FALLEN

Specialist 4 Wesley Erwin Mueller

Jamestown, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company

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

Date of Loss: July 25, 1969 / Age: 18

Killed in action in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam in hostile action. 

Sargeant Patrick Joseph Buck

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Air Force

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:18th Fighter Intercept Squadron

Date of Loss: July 20, 1969 / Age: 26

Died in service in Valley City, ND. 

Corporal Dennis James Manson

Belcourt, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

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

Date of Loss: June 06, 1969 / Age: 18

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

Lance Corporal Richard Anthony Volk

Minot, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:3rd Marine Division

Date of Loss: March 19, 1969 / Age: 19

Killed in action in Quang Tri, South Vietnam through non-hostile accidental homicide. 

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.

Lance Corporal Larry Joseph Sikorski

Fairmount, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery H

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:3rd Marine Division

Date of Loss: February 25, 1969 / Age: 21

At approximately 0530H Fire Support Base Russell came under attack by hostile forces with mortars and rifle fire. Larry died as a result of fragmentation wounds to the chest area from mortar fire.

1st Lieutenant John Morris Joyce

Minot, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:3rd Marine Division

Date of Loss: April 17, 1969 / Age: 24

In April the Battalion was participating in Operation OKLAHOMA HILLS under the OPCON (Operational Control) of the 7th Marines, and on April 17 Company K discovered an NVA Base Camp just north of Hill 1050 (Nui Doi Dat) in the Thuong Duc District of Qua

Specialist 4 Robert Clyde Hausken

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: January 22, 1969 / Age: 21

Died in service in Fargo, ND following an illness of several months. 

Lance Corporal Mark Daniel Mangin

Verona, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:3rd Marine Division

Date of Loss: October 01, 1969 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Quang Nam, South Vietnam from a hostile explosive device. 

Boiler Tender FN Robert James Searle

Grand Forks

Vietnam

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

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

Reported Dead in South China Sea.

Private First Class Robert Michael Fullmer

Grand Forks, ND

Vietnam

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:25th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: June 06, 1969 / Age: 21

Killed in action in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam in hostile action by artillery rocket mortar.

Lance Corporal Valarian Lawrence Finley

Mandaree, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K

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

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.

1st Lieutenant Roger Douglas Knudtson

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Date of Loss: February 04, 1969 / Age: 24

Roger was in a UH-34D helicopter that collided in mid-air with another UH-34D and he died as a result of multiple injuries when the UH-34D
crashed and burned. 

Private First Class Richard Allen Buringrud

Argusville, ND

Vietnam

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

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.