The rest of the wartime footprint: what was here, and what was not

Item 7 — both world wars, the footprint tested whole — MIXED: the positive half prints, the residue goes to the Gazette

For both world wars the township's footprint is a short list of presences and a longer, verified list of absences. WHAT WAS HERE. In the Second World War: the Army's proving-ground tenancy of 1943–45, in the article above; a town honor roll — a "New Carlisle World War II Honor Roll" marker stands in the town and is indexed in the Historical Marker Database (listed some 0.8 miles from the town's Civil War memorial in New Carlisle Cemetery, the 1909 "unknown dead" memorial erected by Deacon Relief Corps No. 48); and the homecoming institution itself — an American Legion post exempt from March 1946 and its Auxiliary from October 1946, the organizational footprint of the returning generation, banked whole in Wars & Military Service. In the First World War: the township's two Gold Star dead, Paszkiet and Swanson, banked whole; enlistment and registration ran through South Bend, as the draft-board article below prints. WHAT WAS NOT HERE. No camp in either war — the county's training-camp record is Camp Rose's, in South Bend, in the Civil War generation, and no 1917 or 1941 successor stands on this ground in the record reached. No airfield. No wartime housing project, no defense workers' settlement, no war plant: the township's wartime industry, at the strength of the record reached, is the proving ground's test work and the farms'. The home-front residue — rationing, scrap and bond drives, the service flag, the names on the honor roll itself — is not printed here at anecdote strength, because the source that carries it has not been read: the wartime files of the New Carlisle Gazette are the NAMED SETTLER for the residue, together with Post 297's own records and a transcription of the town's World War II Honor Roll marker, whose existence the marker index proves but whose names no pass has yet read. The item therefore closes MIXED: footprint tested and printed; texture owed, with its settler named.

Sources:

1. Historical Marker Database — "New Carlisle World War II Honor Roll" (indexed marker, New Carlisle, St. Joseph County); "New Carlisle Civil War Memorial" (erected 1909 by Deacon Relief Corps No. 48, New Carlisle Cemetery).
2. St. Joseph County Parks, Bendix Woods history, and U.S. Auto Industry World War Two — the 1943–45 Army tenancy, as cited in the installation article above.
3. Banked: IRS exempt-organizations record for New Carlisle (American Legion, 03/1946; Auxiliary, 10/1946) — Wars & Military Service, at pointer size.
4. Named settler for the residue: the wartime New Carlisle Gazette files; American Legion Post 297 records.