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1950 – 1953
The test: the Defense Department's Korean War casualty file for Indiana (the DCAS extract, read whole for this section) contains no occurrence of "OSCEOLA" — the text was searched entire. The county frame stands as the Granger pass counted it whole: 43 St. Joseph County names (Army 30, Marine Corps 10, Air Force 3), of which the city-stated entries name South Bend, Mishawaka (Edwin Tabaczynski, Air Force, remains not recovered; Joseph H. Veevaete, Marines), New Carlisle and Walkerton. None is Osceola's. The method's limit is printed with the verdict, because it decides what the verdict is: in the DCAS Indiana file the sea and air services state a home city, but Army rows carry the county only, city unstated — dozens of Army entries read "ST JOSEPH" county with no town — so the town-level negative is provable for the city-stated services and unprovable for the Army's share from this section alone. The Osceola share of those Army rows, if any exists, is the index-and-obituary join class, and no name could be attributed to Osceola or Penn from a real carrier. The item therefore closes as a named gap, not a silent zero: the settlers are the standing pair — the St. Joseph County Public Library's Military Service Notes Column Index (1941–1979), which covers the Korean years, joined with the county obituary record.
Sources:
- National Archives, DCAS Extract Data File, "U.S. Military Fatal Casualties of the Korean War for Home-State-of-Record: Indiana" — searched whole; the county count 43 carried from the Granger pass's whole count as banked.