State Heroes

1967

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

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 26th Marines Regiment

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. 

1944

Fireman 2c Theodore S. Lindseth

World War II

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Naval Reserve

Date of Loss: December 18, 1944 / Age: 18

Died while in MIA status. Lost at sea when the USS Spence went down during Typhoon Cobra.

1944

Private First Class Lawrence E. Lindstrom

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 26th Infantry Regiment

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

Date of Loss: November 26, 1944 / Age: 23

Killed in action in Germany

1950

1st Lieutenant Vernon A. Lindvig

Lakota, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Air Force

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 339th All Weather Squadron

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 35th Fighter Interceptor Wing

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

Lost while returning from operations to cover Rheinholte in the Yellow Sea. His plane crashed in mountains short of the runway at Iwakuni during bad weather.

1945

2nd Lieutenant Gordon H. Lindvig

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 164th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: Americal Division

Date of Loss: April 14, 1945 / Age: 25

Died in service in Cebu, Philippine Islands

1944

Private First Class Samuel F. Linn

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 358th Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 90th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: June 12, 1944 / Age: 24

Killed in action in Normandy, France

1918

Emmons Victor Linwell

Northwood, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, Development Battalion No. 1

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of broncho pneumonia on Oct. 6, 1918, at Camp Dodge, Iowa.

Buried at Northwood, N. Dak.

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

1944

MoMM2c Cletus F. Lipetzky

Kensal, ND

World War II

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Naval Reserve

Date of Loss: June 11, 1944 / Age: 22

Died while in MIA status, when the USS-LST-496 on which he was serving struck a mine in the English Channel and sank during the coastal invasion of Normandy. His body was not recovered.

1945

Pvt. Vernon E. Lippert

Verona, ND

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 291st Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: January 24, 1945 / Age: 20

Killed in action near Belgium.

1945

Gunnery Sergeant Russell W. Lippert

World War II

Branch of Service: Marines

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

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 4th Marine Division

Date of Loss: February 22, 1945 / Age: 26

 Colonel Robert M. Neiman described the moment Lippert gave his life to his country in his memoir, "Tanks on the Beaches". "Division called at about two in the morning and said the (previous) attack had been repulsed.

1918

Charles Vernon Little

Hampton, IA

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 22, 1918 / Age: 24

Died on July 22, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in Grave 52, Row 9, Block B, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.