State Heroes

Staff Sgt. Gilbert F. Van Keuren

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 813th Tank Destroyer Battalion

Date of Loss: April 10, 1945 / Age: 28

Killed in action in the Netherlands.

Pvt. John Van Lishout

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 33, 9th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 29

Died on Oct. 2, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3327 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Private First Class Marvin G. Van Ningen

Bowman County, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 31st Infantry Regiment

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

Date of Loss: October 14, 1952 / Age:

1st Lt. Clarence Edward Van Ray

Branch of Service: Marines

Date of Loss: May 06, 1942 / Age:

Was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Corregidor, Philippine Islands, on 6 May 1942, and was held as a Prisoner of War until his death while still in captivity.

1st Lt. Clarence E. Van Ray

World War II

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Marine Corps

Date of Loss: January 28, 1945 / Age:

Died in a POW camp.

Corporal Eugene R. Van Steenvoort

Devils Lake, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 38th Field Artillery Battalion

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

Date of Loss: June 01, 1951 / Age: 19

He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Kunu-ri, North Korea on November 30, 1950 and died while a prisoner on June 1, 1951. 

Leete Gladstone Van Syckle

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of influenza pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 5, 1918.

Buried at Grand Forks, N. Dak.

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

Sergeant Travis A. Van Zoest

Bismarck, ND

Afghanistan (OEF/OFS)

Branch of Service: National Guard

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 1st Battalion

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 188th Air Defense Artillery

Date of Loss: June 06, 2006 / Age: 21

Killed June 6 when his Humvee struck two anti-tank mines during combat operations in Khogyani, Afghanistan.

Albert Vandermeer

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 139th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.

Buried, Grave 12, Row 11, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Pvt.1st Class Albert T. Vanderwaal

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 348th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Nov. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 1, Row 4, Block D, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.

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

Lauritz Vangerud

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, 4th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: August 04, 1918 / Age: 29

Died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Aug. 4, 1918.

Buried, Christiania Cemetery, Kindred, N. Dak.

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

2nd Lieutenant Martin O. Vangsness

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: September 13, 1942 / Age: 22

He died in service when a big army bomber he was on crashed near the Colombia air base in South Carolina.

Private Philander E. Vannatta

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: January 18, 1945 / Age: 27

Died in service in Ft. Knox, Kentucky 

1st Lieutenant Erling J. Varland

World War II

Date of Loss: November 24, 1944 / Age: 24

Killed in action in Leyte, Philippine Islands

Cpl. Theodore Albert Vasicek

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Tr A 4th Calvary Recon Sq

Date of Loss: July 27, 1944 / Age:

Captured by German Forces while on Combat Patrol 27 July 1944.

Wounded In Action France 27 July 1944.