Here’s a list of area men featured in the book “Before They Were Soldiers”:

Calvin William Binder II -Rembrandt

Jimmy Lee Buckley — Sac City

Billy Bruce Bull – Lake City

Thomas William Carrington – Storm Lake

Henry Robert Claussen – Palmer

Leslie DeWayne Crouse – Fort Dodge

Rollin Duane Davis – Grand Junction

Jerold Virgil Despard – Manson

Patrick Maurice Dillon – Belmond

Randy Lee Fisher – Webster City

Richard T. Flattery – Fort Dodge

David Allen Fleskes – Fort Dodge

Randall Gaylord Freeman – Sac City

Timothy Lee Green – Fort Dodge

Terrence Hastings Griffey – Fort Dodge

Jerry Dean Hatcher – Humboldt

Keith Russell Heggen – Renwick

Dwight Earl Hinman – Belmond

Donald Henry Holm – Fort Dodge

Frederick August Holst – Knierim

Danny Wayne Johnson – Lehigh

Dennis Ogden Johnson – Eagle Grove

Eric Bernard Johnson – Laurens

Donald Kay Lakey – Fort Dodge

Michael Keith Lewis – Lake City

Wayne Thomas McGuire – Peterson

Gerald Claude McKeen – Sac City

Melvin Dale Miller – Newell

Roger Lewis Olson – Fort Dodge

William Harrison Pease – Fort Dodge

William Lee Peters Jr. – Fort Dodge

Delbert Ray Peterson – Manson

John Herbert Platt – Early

Thomas Richard Poundstone – Clarion

Robert F. Rex – Odebolt

James Alphonse Rial – Barnum

Kenneth Wayne Roche – Nemaha

La Roy Frederich Roth – Wall Lake

James William Sampers – Storm Lake

Steven Dwight Sears – Webster City

Daryl David Shonka – Fort Dodge

Jack Rae Smith – Clarion

Larry Eugene Smith – Sac City

Herman Smits Jr — Scranton

Loren Francis Studer – Clarion

Rickey Eugene Swaney – Grand Junction

Melvin Eugene Thompson – Fonda

Patrick Joseph Trotter – Fort Dodge

Craig Thomas Waterman – Rockwell City

Richard Joseph Wehrheim – Clarion

Grayson Jerald West – Webster City

Waldo Alva Williams – Rockwell City

Keith Leslie Wilson – Marathon

Dennis James Yetmar – Clare

Herbert Owen Zinnel Jr. – Dakota City