FALLEN
Vietnam
1969
Staff Sergeant Ward Cecil Evans
Harwood, ND
Vietnam
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
1969
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.
1969
Specialist 4 Robert Leo Kraft
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: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.
1969
Staff Sergeant Leon David Cox
Jamestown, ND
Vietnam
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.
1969
Staff Sergeant James Claire Kopseng
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: May 14, 1969 / Age: 21
Sergeant Kopseng was Killed in Action by a hostile explosive device in Pleiku, South Vietnam.
1969
Sergeant Bernard Goudreau
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: July 31, 1969 / Age: 46
Died in service in Washington, D.C.
1968
Private First Class Gary Fredrick Myers
Fort Yates, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:3rd Recon Battalion
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:3rd Marine Division
Date of Loss: May 13, 1968 / Age: 20
Killed in action in Quang Tri, South Vietnam through hostile small arms fire.
1968
Specialist 4 Charles Donald Wendt
Dickinson, ND
Vietnam
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.
1968
Specialist 4 John Robert Tague
Burlington, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:121st Signal Battalion
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:1st Infantry Division
Date of Loss: June 16, 1968 / Age: 22
Died in service in Binh Duong, South Vietnam through non-hostile action due to burns.
1968
Warrant Officer James Kenneth McAleer III
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 147th Aviation Company
Date of Loss: August 22, 1968 / Age: 22
Warrant Officer James Kenneth McAleer III, 22, son of James K. Jr. and Audrey McAleer of Steele, North Dakota, died recently when his helicopter crashed and burned in South Vietnam.
1968
Specialist 4 Richard Wayne Orsund
Grafton, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop F
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:2nd Squadron
Date of Loss: March 27, 1968 / Age: 20
Richard Wayne Orsund died in Binh Duong, South Vietnam from metal fragment wound received while going on night defense perimeter when engaged hostile force.
1968
Captain Gary Dan Lokken
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:14th Engineer Battalion
Date of Loss: April 10, 1968 / Age: 26
Killed in action in Thua Thien, South Vietnam through a hostile explosive device.
1968
Specialist 5 Deane Errol Chisholm
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: December 29, 1968 / Age: 21
On the night of Dec 28, 1968, after a card game, Deane and three other friends, Snowden, Ambroziak and Morris decided to visit a bar in Padova, Italy. On the way back their vehicle struck a tree and all were killed.
1968
Private Gary John Hoffert
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:82nd Airborne Division
Date of Loss: September 30, 1968 / Age: 20
Died in service in Fort Bragg, North Carolina
1968
Seaman Mitchel Carey Hansey
Scranton, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Navy
Date of Loss: December 14, 1968 / Age: 21
Died in service in Dinh Tuong, South Vietnam when he drowned while missing.