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  • About
    • Story City Historical Society
    • Staff
  • Museums
    • Bartlett House Museum
    • Carriage House Museum
    • Story City Museum
    • Sheldall Schoolhouse
  • Events
  • Exhibits
    • Dr. Frances Bartlett Kinne
    • Story City Century Homes & Buildings >
      • Century Buildings
      • Century Homes
      • Brochure & Map
    • Sheldall Schoolhouse >
      • A Day in the Sheldall Schoolhouse
      • Sheldall School Students
      • Sheldall School Teachers
      • Life After Sheldall Schoolhouse
      • Sheldall Schoolhouse Video
    • Woodland Farms >
      • Hermanson Origins
      • Women of Woodland Farms
      • Woodland Diary
      • Woodland Turkey Growers
      • Woodland Farms International
      • Woodland Farms & Story City
    • WWI Gold Star Soldiers >
      • Clifford Cate
      • Milton Goins
      • Hans Abrahamson
      • Peterson & Wier
      • Boyd & Larson
      • Christian Karlsen
      • Clarence Olson
      • Peter Swenson Bratteland
      • Kornelius Tvedt
    • Story City in WWII
    • Downtown Business Project
    • Medical History
  • Virtual Exhibits
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MUSEUMS OF STORY CITY

Theodore J. Rickerl  

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Photo from 1948 Story City Herald Panorama Book.
Theodore Joseph Rickerl was born Mar. 21, 1922 to Frank J. and Julia Elizabeth Baldus Rickerl. He died Apr. 10, 1945 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Hombourg, Belgium and Saint Peter and Paul Cemetery, Boone, IA.
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Sgt. Rickerl served in World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps 369th Bomber Squadron, 306th Bomber Group, Heavy and died in Germany while in the service of his country. He was awarded the Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters.
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Story City Herald Articles
January 1, 1942
July 2, 1942
November 4, 1943
June 29, 1944
July 6, 1944
November 2, 1944
March 15, 1945
May 3, 1945
May 3, 1945
May 10, 1945
Draft Registration Card 
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Draft registration card front.
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Draft registration card back.
Iowa Bonus File Application for Beneficiaries
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Account of Flight Missions in 1945 by Allen Babin
Allen Babin kept a diary of his flight missions from January 1945 to their last mission on April 10, 1945. Allen was a pilot and Theodore was the tail gunner on the plane.  Pages 7-8 share a detailed account of the April 10th mission where Theodore lost his life.
Allen Babin War Diary
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American Battle Monuments Commision War Dead Certificate 
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