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
Larry E. Hawkins, age 20, from Martin County Shoals, Indiana .
Parents: Charles Hawkins
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Shoals High (1960)
Date of death: Monday, June 3, 1963
Death details: Killed in the crash of a military chartered airline in the Gulf of Alaska
Source: Associated Press (1963), Indianapolis News (1963)
Larry Edward Hawkins, age 18, from Indiana, Martin county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, June 3, 1963
Death details: Lost at sea in Gulf of Alaska
Cemetery: Memorialized at Spring Hill, Martin County
Source: Martin County Historical Society, grave markers
James Walter Cropp, age 19, from Loogootee, Indiana, Martin county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, April 14, 1960
Death details: Cropp was on an operational flight near San Diego, California as part of an exercise. The plane’s engine failed and caught fire.
Cemetery: Saint Johns Cemetery, Loogootee, Indiana
Source: Grave marker, UPI, Bedford Times Mail (1960)
Richard D. Brothers from Indiana, Martin county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Tuesday, January 16, 1951
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Saint Johns Cemetery, Loogootee, Indiana
Source: National Archives, grave marker
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
Robert Lowell Sutton, age 20, from Loogootee, Indiana, Martin county.
Spouse: Esther M. Sutton
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Monday, June 4, 1945
Cemetery: New Albany National
Source: National Archives, grave marker