Richard E. Lynch, age 24, from Montgomery County Crawfordsville, Indiana .
Spouse: Anne C. Lynch
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, October 8, 1965
Death details: Hostile in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1965)
Everett Dwight Manion, age 19, from Indiana, Montgomery county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Saturday, July 22, 1950
Death details: On July 22, 1950, the 2nd Battalion of the U.S. Army’s 35th Infantry Regiment was holding defensive positions along the south bank of the rain-swollen Yong stream, south of Mun’gyong, South Korea. The battalion’s Company F was sent across the stream to reinforce a Republic of Korea (ROK) battalion on the north bank, but the ROK-U.S. position was immediately attacked by North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) forces, separating them from the rest of the 2nd Battalion and flanking Company F on both sides. Company F fell back to the stream’s edge under enemy fire, but the current was too powerful for them to cross and the enemy had seized the nearby bridge. U.S. combat engineers on the south bank attempted to launch rafts for the stranded men but were also pinned down by the NKPA until additional American tanks and infantry arrived to give them covering fire. This enabled the engineers to deploy their rafts and evacuate the men of Company F from the north bank. However, several soldiers were lost to enemy fire or while attempting to cross the swollen stream before the rafts could be launched. Corporal Everett Dwight Manion, who entered the U.S. Army from Indiana, served with F Company, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He went missing while attempting to swim across the Yong stream during this action on July 22, 1950. He was not associated with any remains later recovered from the area, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Manion is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Donald R. Sechman, age 19, from Montgomery County Waveland, Indiana .
Parents: Stella Sechman
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, July 20, 1950
Death details: On July 20, 1950, the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was holding a defensive line in South Korea overlooking the Taejon Airport, northeast of the city. When enemy tanks broke through the line near the airport, U.S. troops were ordered to fall back through Taejon. The 3rd Battalion was ordered to lead the convoy out of Taejon, but ran into a series of collapsed structures and roadblocks that broke up the column. U.S. forces were unable to break through these roadblocks, and to avoid capture soldiers moved off-road and began filtering through the countryside in small groups. Corporal Donald R. Sechman entered the U.S. Army from Indiana and served in I Company, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He went missing on July 20, during the withdrawal from Taejon, though the exact details of his loss are unknown. Corporal Sechman’s remains were not recovered or identified among those returned to U.S. custody following the war, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Corporal Sechman is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Indianapolis News (1954)
Irvin L. Cotton, age 19, from Indiana, Montgomery county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: November 6, 1944
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: New Albany National
Source: National Archives, grave marker