State Heroes

Corporal Nicholas A. Pfliger

Hazen, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 21st Infantry Regiment

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 24th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: July 11, 1950 / Age:

Sergeant First Class Kenneth F. Nickerson

World War II

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: July 07, 1950 / Age: 38

Died in the army hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico of a heart attack. 

Private First Class Leonard J. Weber

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: July 03, 1950 / Age: 20

Died in service in Columbia, South Carolina

Private First Class Peter Ternes

Raleigh, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Army

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 71st Signal Service Battalion

Date of Loss: June 30, 1950 / Age:

1st Lieutenant Vernon A. Lindvig

Lakota, ND

Korean War

Branch of Service: Air Force

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 339th All Weather Squadron

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 35th Fighter Interceptor Wing

Date of Loss: June 28, 1950 / Age: 26

Lost while returning from operations to cover Rheinholte in the Yellow Sea. His plane crashed in mountains short of the runway at Iwakuni during bad weather.

Lance Corporal Todd Anthony Kraft

Devils Lake, ND

Lebanon

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: G Company

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 2/8 Battalion Landing Team

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 22nd Marine Amphibious Unit

Date of Loss: December 04, 1983 / Age: 19

The evening of December 4th a reinforced squad of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, led by Sgt Manuel A.

Airman 1st Class Julius Joseph Rausch

Lebanon

Branch of Service: Air Force

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 43rd TRS Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron

Date of Loss: July 17, 1958 / Age: 23

On July 17, 1958 when the USAF B-66 Destroyer in which he was assigned as a gunner, in support of the Lebanon Conflict (July 1, 1958-November 1, 1958), ran out of fuel Airman First Class Rausch and two others parachuted out of the plane before it crash

Corporal Garreth Charles Isaak

Harvey, ND

Panama (Operation Just Cause)

Branch of Service: Marines

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 2nd Light Armored Recon Battalion

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

Date of Loss: December 20, 1989 / Age: 22

Corporal Isaak's Squad came under intense hostile fire while attempting to secure their objective. Reacting swiftly, he continued to advance toward the building in order to clear it of hostile forces of unknown size.

Private John Killian

Branch of Service: National Guard

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H - Jamestown

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st North Dakota Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: June 09, 1899 / Age:

Died during an attack on an insurgent outpost.

Corporal John C. Byron

Branch of Service: National Guard

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D - Devils Lake

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st North Dakota Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: May 24, 1899 / Age:

Died of wound received on April 1, 1899 while in action at King's Bluff

Corporal Isador Driscoll

Branch of Service: National Guard

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C - Grafton

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st North Dakota Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: April 12, 1899 / Age:

Killed in action at Paete

Corporal George T. Schneller

Branch of Service: National Guard

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I - Wahpeton

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st North Dakota Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: April 12, 1899 / Age:

Killed in action at Paete

Private Peter W. Tompkins

Branch of Service: National Guard

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C - Grafton

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st North Dakota Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: April 12, 1899 / Age:

Killed in action at Paete

Private Alfred C. Almen

Branch of Service: National Guard

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C - Grafton

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st North Dakota Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: April 12, 1899 / Age:

Killed in action at Paete

Cofeland

Branch of Service: National Guard

Regiment / Group / Brigade: 1st North Dakota Infantry Regiment

Date of Loss: January 01, 1899 / Age:

Drown in the Pacific Ocean