FALLEN

Staff Sergeant James Claire Kopseng

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:1st Battalion

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:4th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: May 14, 1969 / Age: 21

Sergeant Kopseng was Killed in Action by a hostile explosive device in Pleiku, South Vietnam.

Sergeant Robert Alvin Brothen

Minot, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:1st Battalion

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

Date of Loss: February 27, 1969 / Age: 22

Killed in action in Binh Duong, South Vietnam in hostile action by small arms fire. 

Chief Electronics Technician William E. Howe Jr.

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: June 02, 1969 / Age: 29

Died while in service 

Specialist 4 Danny Leroy Hanson

Stirum, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:5th Battalion

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

Date of Loss: March 08, 1969 / Age: 22

Killed in action in Long An, South Vietnam through hostile action. 

Corporal Peter Binstock Jr

New England, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop A

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:1st Squadron

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:Americal Division

Date of Loss: January 03, 1969 / Age: 21

Died in service in Quang Nam, South Vietnam in non-hostile action when a strap broke on a water trailer that was being lifted and hit him.

Specialist 4 Randy Lee Hansen

Williston, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 596th Signal Company

Date of Loss: April 06, 1969 / Age: 20

He died in service in Thua Thien, South Vietnam through non-hostile action in a car crash. 

Captain Ernest E Bartolina Jr.

Bismarck, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:III Marine Amphibious Force

Date of Loss: February 07, 1969 / Age: 26

In Quang Nam, South Vietnam
Hostile, Helicopter - Pilot
Air loss, Crash on land

Lance Corporal Mark Daniel Mangin

Verona, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:3rd Battalion

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:3rd Marine Division

Date of Loss: October 01, 1969 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Quang Nam, South Vietnam from a hostile explosive device. 

Sergeant Dale George Helgeson

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:2nd Battalion

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

Date of Loss: March 01, 1969 / Age: 24

Killed in action in Binh Long, South Vietnam through hostile action by small arms fire. 

Specialist 4 Lawrence Robert Esser

Minot, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:3rd Battalion

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

Date of Loss: March 12, 1969 / Age: 21

He was killed in action in Kien Hoa, South Vietnam in hostile action by artillery rocket mortar. 

Warrant Officer 1st Class Roy Stephen Thomas

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:25th Aviation Battalion

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

Date of Loss: May 10, 1969 / Age: 22

Roy was killed when his helicopter crashed in Vietnam.

Lance Corporal Larry Joseph Sikorski

Fairmount, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery H

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:3rd Battalion

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:3rd Marine Division

Date of Loss: February 25, 1969 / Age: 21

At approximately 0530H Fire Support Base Russell came under attack by hostile forces with mortars and rifle fire. Larry died as a result of fragmentation wounds to the chest area from mortar fire.

Corporal David James Kuhn

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:3rd Battalion

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:21st Infantry Division

Date of Loss: May 23, 1969 / Age: 19

Corporal Kuhn was killed in action through hostile actions in Quang Tin, South Vietnam.

Specialist 4 Gerald Frank Coulthart

Hamilton, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:1st Battalion

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:1st Cavalry Division (Air Mobile)

Date of Loss: April 28, 1969 / Age: 21

Killed in action in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam in hostile action through multiple fragmentation wounds.

Specialist 4 Merlin James Laber

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:1st Battalion

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:46th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: May 14, 1969 / Age: 21

Killed in action through hostile small arms fire in Quang Tin, South Vietnam.