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11.28.2006

DECEMBER

December 2, 1941 - William Donohue

December 2, 1950 - Joseph Dinardo

December 11, 1968 - Alfred Critelli

December 15, 1944 - Maro Jahr

December 17, 1944 - Eugene Bellene

December 17, 1944 - Halsey Miller

December 23, 1944 - Charles J. Smith

December 24, 1944 - Thomas Maxham

December 25, 1944 - Malcolm Christopher

December 30, 1944 - William Deighan

11.07.2006

DORR FIELD, ARCADIA, Fla.

We recently learned that Dorr Field, Arcadia, Fla., was named after Nutley WWI pilot Stephen H. Dorr Jr.

According to
Florida Aviation and Southwest Florida - 1910 to 1996:


Near Arcadia, Carlstrom Field and Dorr Field were principal aviation training stations for the Army. At Dorr Field fourteen hangars were constructed and training was done in Curtiss JN-4D (Jenny) airplanes as well as some rotary engine craft produced by the Glenn Martin company. Army airfields were named after military aviation heroes of the day, and Carlstrom Field was named after First Lieutenant Victor Carlstrom who had made many altitude and distance records and died in a training flight.

Dorr Field ... was reopened in 1942 by John Riddle and operated as a civilian contract school for training Army aviators. At it's peak it had 700 cadets in training using Steerman training planes. Riddle also operated schools at Clewiston. In 1944 the Embry-Riddle interests were sold to John McKay. After the war, the field was converted to a minimum security prison.


Stephen Higginson Dorr Jr., 24, was killed in an airplane collision in Toronto on Aug. 18, 1917. The eldest son of Stephen H. Dorr of Satterthwaite Avenue, he had lived in Nutley all his life.

Dorr joined the Officers’ Reserve Corps at Fort Myer, Fla., ago and was one of ten men selected to go to Toronto for training in aviation with the Royal Flying Corps there.

According to the Toronto Globe, Aug. 18:


S. H. Dorr, an American cadet training with the Royal Flying Corps., was killed yesterday in an accident at Armour’s Heights.

It was Dorr’s first solo flight, and also the first solo flight of another cadet, an American, G. Squires.

In some manner the planes collided in the air, Dorr’s falling to the ground, and bursting into flames as soon as it struck the earth.

Bystanders extricated him from the machine, but not until he had been severely burned. He died a few minutes later.

The other aviator made his landing without mishap, but naturally his nerves were rather shaken.
Our thanks for the airport news heads-up to Robert F. Dorr (no relation), author of Air Combat: An Oral History of Fighter Pilots.

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Florida's World War II Memorial

Horace Hickam, a pdf

Desoto Co., Fla.

Nutley Sons Honor Roll, Nutley, N.J.

10.29.2006

NOVEMBER

November 2, 1945 - Anthony Impellizeri

November 2, 1944 - Arthur Leithauser


November 4, 1966 - Robert Brinckmann

November 5, 1944 - Joseph Des Jardins Jr.

November 5, 1918 - Ralph Zellars

November 10, 1968 - Richard Greenspan

November 10, 1944 - Thurston Woodford

November 10, 1943 - John Del Grosso

November 13, 1942 - Hebert Washburne

November 13, 1944 - William Louden

November 21, 1944 - John Hanley

November 24, 1944 - Sydney Butcher

November 25, 1944 - Frank Stangota

November 26, 1944 - Frederick Comer

November 27, 1943 - Charles W. Katt



November 27, 1943 - James Hare

November 28, 1918 - Pasquale De Francesco

November 30, 1945 - Thomas E. Smith

10.09.2006

THE WALL - OCTOBER 2006

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9.25.2006

OCTOBER

October 8, 1942 - Arthur Garrett

October 9, 1951 - Richard McConnell

October 10, 1918 - Joseph Lamb

October 12, 1918 - John Beaumont

October 14, 1918 - Bertam Townsend

October 15, 1918 - Winan Klesick

October 19, 1951 - Bernard Hafkin


October 21, 1942 - Francis Schwarzenbek

October 22, 1918 - Ray Blum

October 24, 1944 - Walter Stecewicz

October 24, 1918 - George Kalvio

October 1943 - Richard Van Divort

October 1958 - Edward Zuczek

9.22.2006

NUTLEY FLYBOYS PAID HIGH PRICE IN WW I

Stuart Edgar and James Pearson are two of the men whose stories that come to mind when Lafayette Escadrille discussing Nutley's part in the air war over France during World War I.

The new movie "Flyboys" about the Lafayette Escadrille brings all the action and tragedy of those early flying days to the local cinema. But Nutley men held there own in that war 90 years ago.

Lt. Stuart Emmet Edgar served in the the Lafayette Escadrille. The young flyer was killed in a starting accident as he was starting out for patrol duty on Aug. 17, 1918.
Lt. Edgar, 28, worked and for a short time worked for the (Nutley) Sun. Later he was on the staff of the Newark News and the New York Evening Sun.

Born in Nutley, Edgar attended the Newark Academy and the Riverview Military Academy at Peekskill, N.Y., where he was a member of the football and baseball teams.

He later went to Cornell, where he was active in athletics and was a member of the Chi Psi fraternity and the Undine Sophomore Society.

In October 1916, Edgar joined the Norton-Harjes ambulance unit and went to France as an ambulance driver.

Later he went into the French aviation service, receiving his training a the Avord Flying School and later at Pau. When America entered the war he was transferred to the United States air service.

Lt. Edgar earlier wrote to his mother that he had been engaged in his first air fight from which he emerged unhurt. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #493, 272 Washington Avenue, is named in his honor.

Meanwhile, Capt. James W. Pearson of Nutley received his commission in the Royal Flying Corps in November 1917.

He was assigned to the RFC's 23rd Squadron and downed his first enemy plane on May 30, 1918.

He received credit for the conquest of a German fighter in both June and July, and his two victories in August qualified him as an "ace."

Over the next two months he raised his total victory count to eight and on Nov. 1, 1918, ten days before the Armistice, he won his last aerial battle.

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Nutley Sons Honor Roll, Nutley, N.J.

8.25.2006

SEPTEMBER

September 6, 1950 - Nicholas Pucci

September 10, 1944 -Anthony Di Petta

September 15, 1944 - Robert Dickert

Septermber 16, 1944 - C. Lowell Liebau

September 17, 1966 - Richard Bates

September 18, 1945 - John Windheim Jr.

September 27, 1918 - Claude Daw

September 27, 1944 - Robert Clendinning Jr.

September 1958 - Charles Tillou

7.25.2006

AUGUST

August 6, 1944 - Wallace E. Reed

August 13, 1945 - Stanley S. Hand


August 17, 1943 - Allen T. Duke, Jr.

August 17, 1918 - Stuart Emmet Edgar

August 18 , 1918 - Stephen Higginson Dorr Jr.

August 21, 1945 - Robert R. Cary, MIA March 19, 1944

August 31, 1944 - James P. Murren Jr.

Late August 1943 - Charles A. Braun

6.25.2006

JULY

July 3, 1944 - Walter Mihalchuk

July 4, 1944 - John Gervan

July 11, 1943 - Percy Shuart

July 12, 1942 - Joseph T. Kirwelewicz

July 12, 1951 - Richard Miller

July 13, 1943 - Warren P. Marks

July 14, 1944 - Charles O'Neill

July 15, 1918 - Paul Martino

July 17, 1945 - Lothrop F. Ellis

July 20, 1944 - Wilbur Westfall

July 23, 1958 - Charles A. Marsh

July 25, 1918 - John Carver Adams

July 30, 1944 - J. E. Pierce

5.30.2006

JUNE

June 6, 1918 - George Connolly

June 6, 1944 - William Pearson

June 7, 1944 - Donald Wood

June 8, 1944 - Lee White

June 8, 1944 - Stanley Szczyrek

June 8, 1942 - Herbert Maxwell

June 9, 1944 - Ronald McCormack

June 11, 1918 - Julius Bruskin

June 12, 1958 - Frank Jannarone

June 23, 1944 - Theodore Cassera

June 24, 1944 - Howard Lemperle

5.29.2006

MEMORIAL DAY IN NUTLEY, N.J.

87th Annual Memorial Day Parade, Nutley, N.J.

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Korean War memorial

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Mayor Joanne Cocchiola & members of honor guard

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N.J. Governor Jon Corzine

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Schmidt Vets in WWII-era Jeep

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Worn-Flag Collection

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Glendale Cemetery, nearby

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5.25.2006

MEMORIAL DAY

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This Memorial Day, let us remember the sacrifices of those who served our country and of the 138 Nutley sons who made the supreme sacrifice and the high cause which they serve.

Make time to thank a Vet.

And remember these Nutley sons who paid with their lives for our freedom:


65 YEARS AGO
1941

William Donohue

60 YEARS AGO
1946

John Mutch
Werner Holzhauer Jr.

55 YEARS AGO
1951

John Gorman
Bernard Hafkin
John McDonnell
Richard Miller
Alex MacMillan
William Nolze
Reed A. Smith
John Van Der Linde

50 YEARS AGO
1956

Dennis R. Schutte

40 YEARS AGO
1966

Richard Bates
Robert Brinckmann
Arthur Rego


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5.01.2006

REMEMBER MEMORIAL DAY

Courtesy: The Memorial Day Foundation

“No one ever dies as long as they are remembered.”
-- Dee Rodrigues

Memorial Day is a day of remembrance and respect. You can make a public acknowledgement of this by wearing a Memorial Day Button, like the one above, to remember those Americans who died serving their country in defense of freedom and liberty.

To make a donation for a button to wear this May please visit the
Memorial Day Foundation, is a 501 (c) (3) tax exempt organization.

Courtesy: The Memorial Day Foundation

4.11.2006

MAY

May 7, 1958 - Thomas Tuttle

May 14, 1944 - Daniel Antonacci



May 17, 1862 - John Donaldson

May 18, 1951 - John Gorman

May 23, 1918 - Albert Trazewski

May 27, 1946 - Werner Holzhauer Jr.

4.01.2006

APRIL

April 1, 1943 - George Stanford

April 2, 1944 - John Canis

April 3, 1944 - Gordon Tasney

April 6, 1943 - C. Hayden Malmstrom

April 7, 1945 - Frank Garruto

April 10, 1963 - Pervis Robison Jr.

April 11, 1945 - Russell Wester

April 14, 1942 - Samuel Cobb

April 17, 1945 - Gilbert Davies

April 17, 1945 - Walter Kotwica

April 19, 1945 - Robert Gray

April 22, 1943 - Thomas Ashton

April 22, 1944 - Charles Coburn

April 24, 1951 - William Nolze

April 25, 1944 - Richard Teeple

April 26, 1943 - Dominick Cassera

3.20.2006

World War I

John Carver Adams

John K. Beaumont

Ray Blum

Julius Bruskin

George Connolly

Claude Daw

Pasquale De Francesco

Stephen H. Dorr Jr.

Stuart E. Edgar

William R. Harrison

George Kalvio

Winan Klesick

Joseph G. Lamb Jr.

Paul Martino

Bertram Townsend

Albert Trazewski

Ralph Zellars


Nutley Sons Honor Roll - World War I

World War II

Arthur Abbott Jr.
Daniel Antonacci
Thomas Ashton Jr.
Souren Avedisian

Norman Bell
Eugene Bellene
Walter Brandenberger
Charles A. Braun
Frank Burak
Sydney Butcher

John Peter Canis
Robert Cary
Dominick Cassera
Theodore Cassera
Malcolm Christopher
John James Clark
Robert Clendinning Jr.
Samuel Cobb
Charles Coburn
Frederick Comer

William H. Deighan
Gilbert Davies
John Del Grosso
Joseph A. Des Jardins Jr.
Robert Dickert
Anthony Di Petta
William Donohue
Allen Thomas Duke
Cecil Dunthorn

Lothrop F. Ellis

Vincent Fields
William E. Frost

Arthur Garrett
Frank Garruto
John Gervan
Robert Gray

George Haack
Stanley Hand
Charles Haney
John M. Hanley
Carl L. Hansen
James Hare
Howard Harle Jr.
Preston Hastings
Werner Holzhauer Jr.

Anthony Impellizzeri

Maro L.Jahr

Charles W. Katt
Joseph Kirwelewicz
Walter J. Kotwica
Frederick Kurz

Arthur Leithauser
Howard Lemperle
Charles Liebau
Emil Liloia
James J. LoFrano
William Louden

C. Hayden Malmstrom
Warren Marks
Thomas Maxham
Herbert Maxwell
Ronald McCormack
Walter Mihalchuk
Halsey Miller
James Murren
John Mutch

William Nutzel Jr.

Charles O’Neill
Edward Oyler

William Pearson
James Pierce
Samuel Powers

Wallace Reed

Francis Schwarzenbek
Percy Shuart
Charles J. Smith
Thomas E. Smith
George Stanford
Frank Stangota
Walter A. Stecewicz
Stanley J. Szczyrek

Gordon A. Tasney
Richard Teeple
Robert V. Turchette

Richard Van Divort

Herbert R. Washburne
Russell W. Wester
Wilbur E. Westfall
Lee O. White
John Windheim Jr.
Donald J. Wood
Thurston F. Woodford


Nutley Sons Honor Roll - World War II

Korean War

Robert G. Bliss
Robert G. Bliss died Feb. 4, 1953, during Army maneuvers in Germany.
Pfc. Joseph DiNardo
Pfc. Joseph DiNardo has been declared missing in action since Dec. 2, 1950.
Pfc. John R. Gorman
John R. Gorman, 24, was killed in action in Korea on May 18, 1951.
1st Lt. Bernard Hafkin
1st. Lt. Bernard Hafkin was killed in action on Heartbreak Ridge, Korea, on Oct. 19, 1951
John McConnell
S/Sgt. McConnell, an Army recruiter, died on Oct. 9, 1951
Richard Arthur Miller
Fireman 1/c Richard Arthur Miller, 20, was killed in July 1951 during an amphibious landing exercise at Camp Pendleton, Va.
Corp. Alex. MacMillan
Corporal Alex. "Sandy" MacMillan, was killed in action northwest of Honsong, Korea on March 22, 1951.
Pfc. William W. Nolze
Private William Nolze, 26, has now been "presumed dead," after being reported missing in the Korean War since April 24, 1951.
Pfc. Nicholas S. Pucci
Pfc. Nicholas S. Pucci, 18, was killed in action Sept. 6, 1950, in Pusan, Korea.
Pfc. Reed A. Smith
Pfc. Reed Artell Smith died Feb. 15, 1951, as a result of an automobile accident at Camp Breckenridge, Ky.
Pfc. John F. Van Der Linde
Private John F. Van Der Linde was killed in action in Korea on March 15, 1951.
Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Korean War

Peacetime Casualties

Lawrence DiVuolo
Sgt. DiVuolo died in a plane crash on March 22, 1955

Frank Paul Jannarone Jr.
Lt. Jannarone was killed in an air crash on June 12, 1958

Charles A. Marsh
Staff Sgt. Marsh died following an auto accident on July 23, 1958

Salvatore Pillitteri
Lt. Pillitteri died in an auto accident on January 25, 1957

Pervis Robison Jr.
Seaman Robison was killed at sea on April 10, 1963

Dennis R. Schutte
Schutte was killed in an auto accident in France in July 1956.

Charles Tillou
1st Lt. Tillou was killed in an air collision in September 1958

Thomas W. Tuttle
2nd Lt. Tuttle was killed in a crash landing on May 7,1958

Edward Joseph Zuczek
Lt. Zuczek was lost in a storm in October 1958

Nutley Sons Peacetime Casualties

Vietnam War


Thomas VanHouten

Second Generation Nutley Honor Roll
Charles Richard Katt Guttilla

Nutley Sons Honor Roll

Remembering the Men Who Paid For Our Freedom
Nutley, New Jersey




A place of honor and remembrance for the Nutley sons
who paid with their lives to preserve our freedom

This Nutley Sons Honor Roll will list biographies
of the more than 130 Nutley sons who died while
in service to our country.