State Heroes

1969

Sergeant Robert Eugene Schmitz

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 22nd Infantry Regiment

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

Corporal David Duane Elsbernd

Crosby, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 196th Light Infantry Brigade

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

Date of Loss: September 09, 1969 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Quang Tin, South Vietnam in Hostile action by multiple fragmentation wounds. 

1969

Specialist 4 Robert Leo Kraft

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment

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

Sergeant Bernard Goudreau

Vietnam Conflict, World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: July 31, 1969 / Age: 46

Died in service in Washington, D.C. 

1969

Lance Corporal John Michael Renner

Mandan, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 9th Marine Amphibious Brigade

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 26th Marine Division

Date of Loss: July 28, 1969 / Age: 20

Killed in action by hostile action by an explosive device in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam. 

1969

Private First Class Wilbert Clemens Fleck

Breien, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 28th Infantry Regiment

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

Date of Loss: July 27, 1969 / Age: 19

He was Killed in action in Binh Duong, South Vietnam through hostile action by multiple fragmentation wounds.

1969

Captain John Edward Kelly Jr

Bismarck, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 101st Airborne Division

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

Captain Kelly was Killed in Action and a ground casualty in Thua Thien, South Vietnam from hostile multiple fragmentation wounds.

1969

Specialist 4 Wesley Erwin Mueller

Jamestown, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st Brigade

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. 

1969

Sergeant Patrick Joseph Buck

Vietnam Conflict

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. 

1969

Sergeant Roger Earl Foreman

New Town, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 101st Airborne Division

Date of Loss: July 18, 1969 / Age: 21

He was Killed in action in Binh Thuy, South Vietnam in hostile action by multiple fragmentation wounds.

1969

Private First Class David James Corcoran

Grand Forks, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 101st Airborne Division

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

Died in service in Thua Thien, South Vietnam in non-hostile action through an accidental homicide. 

1969

Private First Class Gilbert Ray Bargmann

Hannover, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 9th Infantry Regiment

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

Date of Loss: June 19, 1969 / Age: 18

Killed in action in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam in hostile action by small arms fire.

1969

Private First Class Richard Allen Buringrud

Argusville, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 12th Cavalry

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

1969

Specialist 4 Dennis Stanley Wosick

Grand Forks, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop E

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 11th Infantry Brigade

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: Americal Division

Date of Loss: June 09, 1969 / Age: 21

Specialist Wosick was killed in action in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam in a hostile ground casualty. 

1969

Corporal Dennis James Manson

Belcourt, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 23rd Infantry Regiment

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. 

1969

Private First Class Robert Michael Fullmer

Grand Forks, ND

Vietnam Conflict

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 22nd Infantry Regiment

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.