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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Anson, Elise, and Iver Yeager, circa 1925 (narrator’s photo)Where:
UnknownWhen:
circa 1925 Ownership:
narrator’s photo
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Anson and Iver Yeager in Denver in 1924 (narrator’s photo)Where:
DenverWhen:
1924Ownership:
narrator’s photo
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Anson Yeager and Anders Thingelstad, holding Iver Yeager, in circa 1925 circa 1925 (Narrator’s photo)Where:
circa 1925When:
circa 1925Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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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. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
Marine, South Dakota When:
late 1950sOwnership:
Narrator’s photo
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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. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
Meade County, South DakotaWhen:
Spring of 1911Ownership:
Narrator’s photo
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Newell High School Football team, 1939. Iver is second from the left in the front row. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
UnknownWhen:
1939Ownership:
Narrator's Photo
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Newell High School Speech Club, 1939-1940. Iver is farthest to the right in the front row. (1939-1940)Where:
UnknownWhen:
1939-1940Ownership:
Unknown
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U.S.S. Dyson, DD 572, a Fletcher-class destroyer launched in April, 1942. (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
UnknownWhen:
UnknownOwnership:
Unknown
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U.S.S. Dyson on a calm sea, circa mid-1940s. (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
UnknownWhen:
circa mid-1940sOwnership:
This image is considered to be in the public domain
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Iver Yeager aboard the U.S.S. Dyson, circa 1945. (This image is considered to be in the public domain.)Where:
U.S.S. DysonWhen:
Circa 1945Ownership:
This image is considered to be in the public domain.
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Natalee Carlender and Ivan Yeager at their wedding in March, 1946 in Minneapolis. (Narrator’s photo)Where:
MinneapolisWhen:
March, 1946 Ownership:
Narrator’s photo