WW II Veteran, Wayne Ricketts served in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a 1st Lt. in World War II. He flew missions in the South Pacific.
Sources
"United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK4C-BK27 : accessed 25 October 2020), Wayne E Ricketts, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, United States, 12 Sep 2011; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing News-Gazette, The, born-digital text.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMKS-22Q : accessed 25 October 2020), E Wayne Ricketts in household of A Robert Ricketts, Zearing, Story, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 19, sheet 2A, line 48, family 50, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 683; FHL microfilm 2,340,418.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMB1-1TH : 20 August 2019), Wayne Ricketts in household of Robert Ricketts, Zearing, Lincoln Township, Story, Iowa, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 85-22, sheet 5B, line 57, family 118, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1206.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Wayne by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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