State Heroes

Machinist's Mate 1c Alvin W. Risan

World War II

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Navy

Date of Loss: August 10, 1943 / Age:

Died while in MIA status.

Svend Risdahl

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 338th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: March 18, 1918 / Age: 25

Died on March 18, 1918, at Camp Dodge, Iowa.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2708 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

1st Lt. Robert P. Rist

World War II

Branch of Service: Air Force

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 339th Fighter Squadron, 347th Fighter Group

Date of Loss: December 15, 1945 / Age: 25

Died while in MIA status near Bouganville Island.

1st Lieutenant Morris O. Ristvedt

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: August 10, 1944 / Age: 30

Killed in action in France

Cpl. Gus J. Ritschel

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 313th Engineers

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 13, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. May 31, 1921, and buried in Grave 1648, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

Private Gus E. Rittmiller

Korean War

Date of Loss: May 19, 1952 / Age: 20

Died in service in Gilroy, California

Fred James Roach

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 339th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia at Grange La Ville, France, on Oct. 6, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. May 31, 1921, and buried at Lisbon, N. Dak.

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

Sgt. John Richard Roache

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 6, 2nd Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 13, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2715 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt.1st Class Clarence Patrick Roan

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 5th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 19

Died on Oct. 9, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in Grave 150, Section 18, Block 3, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Reburied at Portal, N. Dak.

Carl J. Roardson

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.

Aviation Radioman 3rd Class Dale W. Robb

World War II

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: November 08, 1945 / Age: 24

Died in service in a mid-air collision over Corpus Christi Bay, Texas

Specialist 5 Jon Paris Robbins

Dickinson, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 1st Logistical Command

Date of Loss: February 23, 1969 / Age: 21

Killed in action by hostile small arms fire in Bien Hoa, South Vietnam. 

Private First Class Quinten S. Robel

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 382nd Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: May 11, 1945 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Okinawa

James Judson Roberts

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 335th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia, on Nov. 3, 1918.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 24, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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

Private Gladwin L. Roberts

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 82nd Airborne Division

Date of Loss: June 15, 1944 / Age: 19

Killed in action in Normandy, France