80 Kossuth Men Officially Listed As Casualties In War
FIRST RELEASE OF STATE HISTORICAL DEATH SUMMARIES
Eighty men from Kossuth county lost their lives while in the service of their country in World War II.
KOSSUTH'S WAR DEAD.
Bland, Paul E., Pvt.
Army dead. European area.
Mother: Mrs. Gladys S. Wortman, Lakota, Iowa.
Source: The Algona Upper DesMoines, Tuesday, January 22, 1946 – page 7.
Paul Eugene Bland was born May 31, 1926 to Homer and Gladys Irene Scoby Bland. He died Feb. 22, 1945 and is buried in Epinal American Cemetery, Epinal, France.
Pvt. Bland served in World War II with the U.S. Army 70th Infantry Division, 275th Infantry Regiment and was KIA in France. He was awarded the Purple Heart.
Sources: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
