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1950 – 1953 · Defense Casualty Analysis System, via the National Archives
The Korean War file carries the county whole and the township not at all — and it says why on its face. The carrier is the Defense Department's Korean War Extract Data File (Defense Casualty Analysis System, Record Group 330, as of 29 April 2008), published by the National Archives as the Indiana home-state-of-record list, read whole and swept by county field. The recount — the file prints no county subtotal — is 43 St. Joseph County fatal casualties. A search of the whole Indiana list for "Lakeville" returns no match: no Lakeville or Union Township man is named at this section's strength. The structural caveat travels with that zero, exactly as the Archives' own explanation states it: for Army casualties — 30 of the county's 43 — this section's home-of-record city field reads UNKNOWN and the county alone is carried, so a Lakeville Army man would be invisible at township level in this carrier; he would appear only as a county man with no city. The zero therefore means that no township attribution is possible from this carrier, not that no Lakeville man died in Korea; the settlers that can raise it — the full casualty records through the Archives' database, and the Tribune Service Notes index searched under each of the thirty names — are named's note.
The thirteen of the forty-three whose records carry a city stand: South Bend eight (Chester Cummings; Dan Ruben Davis; Robert Lee Epperson; Kermit McGee Ferrell; Robert H. Greene; Chester Radziszewski; John Earl Rush; Walter Louis Skwiercz), Mishawaka two (Edwin Tabaczynski; Joseph H. Veevaete), Walkerton two (John J. Leonhard; Grover Lois Williams), and New Carlisle one — SSgt Hugh Maynard Burch, Air Force, home of record New Carlisle, died 12 April 1951, remains not recovered: the one Korea man of the county whom no town's record accounts for, carried in New Carlisle's file, where his family's place in that town is dug whole. The remaining thirty Army names stand in the county file at county strength — Anderson, Balog, Bradley, Cooper, Crabb, Davis (Jack A.), Dewitt, Driver, Foley, Gibson, Gustin, Hutchison, James, Kowalski, Lawson, Maas, Maenhout, McCreary, Modos, Nowakowski, Pearish, Penrose, Plump, Ruff, Sanderson, Smith (Charles E.), Taylor, Wade, West, Williams (Arthur I., Jr.) — surnames as the file prints them, their towns unproven by this carrier and unassigned by this section.