State Heroes

1967

Staff Sergeant Thomas A. Welker

Minot, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 327th Infantry Regiment (Airborne)

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

Date of Loss: July 27, 1967 / Age: 29

Killed in action in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam through hostile fragmentation wounds. 

1966

Private Thomas Allyn Weller

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: July 09, 1966 / Age: 21

Died while in service.

1967

Lieutenant Colonel Gordon James Wenaas

Mayville, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Air Force

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 314th Tactical Airlift Wing

Date of Loss: December 29, 1967 / Age: 46

On December 29, 1967, he was a crew member of a Lockheed Hercules Transport Aircraft (C-130E) on a mission in the extreme northwest corner of North Vietnam over Lai Chau Province, when contact was lost. 

1968

Specialist 4 Charles Donald Wendt

Dickinson, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 4th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: June 05, 1968 / Age: 21

He died in Pleiku, Vietnam June 5 after being injured in a military convoy there May 29 when a truck overturned.

1971

Captain Edward Alec Werman

Hensel, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: Advisory Team 87

Regiment / Group / Brigade: Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) Advisors

Date of Loss: June 01, 1971 / Age: 33

Military Region 3 in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam
Non-hostile, Helicopter-Non crew
Air Loss, Crash on Land

1968

Specialist 4 William F. West III

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D

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

Date of Loss: August 21, 1968 / Age: 20

Died while in service in Washington, D.C.

1967

Specialist 4 Vernon E. Whetham

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 43rd Infantry Platoon Scout Dog

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

Date of Loss: November 30, 1967 / Age: 25

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

1967

Corporal Norman Paul Williams

Maddock, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop A

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 9th Cavalry Regiment

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

Date of Loss: December 06, 1967 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam through hostile small arms fire. 

1970

Sergeant Bruce Lloyd Wold

Minot, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 35th Artillery Regiment, 54th Artillery Group

Date of Loss: April 21, 1970 / Age: 23

Killed in action in Bunh Duong, South Vietnam from burns received while manning an artillery position.

1967

Lance Corporal Michael Ferdinand Wolf

Beulah, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 5th Marine Regiment

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

Date of Loss: September 10, 1967 / Age: 21

While participating on Operation SWIFT in the Thang Binh District of Quang Tin Province a platoon combat patrol from Company H came under heavy enemy fire in the vicinity of the hamlet of Chau Xuan (5).

1967

Private First Class Paul Harvey Wolos

Fargo, 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: April 28, 1967 / Age: 19

An explosion ripped during the night of April 28; it was Paul Wolos. He had stepped on an M16A2 Bouncing Betty and was gravely wounded.

1965

Lieutenant Commander Carl Julius Woods

Bottineau, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: CVA-31, USS Bon Homme Richard

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: Attack Squadron

Regiment / Group / Brigade: Carrier Air Wing 19

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

Date of Loss: September 28, 1965 / Age: 32

North Vietnam
Hostile, Fixed Wing - Pilot
Air Loss, Crash on Land

1969

Specialist 4 Dennis Stanley Wosick

Grand Forks, ND

Vietnam Conflict

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. 

1967

Command Sergeant Major Laurence Cris Zietlow

New Salem, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company

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

Date of Loss: October 03, 1967 / Age: 39

On September 17, 1967, SGM Zietlow of I Field Force and a SSG Wright from the 124th Transportation Command were mortally wounded in a terrorist attack in a Noncommissioned Officer's Club in Nha Trang, Vietnam. SGM Laurence C.

1971

Staff Sergeant Deland Dwight Zubke

Grassy Butte, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: B Battery

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 7th Battalion

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 15th Artillery, 52nd Artillery Group

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

Date of Loss: March 01, 1971 / Age: 26

In Kontum, South Vietnam
Hostile, died while missing, Ground Casualty

Declared deceased Oct 5, 1978

From DPAA:

1918

Edwin T Aas

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 14th Ammunition Train

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of bronchial pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 9 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.