KILLED-Wounded IN ACTION - Putnam

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KILLED-Wounded IN ACTION

KOREAN WAR
KILLED IN ACTION - Wounded in Action
Official Casualty List in Table below!
Korean War Casualty File, 2/13/1950 - 12/31/1953

NAME
SERIAL #
RANK
Date of Death or Injury
From where
Anderson Frank R
Ra15417799
Corporal
13 September 1950Indiana 0005 County Of Residence: Putnam
Bowman Lorin T wounded
Us55219145
Private First Class
30 March 1953
Indiana 0009 County Of Residence: Putnam
Brant Wayne O wounded *
Er15246196
Private First Class
17 May 1951
Indiana 0038 County Of Residence: Putnam
Bridges Charles F
Ra16314748
Corporal
6 November 1950
Indiana 0029 County Of Residence: Putnam
Davies Everett E - KIA
Us55031699
Private E-2
22 April 1951
Indiana 0005 County Of Residence: Putnam
Dwigans Charles J
Ra16310613
Private First Class
30 November 1950
Indiana 0070 County Of Residence: Putnam
Ernest William H
Us52008816
Private First Class
24 March 1951
Indiana 0024 County Of Residence: Putnam
French Henry A
Ra23026585
Private First Class
29 April 1952
Indiana 0027 County Of Residence: Putnam
Gilley Billy J - KIA
Us55031702
Private E-2
22 April 1951
Indiana 0005 County Of Residence: Putnam
Haworth John T
Ra16016557
Private First Class
16 August 1950
Indiana 0019 County Of Residence: Putnam
Holland George L
Ra16359994
Private E-2
29 October 1951
Indiana 0014 County Of Residence: Putnam
Keyt William E
Us55201032
Private First Class
16 October 1952
Indiana 0017 County Of Residence: Putnam
LANG, Robert David

Private First Class
24 November 1852
Miller Curtis G
Ra16396881
Private E-2
13 September 1952
Indiana 0007 County Of Residence: Putnam
Pell Robert A
O-1882606
2nd Lieutenant
16 March 1953
Indiana 0014 County Of Residence: Putnam
Perry Robert B
Ra15420131
Sergeant
12 September 1950
Indiana 0005 County Of Residence: Putnam
Reynolds Melvin E - KIA
Us55274591
Private First Class
15 June 1953
Indiana 0007 County Of Residence: Putnam
Shoemaker Johnnie
Us55049569
Corporal
18 September 1951
Indiana 0037 County Of Residence: Putnam
Shoemaker Johnnie
Us55049569
Corporal
3 October 1951
Indiana 0037 County Of Residence: Putnam
Taylor William E - KIA
Ra16314731
Private E-2
20 July 1950
Indiana 0034 County Of Residence: Putnam
Terry Herbert R - KIA
Us22983620
Private First Class
6 October 1952
Indiana 0017 County Of Residence: Putnam
Ra15276390
Private First Class
31 August 1950
Indiana 0082 County Of Residence: Putnam
Woliung, John - KIA - AF
Pilot - F-51 Mustang5 November 1952
*Note on Wayne Branthe returned& did a stink in WWIIand TWO in Vietnam - what a guy
Those in Putnam County who were KIA (list thanks to Jordan Vaughn) – Korean War

Everett Davies (Army) **
Billy Gilley (Army) **
Melvin Reynolds (Army) **
William Taylor (Navy)  **
Herbert Terry (Army)
Harold Truesdale (Army)**
John Woliung (Air Force)**




Those WOUNDED  





HERBERT REX TERRY buried Forest Hill, Greencastle
13 June 1930 – 6 Oct 1952

Source: Indianapolis Star 26 Nov 1952 Wed p 17
The bodies of 10 Indiana servicemen who were killed in Korea are aboard the Harvard Victory which docked yesterday at San Francisco. Included in the list of dead: Pfc. Herbert R. Terry, son of Herbert O. Terry, Greencastle.
Pfc. Ernest R. Krout, son of Ivan A. Krout, Veedersburg.
Pvt Richard W. Patterson, husband of Mrs. Phyllis J. Patterson, Logansport.  
Cple Charles E. Skinner, Muncie
Pfc. Robert R. Snoddy, son of Paul W. Snoddy, Anderson
Cpl. Ralph Hedrick, son of Mrs. Margie E. Hedrick, Columbia City
Pfc. Wilson D. Clarke, son of Harry H. Clarke, RR 10, Indianapolis
Pfc. Carl E. Cummins, husband of Mrs. Marjorie F. Cummins, Elkhart
Pvt. Duane L. Foley, son of Louis D. Foley, South Bend.
Pfc. Gerald J. Kleimeyer, son of Edmund L. Kleimeyers, Batesville.


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