Randall Embert Trotter was born Apr. 9, 1920 to Ralph V. and Gertrude M. Bly Trotter. He died July 18, 1943 and is buried in Ames Municipal Cemetery, Ames, IA.
Pvt. Trotter served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps 19th Bombardment Squadron, Flying Fortress Unit and became a POW and died as a POW in a Japanese hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Source: ancestry.com
