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1969

Specialist 5 Gerald Anthony Decker

Sentinel Butte, ND

Vietnam

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:25th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: April 10, 1969 / Age: 20

On April 10, 1969, at 0240 hours, a Spooky Gunship was operating near the Company B night perimeter. At 0428 hours, Company B reported that they had one Bobcat killed and two wounded from stray rounds from the Spooky Gunship and needed a Dust-off.

1969

Boatswain's Mate Third Class Patrick G. Glennon

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Frank E Evans

Date of Loss: June 03, 1969 / Age: 23

Reported Dead in South China Sea.

1969

Specialist 4 David Peter Haegele

Napoleon, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:25th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: February 08, 1969 / Age: 20

On February 08, 1969, the Recon Platoon conducted a RIF southwest of Trung Lap in the area of XT 5619. Companies A and B were conducting a RIF 2 kilometers east of Trung Lap in the area of XT 6222. Scattered contact started at around 1200 hours.

1969

Private First Class Wilbert Clemens Fleck

Breien, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

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

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

Corporal David Duane Elsbernd

Crosby, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

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

Date of Loss: September 09, 1969 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Quang Tin, South Vietnam in Hostile action by multiple fragmentation wounds.

1969

Colonel Wendell Richard Keller

Fargo, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Air Force

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:433rd Tactical Figher Squadron

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

Date of Loss: March 01, 1969 / Age: 40

On March 1, 1969, Keller and Meroney were the crew of an F-4D Phantom II aircraft that crashed while carrying out a nighttime strike mission in Khammouan Province, Laos. Nearby U.S. aircrews reported seeing the aircraft hit by enemy fire.

1969

Private First Class Wesley Gene Isaak

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:16th Engineer Battalion

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

Date of Loss: October 04, 1969 / Age: 22

Died in service in Fort Cavazos, Texas

1969

Seaman Darrell L. Johnson

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: November 01, 1969 / Age: 21

Died in service in San Ramon, California

1969

Captain David Arlen Waldera

Fargo, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:Army Spt Command Saigon

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:1st Logistics Command

Date of Loss: April 02, 1969 / Age: 24

Captain Waldera died Apr 2, 1969 at the age of 24 from wounds he sustained at Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam.

1969

Specialist David Ira Styles

Langdon, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: HHC

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

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

Date of Loss: March 29, 1969 / Age: 20

MOS 91B20 (Medical NCO)

Ground casualty died outright on 3/29/1969 by Hostile gun/small arms fire in the Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam.

1969

Boiler Technician 3rd Class Joseph Dennis Fischer

Zeeland, ND

Vietnam

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.