FALLEN

Private First Class James Christian Freidt

Grand Forks, ND

Vietnam

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:1st Cavalry Division

Date of Loss: October 11, 1967 / Age: 20

Pfc. Freidt was walking "point" as his platoon moved along a trail at the base of their elevated night position when he tripped a booby-trapped grenade. He died instantly.

Private First Class Ronald Gilbert Stoltenow

Hankinson, 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:1st Infantry Division

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

PFC Stoltenow's fatality was during Operation Shenandoah II, a fierce firefight that cost the lives of 18 US Army soldiers. 

Staff Sergeant Ronald Leroy Kent

Page, ND

Vietnam

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.

Private First Class Richard Wallace Liebig Jr.

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

Date of Loss: August 09, 1967 / Age: 19

Died Aug. 9. in Mainz, Germany. Death was caused by a coronary occlusion.

Journalist 1st Class William Carl Eckes

Beach, ND

Vietnam

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.

Private First Class David Bruce Kline

Vietnam

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.

Corporal Norman Paul Williams

Maddock, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop A

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

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

Date of Loss: December 06, 1967 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam through hostile small arms fire. 

Airman 1st Class Donald Duane Durant

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Air Force

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:1955 Command Squadron

Date of Loss: April 05, 1967 / Age: 28

Died in service in Thailand.

Sergeant Major Francis Ellsworth Dowling

Coopertown, ND

Vietnam

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. 

Lieutenant Colonel Carl Henry Boldt

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Air Force

Date of Loss: November 15, 1967 / Age: 48

Died in service in Guam 

Private Kenneth Leo Johner

Noonan, ND

Vietnam

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. 

Specialist 4 Ervind Carl Strandberg

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 03, 1967 / Age: 29

Killed in action in Binh Duong, South Vietnam through hostile fragmentation wounds.

Hospitalman Michael Duane Himmerick

Valley City, ND

Vietnam

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.

Lance Corporal Gary Wayne Lindsay

Vietnam

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. 

Specialist 4 James Lee Kramer

Vietnam

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:4th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: February 15, 1967 / Age: 20

A member of the 4th Infantry Division, Army SP4 Kramer was killed in action in Kontum, South Vietnam.