State Heroes

Private First Class Gilbert A. Helland

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: A Battery

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 343rd Field Artillery Battalion

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

Date of Loss: June 24, 1944 / Age: 34

Killed in action in France

Ralph Linden Helmer

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Pvt. Evald L. Helstad

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 58th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division

Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action at Chateau-Thierry on July 19, 1918.

Buried in Grave 49, Row 2, Block A, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.

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

Pvt. Francis R. Heminger

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division

Date of Loss: December 25, 1942 / Age:

Killed in action in the Philippines.

Valdemar J. Hemmingsen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Valdemar J Hemmingson.

Cpl. Joseph Wilbur Hemrick

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 16, 1918.

Buried at Volga, S. Dak.

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

Technical Sergeant Chester B. Henderickson

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: December 25, 1944 / Age: 31

On Christmas Eve 1944, the Belgium troopship SS Leopoldville, left the pier at Southampton, England with over 2,000 American soldiers assigned to the 66th Infantry Division and crossed the English Channel to France.

Samuel Dana Henderson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters, 15th Battalion

Date of Loss: October 19, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 19, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1319 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

AMM1 Nels Edward Henderson

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Air Station, Rockaway Beach

Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 23

Died at Rockaway Beach, L. I., N. Y., on Oct. 16, 1918.

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

Staff Sergeant Kenneth W. Hendrickson

Bismarck, ND

Iraq (OIF/OND/OIR)

Branch of Service: National Guard

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 957th Engineer Company

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 130th Engineer Brigade

Date of Loss: January 24, 2004 / Age: 41

Died Jan. 24 when his convoy was attacked by an improvised explosive device north of Fallujah, Iraq.

Tech Sgt. Chester Hendrickson

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 264th Infantry Regiment, 66th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: December 25, 1944 / Age:

Died while in MIA status.

First Lieutenant Michael Franc Hendrickson

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters

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

Date of Loss: July 25, 1968 / Age: 25

Lieutenant Hendrickson was an infantry officer assigned to Headquarters, 1st Marine Division. He was serving as an observer in an OV-10A Bronco flown by Captain Alfred L. Tripp of VMO-2.

Pvt.1st Class Edward Daniel Hennessy

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 362nd Infantry

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action at Gesness, France, on Sept. 29, 1918.

Buried in Grave 2, Row 40, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery.