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The Second World War: the figure is not settled, and the file says so

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War Department Honor List of Dead and Missing, Indiana volume (NARA NAID 305290); the companion Navy volume read whole; Indiana War Memorials

No Roseland or Clay Township Second World War dead can be named at official strength from any carrier reached — and that sentence is a statement about the carriers, not about the town. The settling volume is the War Department's Honor List of Dead and Missing for Indiana, whose entries are arranged by county; its St. Joseph County pages (pp. 33–35 of the volume) stand behind NARA media files that returned HTTP 403 when tested once — the same refusal a sibling build met, honored identically: not retried, and no variant address tried. NARA's own index states the Honor List gives no residence, so even the settler volume sorts by county alone; a township read would need residence evidence beyond it. The companion volume that could be read whole — the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard State Summary of War Casualties for Indiana (1946), whose entries group by next-of-kin residence — was swept entire: "Roseland" appears nowhere in it. Indiana's own total prints at state strength only: 11,680 Hoosiers killed in action (Indiana War Memorials) — a state figure, from which no county or township number is derived here. The War-Department county figure, the county name list, and any township names therefore stand as this section's largest named gap (G-WAR-1), with the Honor List's St. Joseph pages as its settler. A small town of farm families in 1941–45 sent men; the record that would name its dead is the one the carriers would not open, and the gap prints as a gap.

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Source: The Second World War: the figure is not settled, and the file says so, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/roseland/wars-military-service/second-world-war-the-figure-is-not-settled-and/