DesMoines County

S/Sgt. Warren R. Messmer

 

 

 

Sgt. Warren R. Messmer was born Mar. 3, 1922 to Oscar and Nora Messmer. He died Apr. 11, 1944 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England. He was awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart.

Sources: ancestry.com; abmc.gov

Born: 1922; Died 11 Apr 1944

Enlisted: Camp Dodge, Iowa, 1942 (from DesMoines County)

Source: ancestry.com; American Air Museum in Britain