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1941 – 1945 · the War Department's list and its stated limit
The War Department's own book cannot, by its own design, name a Lakeville man. The World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel from Indiana (1946; NARA, National Archives Identifier 305290) arranges its entries by county and gives serial number, rank, and type of casualty — and states in its own descriptive record: "The birthplace or residence of the deceased is not indicated." Township attribution for this war must therefore come from a different official carrier: the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard state summary of 1946 (NAID 305199), which carries the name and address of next of kin, or the county's own rolls. this section prints that method plainly because it governs everything that follows.
The county figure at the War Department's own number is not settled, and is printed as a gap, not a number. The List's St. Joseph County pages (pp. 33–35) and its county TABULATION file stand in the National Archives' media store; every one of the four files was attempted and returned HTTP 403, and under this build's discipline the request was not repeated or worked around. No figure from memory or from any aggregator is supplied in its place — an invented precision here would poison every later count. The statewide figure the Indiana War Memorials states — 11,680 Hoosiers killed in action in its database — is an Indiana figure, printed as one; it is not divided or apportioned to the county or the town. Zero Lakeville or Union Township dead of this war are named in this section, because no carrier at official or county strength read attributes a Second World War death to this town or township; that is a statement about the carriers read, not a claim that no Lakeville man died in the war. One index lead stands for the settler's first check: the county veterans roll's snippets attribute a Second World War Army man, Robert James Miller, to "Lakeville" — snippet strength only, a name to test against the official carriers, not a name this section carries as a finding. The difference the leg requires — the War Department's county figure stated against the local roll — cannot be computed until the county figure is read; its settlers are named's note (the Archives' files by a route that can read them, the Fold3 presentation of the same Honor List, the Navy summary's next-of-kin addresses, and the county library's Tribune Service Notes index).
The township's Second World War home front stands at the same honesty. No carrier read prints a Union Township rationing, draft-board, or war-bond record; the boards, as in 1917, were county and city bodies seated in South Bend, and no township sub-board is claimed. What exists is the settlers' apparatus: the South Bend Tribune's "Service Notes" column, indexed by the St. Joseph County Public Library for 1941–1979, which followed county men drafted, promoted, and moved, and is searchable by the serviceman; and the state home-front directory Indiana at War (Indiana War History Commission, 1951), whose index names the rationing machinery — gasoline, tire, food, and price panels, salvage chairmen, township representatives — and whose county section, read whole, is the named settler for the township's home-front personnel. The township's farm war production is the economy pass's ground and is not duplicated here.