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1941–1945 · the frame at its strength
The Second World War is the largest war this township ever fed and the one its reached record itemizes least. The federal Honor List of Dead and Missing for Indiana (1946) is organized by county; the St. Joseph County tally carried in this build's Mishawaka pass stands at 430 names, and it is printed here as the county's frame, unapportioned. The Honor List does not break its county roll down by the residence of the dead at town level in the form reached, and no pass of this build has read a New Carlisle honor roll, a wartime Gazette file, or a service flag count for the town. The men and women of Olive Township who served — from a township of some two thousand, in a war that took one American in ten — are therefore present in this section as a named gap, not as names: the gap's settlers are the Honor List's county pages read against the 1940 census of the township, the town's wartime newspaper files, and the Legion post's own records, the post having been chartered in the war's immediate aftermath (its federal exemption dates to March 1946). What the record does prove is the homecoming institution: within months of the war's end the town had an American Legion post and an Auxiliary, which is the next article.
Sources
- Honor List of Dead and Missing, State of Indiana (War Department, 1946), St. Joseph County tally as carried in the Mishawaka pass of this build.
- IRS exempt-organizations record for New Carlisle, Indiana (American Legion, exempt status March 1946; Auxiliary, October 1946).