FALLEN

1st Lieutenant David Jon Nesset

Fargo, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:229th Assault Helicopter Battalion

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

Date of Loss: April 19, 1968 / Age: 26

On April 19, 1968, an aircraft from B Company, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Air Cavalry Division, was the lead ship on a combat assault into A Shau Valley.

Private First Class William Paul Backer

Mandan, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F

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

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

Date of Loss: January 12, 1968 / Age: 18

He died of wounds in Quang Tri, South Vietnam in hostile action. 

Private First Class Ralph Charles McCowan

Trenton, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C

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

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

Date of Loss: April 03, 1968 / Age: 19

Killed in action in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam from hostile multiple fragmentation wounds. 

Specialist 4 Michael Villarreal

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:6th Battalion

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:11th Artillery Division

Date of Loss: November 16, 1968 / Age: 20

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

Private First Class George Elwood Tongen

Walhalla, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

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

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

Killed in action in Hua Nghia, South Vietnam through hostile small arms fire. 

Major Robert Hugh Carroll

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:1st Cavalry Division

Date of Loss: May 12, 1968 / Age: 30

Killed in action in Quang Tri, South Vietnam through hostile action by multiple fragmentation wounds. 

Specialist 4 William F. West III

Vietnam

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.

Lance Corporal Douglas Milton Kelly

Dickinson, 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: July 28, 1968 / Age: 21

On the morning of 28 July Company K moved out from the village complex of Da Hoa in an area known to the Marines as "DODGE CITY' towards the east, the third platoon began to receive some harassing rifle fire which ceased abruptly.

Sergeant Gerald Dean Klein

Vietnam

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: May 04, 1968 / Age: 22

Sergeant Klein was killed in action in Bien Hoa, South Vietnam from hostile multiple fragmentation wounds. 

Captain Robert John Himler

Williston, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Date of Loss: August 24, 1968 / Age: 25

During Operation MAMELUKE THRUST, a helicopter on resupply mission to ground troops in the vicinity of Le Nam (3) in the Duy Xuyen District of Quang Nam Province crashed and was consumed by fire.

Private First Class Florian Henry Kuss

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: January 05, 1968 / Age: 21

Florian was killed in action with 8 other soldiers in Vietnam when their night position came under attack.

Corporal Donald J. Sobolik

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D

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

Date of Loss: February 24, 1968 / Age: 20

He died in service in Guyana. 

Private First Class Dale Harlan Amundson

Finley, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

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

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

Date of Loss: October 30, 1968 / Age: 20

He died while in service at a rest and rehabilitation area at Chu Laf when he drowned there. 

Sergeant Gary A. Gessner

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: June 24, 1968 / Age: 22

Died in service in Fort Collin, Colorado. 

Master Sergeant Patrick Joseph McCabe

Bismarck, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: May 06, 1968 / Age: 43

Died in service in Phuoc Tuy, South Vietnam in a non-hostile ground casualty.