RETURN BODIES OF FOUR COUNTY MEN
110 Iowa War Dead in Pacific Shipment
Bodies of four Pottawattamie county soldiers, including Pfc. Louis A. Profeda, former Abraham Lincoln high school football captain, are being returned from the Pacific aboard the army transport Lieutenant George W. G. Boyce, the department of the army announced Monday.
Others from this county are Pfc. Francis Dale Bird of Council Bluffs, Pfc. Clarence R. King of Carson and Pfc. Herman E. Staub of Avoca.
A total of 110 Iowa bodies are on the Boyce, which is carrying remains of 4,459 Americans who lost their lives in the Pacific campaigns. The ship is enroute to San Francisco from Manila.
[NOTE: Portions of this article regarding Pfc. Louis A. Profeda, Pfc. Francis Dale Bird and Pfc. Clarence R. King have been omitted but appear on their individual webpages within this site.]
Avoca Soldier
Pfc. Staub, son o Mr. and Mrs. Emil O. Staub of Avoca, was killed in action with the army in New Guinea on Jan. 15, 1943.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Sunday, May 30, 1948, Page 3
Herman Edward Staub was born Mar. 5, 1920 to Emil O. and Addie May Gilliam Staub. He died Jan. 15, 1943 and is buried in Graceland Cemetery, Pottawattamie County, IA.
Pvt. Staub served in World War II with the U.S. Army 163rd Infantry.
Source: ancestry.com
