The frame: the county's 430, and how the city roll was taken from it

1941 – 1946

The county list, read whole: The War Department's Honor List of Dead and Missing for Indiana prints St. Joseph County's Army dead on pages 33 to 35, one alphabetical list of names with serial numbers, grades, and classes of casualty, and its tabulation gives the county 430 dead: 267 killed in action, 35 died of wounds, none died of injuries, 106 dead non-battle, 20 findings of death, and 2 missing. The frame the wars file printed from the tabulation therefore stands confirmed against the names themselves.

How a name enters this roll: The Army list gives no towns, so the city roll is a joining, and the joining rules are printed with it. A man stands in the Army roll below when his name stands on the county's 430 and a Mishawaka record carries him as the town's own: the St. Joseph County veterans index, the county's compiled record of its servicemen, which attributes its men by township and city and records their burials — a Mishawaka man who died overseas and never came home stands in it, again and again, with the attribution and no burial, and it is that pattern, checked name by name against the federal list, that does most of the joining. The Army Air Corps Museum's extracts of the county's enlistment records, the University of Notre Dame's roll of its dead, and the American Battle Monuments Commission's burial record join where they speak. A name the index attributes to South Bend is not taken, even where a Mishawaka connection could be argued; argued connections are printed in the boundary article, at that strength. The sea services divide more cleanly, because the Navy Department's State Summary lists its dead under the residence of their next of kin — the Mishawaka names are the summary's own.

The classes of casualty: The roll keeps the lists' own language. Killed in action; died of wounds; died non-battle — the Army's class for the deaths of service that were not battle: accident, illness, and the training and transport losses of a worldwide war; finding of death — the Department's determination, after the fact, that a man carried missing was dead; and missing in action, which the sea services' summary prints with its own warning that some so listed would be found alive. The county's two men the Army list classes as missing — 1st Lt. Donald Q. Hopkins and Sgt. Andrew J.

Sources:

1. War Department, Honor List of Dead and Missing, State of Indiana (1946), St. Joseph County, pp. 33–35, and the state tabulation, p. iii — read first-hand from the printed pages (the archive.org photocopy of the volume); the 430 names transcribed and tallied against the tabulation.
2. Navy Department, State Summary of War Casualties, Indiana (1946), in the naval-history.net transcription of the state summaries, read entire for the Mishawaka entries.
3. St. Joseph County veterans index (sites.rootsweb.com/~instjose/veterans/), compiled from the county's burial and obituary records, read whole — 3,388 entries, of which 327 Second World War men attributed to Mishawaka.
4. Army Air Corps Museum, St. Joseph County, Indiana, extracts of official documents (armyaircorpsmuseum.org) — 46 name-pairs of men whose enlistment records give Mishawaka, about 43 distinct men.
5. University of Notre Dame, Religious Bulletin, 3 May 1945, "Notre Dame Men Dead in Service — 223 reported to date" (University of Notre Dame Archives).