STATE OF FLORIDA
 DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS
 OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL




 POST OFFICE BOX 1008
 STATE ARSENAL, ST. AUGUSTINE
 32085-1008




NOTE:

The original Florida National Guard casualty list for the Second
World War was compiled from fragmentary official and un-official
sources before and after the war. Unfortunately, once a
Guardsman is federalized, his official state records end and the
federal government never found it necessary to notify the state
when one of its federalized Guardsmen died or was killed. Only
reports in local newspapers and careful search of Army lists
during and after the war were available for compiling our list.

If, during the war, a former Guardsman changed his state of
residence or the residence of his next of kin, then his name
would not appear on the official lists for Florida and would not
be included on our records. It is also evident only a proportion
of the men from a specific area were given obituaries in local
newspapers. Many were overlooked. This was especially true in
the larger cities. Thus, it wasn't unusual for individual
Guardsmen of 1940, who later died or were killed, to be left off
our official lists.

Following the World War II Reunion of the 124th Infantry Regiment
in St. Augustine during May 1988, considerable evidence was
complied to indicate that Florida National Guard fatal casualties
were at least 20% above that previously known... (For example, the
widow of Ernest K. Guard, mobilized with the Florida Gaurd in
1940, informed me he had been killed as an officer with the 3rd
Division at Anzio in 1944. She is now married to another former
Florida Guardsman of 1940). The true figures will never be known
but an effort is underway to identify as many of the missing
names as is possible.