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1941–1945 · SERVICE PROVEN; NO TOWN DEAD NAMED AT OFFICIAL STRENGTH
The township's Second World War service is proven; its dead are not named at official strength in any carrier reached, and this section prints that as not shown — never as zero. The official carrier, the War Department's Honor List of Dead and Missing (National Archives, Record Group 407), prints Indiana's St. Joseph County dead on its Indiana pages 33–35 — but the Archives states expressly that residence is not indicated in that list, so no name in it can be attributed to this township from the list itself, and none is. What the reached local record proves is service: township enlistees stand named in the enlistment transcriptions (Boone, Clark, Patrick among them), and the survivors' and veterans' registers carry township names at their own strengths — the war-heroes file works the decoration question whole, and the cemeteries file carries the war's generation where it rests, in family ground across the township's cemeteries, individually VA-marked. A county page-image count of the Honor List was not completed and stands in the note as residue, with the St. Joseph County Public Library's Service Notes index (1941–1979) named as the name-level settler for this war above all others.
War Department Honor List (NARA RG 407), Indiana pp. 33–35, with the Archives' residence caveat; Army enlistment transcriptions; VA burial file as transcribed (Interment.net, VA data of 16 Dec. 2022).