Wheeler, Marion Lonner, 1936-39, USAF
Whipp, Lloyd Loudon, 1942-43, USMC
White, Clarence Harold, 1927-31, USA
Whitehand, Robert E., Jr., 1934-40, USAF
Wiele, Dale Ralph, 1940-43, ARC
Willhite, Theodore E., 1937-38, USAF
Wilson, Wendell Eugene, 1937-41, USN
Wolf, Irvin Walter, 1939-43, USMC
Wolfe, Paul W., 1937-42, USMC
Woodruff, James Orval, Jr., 1939-42, USA
Woodworth, Leonard H., 1937-41, USAF
Worley, Luther A., 1933-36, USAF
Wright, Billy Bacon, 1941-42, USMC
Wygal, Lawrence John, 1939-42, USAF
Wyse, Orlin F., 1939-41, USAF
Yavorsky, William Daniel, 1928-35, USN
Yelton, Robert Franklin, 1940-43, USA
Zahrt, Norman Eldridge, 1934-41, USAF
Zalesky, George, Jr., 1926-30, USA
The U.S. Army Specialized Training Program at the State University of Iowa was established in December 1942 to meet wartime demands for junior officers and soldiers with technical skills. The purpose of the program was “to provide the continuous and accelerated flow of high grade technicians and specialists needed by the Army.”
Iowa was among a number of American universities that participated in the program, which closed in early 1944 prior to the Allied forces’ invasion of France. Following the program’s closure, ASTP soldiers were assigned to the Army infantry, where they fought in the European and Pacific Theaters of Operation. The following participated in the U.S. Army Specialized Training Program at the State University of Iowa and lost their lives in the course of service.
Hawley, Palmer F., 1943-44, USA
Kammrath, Edward F., 1943-44, USA
Masin, Nathan, 1943-44, USA
Rodibaugh, George R., 1943-44, USA
Honor roll code
ARC – American Red Cross
CS – Civil Service
IRFC – Imperial Royal Flying Corps
POW – Prisoner of War
RCAF – Royal Canadian Air Force
USA – U.S. Army
USAF – U.S. Air Force
USCG – U.S. Coast Guard
USMC – U.S. Marine Corps
USMCR – U.S. Marine Corps Reserve
USMM – U.S. Merchant Marine
USN – U.S. Navy
USNR – U.S. Naval Reserve
WAC – Women’s Army Corps
WASP – Women’s Airforce Service Pilots
WC – War Correspondent