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1930–1951 · U.S. Air Force, Korea — remains not recovered
The town's highest continuing obligation is a staff sergeant whose file the Defense Department still keeps open. Hugh Maynard Burch was born 22 April 1930. His home of record in the Defense Casualty Analysis System is New Carlisle, St. Joseph County. He served in the U.S. Air Force with the rank of Staff Sergeant, and he died 12 April 1951, in the Korean War's first year, ten days before his twenty-first birthday. The casualty extract's last field for him reads: remains recovered, No. He is accordingly carried in the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's Korea accounting among the unaccounted-for, and that status — not a decoration, not a battle the record names — is his distinction in this section: the one man of this township whom the nation still owes an accounting. The extract gives no unit and no circumstance; this section prints the record as it stands and adds nothing to it.
Sources
- U.S. Military Fatal Casualties of the Korean War for Home-State-of-Record: Indiana (DCAS Korean War Extract Data File, 2008), National Archives — entry BURCH, Hugh Maynard, read first-hand.
- Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Korea (PMKOR) accounting, as searched.