Leland R. Stevens was born Sept. 5, 1917 to Ralph F. and Ethel C. Hannon Stevens. He died Oct. 20, 1942 and is buried in Masonic IOOF Cemetery, Montezuma, IA and is memorialized at the Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery, Taguig City, Philippines.
Pvt. Stevens served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps 7th Material Squadron, 5th Air Base and died at Cabanatuan Camp in the Philippines while a POW.
Source: ancestry.com
