State Heroes

Jesse Floyd Lewis

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Aviation Section, Unassigned, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: April 12, 1918 / Age: 20

Died of pneumonia, at San Antonio, Texas, on April 12, 1918.

Buried at Robinson, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Jessie F Lewis.

Seaman 2c Earl Ray Lewis

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H.

Date of Loss: October 29, 1918 / Age: 22

Died at Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H., on Oct. 29, 1918.

Buried, Rolla, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Sergeant Richard W. Lewis

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: November 13, 1951 / Age: 21

Died in service in France

Otto Leysring

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 137th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918, at Argonne Forest.

Buried, Grave 37, Row 30, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Air Controlman 1st Class Edward R. Liberda

World War II

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: January 14, 1958 / Age: 31

Died in service in a training plane crash in Patuxent River, Maryland

Ensign Ernest O. Lidstrom Jr.

World War II

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: November 06, 1944 / Age: 20

Died in service in a routine training flight near Jacksonville, Florida after his plane crashed in the ocean.

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 509th Infantry Regiment

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

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

Christ Lien

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 140th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action, on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 1, Row 4, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Louis A. Lien

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 128th Infantry

Date of Loss: November 10, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Nov. 10, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 29, 1921, and buried in South Immanuel Cemetery, Trondhjem township, Rothsay, Minn.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Private First Class Walter D. Lien

Walsh County, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 35th Infantry Regiment

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

Date of Loss: January 29, 1951 / Age: 27

Corporal Cletus R. Lies

Bremen, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Company

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 32nd Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 7th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: November 28, 1950 / Age: 26

He was Killed in Action, while tending wounded comrades near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. He went to the aid of MSG Leo Russave and died in the attempt. His remains were recovered and were accounted for Dec. 7, 2013.

Leonard Lindy Lieth

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 42nd Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of influenza at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Bartlett, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Sergeant Donald L. Lillehaug

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 457th AAF Bomber Group

Date of Loss: March 06, 1944 / Age: 21

Killed in action in Germany

Sgt. Robert F. Lilley

World War II

Branch of Service: Air Force

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 68th Bomber Squadron, 44th Bomber Group, Heavy

Date of Loss: December 06, 1942 / Age:

Died while in MIA status. Killed during a mission targeting the Abbeville-Drucat Airdome.

Andrew Lillico

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 58th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on July 18, 1918.

Buried in Grave 55, Row 6, Block A, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.