The count, and what would still settle the remainder

1946

The count: Mishawaka's Second World War dead, on the federal lists joined to the town's own records, are sixty-six: fifty-six Army and Army Air Forces — forty-three killed in action, one died of wounds, eleven died non-battle, one finding of death — and ten of the sea services, nine dead and one missing in action. Sixty-four of the sixty-six are carried as Mishawaka's by the county veterans index or the Army Air Corps Museum's extracts or both — the sea ten on the Navy Department's own next-of-kin addresses besides, nine of the ten in the index as well. Eberhart's tie is his university's roll, and Heltzel stands on the summary's address alone among the records swept. Three of the Army names — Dale, Hums, and Trotter — are identifications between records that differ in a letter or an initial, printed as identifications in their entries. The county frame around them is 430 Army dead, read whole.

What was swept, and what was not: Swept whole: the Army's county pages; the Navy summary's Indiana roll; the county veterans index, all 3,388 entries; the museum's county extracts; the Notre Dame roll. Not swept: the town's own wartime paper record — the Mishawaka Enterprise's servicemen's columns and obituaries and the honor rolls the churches, schools, and posts kept, held at the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library and in the county genealogical society's files. That record is the settler of the remainder: Captain Webster's service; Nurse Price's town; any Mishawaka man whose death the federal lists credit to another county because his family had moved, or whose next of kin's address put him under another town in the summary; and the Korean balance. Until it is swept, the count stands as printed — complete at the strength of the lists and the index, and short of the town's own paper by exactly the names that paper alone can give.

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