South Bend Military History

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South Bend Military History

Wars, the home front, veterans, armories and those who served.

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§ 38South Bend Wars, Unrest and DisastersSouth Bend was a town of a few hundred people when its men first drilled for a war that never reached it, and a factory city of 132,000 when its sons' names filled the memorial rolls of the Second World War. Between…43 entry pages § 39South Bend's World War I Home Front, 1917–1919This section is the home-front companion to the Wars record. The units are there — the 137th Field Artillery's Supply Company, the 139th Machine Gun Battalion's Company C, Notre Dame's cadets, and the county's Gold Star…§ 40South Bend Military History: The Standing PresenceSouth Bend has never held a fort, a base, or a major active installation, and this section does not pretend otherwise. What it has held, continuously since the spring of 1861, is the citizen-soldier institution itself…15 entry pages § 41South Bend War Heroes: The Decoration Record and the Honor RollsThis section holds South Bend's honor record: the decorated and the fallen whose names the record itself honors. It opens with the Medal of Honor test, run first and printed at its true result. That result is positive…12 entry pages § 42South Bend Veterans: The Posts, the Memorials and the HomecomingsSouth Bend's veterans organized themselves before the city was a city in any settled sense, and the organization outlasted every war. The Grand Army of the Republic put seven posts into St. Joseph County — two of them…15 entry pages

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Source: South Bend Military History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/south-bend/topics/military/

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