PFC Shawn D. Pahnke
C Company, 1-37 Armor
Born: 2 Nov 1977 in Merrillville, Indiana
Killed in Action: 16 Jun 2003 (aged 25) in Baghdad, Iraq
Buried: Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery, Elwood, Illinois

PFC Pahnke was killed while on patrol in Baghdad when he was shot in the back by a single shot by a sniper as he rode in the back seat of a Humvee. He was in a two-vehicle convoy that was seeking a former Iraqi missile compound when the sniper’s bullet punctured the canvas top of the Humvee.