All U.S. troops overseas are not Texans. But the frequency of Texas addresses in dispatches from the battlefronts does indicate a fact of which all Texans are proud: a lot of them are.*
Some figures compiled in San Antonio last Week indicated just how much one Texas city had contributed to the fighting of the war:
From a population (1940) of 319,010, the metropolitan area of San Antonio furnished the armed forces 51,000, including many sons-in-law. (San Antonio, longtime home of Kelly and Randolph Fields and Fort Sam Houston, is called "mother-in-law of the Army.")
About 1,400 San Antonians have been killed,...
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