VICTIM BELIEVED TO BE ORLEANIAN Body Found on Railway Tracks in Indiana
Submitted by: Rose Albrizio February 2005
Source:  The Times Picayune Newspaper August 11 1950

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VICTIM BELIEVED TO BE ORLEANIAN
Body Found on Railway Tracks in Indiana
The body of a man believed to be Pvt. David A. Baker of New Orleans was found Thursday
on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks near Monroeville, Ind.

Dr. H. Paul Miller, Allen county, Ind., coroner, said the man apparently had fallen from
a train and been dragged a considerable distance. He said papers in the man’s clothing
identified him as Baker.

Pvt. Baker’s wife, Mrs. Nancy Baker, 17, lives at 2006 Elysian Fields.

The coroner said the body dressed in an Army fatigue uniform, bore travel papers showing
the man was en route from Riverside, Calif., to Little Silver, N. J. Papers identifying
him as Baker showed he was attached to the 330th Assembly Squadron, Keesler Field,
Miss., the coroner said.

Mrs. Baker said her husband, 24, has been assigned to the 817th Engineers’ Aviation
Battalion at March Air Force Base, Riverside, Calif., since Jan. 12. Prior to that, she
said, he has been assigned to the assembly squadron at Keesler.

She said Pvt. Baker recently wrote her from Riverside saying he expected to be
discharged or reassigned. He had not written her about any transfer to New Jersey she
said.

Pvt. Baker, a native of Verona, Pa., enlisted in the Army in Movember 1943, and was
wounded in Burma while serving with the 1304th Engineering Construction Battalion.

He had re-enlisted twice since his original discharge in May, 1946, Mr. Baker said, and
was stationed at Camp Leroy Johnson until March, 1949.

The Bakers were married here in December while he was stationed at Kessler, she said.