Jeremiah Soham Santos, age 21, from Minot, North Dakota, Ward county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company B, 2D Battalion, 8Th Infantry, Fort Hood, Tx
Date of death: Thursday, June 15, 2006
Death details: Died of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee during combat operations in Baghdad, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
David Donald Berdahl, age 19, from Ward County Minot, North Dakota .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, January 20, 1972
Death details: On January 20, 1972, a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 69-16717) carrying four crew and four passengers took off on a recovery mission for downed U.S. pilots. The aircraft was returning from the rescue mission when it was hit by enemy ground fire southeast of Khe Sanh combat base in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. The aircraft caught fire and crash landed on the bank of the Rao Quan River, in the vicinity of (GC) XD 883 408. A rescue crew member observed an individual from the loss aircraft pinned face down in the burning wreckage, but was unable to extricate him. Hostile forces in the area prevented further rescue attempts at the crash site, and two members of the crew remain unaccounted for. Private First Class David Donald Berdahl, who joined the U.S. Army from North Dakota, was a member of Troop D, 3rd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He was a door gunner aboard the UH-1H when it went down, and was lost with the aircraft. His remains were not recovered following the incident. Today, Private First Class Berdahl is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed along with all his fallen comrades on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC.
Source: National Archives, Bismarck Tribune (1972), Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Alan Rolf Hinzpeter, age 22, from Minot, North Dakota, Ward county. Their last known residence was in James G. Hinzpeter.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, September 6, 1971
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives, Minneapolis Star Tribune (1971)
Bruce Lloyd Wold, age 23, from Minot, North Dakota, Ward county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, April 21, 1970
Source: National Archives
Allan James Korom, age 19, from Ward County Minot, North Dakota .
Parents: Alvin J. Korom
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Sunday, May 22, 1966
Source: Associated Press (1966)
Robert Lee Krag, age 35, from Ward County Minot, North Dakota .
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: US Naval Academy (1950)
Date of death: Wednesday, April 10, 1963
Death details: Killed aboard the atomic submarine Thresher when the ship went missing 220 miles East of Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Source: ussthresher.com, Associated Press (1963), US Naval Academy, oneternalpatrol.com
Harry W. Eck, age 23, from Ward County Minot, North Dakota .
Parents: Harry B. Eck
Service era: World War II
Schools: Minot High graduate, University of North Dakota
Date of death: Wednesday, September 13, 1944
Death details: On December 19, 2011, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) accounted for First Lieutenant Harry W. Eck, missing from World War II. First Lieutenant Eck, who entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from North Dakota, served with the 327th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd Bombardment Group (Heavy). On September 13, 1944, he was the pilot of a B-17G Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31250, nicknamed “Mag the Hag, the 2nd”) that carried nine crew members on a bombing mission against oil refineries near Merseburg, Germany, and then moved to targets near Altenburg, south of Merseburg. At some point, 1LT Eck’s aircraft was hit by enemy fire and crashed near Neustadt. One crew member successfully parachuted out of the aircraft before it crashed, but the remaining eight were killed in the crash and their bodies recovered by German forces and buried in a cemetery in Neustadt. Following the war, U.S. Army Graves Registration Service personnel recovered and moved the remains of one crew member to a U.S. military cemetery in Holland; however, by 1953, access to eastern Germany was restricted by the Soviet Union, which prevented any further recovery efforts of the seven remaining crew members including 1LT Eck. In 1991, a German national digging a grave in the Neustadt cemetery discovered a U.S. military identification tag and notified officials. German burial law restricted any further site investigation efforts; however, the law changed in 2007. In 2008, JPAC officials traveled to the site where they recovered human remains and military equipment correlating to the B-17G’s loss, and JPAC analysts used modern forensic techniques to eventually identify 1LT Eck from these collective remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Fargo Forum (1945)
Calvin Harry Palmer, age 23, from Minot, North Dakota.
Parents: Mr. Harry Calvin Palmer
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Remains accounted for on March 19, 2019
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Calvin Harry Palmer, age 23, from Ward County Minot, North Dakota .
Parents: Harry Calvin Palmer
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Remains accounted for on March 19, 2019
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Wilferd Dewey Palmer, age 21, from Ward County Minot, North Dakota .
Parents: Harry Calvin Palmer
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Remains accounted for on March 19, 2019
Source: National Archives