FALLEN
Vietnam
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
Corporal Thomas Leroy Narum
Amidon, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:1st Battalion
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:1st Infantry Division
Date of Loss: January 18, 1967 / Age: 20
Killed in action in Bien Hoa, South Vietnam by hostile multiple fragmentation wounds.
Specialist 4 Roy Carl Wagner
Bismarck, 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:1st Infantry Division
Date of Loss: October 02, 1967 / Age: 20
Killed in action in Bien Hoa, South Vietnam through hostile small arms fire.
Constructionman Melvin Edward Johnson
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Navy
Date of Loss: October 08, 1967 / Age: 21
Died in service in Thua Thien, South Vietnam in non-hostile action in an air crash in a fixed wing.
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
Corporal Lawrence Dean Brownotter
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:5th Battalion
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.
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.
Command Sergeant Major Laurence Cris Zietlow
New Salem, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:1st Field Force
Date of Loss: October 03, 1967 / Age: 39
On September 17, 1967, SGM Zietlow of I Field Force and a SSG Wright from the 124th Transportation Command were mortally wounded in a terrorist attack in a Noncommissioned Officer's Club in Nha Trang, Vietnam. SGM Laurence C.
Lance Corporal Stephen John Eichelberger
Fargo, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:2nd Battalion
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:3rd Marine Division
Date of Loss: May 16, 1967 / Age: 20
Killed in action in Quang Tri, South Vietnam in hostile action through small arms fire.
Specialist 5 Gerald Lee Larson
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 97th Transportation Company
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:10th Transportation Battalion
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:124th Transportation Command
Date of Loss: February 05, 1967 / Age: 36
On February 5, 1967, Larson reportedly was sitting on a beach beside an anchor when the cable snapped, hitting him in the head. He sustained fatal injuries in the incident.
Sergeant Fred Leroy Johnson
Leeds, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop D
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:1st Squadron
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:1st Cavalry Division
Date of Loss: January 20, 1967 / Age: 27
Killed in action in Binh Dinh, South Vietnam through hostile action by an explosive device.
Private First Class Edward Michael Baumgartner
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: April 27, 1967 / Age: 20
Died in service in Edgewood, Pennsylvania
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.
Private Eugene Louis Lavoy Jr
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: H&S Company
Date of Loss: March 03, 1967 / Age: 20
Eugene died as a result of fragmentation wounds to the body when hostile 82MM mortar fire hit his living quarters at the Khe Sanh Combat Base.
Private First Class Kenyon Elroy Bean
Williston, 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:25th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: May 19, 1967 / Age: 20
As PFC Bean's platoon advanced, it was fired upon by a Viet Cong force estimated at battalion size. The fire came from a system of strongly fortified bunkers, and was so intense that the platoon could not maneuver.