State Heroes
1943
Private First Class Duane M. Brown
World War II
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 2nd Battalion
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 2nd Marine Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 2nd Marine Division, FMF
Date of Loss: November 20, 1943 / Age: 22
Killed in action in Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Kiribati
1944
Private First Class Henry F. Brown
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: April 19, 1944 / Age: 21
Killed in action New Guinea
1967
Corporal Lawrence Dean Brownotter
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 5th Battalion
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 60th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 9th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: November 18, 1967 / Age: 22
Killed in action in Dinh Tuong, South Vietnam from multiple fragmentation wounds.
1942
Private John J. Brucker
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 164th Infantry Regiment
Date of Loss: November 23, 1942 / Age: 21
Killed in action Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
1918
Private Garfield Jerome Brye
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 23, 1918 / Age: 19
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
1918
Private Garfield Jerome Brye
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 23, 1918 / Age: 19
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
1944
Sergeant William M. Bryson
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 565th Bomber Squadron
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 389th Bomb Group
Date of Loss: April 01, 1944 / Age: 26
Killed in action on a plane that was shot down
1944
Private First Class Albert B. Buchert
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 105th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 27th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: July 08, 1944 / Age: 26
Killed in action at Salpan Islands
1944
2nd Lieutenant Bruce E. Buchholz
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 492nd Bombardment Squadron
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 7th Bombardment Group
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 10th Air Force
Date of Loss: August 18, 1944 / Age: 20
2nd Lt Buchholz was killed in action when he was the pilot of B-24J #42-73080 that crashed on final approach to Kurmitola airbase in India, having flown from Kunming China. All aboard, except the co-pilot, were killed.
1969
Sargeant Patrick Joseph Buck
Vietnam
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.
1944
Private Theodore Buck
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: H Company
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 33rd Armored Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 3rd Armored Division
Date of Loss: August 11, 1944 / Age: 24
1918
James Francis Buckley
Fort Rice, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 1st Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: April 15, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on April 15, 1918.
Buried at Fort Rice, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1950
Private Herbert Edward Buik
Wells County, ND
Korean War
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 27th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 25th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: July 26, 1950 / Age:
He was captured during the Korean War and interned as a Prisoner of War. He was not among those returned at the wars end, and is listed as Missing in Action. His remains have never been recovered.
1967
Captain David Allan Bujalski
Carrington, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 65th Engineer Battalion
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 25th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: August 15, 1967 / Age: 26
On August 15, 1967, eight days after his arrival in Vietnam, while performing a helicopter-borne road reconnaissance mission he was the victim of a sniper's bullet.
1918
Arthur T. Bullen
World War I
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information NOT found in the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.