The smaller banners: DAV, the Marine Corps League, the Vietnam veterans

1942 – today

White Eagle Chapter 39, DAV: The Disabled American Veterans keep a South Bend chapter whose name carries the city's Polish century: Chapter 39, White Eagle — for the white eagle of Poland — at 618 Pulaski Street, South Bend 46619, in the federal tax record of the DAV's group exemption. The address is on the same street, and in the same west-side parish blocks, as the Pulaski Legion post's first neighborhood. The chapter's charter year is not in the reachable record; the DAV's national group exemption under which the chapter files dates to 1942, and that date belongs to the national body, not to the chapter, and is not printed as the chapter's.

The Marine Corps League on Parry Street: The Marine Corps League's St. Joe Valley detachment keeps a hall at 539 Parry Street, on the city's near southeast side, listed in current directories with the detachment's telephone, 574-233-0253, and daily hours — a working post home of the smallest of the services' own orders. The detachment's charter year is not in the reachable record. The League's work, by its own statement of purpose as carried in its listings, is assistance to Marines, their widows and orphans in dealing with the departments — the service-officer function in its most concentrated form.

VVA Chapter 1027 and the reading of the names: The Vietnam generation's own organization in the county is Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1027, whose documented act is the keeping of its memorial: for Vietnam War Veterans Day — the 29th of March observance — the chapter conducts the reading of the names of the Vietnam War casualties of St. Joseph County at the county's Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Howard Park, as the VVA's national events listing carries it for 27 March 2026. The reading is the Vietnam generation's counterpart to the Grand Army's grave-decorating: the names, spoken aloud, at the stone, every year.

The rest of the order of march: The smaller banners appear in the record mostly in the order of march. The Military Order of the Purple Heart marched in the West Side Memorial Day Parade of 2002, in the Tribune's account of that morning, between the Polish Falcons and the schoolchildren. The United Spanish War Veterans' Harry O. Perkins Camp No. 25 set its tablet in City Cemetery in 1937. The Sons of Union Veterans' John Auten Camp No. 8, chartered in 2018, is carried in the Grand Army entry above. Of an AMVETS post or a Korean War Veterans Association chapter seated in South Bend, the reachable record shows nothing, and their absence is printed as a gap: the county's Korean War veterans, numerous in the burial rosters, kept no chapter of their own that this record can find.

Sources:

1. Internal Revenue Service group-exemption records for the Disabled American Veterans, via NonProfitFacts — Chapter 39 White Eagle, 618 Pulaski St., South Bend.
2. Current directory listings for the Marine Corps League, St. Joe Valley detachment — 539 Parry St., South Bend, telephone and hours; the detachment's own statement of purpose.
3. Vietnam Veterans of America, Vietnam War Veterans Day 2026 events listing (vva.org) — Chapter 1027's reading of the names of St. Joseph County's Vietnam casualties at the Howard Park memorial, 27 March 2026.
4. South Bend Tribune (2002), via the Michiana Area Research Library summary — the Military Order of the Purple Heart in the 2002 West Side parade; National Register nomination, South Bend City Cemetery — the Harry O. Perkins Camp No. 25 tablet, 1937.