State Heroes

Staff Sergeant Gerald J. Callahan

Fargo, ND

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Air Force

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:47th Squadron

Date of Loss: January 21, 1944 / Age: 26

Killed in action near Italy.

Corporal Julius Arndt

Wright, ND

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: December 21, 1944 / Age: 24

Died while in MIA status. Philippines. Remains not recovered. 

Sergeant Ernest L. Burlog

Meadow Township, ND

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:34th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: January 11, 1944 / Age: 29

Killed in action near Italy.

Private First Class Proctor Ames

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 04, 1944 / Age:

Killed in action in France.

Corporal Walter Dietz

Grand Forks, ND

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:34th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: January 26, 1944 / Age: 29

Killed in action near Italy.

Second Lieutenant Orville L. Blumhagen

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Air Force

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:746th Bomber Squadron

Date of Loss: October 16, 1944 / Age: 26

Killed in action in Italy.

Staff Sergeant Duane E. MacKenzie

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: August 25, 1944 / Age: 19

Died in service in France

Private First Class Obert L. Halseth

Grand Forks, ND

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:56th Signal Air Warning Battalion

Date of Loss: June 15, 1944 / Age: 23

Killed in action in England. Died of wounds suffered in the invasion of France.

Private Harlan O. Sauer

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:First Infantry Division

Date of Loss: November 20, 1944 / Age:

Killed in action near Belgium.

Staff Sergeant Leonard A. Powell

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 06, 1944 / Age: 27

Killed in action in Normandy, France

Private Abner J. Olson

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:81st Replacement Battalion

Date of Loss: May 30, 1944 / Age:

Killed in action near England.

Second Lieutenant Theodore R. Zech

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: August 16, 1944 / Age: 22

Killed in action in Germany

Private Joseph M. Laviolette

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:101st Airborne Division

Date of Loss: December 22, 1944 / Age: 21

Died in service in Bastogne, Belgium

Staff Sergeant Edward J. Birch

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: B-17 Flying Fortress

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:32nd Bomber Squadron B-17 FLYING FORTRESS

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:15th US Army Air Forces

Date of Loss: July 26, 1944 / Age: 19

Killed in action in a plane that crashed in Austria, the plane departed Italy

Aviation Radioman Curtis L. Wright Jr.

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Yorktown

Date of Loss: July 27, 1944 / Age: 23

Killed in action in Yap Island

Private First Class Orville R. Overby

World War II (WWII)

Branch of Service: Army

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:9th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: October 11, 1944 / Age: 23

Killed in action in Germany