Timothy John O’Connor, age 18, from Loogootee, Indiana, Martin county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, October 23, 1970
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam
Cemetery: Memorialized at Saint Marys, Loogootee
Source: National Archives
Charles Raymond Conover, age 23, from Loogootee, Indiana, Martin county.
Parents: Catherine Fields
Spouse: Shelia Y. Conover
Children: Step daughter Melissa Vardeman and step son Dean Vardeman
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, September 1, 1970
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Columbus Ledger (1970)
Thomas Steven Hickman, age 19, from Loogootee, Indiana, Martin county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, August 26, 1970
Death details: Hostile, missing in South Vietnam
Cemetery: Saint Johns Cemetery, Loogootee, Indiana
Source: National Archives, grave marker
James Vernon Hembree, age 19, from Loogootee, Indiana, Martin county.
Parents: Robert V. Hembree 1919 – 2014)
Spouse: Margaret Hembree (married 8 months)
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Loogootee High (1965)
Military history: Entered Army in October 1966
Date of death: Wednesday, September 6, 1967
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam. Killed by fragments from an exploding helicopter
Cemetery: Goodwill Cemetery, Loogootee, Indiana
Source: National Archives, Evansville Courier & Press
Virgil Lee Phillips, age 24, from Indiana, Martin county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On January 23, 2008, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Virgil Lee Phillips, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant Phillips entered the U.S. Army from Indiana and served with Company K of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, members of Battery C were supporting of the 1st Cavalry Division near Unsan, North Korea, north of a bend in the Kuryong River known as the “Camel’s Head Bend.” That day, Chinese Communist Forces struck the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. SGT Phillips was killed during this action, and his body not recovered at the time of his loss. In 2003, a joint U.S./North Korean team excavated a burial site near Unsan and recovered human remains and other material evidence, and U.S. analysts eventually identified SGT Phillips from these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Henry Dwyer, age 25, from Loogootee, Indiana, Martin county.
Spouse: June Dwyer
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, September 11, 1943
Death details: Killed in action aboard USS Savannah, Gulf of Salerno
Cemetery: Zachery Taylor National, memorialized at Spring Hill, Martin County
Source: National Archives, grave markers
Isaac Alford from Indiana, Martin county.
Parents: George H. and Mary Anna Alford
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Wednesday, July 23, 1919
Death details: Died of tuberculosis at Ft. Bayard, New Mexico
Cemetery: Goodwill Cemetery, Loogootee, Indiana
Source: Indiana Historical Commission, grave marker
Winfield Scott Bridges, age 31, from Indiana, Martin county.
Parents: Levi A. (1858-1945) and Mary E. Bridges (1867-1943)
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Sunday, October 21, 1918
Death details: Died of lobar pneumonia at Camp McClellan, Alabama
Cemetery: Clark’s Cemetery, near Huron, Indiana
Source: Indiana Historical Commission, grave markers