State Heroes
1969
Sergeant Dale George Helgeson
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 2nd Battalion
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 14th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 25th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: March 01, 1969 / Age: 24
Killed in action in Binh Long, South Vietnam through hostile action by small arms fire.
1918
Pvt. Herman G. Helgeson
Walcott, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried, American Cemetery, Chatel Chehery, Argennes, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried at Walcott, N. Dak.
1918
Pvt. Jonas A. Helland
Binford, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: July 09, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of meningitis on July 9, 1918.
Buried, Grave 13, Row 22, Block A, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1944
Private First Class Gilbert A. Helland
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: A Battery
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 343rd Field Artillery Battalion
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 90th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: June 24, 1944 / Age: 34
Killed in action in France
1918
Ralph Linden Helmer
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Evald L. Helstad
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 58th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division
Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action at Chateau-Thierry on July 19, 1918.
Buried in Grave 49, Row 2, Block A, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1942
Pvt. Francis R. Heminger
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division
Date of Loss: December 25, 1942 / Age:
Killed in action in the Philippines.
1918
Valdemar J. Hemmingsen
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Valdemar J Hemmingson.
1918
Cpl. Joseph Wilbur Hemrick
Volga, SDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried at Volga, S. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1944
Technical Sergeant Chester B. Henderickson
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: December 25, 1944 / Age: 31
On Christmas Eve 1944, the Belgium troopship SS Leopoldville, left the pier at Southampton, England with over 2,000 American soldiers assigned to the 66th Infantry Division and crossed the English Channel to France.
1918
Samuel Dana Henderson
Halstad, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters, 15th Battalion
Date of Loss: October 19, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 19, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1319 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
AMM1 Nels Edward Henderson
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Air Station, Rockaway Beach
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 23
Died at Rockaway Beach, L. I., N. Y., on Oct. 16, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Divide county.
2004
Staff Sergeant Kenneth W. Hendrickson
Bismarck, ND
Iraq (OIF/OND/OIR)
Branch of Service: National Guard
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 957th Engineer Company
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 130th Engineer Brigade
Date of Loss: January 24, 2004 / Age: 41
Died Jan. 24 when his convoy was attacked by an improvised explosive device north of Fallujah, Iraq.
1944
Tech Sgt. Chester Hendrickson
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 264th Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: December 25, 1944 / Age:
Died while in MIA status.
1968
First Lieutenant Michael Franc Hendrickson
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 1st Marine Division
Date of Loss: July 25, 1968 / Age: 25
Lieutenant Hendrickson was an infantry officer assigned to Headquarters, 1st Marine Division. He was serving as an observer in an OV-10A Bronco flown by Captain Alfred L. Tripp of VMO-2.