Notes About N.E. Iowans in the Service.
Staff Sgt. Bernhard N. Ove, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward N. Ove, Dike, is a bomb trainer and instructor in the engineering section of an Eighth air force service command sub-depot bomber repair unit in England.
He was graduated from the Dike consolidated high school in 1937 and prior to his entry into the military service June 19, 1942, at Fort Des Moines, he was a general contractor with the Ove Construction Co., in Dike. He has been stationed in the European theater of operations since May 19, 1943.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, December 6, 1944
