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The War Department's Honor List (1946); the Navy's State Summary; the DPAA lists; the county veterans index
What it is: the war dead's federal paper, and the build's most exacting transcription. The one public scan of the Honor List of Dead and Missing, State of IndianaSo all 430 St. Joseph County names were transcribed first-hand from the printed page images (pp. 33–35, in column strips), and the transcription tallies exactly against the War Department's own tabulation in all five classes — killed in action 267, died of wounds 35, died non-battle 106, finding of death 20, missing 2; 430 rows, 430 distinct serial numbers. Around it: the Navy's State Summary of War Casualties, read entire in the naval-history.net transcription, its scope printed (combat and operational deaths in war zones only); the Defense Department's POW/MIA agency lists, read first-hand — the Second World War Indiana unaccounted-for report in its editions of 27 November 2020 and 11 February 2022, the Korea list (PMKOR Indiana) of 14 May 2021 — with statuses printed as of the editions read and flagged for re-verification before publication; the American Battle Monuments Commission's burial records where they speak; the Army Air Corps Museum's county extracts (forty-six Mishawaka name-pairs); the county veterans index read whole through its Wayback copy (3,388 rows); the Notre Dame Religious Bulletin of 3 May 1945, pulled first-hand; the Indiana Gold Star Honor Roll (1921), its county section read entire in the Genealogy Trails transcription; Gore's and Terrell's rosters for the earlier wars, worked by coordinate-XML reconstruction, because their flowing machine text separates names from residences and no roster claim in this build rests on flowing text; the Military Times Hall of Valor and the Military Hall of Honor, citations read entire; and the Air Force Magazine of November 1951 for Tabaczynski.
Its standing, from this build's experience: the tally is the method's proof: a transcription that reproduces the maker's own totals in all five classes can carry a city's roll — sixty-six names, printed in the Second World War Death Roll pass — and the same lists closed the Wars file's oldest gap (Tabaczynski: second lieutenant, 16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, killed 20 August 1951, still unaccounted for) and gave the roll's one missing man his boat and date (Felabom, USS Snook, 5 May 1945).
Where it fails: at Korea's grain: the Defense Casualty Analysis System reports by county only, so the city's Korea roll cannot close from the federal lists — it stands at Tabaczynski, Veevaete and the Maenhout identification, the balance of some twenty-nine Army names the next want, with the Enterprise and genealogical-society obituary record as settler. The state police and IDOC instruments read for the Unsolved leg — the Bremen District list read whole, the missing-persons bulletin's 2022, 2023 and November 2026 editions read whole — belong to this series' modern end and are carried in that leg.
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