Curtis Robert Mehrer, age 21, from Bismarck, North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Battery A, 1St Bn, 188Th Air Defense Artillery, (Tf Vigilant), Grand Forks, North Dakota
Date of death: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Khogyani, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Travis Allen VanZoest, age 21, from Bismarck, North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Battery A, 1St Bn, 188Th Air Defense Artillery, (Tf Vigilant), Grand Forks, North Dakota
Date of death: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Death details: Hostile; Khogyani, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Anthony William Monroe, age 20, from Bismarck, North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhb, Division Artillery, 1St Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Date of death: Monday, October 11, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Kenneth Wayne Hendrickson, age 41, from Bismarck, North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: 957Th Engineer Company ( Multirole), 34 Infantry Division, Bismarck, Nd 58502
Date of death: Saturday, January 24, 2004
Death details: Hostile; Fallujah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Thomas John Sweet II, age 23, from Bismarck, North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Parents: Liz Sweet
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Service Battery 1St Battalion 5Th Field Artillery, Fort Riley, Ks 66442
Date of death: Thursday, November 27, 2003
Death details: Junction City, Iraq. Died at his barracks from a gunshot wound to the head.
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jerome Frederick Ressler, age 28, from Bismarck, North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Monday, January 28, 1980
Death details: Among the 23 who died when the Coast Guard Cutter Blackthorn collided with a tanker near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay in Florida.
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: United State Coast Guard, Tampa Bay Times (1980), findagrave.com
James Alan Fowler from North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, June 6, 1972
Death details:
On June 6, 1972, an F-4D Phantom II (tail number 66-6232, call sign “Gopher 01”) with two crew members was the lead plane in a flight of four on a combat air patrol mission over North Vietnam. As the flight egressed from the mission area due to depleted fuel, it approached the defensive ring around the Yen Bai Airfield, North Vietnam, and encountered both enemy fighters and surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). “Gopher 01” was damaged by an enemy SAM which caused the aircraft to burst into flames and crash in the vicinity of (GC) 48Q VK 879 141. No ejections or parachutes were observed. Due to the extremely strong enemy presence in the area of the crash site, search and rescue operations were impossible.
Lieutenant Colonel James Alan Fowler, who entered the U.S. Air Force from North Dakota, served with the 523rd Tactical Fighter Squadron and was the aircraft commander of this Phantom at the time of its loss. He remains unaccounted for. Today, Lieutenant Colonel Fowler is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Glenn Ervin Maier, age 20, from Bismarck, North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Tracy
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Bismarck High (1968, Bismarck Junior College
Date of death: Saturday, July 11, 1970
Death details: Drowned while on duty in Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, Bismarck Tribune
Norman Anthony Emineth, age 20, from Baldwin, North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Parents: Anton and Agnes (Pfliger) Emineth
Spouse: None
Children: None
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Bismarkch High graduate
Date of death: Friday, May 22, 1970
Cemetery: Saint Mary’s
Source: National Archives, Bismarck Tribune (1970)
Lloyd L. Mesloh from Bismarck, North Dakota, Burleigh county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Sunday, January 12, 1958
Death details: Killed in a tank accident in Seoul. He was trapped inside the tank when it overturned and caught fire while proceeding down a hill to a firing range.
Source: UP (1957)