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Korea: the county's 43, and a city field that cannot answer for this ground

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The file was read entire, and it cannot settle this town. The Defense Casualty Analysis System's Korean War Extract, as NARA prints it for Indiana (its provenance line names the Korean War Extract Data File, as of 29 April 2008, of the DCAS files, Record Group 330), carries 43 St. Joseph County dead. The other thirty are Army records whose home-of-record city field reads UNKNOWN — county only — a defect NARA's own index note states for Army records in this section. "Indian Village" appears zero times in the Indiana file as printed; but a township Army man of 1950–53 would stand inside that unknown thirty, invisible at place level in this carrier — and the town's own existence in those years is itself unproven on the incorporation record. The honest result, printed at this section's own strength: the county's Korea dead are 43; this ground's share is neither provable nor excludable from the city field, and the gap is named, its settlers the fuller record-level DCAS fields and a county Korean War roster. No number is printed for Indian Village, because the file does not carry one. This is this section's unproven side, and it is printed as unproven — the opposite case from Vietnam, next.

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Source: Korea: the county's 43, and a city field that cannot answer for this ground, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/indian-village/wars-military-service/korea-the-county-s-43-and-a-city-field/