State Heroes

1969

Specialist 4 Dennis Stanley Wosick

Grand Forks, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop E

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 11th Infantry Brigade

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: Americal Division

Date of Loss: June 09, 1969 / Age: 21

Specialist Wosick was killed in action in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam in a hostile ground casualty. 

1944

Technician 5th Grade Leone R. Wralstad

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: April 07, 1944 / Age: 26

Killed in action in Burma

1944

Machinist's Mate 3c Nathan E. Wright

World War II

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Navy

Date of Loss: January 30, 1944 / Age:

Died while in MIA status.

1943

Sergeant Robert W. Wright

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: October 24, 1943 / Age: 22

Died in service in Salina, Kansas

1944

Aviation Radioman Curtis L. Wright Jr.

World War II

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Yorktown

Date of Loss: July 27, 1944 / Age: 23

Killed in action in Yap Island

1945

Private First Class Victor R. Wuertz

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 158th Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: April 23, 1945 / Age: 24

Killed in action in Luzon, Philippine Islands

1945

Private First Class Gilbert E. Wulff

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 105th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 27th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: April 22, 1945 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Okinawa

1942

2nd Lieutenant Harry E. Wylie

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: September 10, 1942 / Age: 24

Died in service in the Canal Zone

1918

Perry F. Wymore

World War I

Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:

Name NOT 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.

1918

Eugene Wynne

Lucy, TN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: April 12, 1918 / Age: 20

Died at Newport News, Va., on April 12, 1918.

Buried at Lucy, Tenn.

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

1945

Private First Class Clarion C. Wysocki

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 754th Field Artillery Battalion

Date of Loss: February 25, 1945 / Age: 21

Killed in action in Germany

1946

Seaman 1c Lawrence A. Yanish

Buffalo, ND

World War II

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Naval Reserve

Date of Loss: April 13, 1946 / Age: 22

Died while in MIA status. Declared MIA after an attack by Japanese planes on the USS Lindsey, near Mae Shima, southwest of Okinawa. Approximately one-third of the ship was blown away or torn and wrecked.

1918

Thomas K. Yankoske

Berlin, WI

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 137th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 27, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Sept. 27, 1918.

Buried, Grave 4, Row 3, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

1944

Private Paul J. Yankton

Fort Totten, ND

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: November 29, 1944 / Age: 22

Died in Service 29 November 1944. France

1942

Private First Class Harvey L. Yokom

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 164th Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: November 07, 1942 / Age: 28

Killed in action in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands