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Iver Yeager - World War II

Iver Yeager grew up during the depression on a small ranch in northwestern South Dakota, attending a one room school and doing plenty of chores on the ranch. He was attending Macalester College in St. Paul, MN when Pearl Harbor occurred, and after graduating went through officers training at Plattsburg, New York and Hollywood Florida. He was assigned to the USS Dyson, a Fletcher-class destroyer cruising the dangerous waters of the western Pacific. His ship survived both a horrific typhoon and kamikaze attacks while supporting the fighting on Okinawa.

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Cheese on Pie

Abstract

Interview Session 01 (Audio)

Growing up on S. Dakota ranch & college years at Macalester College

Interview Session 02 (Audio)

Service as naval officer on USS Dyson in Pacific theater

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Sod school house in Meade County, South Dakota, spring of 1911. Iver’s aunt Mony Thinglestad and mother Elise Thinglestad are third and fourth from left.

Where:
Meade County, South Dakota

When:
Spring of 1911

Ownership:
Narrator’s photo

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Anson and Iver Yeager in Denver in 1924.

Where:
Denver

When:
1924

Ownership:
narrator’s photo

Caption
Anson, Elise, and Iver Yeager, circa 1925.

Where:
Unknown

When:
circa 1925

Ownership:
narrator’s photo

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Anson Yeager and Anders Thingelstad, holding Iver Yeager, in South Dakota circa 1925.

Where:
South Dakota

When:
circa 1925

Ownership:
Narrator’s photo

Caption
Newell High School Football team, 1939. Iver is second from the left in the front row.

Where:
Newell High School

When:
1939

Ownership:
Narrator's Photo

Caption
Newell High School Speech Club, 1939-1940. Iver is farthest to the right in the front row.

Where:
Newell High School

When:
1939-1940

Ownership:
Unknown

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Iver Yeager aboard the U.S.S. Dyson, circa 1945.

Where:
U.S.S. Dyson

When:
Circa 1945

Ownership:
This image is considered to be in the public domain.

Caption
Natalee Carlender and Ivan Yeager at their wedding in March, 1946 in Minneapolis.

Where:
Minneapolis

When:
March, 1946

Ownership:
Narrator’s photo

Caption
Nels Afdahl’s home on U.S. 212, east of Nels Afdahl’s home on U.S. 212, east of Marine, South Dakota in the late 1950s. This is where Ivers and his family moved after his mother’s marriage to Nels in 1933.

Where:
Marine, South Dakota

When:
late 1950s

Ownership:
Narrator’s photo

Caption
U.S.S. Dyson, DD 572, a Fletcher-class destroyer launched in April, 1942.

Where:
Unknown

When:
Unknown

Ownership:
This image is considered to be in the public domain

Caption
U.S.S. Dyson on a calm sea, circa mid-1940s.

Where:
Unknown

When:
circa mid-1940s

Ownership:
This image is considered to be in the public domain



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