Marcus Vinicio Muralles, age 33, from Shelbyville, Indiana, Shelby county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hhc, 3D Battalion, 160Th Soar, Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia
Date of death: Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Asadabad, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Jeremy Robert Wright, age 31, from Shelbyville, Indiana, Shelby county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: A Company, 2D Battalion, 1St Special Forces Group, Fort Lewis, Wa
Date of death: Monday, January 3, 2005
Death details: Hostile; Camp Eggers, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Miliitary Times
Shawn David Pahnke, age 25, from Shelbyville, Indiana, Shelby county.
Parents: Tom Pahnke
Spouse: Elisha
Children: Dean, 3 months
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Company C, 1St Battalion, 37Th Armor
Date of death: Tuesday, June 17, 2003
Death details: Killed by a sniper while patrolling in Baghdad. Hit in the back by a single shot as he rode in the back seat of a Humvee
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Darin Andrew Ogden, age 24, from Shelbyville, Indiana, Shelby county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Wednesday, April 19, 1989
Death details: Killed in accidental explosion aboard the USS Iowa just off Puerto Rico
Source: Iowa Daily Press, UPI
Edward Clarence Handly, age 29, from Shelby County Shelbyville, Indiana .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Tuesday, January 25, 1966
Death details: He was en route to join a new offensive against the Viet Cong when the transport plane slammed into a hillside in Vietnam.
Source: National Archives, UPI (1966)
Virgil L. Hinkle, age 23, from Shelby County Shelbyville, Indiana .
Parents: Effie Hinkle
Service era: World War II
Schools: Withrow High graduate
Date of death: Friday, December 15, 1944
Death details: On December 13, 1944, Japanese forces in the Philippines began the transfer of 1,621 Allied prisoners of war (POWs) to Japan. The POWs were to make the journey aboard transport ships whose harsh conditions and extreme overcrowding led survivors to refer to them as “Hell Ships.” The ships also lacked markings that would distinguish them from any other military target, causing some of them to be attacked by Allied forces who could not identify them as POW transports. On December 14, 1944, Allied aircraft attacked the first ship, the Oryoku Maru, in Subic Bay in the Philippines, killing many Allied POWs who became lost in the water, sank with the ship, or were washed ashore. Survivors of the bombing were put aboard two other ships, the Enoura Maru and the Brazil Maru, to continue on to Japan. During the journey, while anchored in Takao Harbor, Formosa (present-day Taiwan), the Enoura Maru was attacked by Allied aircraft from the USS Hornet (CV-8), killing Allied POWs who were lost in the water, on board the ship, or on the nearby shore. Survivors of the Enoura Maru bombing were loaded onto the Brazil Maru, and reached Japan on January 30, 1945. As a result of these incidents, Allied POWs were lost in the Philippines, at sea between the Philippines and Taiwan, while anchored in Taiwan, at sea between Taiwan and Japan, and in Japan. The attacks on these POW transports ultimately resulted in a series of death notifications from the Japanese government through the International Red Cross (IRC), and some casualties were given up to five different dates of death at various locations during the transfer. Witness accounts from surviving POWs offer detailed information for a handful of casualties, but the specific dates of loss and/or last-known locations for many of these POWs are based on the most recent reported date of death. Private Virgil L. Hinkle, who joined the U.S. Army from Indiana, served in Battery K, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment, in the Philippines during World War II. Records indicate Private Hinkle was killed several weeks later in the attack on the Enoura Maru; however, these reports often involve information solely furnished by enemy governments, with some casualties given multiple dates of death. Future research may determine that these reports were inaccurate. Private Hinkle’s remains could not be identified following the war, and he is still unaccounted for. Today, Private Hinkle is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Cincinnati Enquirer (1945)
Elmer Leo Pool, age 43, from Shelbyville, Indiana, Shelby county.
Parents: Matilda Pool
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Cemetery: New Albany National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Earnest Fisher from Shelbyville, Indiana, Shelby county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Died of disease
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com
Delbert LaRue Martin, age 23, from Shelby County Fountaintown, Indiana .
Parents: J. Frank and Anna Marie Martin
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: On June 18, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Ensign Delbert LaRue Martin, missing from World War II. Martin entered the U.S. Navy from Indiana and was a member of Naval Fighting Squadron 12 embarked aboard the USS Randolph (CV-15). On March 21, 1945, he took off from the Randolph piloting an F6F-5 Hellcat (Bureau Number 72309) on a fighter combat and photographic mission over Yap Island, Federated States of Micronesia. Martin’s aircraft was seen to crash near the target area. He was not seen or heard from again, and his remains were not accounted for after the war. On March 22, 1946, the Navy issued him a presumptive finding of death. Following the war, from 1945-1947, the American Graves Registration Service conducted recovery and identification efforts on Yap Island for missing service members. Those remains that were recovered from the area but could not be identified at the time were interred as Unknowns at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial (MACM). In December 2020, following a recommendation of DPAA analysts based on historical and anthropological records, and the availability of current identification technology, one of these previously unidentified remains were exhumed from the MACM and transferred to the DPAA laboratory for scientific analysis. Based on the laboratory analysis and the total circumstantial evidence, the remains were found to be those of Martin.
Cemetery: Fairland (2025)
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Shelbyville News (2025)