140 Have Made Supreme Sacrifice In Muscatine Area In War Against Axis Powers; Many reported wounded.
The cost of war runs high!
Word of the victory in Europe today brought a feeling of happiness and relief to thousands of families in the Muscatine area, but for others there were only sad memories. And for those who have sons, husbands, brothers or other relatives, fighting against the Japs in the second phase of the big world-wide conflagration the period of rejoicing was less pronounced.
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The names of those who have made the supreme sacrifice in the World War No. 2, compiled from records maintained by The Journal, follow:
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Second Lt. Edward Lanning Dodder, 28, husband of Mrs. Frances Dodder, 211 West Fifth street, was killed in the fall of 1943 in a bomber crash near Mountain Home, Idaho.
Source: Muscatine Journal, Victory In Europe Edition, Monday, May 7, 1945
Edward Lanning Dodder was born Aug. 9, 1915 to Edward and Della May Miller Dodder. He died Oct. 23, 1943 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Muscatine, IA.
Lt. Dodder served in World War II with the 800th Bomb Squadron, 470th Bomb Group aboard B-24E Liberator No.42-7007. He died on a training flight out of Mountain Home Army Air Base, Idaho in a mid-air collision with B-24J No.42-73235.
Source: ancestry.com
