State Heroes

George Conrad Julesberg

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supple Company, 77th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of bronchial pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried at Tagus, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Pvt. Walter R. Jungling

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 413rd Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: November 04, 1944 / Age:

Killed in action near Belgium.

Sergeant 1st Class Gerhardt Just

Wishek, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 125th Air Traffic Control Company

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st Aviation Brigade

Date of Loss: August 27, 1965 / Age: 39

He died in service in An Xuyen, South Vietnam through non-hostile action when he died in a fixed wing crash on land. 

Joseph G. Kachel

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried at Fried, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Private First Class Joseph A. Kachena

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 415th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 104th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: April 20, 1945 / Age: 38

Killed in action in Germany

Pvt. Emil Henry Kaehn

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 22

Missing in Action or Buried at Sea.

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Grave unlocated. Tablets of the Missing at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France

1st Lt. Robert D. Kaercher

World War II

Branch of Service: Air Force

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 615th Bomber Squadron, 401st Bomber Group, Heavy

Date of Loss: March 26, 1944 / Age: 22

Killed in action in France. Arrived in England to join the 401st BG on his last mission, target: Watten, France. They were hit by flak over Pas de Calais and exploded.

Sergeant Michael Kahl

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: November 25, 1944 / Age: 26

Killed in action in Germany

Technician 5th Grade Raymond Kahl

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st Armed Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 1st Armored Division

Date of Loss: March 28, 1943 / Age: 23

Killed in action in Tunisia

Wagoner Frank M. Kain

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division

Date of Loss: October 23, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 23, 1918.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 28, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Staff Sergeant Alex W. Kaiser

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: September 19, 1942 / Age: 27

As a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Corps he died in a B-25 bomber accident at Columbia Army Air Base, South Carolina during WWII

Pvt. Albert O. Kalad

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and consigned to Sam Omar, 317 N. Broadway, Crookston, Minn. (placeof burial not given).

Airman 1st Class William J. Kalanek

Korean War

Branch of Service: Air Force

Date of Loss: June 15, 1952 / Age: 20

Died in service in a car accident in Black Hawk, Colorado

Gust Kales

World War I

Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Information NOT found in the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Private First Class Solomon Kalil

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 10th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 5th Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: November 08, 1944 / Age: 32

Killed in action in France