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1950–1953 · the town's one name in the DCAS file
The Defense Department's casualty file for Indiana carries exactly one home of record "New Carlisle," and it is a man who never came home. The Korean War Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System, as published by the National Archives for Indiana, lists: Burch, Hugh Maynard — U.S. Air Force, Staff Sergeant; born 22 April 1930; home of record New Carlisle, St. Joseph County; death date 12 April 1951; remains recovered: No. He was twenty years old, ten days short of twenty-one, and he is carried by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's Korea accounting as unaccounted for. No unit, aircraft or circumstance is given in the extract, and none is invented here. He stands at full length in the heroes file; in this section he is the whole of the township's Korean War roll, at this section's own strength — one name, complete in itself, out of a township that sent more men than the record names.
Sources
- U.S. Military Fatal Casualties of the Korean War for Home-State-of-Record: Indiana (Defense Casualty Analysis System, Korean War Extract Data File, as of 29 April 2008), National Archives — entry BURCH, Hugh Maynard, read first-hand.