About This Resource:
The information included in this database was extracted
from newspaper articles that were clipped and saved when the Indiana Collection
vertical files of the Allen County Public Library were active. Articles primarily
concerned Allen County men who served in World War II. However the files also included
a few articles about women in the service; soldiers who were in the military during
years other than 1941-1945; and men from the surrounding areas (Columbia City,
Huntington, etc.) who were in the armed forces. In the latter case, these soldiers often
had some Fort Wayne or Allen County connection. They may have had a relative in the area,
or worked in Fort Wayne before enlisting.
During World War II, the number of men and women from the
Fort Wayne area who served in the military reached a high of at least 12,000. The Fort
Wayne News-Sentinel reported on 29 August 1944 that 11,649 citizens of Fort Wayne currently
were in the armed services, and that 560 had been discharged to date.
This database includes the soldier's name, a code for
the newspaper in which the article appeared, the date of the article, a code for the
war in which the individual served, and codes for notes about the contents of the
article.
This database contains 7,536 entries.
About Searching This Resource:
The original source of information did not separate the surname and
firstname.
The search engine will try to be as flexible as possible. Therefore, if Use Fuzzy Search is
set to Yes (which it is by default), the search engine will
match partial names. If you search for Smith, the engine will find
anything that has Smith in it. It would find Smith, Adam, Smithson, Ted, etc.
If you set Use Fuzzy Search to No, then searching for Smith, Adam will
only find entries whose name is exactly Smith, Adam. It will not find Smith, Adam T.
Please use the fields below to refine your search. Note that while none of
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