State Heroes

Private Earl Pugh
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 21, 1918 / Age: 21
Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website

Private Earl Pugh
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 21, 1918 / Age: 21
Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website

Pvt. Elmer A. Puppe
Hensel, NDBranch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division
Date of Loss: October 19, 1943 / Age: 26
Service number 6858086, died of shell fragment wounds during the Naples-Foggia Campaign in the area between Naples and Rome.

Staff Sgt. Lester W. Puppe
Hensel, NDBranch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division
Date of Loss: August 11, 1943 / Age: 23
Service number 6930772, died of gunshot wound during the Sicily Campaign

2LT Robert Samuel Purvis
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: September 20, 1944 / Age: 25
Killed in Action 20 September 1944, France. Remains not recovered.
Name included on page 1198 of the Register of North Dakota Veterans World War II 1941-1945.

Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Joseph S. Pyle
World War II
Branch of Service: Navy
Date of Loss: October 17, 1944 / Age: 23
Died in service in San Diego, California

Private First Class Thomas L. Pyne
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 135th Infantry Regiment
Date of Loss: April 28, 1943 / Age: 24
Killed in action in the North Africa Area.

Staff Sergeant Alfred M. Qualle
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 128th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 32nd Infantry Division
Date of Loss: December 02, 1944 / Age: 32
Killed in action in Leyte, Philippine Islands
Edwin Clarence Qually
Adams, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 357th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 24, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action at Argonne, on Oct. 24, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 19, 1921, and buried at Adams, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
PFC Sigurd C. Quam
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: June 12, 1944 / Age:
Killed in action near France.

Private First Class Marvin P. Quamme
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: October 20, 1942 / Age: 22
Killed in action in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Staff Sergeant Milton P. Quandt
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: December 04, 1942 / Age: 23

Technician 5th Grade Harley A. Quarne
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: September 10, 1942 / Age: 24
Died in service in De Rudder, Louisiana
S2c Edwin George Quarne
Towner, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Air Station, L'Aber Vrach, France
Date of Loss: December 04, 1918 / Age: 31
Died at L'Aber Vrach, France, on Dec. 4, 1918.
Buried at Towner, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Pierce county.

2nd Lt. Neil D. Quast
Temvik, NDWorld War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters, US Army Service of Supply
Date of Loss: February 02, 1944 / Age: 27
Died while in MIA status.