FALLEN

Private First Class Gerald A. Gessner

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: September 25, 1967 / Age: 21

Died in service 

Sergeant Arlan Dean Gable

Rolette, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C

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

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

Date of Loss: July 10, 1967 / Age: 29

Killed in action in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam in hostile action by an explosive device.

Yeoman 2nd Class Joel Arden Ellingson

Rolette, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Navy

Date of Loss: June 26, 1967 / Age: 22

United States Navy Yeoman 2nd Class Ellingson was wounded in action in a car crash and died of his wounds in the Vietnam War.

Private First Class Donald Jean Soby

Rugby, ND

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:101st Airborne Division

Date of Loss: July 07, 1967 / Age: 20

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

Specialist 4 Christopher Wilmer Davis

Belcourt, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 17th Field Hospital

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:55th Medical Battalion

Date of Loss: March 18, 1967 / Age: 24

He died in service in South Vietnam becuase of illness/inury in non-hostile action. 

Private First Class Richard Wallace Liebig Jr.

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

Date of Loss: August 09, 1967 / Age: 19

Died Aug. 9. in Mainz, Germany. Death was caused by a coronary occlusion.

Major Glenn Arthur Belcher

Fessenden, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Air Force

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

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

Date of Loss: December 31, 1967 / Age: 35

DPAA

Lieutenant Colonel Gordon James Wenaas

Mayville, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Air Force

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:314th Tactical Airlift Wing

Date of Loss: December 29, 1967 / Age: 46

On December 29, 1967, he was a crew member of a Lockheed Hercules Transport Aircraft (C-130E) on a mission in the extreme northwest corner of North Vietnam over Lai Chau Province, when contact was lost. 

Private First Class Garry Dean Klein

Mott, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

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

Date of Loss: May 27, 1967 / Age: 20

PFC Klein was Killed in Action in Quang Tri, South Vietnam from hostile artillery rocket mortar. 

1st Lieutenant Robert Joy Sime

Tolna, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

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

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

Date of Loss: October 23, 1967 / Age: 27

On October 23, during Operation WALLOWA the enemy were encountered some 7 kilometers east of Thang Binh in Quang Tin Province. During the ensuing fire fight 1stLt Sime was killed in action by hostile small arms fire.

Private Richard Lyn Sullivan

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: July 25, 1967 / Age: 20

Died while in service in Velva, ND.

Corporal Gerald Allen Iverson

Oakes, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A

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

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

Date of Loss: November 01, 1967 / Age: 20

Killed in action in Dinh Tuong, South Vietnam through hostile action by fragmentation wounds. 

Private First Class Cleo Larry Levang

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I

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

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

Date of Loss: January 05, 1967 / Age: 20

At a defense position on Hill 65 in the Dai Loc District of Quang Nam Province in a bunker there was an accidental detonation of a M26A1 hand grenade that wounded one man, and resulted in the death of PFC Levang by the multiple fragmentation wounds he

Lieutenant Colonel Carl Henry Boldt

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Air Force

Date of Loss: November 15, 1967 / Age: 48

Died in service in Guam 

Staff Sergeant Thomas A. Welker

Minot, ND

Vietnam

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

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

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

Date of Loss: July 27, 1967 / Age: 29

Killed in action in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam through hostile fragmentation wounds.