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1950 – 1953
The file, counted: the Defense Department's Korean War casualty file (NARA RG 330, the state list) was counted whole for St. Joseph County: 43 rows — 30 Army, 10 Marine Corps, 3 Air Force — agreeing exactly with the counts made independently in the South Bend and Mishawaka passes. The file states a home city only for the sea and air services: 13 rows — South Bend 8, Mishawaka 2, Walkerton 2, New Carlisle 1. No row states Granger, and the 30 Army rows state the county only. Nine of the 43 are marked remains-not-recovered: the three the file places — Burch of New Carlisle, Rush of South Bend, and Tabaczynski of Mishawaka, whose case Mishawaka's build carries — and six Army men the file leaves at county strength (Bradley, Davis, Gibson, Plump, Smith, Williams). The townships' Korean dead, if any stand in the file, stand inside those 30 Army rows without a township mark.
The ground's named Korea service: the county veterans index attributes two Korean War soldiers to this ground, both Army, both carried under Granger: Richard Lee Ault, buried in St. Joseph Valley Memorial Park; and Lyle H. Aulwurm, burial unknown to the index. They are service, not sacrifice — the index is a veterans index, and both men stand in it as veterans of the ground — and they are the whole of the township-attributed Korean record reached. The gap between a suburb's worth of Korea-era service and two index names is the same gap as the Second World War's, with the same settling source: the library's Service Notes index runs through the Korean years, and the Defense Department's case files stand behind the 30 Army rows.
Sources:
- National Archives, RG 330 — the Korean War casualty state list for Indiana, counted whole for St. Joseph County (43 rows; the city-stated 13; the nine not-recovered).
- The St. Joseph County veterans index — Ault and Aulwurm, quoted at their strength.