State Heroes

Private Friedrich F. Marzolf

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 22

Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website

Pvt.1st Class Herbert Carl Maske

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 326th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 23

Died on Oct. 13, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 23, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Tech. Sgt. Matthias Mastel

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Infantry Regiment, Americal Division

Date of Loss: February 21, 1945 / Age:

Killed in action in the Philippines.

Private Anton M. Mastrud

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 161st Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: August 01, 1943 / Age: 33

Killed in action in the Southwest Pacific Area

Emil Matejcek

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 41st Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 15, 1918.

Buried at Sheldon, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Alexander Materi

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: September 01, 1944 / Age: 20

Killed in action near France.

Captain Ellis E. Matheson

World War II

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Marine Corps

Date of Loss: March 21, 1943 / Age:

Died while in MIA status.

PFC Andrew D. Mathiasen

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 20th Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: March 17, 1945 / Age:

Killed in action in the Philippines.

Private First Class Gordon L. Mathiason

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 17th Airborne Division

Date of Loss: January 05, 1945 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Belgium

Corporal Joseph Matt Mathis

Hettinger County, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

Date of Loss: July 19, 1952 / Age: 20

Willie Bartlett Matson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 309th Engineers

Date of Loss: November 25, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of pneumonia, at St. Nazaire, France, on Nov. 25, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 29, 1920, and buried at Aneta, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Lester A. Mattern

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 290th Infantry Regiment, 75th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: April 06, 1945 / Age:

Killed in action in the Netherlands.

Private First Class Charles E. Mattern

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 116th Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: August 08, 1944 / Age: 27

Died in service in France

Private First Class John A. Mattern

World War II

Branch of Service: Marines

Date of Loss: May 06, 1942 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Philippine Islands

Captain Ralph D. Matthews

World War II

Branch of Service: Air Force

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 18thFighter Squadron, 343rd Fighter Group

Date of Loss: December 26, 1942 / Age: 26

Died while in MIA status.