Sioux Cityan Is Upped to Colonel; Served in Pacific
Floyd E. Dunn, 1719 W. third Street, who was awarded the Bronze Star medal for gallantry in action on Bouganville, has been promoted to the rank of colonel from lieutenant colonel.
Col. Dunn is serving his 13th month overseas. He joined a veteran infantry regiment as a battalion commander in the Fiji Islands and he participated in the battle for the northern Solomons. During the battle of Hill 260 on Bouganville, where American infantrymen decisively defeated the Japanese in one of the most intensive and bloody battles of the southwest Pacific campaign, Col. Dunn held an important command function.
Born in Cherokee, Iowa, 45 years ago, Col. Dunn was graduated from West Point in 1925. During his academy days, he played football and lacrosse and rode in numerous horse shows.
Before the present war, Col. Dunn served overseas in Hawaii and the Philippine Islands with the 57th infantry Philippine scouts at Fort McKinley on Luzon. He is one of the most widely traveled officers in the American division, having been around the world and having visited 23 countries, including China, Japan, the Dutch Indies and India.
Col. Dun held the rank of major with the Eighth division at Fort Jackson, S.C. when the current war was declared. During the first World War he served 76 days and received the victory medal at the age of 18.
His wife, Mrs. Gladys Groom Dunn, and their 11-year-old-daughter, Carol, live in Sioux City.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, August 8, 1944
Talks In Jungle
Lieut. Col. Floyd E. Dunn, whose wife lives at 1719 W. Third Street, is shown here addressing infantryman in an area hacked out of the Bougainville jungle. The occasion was an interisland broadcast for a G.I. station.
Col. Dunn is originally from Cherokee, Iowa. He attended Morningside College for a year and then received an appointment to West Point.
He is in his second year of overseas duty and is stationed in the southwest Pacific area. He is commander of a regiment and has received the bronze star for gallantry in action. He was with the American division at Bougainville and is a veteran of both Guadalcanal and Bougainville.
Source: The Sioux City Journal- no issue date (photo included)
As Sioux Cityans Meet in Japan
Col. Floyd E. Dunn, 1719 W. Third Street (left) is pictured as he was welcomed aboard the U.S.S. Gen. Ernst by a former Sioux Cityan, Comdr. Forrest Allen, just before the ship sailed from Yokohama, Japan, November 18, bound for the States. Comdr. Allen is a son of A.F. Allen, editor of the Sioux City Journal-Tribune publications, and has seen four and one-half years of active duty. Col. Dunn is commanding officer of the 182d infantry regiment of the Americal division in Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger’s Eighth army of occupation, and is returning to the states following 30 months service.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, November 30, 1945 (photo included)
Sioux Cityan Off Ship First as It Reaches Seattle
Col. Floyd E. Dunn, 1719 W. Third Street, formerly of Cherokee, Iowa, the first man off the U.S.S. Gen. O.H. Ernest when it berthed at Seattle, Washington, from Yokohama Wednesday night with 3, 162 America division troops, is expected to arrive in Sioux City next week, according to a telephone call received by his wife at the Third Street address.
The regiment, composed largely of Massachusetts men, will be inactivated within the next two days, the division public relations officers announced at Seattle Thursday.
Col. Dunn was graduated from Cherokee High School after which he attended Morningside College before going to West Point. He was commissioned an officer in 1925 after completing the course at West Point.
Capt. James B. Johnson, Jr., the physician who operated on Premier Hideki Tojo, after the Japanese war leader attempted suicide September 11, was among the passengers on the transport.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, November 30, 1945
