State Heroes

Ole Melvin Morken

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 25, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Gottlieb Morlock

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: December 05, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of wounds on Dec. 5, 1918, at Reserve Hospital, Lindau, Germany.

Buried, Soldiers Cemetery, Lindau, Germany. Remains reinterred in Grave 32, Row 36, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Private First Class Jack Morrell

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 32nd Infantry Regiment

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

Date of Loss: May 27, 1945 / Age: 25

Killed in action in Okinawa

Private Herman L. Morris

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: June 17, 1944 / Age: 31

Died in service at Camp Crowder, Missouri

Private First Class Joseph P. Morris

World War II

Branch of Service: Marines

Date of Loss: July 23, 1944 / Age: 20

Died in service in Guam

Chief Warrant Officer 2 James Thor Morrison

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 4th Aviation Company

Date of Loss: July 01, 1971 / Age: 23

Died in service

Nurse Sophia Ellen Morrison

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Base Hospital, Camp Devens, Mass.

Relieved from active duty on Jan. 31, 1919, as an Army Nurse.

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

Private First Class Arthur A. Morrison

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 20th Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: January 16, 1945 / Age: 25

Killed in action in Luzon, Philippine Islands

1st Lieutenant Jared W. Morrow

Fargo, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 2nd Infantry Division

Date of Loss: September 01, 1950 / Age: 27

PFC Albert L. Morrow

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 107th Coast Artillery Battalion

Date of Loss: July 19, 1943 / Age:

Wounded during the Battle for Sicily and died from wounds in North Africa.

Staff Sergeant Allen L. Morsch

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 458th Bomber Squadron

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 330th Bomber Group, Very Heavy

Date of Loss: May 26, 1945 / Age: 25

B-29 #44-69799 was part of Mission 67. During the night of 13-14 April, 327 B-29's from the XXI BC attacked the Tokyo Arsenel with 2,120 tons of bombs. Seven B-29's are lost including B-29 #44-69799.

Gilman Morstad

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 47th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 29

Died on Oct. 3, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 2, Row 19, Block A, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.

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

John Thomas Morton

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 58th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 25

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

Buried in France; remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 18, 1920, and buried at Page, N. Dak.

Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

2nd Lieutenant Carl R. Moses

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: June 09, 1945 / Age: 23

Died in service in Sebring, Florida

Staff Sgt. Robert L. Moshier

World War II

Branch of Service: Air Force

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 327th Bomber Squadron, 92nd Bomber Group, Heavy

Date of Loss: October 08, 1945 / Age:

Staff Sgt. Moshier was a B-17 tail gunner, assigned to 92nd BGKIA. Flying aboard 43-38434, was hit by flak on a mission to Zwickau.