State Heroes

2nd Lieutenant Rilie R. Morgan

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 164th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: Americal Division

Date of Loss: November 22, 1942 / Age: 22

Killed in action in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

1st Lt. Thomas L. Morgan

World War II

Branch of Service: Air Force

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 341st Bomber Squadron, 97th Bomber Group, Heavy

Date of Loss: October 21, 1942 / Age:

Lieutenant Morgan was a Bombardier on B-17 (serial #41-24344) that took off on a mission to Lorient, Occupied France, on 21 October 1942. The mission encountered adverse weather disturbances, and many of the planes were forced to turn back.

Coxswain Charles Otto Morgenstern

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS New York

Date of Loss: February 16, 1918 / Age: 21

Died on USS New York, on Feb. 16, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2220 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Private Edward P. Morin

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 338th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 85th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: May 12, 1944 / Age: 23

Killed in action in Italy

Ole Melvin Morken

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 25, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Edwin Morken

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 17, 1921, and consigned to Sam Morken, Springgrove, Minn. (place of burial not given).

Gottlieb Morlock

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 128th Infantry

Date of Loss: December 05, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of wounds on Dec. 5, 1918, at Reserve Hospital, Lindau, Germany.

Buried, Soldiers Cemetery, Lindau, Germany. Remains reinterred in Grave 32, Row 36, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Private First Class Jack Morrell

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 32nd Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 7th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: May 27, 1945 / Age: 25

Killed in action in Okinawa

Private Herman L. Morris

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: June 17, 1944 / Age: 31

Died in service at Camp Crowder, Missouri

Private First Class Joseph P. Morris

World War II

Branch of Service: Marines

Date of Loss: July 23, 1944 / Age: 20

Died in service in Guam

Chief Warrant Officer 2 James Thor Morrison

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 4th Aviation Company

Date of Loss: July 01, 1971 / Age: 23

Died in service

Nurse Sophia Ellen Morrison

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Base Hospital, Camp Devens, Mass.

Relieved from active duty on Jan. 31, 1919, as an Army Nurse.

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

Private First Class Arthur A. Morrison

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 20th Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: January 16, 1945 / Age: 25

Killed in action in Luzon, Philippine Islands

1st Lieutenant Jared W. Morrow

Fargo, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 2nd Infantry Division

Date of Loss: September 01, 1950 / Age: 27

PFC Albert L. Morrow

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 107th Coast Artillery Battalion

Date of Loss: July 19, 1943 / Age:

Wounded during the Battle for Sicily and died from wounds in North Africa.