State Heroes Total:
3942
Service Branch

Vietnam Conflict

Kenneth Robert Jamerson photo 1967

Lance Corporal Kenneth Robert Jamerson

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

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

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

Date of Loss: April 05, 1967 / Age: 20

During the month of March the Battalion was carrying out it combat operations in the Dien Ban and Hieu Nhon District of Quang Nam Province.

Ronald Leroy Kent photo 1967

Staff Sergeant Ronald Leroy Kent

Page, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company

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

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

Date of Loss: January 20, 1967 / Age: 23

Killed in Action in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam from hostile small arms fire.

William Carl Eckes photo 1967

Journalist 1st Class William Carl Eckes

Beach, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: March 10, 1967 / Age: 26

JO1 Eckes had 6 years of service in the U.S. Navy, arriving in Vietnam assigned to Headquarters Naval Support Activity Saigon, U.S. Naval Forces Vietnam. A senior U.S.

Thomas Leroy Narum photo 1967

Corporal Thomas Leroy Narum

Amidon, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company

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

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

Date of Loss: January 18, 1967 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Bien Hoa, South Vietnam by hostile multiple fragmentation wounds. 

David  Kline photo 1967

Private First Class David Bruce Kline

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

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

Date of Loss: July 02, 1967 / Age: 18

David Kline died while missing in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam.

Roy Carl Wagner photo 1967

Specialist 4 Roy Carl Wagner

Bismarck, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

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

Date of Loss: October 02, 1967 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Bien Hoa, South Vietnam through hostile small arms fire. 

Francis Ellsworth Dowling photo 1967

Sergeant Major Francis Ellsworth Dowling

Coopertown, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company

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

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

Date of Loss: October 17, 1967 / Age: 38

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

Kenneth Leo Johner photo 1967

Private Kenneth Leo Johner

Noonan, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company

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

Date of Loss: March 21, 1967 / Age: 20

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

Michael Duane Himmerick photo 1967

Hospitalman Michael Duane Himmerick

Valley City, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 1st 155mm Gun Battery

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

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

Date of Loss: April 06, 1967 / Age: 19

On April 06, 1967 HN Michael Himmerick was killed in action and died outright from hostile small arms fire in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam.

Gary Lindsay photo 1967

Lance Corporal Gary Wayne Lindsay

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I

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

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

Date of Loss: September 07, 1967 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Quang Tri, South Vietnam from hostile artillery rocket mortar. 

Melvin Edward Johnson photo 1967

Constructionman Melvin Edward Johnson

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: October 08, 1967 / Age: 21

Died in service in Thua Thien, South Vietnam in non-hostile action in an air crash in a fixed wing. 

Edward Michael Baumgartner photo 1967

Private First Class Edward Michael Baumgartner

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: April 27, 1967 / Age: 20

Died in service in Edgewood, Pennsylvania

Donald Jean Soby photo 1967

Private First Class Donald Jean Soby

Rugby, ND

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:101st Airborne Division

Date of Loss: July 07, 1967 / Age: 20

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

Lawrence Dean Brownotter photo 1967

Corporal Lawrence Dean Brownotter

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company

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

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

Date of Loss: November 18, 1967 / Age: 22

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

Leon Lochthowe photo 1967

Private First Class Leon Leroy Lochthowe

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M

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

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

Date of Loss: September 22, 1967 / Age: 22

Pfc. U.S. Marine Corps, Vietnam War-Pfc. Lochthowe was killed in action by artillery fire on 9-22-1967 while serving as {0311} Rifleman with Mike Co.