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11.30.2007

DECEMBER CASUALTIES

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

11.11.2007

IN THE NAVY NOW

Justin Misner

Has been promoted to E-4 which makes him AE3 (AW) Misner, Justin G.

Now serving aboard the USS Enterprise, he is a petty officer 3rd class in the US Navy.... Aviation Electrician's Mate 3rd Class (Air Warfare Qualified).

When he gets to his home base NAS Oceana in Virginia beach, Va, he would love Taylor ham from good old New Jersey.

He has about one month left on his current tour.


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10.31.2007

NOVEMBER CASUALTIES

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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

9.30.2007

OCTOBER CASUALTIES

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

9.27.2007

Claude Daw

(Oct. 12, 1918) Private Claude Henry Daw was killed in action September 27. Daw served four years with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces.

His mother, Mrs. Ellen Daw, of Princeton Street, received a telegram telling of her son's death from the Canadian government on Oct. 9.

During the first year of his service Daw was wounded severely once and shell-shocked once.

Daw was a member of the First Battalion First Division Canadian Expeditionary Force and had seen some of the worst fighting of the war during his four years of service.

One of his brothers, Ernest, is a sergeant major in the same battalion, while another brother, Richard C. Daw, is a member of an engineer regiment in the American Army. Both are in France.

He was 32 years old and leaves a wife and four year-old son.

9.20.2007

Robert Clendenning Jr.

(Oct. 20, 1944) - 1st Lt. Robert Clendinning of the Army Air Force, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clendinning of 126 High Street has been reported killed in action Sept. 27 over England.

A telegram from the War Department provided no details to his wife Mrs. Bertha Schundler Clendinning. Their daughter Beth is now a year old.

Lt. Robert J. Clendinning, U.S. Air Force, 846th Bomber Squadron, 490th Bomber Group Large, received the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Purple Heart. He is buried at Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England, Plot E, Row 6, Grave 2.

9.18.2007

John Windheim

(September 21, 1945) - Lt. (jg) John Windheim Jr., U.S. Navy, was killed in an aircraft accident at Corpus Christi, Texas, on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Windheim, of 58 Vreeland avenue, have received no details.

Lt. Windheim was born in Nutley 24 years ago and attended local schools, graduating from Nutley High as an honor student in 1939. He was a member of the high school band. That same year he took his examinations for Annapolis, was named first alternate and on his 19th birthday he was sworn into the office.

In addition to his parents, he is survived by his sister, Elizabeth.

9.17.2007

Richard Bates Jr.

(Sept. 22, 1966) - Marine private Richard Stanley Bates Jr., 19, was killed Saturday in a Viet Cong ambush near Quangtri, Vietnam.

A Marine lieutenant visited both the home of Richard’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Bates of Margaret Ave., and a close aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Newport of Spring Street.

The telegram said simply that Pfc. Bates died on Sept. 17 of multiple fragmentation wounds while engaged in action against hostile forces.

Bates had been involved in two combat missions prior to last week. So severe were the hardships imposed by those two military operations that his unit was sent back to the Philippines for a week’s rest.

9.16.2007

C. Lowell Liebau

(Oct. 6, 1944) - Anna Liebau of Franklin avenue was informed by telegram Monday that her son Lt. C. Lowell Liebau, 22, had been killed in action in France on Sept. 16.

Born in Nutley, Oct. 4, 1921, Lowell attended the local schools and was graduated from the high school as president of his class in February 1939.

Besides his mother, he leaves a sister Mrs. Jack Thelin, and his fiancée Miss Joan Pennington, of Carteret place.

9.15.2007

Robert Dickert

(Oct. 6, 1944) - Mrs. Margaret Dickert of 331 Park Avenue was informed by telegram Monday that her husband Pfc. Robert Dickert had been killed in action in France on Sept. 15.

9.10.2007

Robert Di Petta

(Nov. 10, 1944) - Mr. and Mrs. Sisto Di Petta of 9 Columbia Avenue, who were informed that their son, Aviation Ordnanceman 1/c Anthony Di Petta, was missing in action, have received a letter from his commanding officer, Lt. Commander S. L. Prickett, USN, telling that he was lost in an airplane crash at sea.

Young Di Petta who has served five years in the Navy was attached to a Torpedo Squadron of the Air Force when he was lost in action.

9.06.2007

Nicholas Pucci

Pfc. Nicholas S. Pucci, 18, died, Sept. 6, 1950, in Pusan, Korea.

Pucci, a son of Patrolman and Mrs. James V. Pucci of Woodland Avenue, was killed in action. He is Nutley's first casualty of the Korean War.

Pucci was a member of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division.

Pucci, who left Nutley High School in July 1949, to enlist in the Army, was killed while fighting with a heavy artillery unit of the First Division on the Taegu front.

A telegram from Army authorities announcing his death in action came to the family only a short time after a letter arrived from Korea, dated Aug. 27, asking for cookies and candy to sweeten his Army rations.

Pucci had been stationed briefly in Japan with the First Division before the Korean affair developed.

Pucci is survived by his parents, and two sisters, Mrs. Angelina Policastro and Mrs. Katherine Boston, both of Nutley.

Three months after Pucci's death, the Avondale and Big Tree Boys Club asked the town to help build a memorial in his honor in Father Glotzbach Park.

9.05.2007

Charles Tillou

(Sept. 25, 1958) -- Details have reached Nutley of the air accident which cost the life of 1st Lt. Charles Tillou, 24 son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Tillou of Rutgers Place, who was one of six Air Force men known to have been killed in a collision between an American transport plane and a French fighter plane near Paris.

The two planes; an Air Force C139 transport plane and a Mystero Jet, collided at Polsey on Friday with Lt. Tillou's wife, the former Miss Elizabeth Vandenberg, who had joined him in France, first learning of the air tragedy. She returned to this country by an Air Force plane soon after the accident and is now in Nutley.

Tillou was a member of the 41st Troop Carrier Squadron operating out of France.

Memorial services were conducted yesterday afternoon at St. Paul's Congregational Church and Evreux Air Force Base in France.

Lt. Tillou is the second Air Force officer from Nutley to be killed within a period of only three months.

In July, Lt. F. Paul Jannarone Jr., a pilot with the Strategic Air Command, was killed when a B-47 Stratojet bomber crashed into the side of a mountain in Vermont.

Lt. Tillou, a navigator, volunteered for the fatal mission. He was the navigator aboard the American transport plane on a flight from the air base at Evreux, France, to Spangdahlem, Germany.

Lt. Tillou entered the Air Force in January 1957, received his preliminary training at Lackland Air Force Base, in Texas, and received his navigator's wings at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston, where he ranked second in the flight school graduating class.

He was sent overseas last April and his wife followed him to France two months later. The couple had been married only 14 months at the time of the fatal air crash.

Lt. Tillou was a life-long resident of Nutley and went through the public school system, having been graduated from Yanticaw elementary, and Nutley junior and senior high schools.

He was one of the most popular students in the Nutley High School class of 1952. Lt. Tillou was outstanding both as a student and as an athlete.

He started at third base on the Maroon baseball team and helped bulwark Nutley to the final round of the 1952 Greater Newark Tournament and Group 4 sectional honors.

Lt. Tillou was honored by being selected for the All-County baseball team and also served as captain of the Nutley basketball team. For his success in sports, Lt. Tillou was singled out by American Legion, Post 70, as the "Scholastic Athlete of the Year" for 1952.

Tillou went on to Colgate University and continued to combine his scholastic and athletic abilities. He was president of his senior class at Colgate, was president of the Senior Honor Society and as selected for "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities".

In sports, Tillou went on to star in soccer, an activity he had never played until going to college. He became one of the best players on the Colgate team and was named fullback on the All-East soccer team.

Lt. Tillou is also survived by a sister, Miss Carolyn Tillou, at home, and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Charles W. Tillou. He was also the grandson of the late Mrs. and Mrs. Charles Caldwell and the late Dr. Charles W. Tillou.

8.31.2007

SEPTEMBER CASUALTIES

September 6, 1950 - Nicholas Pucci

September 10, 1944 -Anthony Di Petta
September 13, 1862 - Byron Lawton

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

7.31.2007

AUGUST CASUALTIES

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

7.30.2007

Sgt. J. Eckson Pierce

(Aug. 25, 1944) - 1st Sgt. J. Eckson Pierce, formerly of Park Avenue, was reported killed in action in Northern France on July 30, 1944.

Pierce is buried at the Normandy American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, Plot E, Row 23, Grave 24.

7.20.2007

Sgt. Wilbur Westfall

Sgt. Wilbur E. Westfall, U.S. Army serial No. 32064875, served in the 13th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division.

He entered the service from New Jersey, and died on July 20, 1944.

Westfall is buried at Plot B, Row 7, Grave 25, Normandy American Cemetery, St. Laurent-sur_Mer, Colleville-sur-Mer, France.

He was awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart.

7.17.2007

1st Lt. Lothrop F. Ellis

(July 20, 1945) - First Lt. Lothrop F. Ellis, 25, of the Army Air Force, formerly of Mountainview avenue, was killed in a plane crash Tuesday, July 17, three miles from the B-29 Bomber Base at Salina, Kan., where he was radar maintenance officer.

A veteran of 55 missions in the European and Mediterranean theatres, Lt. Ellis, who was with the 15th AAF as a pilot of a P-38 fighter plane, had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with eleven Oak Leaf Clusters.

Lt. Ellis was graduated from Nutley High school and afterward attended Perkiomen school in Pennsylvania. He attended Georgia Tech and enlisted while a student there.

7.15.2007

Cpl. Paul Martino

Corporal Paul Salvatore Martino was killed in action on July 15, 1918.

The son of Nicholas Martino of Hancox Ave., had been reported missing in action about six weeks before the War Department confirmed his death.

Young Martino was a corporal in Company F, 38th Infantry. He was 19 years old and worked in the Sonneborn Oil Works at the time he enlisted. Before that he attended the local public schools.

Martino, 20, had reached the rank of corporal. He trained at Fort Dix and Syracuse, N.Y., before going to France last March. Another brother, Joseph, also is in France.

Besides his brother in service, he is survived by his father, step-mother, half-sister and two half-brothers.

7.13.2007

Warren P. Marks

(September 3, 1943) -- Midshipman Warren Prime Marks, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Marks of St. Mary's Place, has been killed in action somewhere in the Mediterranean.
Engine cadet Marks and 11 others were killed aboard the Liberty ship Timothy Pickering on July 13, according to the U.S. Merchant Marines.

The vessel was bombed and sunk by aircraft while anchored at Avola, Sicily.

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7.04.2007

1st Lt. John Gervan

(July 13, 1945) - Word has been received by Mr. and Mrs. John Gervan of Myrtle avenue, that their son, 1st Lt. John Gervan, 27, reported missing last July 4, has been officially declared dead.

Lt. Gervan was piloting a P-51 Mustang with the 381st Fighter Squadron, 363rd Fighter group over St. Lo (France) when he was lost.

7.01.2007

JULY CASUALTIES

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

6.22.2007

AT DEATH HE WAS 25 YEARS OLD

In life there are no coincidences.

At a business meeting earlier this month, I met Christopher C. Stout.

In room of more than 80 people, Stout and I sat next to each other.

Stout was to receive an award for Series Writing and Reporting for his work at the Ridgewood News‚ "The Hero Next Door." This series profiled the families of those serving overseas.

Sitting there, chatting, I learned that, earlier, Stout had written a series of articles on the men and women from Ridgewood, N.J., who died while in service.

I expressed my surprise that of all the people he sat next to, he sat next to me.

The compilation of that series and research resulted in his book, AT DEATH HE WAS 25 YEARS OLD, published by King of Spain Press.

His motives for writing the series were similar to the process to mine in compiling the Nutley Sons and Belleville Sons honor rolls. Stout, too, had looked at a war memorial in town and something inside told him to learn the stories behind the names.

Until we struck up a conversation I had only known of one other person, from New Jersey, also, who had done something like this. Robert Caruso's effort resulted in Verona Heroes

As these stories go, Caruso was researching the war dead from Verona and while researching Thurston Woodward who was killed in World War II came across my web site for the sailor whose family later moved to Verona.

Stout and I had a similar conversation that Saturday morning. We spoke of some men who were killed in the war and memorialized in more than one town.

It turned out that Thomas E. Ashton Jr. grew up in Nutley and his family moved to Ridgewood.

The young man's story was in the Nutley Sons Honor Roll and in Stout's book.

Another coincidence turned up concerning the Dec. 24, 1944, torpedoing of the Leopoldville. Nutley's Malcolm Christopher was on the the ship. Also aboard was Ridgewood's Thomas A. Cobb.

Sometimes I find that my sense of loss over the strangers that turn up in my books and these similarly-themed books is overwhelming. I swear to God I don't ever again want to write about the war dead.

And yet. As Stout and I compared notes he mentioned some sources I hadn't tapped. Some sources that might uncover the stories of my guys whose stories have yet to be told.

And I wondered when I might cross check our references and get on with this work, this work that comes from a deep, deep part of the heart.


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6.16.2007

CURRENTLY SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES

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5.31.2007

JUNE CASUALTIES

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




5.28.2007

Memorial Day, Nutley, N.J.

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For God and Country

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5.26.2007

West Point's tribute, etched in gold

By Greg Bruno
May 25, 2007

Times Herald-Record

West Point, N.Y — Even in good light, the numbers are hard to make out. A quick glance pulls the eyes toward a stoic bald eagle, an American flag, the class motto.

But take a closer look. Tilt the Class of 2007 ring ever so slightly, and the faintly etched digits begin to twinkle brightly: "911."

... Tim Allen, a senior from Nutley, N.J., chaired the committee that created the ring with the help of local artists. ...

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5.22.2007

Memorial Day Parade - Monday, May 28, 11 a.m.

Anyone who has seen the official township press release knows that the parade on Monday steps off at about 11.

What a lot of people in town don't know is that the Veterans Council - which includes the local chapters of national organizations including the American Legion, AMVETS, VFW and other groups - at about 9-ish begin a tour of the Nutley war memorials beginning at the American Legion on Franklin Avenue.

The group tours the more than one-dozen memorials across town with an entourage that ends at the American Revolution memorial in front of the high school, shortly before the parade line up begins.

In addition to marching in this year's parade, if you are so inclined, or standing along the sidelines cheering, this year, gather family and friends and be on hand at one of the memorials when the Vets gather to remember their fallen brethren.


Check out all the memorials in town.

Nutley Memorial Day - 2006

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4.30.2007

May Casualties

May 7, 1958 - Thomas Tuttle

May 14, 1944 - Daniel Antonacci

May 18, 1951 - John Gorman

May 23, 1918 - Albert Trazewski

May 27, 1946 - Werner Holzhauer Jr.

4.01.2007

April Casualties

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

3.22.2007

Regarding Burt Hafkin

Regarding your web tribute to soldier Burt Hafkin, who died 18 Oct 1951 in Korea, member of the 21st Reg, 24th Infantry Division, which was not on Heartbreak Ridge.

The 24th ID was fighting in Operation Nomad-Polar, east of the Punchbowl/Heartbreak Ridge. They were trying to take Hill 770 and other peaks south of Kumsong the day he was killed. After the Allies broke the enemy in the Iron Triangle earlier in the summer, the Chinese had shifted their main operations eastward to Kumsong, which became one of the Chinese' main supply routes. Operation Nomad, although overlooked by most historians, was a brutal battle lasting from 13 - 22 October 1951. The daily average casualty rate was higher than either Heartbreak or Bloody Ridge.

Because Heartbreak was much in the news -- and overlapped Operation Nomad by two days -- it was a common mistake for newspapers to report casualties of Nomad as being part of Heartbreak Ridge, which was carried out primarily by the 2nd Infantry Division.

Merry Helm
Researcher: Operation Nomad-Polar

2.25.2007

MARCH Casualties

March 1, 1945 - Emil Liloia

March 4, 1945 - Arthur Abbott Jr.

March 6, 1945 - Vincent Fields

March 6, 1945 - Howard Harle

March 15, 1951- Van Der Linde

March 17, 1969 - David Dinan

March 19, 1944 - Robert Cary

March 22, 1943 - William Nutzel Jr.

March 22, 1951 - Alexander MacMillan

March 22, 1955 - Lawrence DiVuolo

2.24.2007

Nutley Men in the 39th Regiment - Civil War

Franklin Men who served in the 39th Regiment


John Corb
David Jenkins
Enoch Booth
John Hanily
John Garrabrant
Mighael Gaffney
Garrett L. Stager


N.J. Civil War Record: Page 1129

Thirty-ninth Regiment - Infantry - Volunteers.

The Thirty-ninth Regiment was organized under the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved July 22, 1861, and an Act of Congress, approved July 4, 1864, as set forth in General Orders No. 224, dated War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C., July 6, 1864, and under authority received from the War Department for the raising of two regiments of Infantry, and promulgated in General Orders No. 4, dated Office of Adjutant General, Trenton, N. J., August 24, 1864.

The Regiment was organized under the provisions of General Orders No. 110, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C., April 29, 1863. Instructions were issued and recruiting for the Regiment immediately commenced. The Headquarters of the Regiment was established at Camp Frelinghuysen, Newark, N. J., and active measures were put forth to complete the organization at an early day.

The required number of men to complete the Regiment was soon raised and mustered into the service of the United States, by companies, for one year.

Company A was mustered in October 11; Company B, September 30; Company C, October 8; Company D, October 3; Company E, September 23; Company F, September 25; Company G, September 23; Company H, September 26; Company I, October 1; Company K, September 23, 1864, at Camp Frelinghuysen, Newark, N.J., by William O. Douglass, Second Lieutenant, Fourteenth Infantry, United States Army.

Soon after the commencement of this regiment, authority was issued for the raising of another regiment of Infantry, to be known as the Forty-first, recruiting being dull it failed of success - the men that had been enlisted for it were transferred to and joined this regiment.

The Regiment was fully completed and organized by the 11th day of October, 1864, having a full complement of men. Officers, 39; Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates, 973. Total, 1012.

It left the State by detachments. Companies E, F, G, H, and K, left October 4, 1864, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel James H. Close; Company D, left October 9th, under the command of Captain Fowler Merrill; Companies B and I, left October 10th, under the command of Major William T. Cornish, and Companies A, C, and Field and Staff, left October 14, 1864, under the command of Colonel Abram C. Wildrick, and proceeded under orders direct to the front. Arriving at City Point, Va., it was temporarily assigned to duty with General Benham's Brigade of Engineers, within the fortifications around Petersburg.

It remained in this connection but a short time; when it was assigned to the Ninth Army Corps. During the months of March and April, 1865, the strength of the Regiment was increased by the joining from Draft Rendezvous, Trenton, N. J., of a large number of recruits.

The Regiment continued its organization and remained in active service until the close of the war, and those not entitled to discharge under the provisions of General Orders No. 77, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C., April 28, 1865, were transferred to the Thirty-third Regiment, in compliance with Special Orders No. 45, dated Headquarters, Ninth Army Corps, June 15, 1865, and were discharged with that regiment.

The remainder were mustered out of service near Alexandria, Va., June 17, 1865, under provisions of special orders from War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, D. C., dated May 18, 1865, by Edward Rose, First Lieutenant Fifty-sixth Infantry, Massachusetts Volunteers, Assistant Commissary of Musters, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps.

The Regiment was first attached to General Benham's Brigade of Engineers, Army of the James - then to the First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps.

The Regiment took part in the following engagements: Before Petersburg, Va., (Capture of Fort Mahone), April 2, 1865.

Source: NJ State Library, NJ Civil War Record, Page 1129

1.25.2007

FEBRUARY

February 2, 1945 - Frank Burak

February 4, 1953 - Robert Bliss

February 15, 1951 - Reed Smith

February 20, 1945 - Norman Bell

February 20, 1967 - Charles Katt Guttilla

Februay 28, 1968 - Matthew Dwyer

February 1945 - E. D. Kurz

1.07.2007

JANUARY

January 1943 - Souren Avedisian

January 8, 1946 - John Mutch

January 15, 1944 Cecil Dunthorn

January 16, 1945 - Frederick D. Kurz

January 19, 1919 - Pasquale De Francesco

January 19, 1944 - Charles Haney

January 19, 1967 - Michael Halpin

January 18, 1942 - Preston Hastings

January 23, 1967 - Thomas Van Houten

January 25, 1957 - Salvatore Pillitteri

January 26, 1966 - Arthur Rego