State Heroes
1918
Carl Otto Lindner
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Mobile Veterinary Section
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 1907 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1945
Private First Class Gilmer G. Lindquist
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: June 25, 1945 / Age: 23
Died in service in France
1944
PFC Telmer C. Lindquist
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: June 12, 1944 / Age: 35
Killed in action in France.
1945
2nd Lt. Clarence M. Lindquist
World War II
Branch of Service: Air Force
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 64th Bomber Squadron, 43rd Bomber Group, Heavy
Date of Loss: February 23, 1945 / Age:
Died while in MIA status. Volunteered to fly co-pilot on a transport plane to pick up personnel on Owi Island. No word was ever received from this transport plane. Rescue squads worked untiringly but without success.
1967
Lance Corporal Gary Wayne Lindsay
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 3rd Battalion
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 26th Marines Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 3rd Marine Division
Date of Loss: September 07, 1967 / Age: 20
Killed in action in Quang Tri, South Vietnam from hostile artillery rocket mortar.
1944
Fireman 2c Theodore S. Lindseth
World War II
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Naval Reserve
Date of Loss: December 18, 1944 / Age: 18
Died while in MIA status. Lost at sea when the USS Spence went down during Typhoon Cobra.
1944
Private First Class Lawrence E. Lindstrom
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 26th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 1st Infantry Division
Date of Loss: November 26, 1944 / Age: 23
Killed in action in Germany
1950
1st Lieutenant Vernon A. Lindvig
Lakota, ND
Korean War
Branch of Service: Air Force
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 339th All Weather Squadron
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 35th Fighter Interceptor Wing
Date of Loss: June 28, 1950 / Age: 26
Lost while returning from operations to cover Rheinholte in the Yellow Sea. His plane crashed in mountains short of the runway at Iwakuni during bad weather.
1945
2nd Lieutenant Gordon H. Lindvig
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 164th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: Americal Division
Date of Loss: April 14, 1945 / Age: 25
Died in service in Cebu, Philippine Islands
1944
Private First Class Samuel F. Linn
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 358th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 90th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: June 12, 1944 / Age: 24
Killed in action in Normandy, France
1918
Emmons Victor Linwell
Northwood, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, Development Battalion No. 1
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of broncho pneumonia on Oct. 6, 1918, at Camp Dodge, Iowa.
Buried at Northwood, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1944
MoMM2c Cletus F. Lipetzky
Kensal, NDWorld War II
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Naval Reserve
Date of Loss: June 11, 1944 / Age: 22
Died while in MIA status, when the USS-LST-496 on which he was serving struck a mine in the English Channel and sank during the coastal invasion of Normandy. His body was not recovered.
1945
Pvt. Vernon E. Lippert
Verona, NDWorld War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 291st Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: January 24, 1945 / Age: 20
Killed in action near Belgium.
1945
Gunnery Sergeant Russell W. Lippert
World War II
Branch of Service: Marines
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 4th Tank Battalion
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 4th Marine Division
Date of Loss: February 22, 1945 / Age: 26
Colonel Robert M. Neiman described the moment Lippert gave his life to his country in his memoir, "Tanks on the Beaches". "Division called at about two in the morning and said the (previous) attack had been repulsed.
1918
LMMA Percy Alvin Little
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill.
Date of Loss: September 20, 1918 / Age: 26
Died in Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill., on Sept. 20, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.