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1941 – 1945
Each entry gives the man as the War Department's list prints him — name, grade, serial number, class of casualty — with the Mishawaka record's additions and disagreements following in the same entry. The grades and serials are the Army list's; where the county veterans index gives a different grade, the entry says so.
Lloyd E. Alleman — Private First Class, serial 35554028. Died non-battle.
Frank C. Barnum — Sergeant, serial 35551534. Died non-battle.
Russell H. Basham — Staff Sergeant, serial 35345799. Killed in action.
Russell C. Benjamin — Private First Class, serial 35902849. Killed in action.
John L. Beyer — Private, serial 15105851. Killed in action. The county veterans index carries him as a corporal.
Maynard E. Dale — Private, serial 35907837. Killed in action. Identification: the county veterans index carries the Mishawaka man as Maynard W. Dale, private, with no burial recorded; the Army list's county line is Maynard E. Dale. The middle initial differs between the two records and is printed as each record gives it.
Jack J. Deal — Sergeant, serial 15102213. Killed in action. The county veterans index carries him at the lower grade of private first class.
Kenneth J. Deitchley — Sergeant, serial 35536650. Killed in action.
Raymond M. Dentino — Staff Sergeant, serial 35111024. Killed in action.
Richard C. Doyle — Staff Sergeant, serial 35330080. Killed in action.
James F. Du Bois — Private, serial 35545443. Killed in action.
George F. Eberhart III — Second Lieutenant, serial O-705562. Died non-battle. Of Mishawaka on the University of Notre Dame's roll of its dead in service, Religious Bulletin, 3 May 1945, where he stands as 2nd Lt. George F. Eberhart III, ex-'46. The Army list classes his death non-battle.
Joseph O. Eggert — Private First Class, serial 35344250. Killed in action. 330th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. Killed in action 5 July 1944. He lies in the Normandy American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, France, Plot B, Row 5, Grave 30; Purple Heart. The Army list prints his first name in its familiar form, Joe.
Paul A. Fechner — Private, serial 35154537. Died non-battle. The county veterans index carries against his name a naval rating form, M/Mate; the Army list carries him as an Army private, died non-battle, and no Fechner stands in the Navy Department's Indiana summary. The Army line governs.
Millard E. Fore — Private, serial 35344248. Killed in action.
Leo L. Fuller — Staff Sergeant, serial 35110818. Died non-battle.
Alphonse E. Gasser — Private First Class, serial 35227588. Killed in action.
Cyrus E. Grant Jr. — First Lieutenant, serial O-855649. Died non-battle.
William E. Gwilt — Private First Class, serial 35349591. Killed in action.
Joseph E. Hemminger — Private, serial 35546679. Died non-battle.
Henry B. Hums — Sergeant, serial 35167256. Finding of death. Identification: the Army list prints the surname Huns — Henry B. Huns, sergeant, finding of death. The county veterans index carries the Mishawaka man whole: Henry Bernard (Bano) Hums, sergeant, killed in action at Anzio, Italy, with no burial recorded. No other Hums or Huns stands on either record. The two are printed as one man, the one-letter difference carried in the open; a finding of death is the Army's class for a man lost and later declared dead, which is the Anzio story the index tells.
Loyd E. Jerraid — Staff Sergeant, serial 19102940. Killed in action. The county veterans index spells the first name Lloyd.
Morris D. Lavine — First Lieutenant, serial O-828718. Killed in action. United States Army Air Forces, Twelfth Air Force, Mediterranean. Silver Star, posthumous, for gallantry in action on or about 20 January 1945 (General Orders No. 77, Headquarters Twelfth Air Force, 13 April 1945). His award card, an extract of the official card, carries him as missing in action; the War Department's Honor List, the later and governing record, classes him killed in action. He does not stand on the Defense Department's list of Indiana's unaccounted-for of this war. His decorated service is carried whole in the war heroes file; he stands here because he died.
John A. Lutes — Sergeant, serial 35347239. Killed in action. The county veterans index prints him as a first lieutenant; his serial is an enlisted man's serial and the Army list carries him as a sergeant. The list governs the grade.
Frank S. Mady — Corporal, serial 39469999. Died non-battle. The county veterans index prints him as a captain; his serial is an enlisted man's serial and the Army list carries him as a corporal. The list governs the grade.
Joseph A. Mahler — Private, serial 35327594. Died non-battle.
Harold R. McDonald — Sergeant, serial 35548602. Killed in action.
Leonard A. Melkey — Staff Sergeant, serial 15104539. Killed in action.
Fred R. Mentzer — First Lieutenant, serial O-663069. Died non-battle.
William D. Miller — Private First Class, serial 15082366. Killed in action.
Robert L. Morris — Private First Class, serial 15374105. Died non-battle.
Angelo P. Nicolini — Second Lieutenant, serial O-1823337. Killed in action. He lies in the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery at Nettuno, Italy; Purple Heart.
Albert A. Nome — Sergeant, serial 35544549. Killed in action. The county veterans index carries his burial at Southlawn Cemetery — his remains were brought home.
Donald C. Ramey — Private, serial 15043202. Killed in action.
James L. Richards — Private, serial 35901934. Killed in action. The Army list prints his first name in its familiar form, Jimmy.
Charles Roegiers — Private First Class, serial 35537738. Killed in action.
William M. Rowan — Private, serial 35227565. Killed in action.
Albin P. Sabade — Private First Class, serial 35536655. Killed in action.
Harold E. Sandefur — Private First Class, serial 35175622. Killed in action.
Fred E. Scott — Private, serial 35905755. Killed in action.
Charles L. Severa — Staff Sergeant, serial 35150772. Killed in action.
Charles R. Shelton Jr. — Flight Officer, serial T-131621. Killed in action. Army Air Forces. The county veterans index and the Army Air Corps Museum's extracts of the county's enlistment records agree with the list on the man and the grade.
Clarence Shrider — Private, serial 35348469. Killed in action.
Robert E. Smith — Technical Sergeant, serial 35339487. Killed in action.
William E. Sones — Sergeant, serial 35349992. Killed in action.
Maurice J. Stockberger — Private, serial 15329459. Killed in action. The Army list prints him by initials, M. J.; the county veterans index gives the name whole, Maurice J. Stockberger, and carries him as a sergeant against the list's private. The name is the index's; the grade printed is the list's.
William P. Stoddart — Private First Class, serial 32780132. Killed in action.
Merle J. Trotter — Private, serial 35556380. Killed in action. Identification: the county veterans index carries the Mishawaka man as Merlin K. Trotter, private, with no burial recorded; the Army list's county line is Merle J. Trotter. The given name's form and the middle initial differ between the two records and are printed as each record gives them.
David J. Van-de-Walle — Second Lieutenant, serial O-683349. Killed in action.
Francis Vanderheyden — Staff Sergeant, serial 35175661. Killed in action.
Raymond A. Vanderheyden — Private First Class, serial 35339132. Killed in action. The Army list prints him by initials, R. A.; the county veterans index gives the first name, Raymond.
Hubert Wellman — Private First Class, serial 35344935. Killed in action. The county veterans index prints the first name Huber.
Almont Wertenberger Jr. — Staff Sergeant, serial 35766055. Killed in action. The Army list prints him by initial, Wertenberger A. Jr.; the county veterans index carries the same form, and the Army Air Corps Museum's extracts of the county's enlistment records give the name whole, Almont Wertenberger, of Mishawaka.
Leonard F. White — Sergeant, serial 15303524. Died of wounds.
Robert C. Williams — Private, serial 35905752. Killed in action.
Vernon V. Zeak — Private, serial 35542243. Killed in action. The county veterans index prints the first name Bernon.
Sources:
- War Department, Honor List of Dead and Missing, State of Indiana (1946), St. Joseph County, pp. 33–35 — every line above is one of the county's 430, read from the printed page.
- St. Joseph County veterans index — the Mishawaka attribution for every name above except George F. Eberhart III, whose attribution is the University of Notre Dame's roll, and Almont Wertenberger Jr. and Charles R. Shelton Jr., whose attributions the index and the Army Air Corps Museum's extracts share.
- American Battle Monuments Commission burial record, as transcribed at interment.net — Joseph O. Eggert (Normandy American Cemetery) and Angelo P. Nicolini (Sicily-Rome American Cemetery).
- For Morris D. Lavine: Headquarters Twelfth Air Force, General Orders No. 77, 13 April 1945 (Silver Star, posthumous), as carried in the war heroes file with its sources; the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's report for Indiana (unaccounted-for) for his absence from it.