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The honor lists and casualty extracts the war files stand on
The Second World War dead: stand in two published federal volumes — the War Department's 1946 Honor List of Dead and Missing, Indiana volume, St. Joseph County at pages 33–35 (National Archives identifier 305290), and the Navy's State Summary (NAID 305199). The Wars and War Heroes files take the county's dead from those pages, name by name. What this build did not do is also printed in those files: a consolidated county total across the two volumes was never constructed, because the Archives' own scan route resisted the work — the page images returned access-denied to the reading tools — and the printed volumes at IARA and the public library are the named pull that settles it.
Korea and Vietnam: there the federal record is digital and complete at the level this history needed: the Defense Casualty Analysis System extracts for Indiana were counted in full for the county — 43 fatal casualties for Korea, 54 county-wide for Vietnam — and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's Korea unaccounted-for report carries the county's open case (Burch, lost 12 April 1951). One caution from the War Heroes file belongs in this entry, because it is a sources lesson: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund's city search returns a thirty-second "South Bend" name who is a South Bend, Washington man — the four-South-Bends trap of the closing entry, met first in the casualty lists.
Sources:
- National Archives catalog records NAID 305290 (War Department Honor List, 1946) and NAID 305199 (Navy State Summary).
- Defense Casualty Analysis System state extracts; DPAA Korea Unaccounted-For report.