Military Involvement
| Servicemen - B surnames | KIA | POW | DNB | Pic/s |
| Bassett, Wyatt Dean | X | |||
| Berven, Allen | X | X | ||
| Besaw, Obe | X | X | ||
| Bevan, Robert | X | |||
| Bixby, Donald | ||||
| Bockman, Bill | ||||
| Bockman, Irving | ||||
| Bollard, Donald W. | ||||
| Bonnicksen, Chalmer | X | |||
| Boone, Daniel Leigh | X | |||
| Boone, Lloyd Jr. | ||||
| Boone, Ralph | ||||
| Brandt, Edward | ||||
| Brown, Lawrence LeRoy | X | |||
| Buckley, Joseph D. | ||||
| Bunge, Leland Francis | ||||
| Burckart, Donald Paul | X | |||
| Bush, Lester |
Lewis John Bair was born Apr. 16. 1913 to Irvin Lewis and May Narcissus Frisinger Bair. He died Dec. 18, 1944 and is memorialized at the Walls of the Missing Manila American Cemetery, Taguig City, Philippines and has a cenotaph in Wibaux County Cemetery, Wibaux, MT.
Petty Officer Bair served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Spence (DD-512) and was declared MIA/KIA when that ship capsized and sank in a major typhoon that struck the Pacific Fleet.
His brothers, Sgt. Roger R. Bair (U.S. Army Infantry) and Arthur Irvin Bair (U.S. Navy Submarine Service) were also KIA in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
Allen Lucas Burkart was born Feb. 24, 1914 to Charles Elmer and Irene Ann “Rena” Lucas Burkart. He died July 7, 1944 and is buried in Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, France. Pvt. Burkart served in World War II with the 92nd Chemical Battalion.
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Clarence Walter Burkart was born Aug. 24, 1900 to Charles Elmer and Irene Ann “Rena” Lucas Burkart. He died Jan. 25, 1957 and is buried in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, CA. Chief Petty Officer Burkart served with the U.S. Navy in World War I and World War II.
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Charles Joseph “Chuck” Burkart was born Nov. 5, 1915 to Charles Elmer and Irene Ann “Rena” Lucas Burkart. He died Jan. 10, 2010 and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Seattle, WA. During World War II Chuck moved his family to the Chicago, IL area where he was a welder in a munitions plant, building tanks for the military.
Source: ancestry.com
ServiceMen Research done by WWII Researcher, Pat Holt Juon, Jul 2019; updated Aug 2022 & Aug 2024