State Heroes

Private First Class Richard Allen Buringrud

Argusville, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:1st Cavalry Division (Air Mobile)

Date of Loss: June 09, 1969 / Age: 22

In Tay Ninh, South Vietnam
Hostile, Ground Casualty
Multiple fragmentation wounds

Sergeant Robert Eugene Schmitz

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

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

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

Date of Loss: September 16, 1969 / Age: 25

Killed in action in Pleiku, South Vietnam in hostile action in small arms fire. 

Staff Sergeant Leon David Cox

Jamestown, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:8th Battalion

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

Date of Loss: May 17, 1969 / Age: 35

Killed in action in Binh Duong, South Vietnam in hostile action by an explosive device. 

Staff Sergeant James Claire Kopseng

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

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

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

Date of Loss: May 14, 1969 / Age: 21

Sergeant Kopseng was Killed in Action by a hostile explosive device in Pleiku, South Vietnam.

Staff Sergeant Ward Cecil Evans

Harwood, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

Specialist 4 Robert Leo Kraft

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

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

Date of Loss: August 05, 1969 / Age: 19

Specialist 4 Kraft was killed in action by hostile small arms fire in Thua Thien, South Vietnam. 

Corporal David James Kuhn

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:21st Infantry Division

Date of Loss: May 23, 1969 / Age: 19

Corporal Kuhn was killed in action through hostile actions in Quang Tin, South Vietnam.

Specialist 4 Gerald Frank Coulthart

Hamilton, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:1st Cavalry Division (Air Mobile)

Date of Loss: April 28, 1969 / Age: 21

Killed in action in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam in hostile action through multiple fragmentation wounds.

Specialist 4 Merlin James Laber

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:46th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: May 14, 1969 / Age: 21

Killed in action through hostile small arms fire in Quang Tin, South Vietnam. 

Sergeant Robert Alvin Brothen

Minot, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

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

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

Date of Loss: February 27, 1969 / Age: 22

Killed in action in Binh Duong, South Vietnam in hostile action by small arms fire. 

Chief Electronics Technician William E. Howe Jr.

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: June 02, 1969 / Age: 29

Died while in service 

Specialist 4 Danny Leroy Hanson

Stirum, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:5th Battalion

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

Date of Loss: March 08, 1969 / Age: 22

Killed in action in Long An, South Vietnam through hostile action. 

Corporal Peter Binstock Jr

New England, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop A

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:Americal Division

Date of Loss: January 03, 1969 / Age: 21

Died in service in Quang Nam, South Vietnam in non-hostile action when a strap broke on a water trailer that was being lifted and hit him.

Specialist 4 Randy Lee Hansen

Williston, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 596th Signal Company

Date of Loss: April 06, 1969 / Age: 20

He died in service in Thua Thien, South Vietnam through non-hostile action in a car crash. 

Captain Ernest E Bartolina Jr.

Bismarck, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Marines

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:III Marine Amphibious Force

Date of Loss: February 07, 1969 / Age: 26

In Quang Nam, South Vietnam
Hostile, Helicopter - Pilot
Air loss, Crash on land

Sergeant Bernard Goudreau

Vietnam Conflict, World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: July 31, 1969 / Age: 46

Died in service in Washington, D.C.