State Heroes

1969

Specialist 4 Lawrence Robert Esser

Minot, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 3rd Battalion

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 34th Artillery Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 9th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: March 12, 1969 / Age: 21

He was killed in action in Kien Hoa, South Vietnam in hostile action by artillery rocket mortar. 

1967

Radarman 2nd Class Terry A. Estes

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: April 10, 1967 / Age: 22

Died in Service.

Overseas Theater of Service unknown

Not listed on Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC

1972

Lieutenant Junior Grade Lauren Nels Evanger

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: June 28, 1972 / Age: 24

Died while in service.

1969

Staff Sergeant Ward Cecil Evans

Harwood, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 11th Infantry

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized)

Date of Loss: February 08, 1969 / Age: 28

Military Region 1, In Quang Tri, South Vietnam

Hostile, ground casualty
Gun, small arms fire

1968

Radioman 3rd Class Michael Arthur Evenson

Lakota, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: March 02, 1968 / Age: 20

On March 02, 1968 SN Michael Evenson's Alpha boat A-91-7 was conducting a riverine patrol on the Can Tho River, four miles south of the city of Can Tho in Phong Dinh Province, Republic of Vietnam when the boat was swamped and sank.

1970

Specialist 5 Carrol E. Evenstad

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 78th Artillery Regiment

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

Date of Loss: June 06, 1970 / Age: 20

He was in the U.S. Army and recently returned from a tour of Vietnam. He and others were in a canoe in Burnett, Texas and it capsized, and Carrol could not swim.

1965

Staff Sergeant Zlatko Max Fakin

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: April 01, 1965 / Age: 30

On 1 April 1965, he was one of the advisors to the 52nd Vietnamese Ranger Battalion, serving with the Biet Dong Quan (BDQ) Advisory Team TD 41, Advisory Team 99, HQ, MACV Advisors, MACV.

1969

Lance Corporal Valarian Lawrence Finley

Mandaree, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 3rd Battalion

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 5th Marine Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 1st Marine Division

Date of Loss: May 28, 1969 / Age: 22

During the month of May the Battalion was participating in combat operations in Quang Nam Province.

1969

Boiler Technician 3rd Class Joseph Dennis Fischer

Zeeland, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS King

Date of Loss: May 23, 1969 / Age: 20

Four Boilermen died, and fifteen other crewmen were injured, during an engineering casualty and subsequent fire in the Tonkin Gulf off Vietnam at 2152 hours, Friday, 23 May 1969.

1969

Private First Class Wilbert Clemens Fleck

Breien, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 2nd Battalion

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 28th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 1st Infantry Division

Date of Loss: July 27, 1969 / Age: 19

He was Killed in action in Binh Duong, South Vietnam through hostile action by multiple fragmentation wounds.

1969

Sergeant Roger Earl Foreman

New Town, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 3rd Battalion

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 101st Airborne Division

Date of Loss: July 18, 1969 / Age: 21

He was Killed in action in Binh Thuy, South Vietnam in hostile action by multiple fragmentation wounds.

1972

Lieutenant Colonel James Alan Fowler

Bismarck, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Air Force

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 523rd Tactical Fighter Squadron

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 405th Tactical Fighter Wing

Date of Loss: June 06, 1972 / Age: 41

In North Vietnam
Hostile, died while missing, Fixed Wing - Pilot
Air Loss, Crash on Land

From DPAA:

1970

Master Sergeant Paul Fowler

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: February 14, 1970 / Age: 42

Died in service in Sedalia, Missouri 

1966

Specialist 4 Merlyn Arnold Fraedrick

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 21st Artillery Regiment

Date of Loss: August 28, 1966 / Age: 21

Died in service in Frankfurt, Germany

1967

Private First Class James Christian Freidt

Grand Forks, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 50th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 1st Cavalry Division

Date of Loss: October 11, 1967 / Age: 20

Pfc. Freidt was walking "point" as his platoon moved along a trail at the base of their elevated night position when he tripped a booby-trapped grenade. He died instantly.

1968

Corporal Norbert Louis Froehlich

Belfield, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 4th Battalion

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade

Date of Loss: January 30, 1968 / Age: 20

He was killed in action in Phu Yen, South Vietnam in hostile action through small arms fire.