AHS Students Who Died in Military Service
The table below shows alumni from Ames High School who died during active military service.
If you have additional information, or know of other alumnus for this page, please email Jared Larson. The page was last revised on May 23, 2024.
Name | Rank | Branch | War | Class | Casualty Information |
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Floyd Wambeam | Private First Class | Army | World War I | 1909 | Killed in action, France |
Thomas Delamore | Captain | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1930 | At sea Oryoku Maru, Subic Bay, Philippine Islands |
George Allen | Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class | Navy | World War II | 1931 | Airplane accident, Corpus Christi, Texas |
Ralph (Pete) Miller | Technical Sergeant | Army | World War II | 1933 | Killed in action, Luzon, Philippines |
William Foley | Technical Sergeant | Army | World War II | 1935 | Killed in action, Okinawa, Japan |
Christ Frangos | Private First Class | Army | World War II | 1935 | Killed in action, Leyte, Philippines |
Don Briggs | Ensign | Navy | World War II | 1935 | Drowned, Off the coast of England |
Russ “Juny” Vifquain Jr. | Captain | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1936 | Missing in action |
James R. Davis | Lieutenant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1936 | At sea Oryoku Maru, Subic Bay, Philippine Islands |
George Baker | Aviation Cadet | Navy | World War II | 1936 | Airplane accident, Pensacola, Florida |
Eugene Armstrong | First Lieutenant | Army | World War II | 1936 | Killed in action, Anzio, Italy |
Ivan Sheahan | Corporal | Army | World War II | 1936 | Killed in action, Formerly Dutch New Guinea (Present day West Papua) |
Raymond Minott | Second Lieutenant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1936 | Airplane accident, Bielefeld, Germany |
Charles O’Neil | Lieutenant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1937 | Killed in action, Off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines |
Glen Cunningham | Second Lieutenant | Army | World War II | 1937 | Stabbed, Brigham City, Utah |
Donald Delamore | First Lieutenant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1937 | Killed in action, Po Valley, Italy |
Warren Jones | Sergeant | Marine Corps (Paratrooper) | World War II | 1937 | Killed in action, Iwo Jima |
James Flack | Captain | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1939 | Killed in action, Sicily, Italy |
James O’Neil | Lieutenant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1939 | Airplane accident, South of Riverside, California |
Carl Flogstad | Captain | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1939 | Airplane accident, Cairns, Queensland, Australia |
Randall Trotter | Private | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1939 | Died in prison camp, Japan |
Robert Crosley | First Lieutenant | Air Force | Korean War | 1939 | Airplane accident, Near Langley Air Force Base, (Hampton City, Virginia) |
Robert Warren | Staff Sergeant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1939 | Missing in action, Višňová, Czechia |
Harley Ellis | Sergeant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1940 | Killed in action, China |
Vern Lowman | Sergeant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1940 | Killed in action, Metfield, England |
Richard McCarthy | Lieutenant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1940 | Killed in action, Italy |
Hubert Ruggles | Cadet | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1940 | Training plane collision, Marfa, Texas |
Donald Wilkins | Captain | Army | Korean War | 1940 | Polio |
John Flahive | Private | Army | World War II | 1941 | Killed in action, France |
Harold Johnson | Seaman First Class | Navy | World War II | 1941 | Died in prison camp, Japan |
James Nichol | Lieutenant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1941 | Killed in action, Germany |
Wayne Cunningham | Lieutenant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1942 | Killed in action, Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines |
Rodney Paulson | First Lieutenant | Air Force | Vietnam | 1942 | Airplane accident, Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington |
Richard Ross | Corporal | Army | World War II | 1942 | Killed in action, England |
Donald Routh | Private First Class | Army | World War II | 1942 | Killed in action, France |
Louis Willson | Lieutenant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1942 | Killed in action, Germany |
Ramon Davis | Captain | Air Force | Korean War | 1942 | Missing in action, unaccounted for following war, Taedong River, North Korea |
Robert Books | Fireman Second Class | Naval Reserves | World War II | 1943 | Illness, Australia |
Edward Gibb | Private | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1943 | Missing in action, Ship torpedoed in Mediterranean |
Fred Nagle | Sergeant | Army Air Forces | World War II | 1943 | Killed in action, Germany |
Gerald Nagle | Private First Class | Army | World War II | 1943 | Killed in action, Okinawa, Japan |
Wallace Olson | Private | Marine Corps | World War II | 1943 | Killed in action, Iwo Jima, Japan |
Harold Ramsey | Seaman Second Class | Naval Reserve | World War II | 1943 | Killed in action, Philippines |
Edward Miller | Private | Army | World War II | 1944 | Killed in action, Belgium |
Kenneth Mayo | First Lieutenant | Air Force | Korean War | 1944 | Airplane accident, Tokyo, Japan |
James Opheim | Aviation Radioman Third Class | Navy | World War II | 1944 | Missing in action |
Harold Erickson | Private First Class | Army | Korean War | 1946 | Killed in action, North Korea |
Conrad Harestad Jr. | Disbursing Clerk Second Class | Naval Reserve | N/A | 1948 | Illness, Italy |
Norman Bear | Airman Second Class | Air Force | N/A | 1950 | Acute pancreatitis |
Roger Carr | Second Lieutenant | Air Force | Vietnam | 1957 | Airplane accident – 11 miles north of Eglin Air Force Base, Florida |
Larry Bleeker | Second Lieutenant | Marine Corps | Vietnam | 1961 | Killed in action Quảng Trị, Vietnam |
James Merrick | Lieutenant | Navy | Vietnam | 1961 | Killed in action, South China Sea |
David Stone | Machinist’s Mate Second Class | Navy | Vietnam | 1961 | About 400 miles southwest of the Azores USS Scorpion |
James Lasche | Private First Class | Army | Vietnam | 1965 | Killed in action, Binh Định Province, South Vietnam |
Stephen Rushing | Sergeant | Army | Vietnam | 1967 | Killed in action,Binh Định Province, South Vietnam |
Muriel MacBride | Fireman | Navy | N/A | 1975 | Believed to be first American woman lost at sea U.S.S. Norton Sound |