ND Veterans Affairs News: State

born Reynolds, ND 12 May 16; resident Grand Forks County, ND; entered US Navy Mpls, MN 4 May 38; served Asiatic Pacific Theater; KIA 7 Dec 41 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; buried in Plot C, Grave 631, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

The USS OKLAHOMA Memorial was dedicated 7 December 2007 on Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. The memorial stands on the shores of Ford Island, next to the former berth of the Oklahoma. Today the USS Missouri museum is moored where the Oklahoma was moored when she was sunk.

Donald M Severinson was born in Reynolds, Traill County, North Dakota on February 18, 1925. He enlisted on March 23, 1944, and entered the United States Navy in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 22, 1944; served Asiatic Pacific Theater; died in service March 7, 1945, in Honolulu, Hawaii; buried in Plot C, Grave 449, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Source: Ancestry

born Mandan, ND 19 Nov 10; resident Richland County, ND; entered AUS Ft Snelling, MN 8 Jun 42; died in service 13 Jan 43 Anoka, MN; buried in Mandan Union Cemetery, Mandan, ND.

born Hamberg, ND 20 Oct 17; resident Wells County, ND; entered AUS Ft Snelling, MN 19 Feb 42; served Asiatic Pacific Theater; died in service 14 Jun 43 Australia; buried in Block 25, Section C, Grave 14429, Ft Snelling National Cemetery, Mpls, MN.

born Fargo, ND 19 Apr 25; resident Cass County, ND; entered AUS Ft Snelling, MN 21 Jun 43; served European African Middle Eastern Theater; KIA 6 Jan 45 Belgium; buried in Plot R, Row 1, Grave 6, Section B, Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Fargo, ND.

born Pulaski Township, ND 22 Jun 14; resident Walsh County, ND; entered AUS Ft Snelling, MN 13 Jun 42; served European African Middle Eastern Theater; died in service 8 Mar 45 Midway, GA; buried in Saint Stanislaus Cemetery, Warsaw, ND.

born Hanks, ND 10 Apr 21; resident Williams County, ND; entered AUS Ft Snelling, MN 30 Oct 42; served Asiatic Pacific Theater; died in service 13 Apr 45 Okinawa; buried in Plot N, Grave 1216, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

born Hanks, ND 22 Apr 16; resident Williams County, ND; entered AUS Ft Snelling, MN 8 Jun 42; died in service 31 Mar 43 Tampa, FL; burial place unknown.

born Jamestown, ND 8 Jul 18; resident Stutsman County, ND; entered AUS San Francisco, CA 29 Oct 41; died in service 8 Nov 43 Denver, CO; buried in Plot 88, Section 1, Fairview Cemetery, Sanborn, ND.

born St Thomas, ND 12 Jun 17; resident Pembina County, ND; entered AUS Los Angeles, CA 6 May 41; served European African Middle Eastern Theater; KIA 6 Jan 44 Cherbuorg, France; memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing in the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Normandy, France.