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Cresbard, South Dakota Veterans Memorial

 
 
Cresbard, South Dakota Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Ruth VanSteenwyk, September 24, 2020
1. Cresbard, South Dakota Veterans Memorial
Inscription.

Post 213
Cresbard, SD

Lloyd M. Bellack
Orville B. Lerew
David E. Voight
Matthew J. Gjernes
David M. Ortmeier


Hunt - Newell

Michael A. Paul
Stanley Paul
Leonard L. Paul
Owen Dick Finley
John L. (Jack) McCloud
Steven Gebhard

Captain Cecil E. Harris
US Navy

Highest Scoring and
most Highly Decorated
Reserve Navy Pilot
of WWII


 
Erected by American Legion Post 213.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, KoreanWar, VietnamWar, World IWar, World II.
 
Location. 45° 10.122′ N, 98° 56.897′ W. Memorial is in Cresbard, South Dakota, in Faulk County. It is at the intersection of Main Street and 3rd Street on Main Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 507 Main Street, Cresbard SD 57435, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in East River. It is also in the American Lewis & Clark Corridor, on the prairies, and on the Northern Plains. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once Rupert’s Land and also the Louisiana Purchase.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 13 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Welsh Colony at Powell (approx. 9.2 miles away); LaFoon 1882 - 1891 (approx. 9.6 miles away); Frank M. Byrne (approx. 12.4 miles away); Guido van Helten
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(approx. 12½ miles away); American Legion Foncannon Post No. 102 Memorial (approx. 12.6 miles away); Welcome to Faulkton, SD (approx. 12.7 miles away); "The Last Wild Buffalo Hunt In Faulk County" (approx. 12.7 miles away); Pickler Mansion (approx. 13 miles away).
 
Cresbard, South Dakota Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Ruth VanSteenwyk, September 24, 2020
2. Cresbard, South Dakota Veterans Memorial
Cresbard, South Dakota Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Ruth VanSteenwyk, September 24, 2020
3. Cresbard, South Dakota Veterans Memorial
Cresbard, South Dakota Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Ruth VanSteenwyk, September 24, 2020
4. Cresbard, South Dakota Veterans Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on August 27, 2023. It was originally submitted on March 31, 2021, by Ruth VanSteenwyk of Aberdeen, South Dakota. This page has been viewed 370 times since then and 29 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on April 1, 2021, by Ruth VanSteenwyk of Aberdeen, South Dakota. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
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