Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

Biographies of the more than 130 Nutley sons who died while in service to our country.

NUTLEY, N.J. -- In the past century, 138 Nutley sons died while in service to our country. 

One soldier was killed in the American War of Independence.
Three were killed in action in the Civil War.
World War I took 17. 
World War II took 92 sons. 
The Korean War era took 12 sons. 
The Vietnam War took 9 sons.
Preserving the peace during the Cold War set its toll at 8 Nutley sons. 

Here, in one source, beyond the names of the fallen, are their stories.

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Sgt. Larry DiVuolo, 22, of Kingsland Road, a veteran of the Korean War, was returning to the U.S. when the plane on which he was traveling crashed in Hawaii on March 22, 1955. He was a graduate of Nutley High School, Class of 1951. He was survived by his parents Mrs. & Mrs. Dominick DiVuolo, and sisters Carole, Louise and Carmella.

Airman 2/c Dennis R. Schutte, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Schutte of High Street, was killed in an auto accident on the Luxembourg-Verdun Highway in France in July 1956. Schutte was a graduate of Nutley High School, Class of 1953. He was survived by a brother Dale.

Lt. Salvatore Pillitteri, 23, of Brown Street, was killed in a collision was returning home from Fort Dix. A one-time student a the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he was a platoon leader with the 69th Basic Training Regiment at Fort Dix. He was a graduate of Nutley High School, Class of 1951.

Second Lt. Thomas W. Tuttle, Jr., 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tuttle Sr., of Heatherington Road, an Air National Guard pilot, was killed in May 1958 when his jet reconnaissance plane crashed at Detroit's Wayne Major Airport. He left the University of Michigan in his senior year to begin pilot training. He was survived by brothers David and Allan.

Lt. Frank Paul Jannarone Jr., 25, of High Street, was killed June 12, 1958, when the B-47 bomber he was co-piloting crashed in Vermont. He was a graduate of Nutley High School, Class of 1951. He earned a degree in chemical engineering at Princeton. He is survived by his wife MaryAnn and son Paul.

Nutley-born Staff Sgt. Charles A. Marsh, 45, died July 23, 1958, following a highway accident near the Ethan Allen Air Force Base in Burlington, Vt., where he was stationed. He was a flight engineer and served in the Burma - China - India theatre in World War II and the Korean War. Marsh held the Air Medal with Cluster and the Korean Service Medal.

1st Lt. Charles Tillou, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Tillou of Rutgers Place, was killed in a collision between an American transport plane and a French fighter plane near Paris in September 1958. Lt. Tillou was a life-long resident of Nutley graduated from Yanticaw elementary, and Nutley High School Class of 1952.

Nutley-born Lt. (j.g.) Edward J. Zuczek (j.g.), 22, was lost when the Navy photo reconnaissance plane on which he was serving as navigator went down in a storm at sea off Guam on October 18, 1958. Zuczek earned his Naval Pilot Wings in 1957. He was survived by his parents, and brothers Benjamin and Theodore.

Seaman Pervis Robison Jr., 21,of Passaic Avenue, was one of 129 servicemen killed on April 10, 1963, when the U.S.S. Thresher, a submarine sank off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. Robison had been a track star at Nutley High School where he was graduated in 1960. He was survived by his parents, Margaret and Pervis Robison.

Nutley Sons Peacetime Casualties

Nutley memorial honors
‘peacetime vigilance’
Nine local servicemen named
on Kingsland manor brownstone 

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About the author: Anthony Buccino has written several collections about life and growing up in and around Nutley, New Jersey. He also created Old Nutley, a web site of local history.

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Biographies of the men of Nutley, N.J., who died while in service. They were our sons, brothers, fathers, friends and uncles who walked, played, worked and died for our little township. In the last century, 138 Nutley sons died while in service to their country. Here are their stories.

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Remember the fallen on Memorial Day

This Memorial Day, let us not forget these Nutley sons, brothers and fathers who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

Private Albert Trazewski, of Entwistle Ave., was killed in action in France on May 23, 1918.

Private George Connolly died in France from wounds received on June 6, 1918.

Corp. Julius Bruskin died in France from wounds received on June 11, 1918

Corp. Paul Salvatore Martino, of Hancox Ave., was killed in action in France on July 15, 1918.

Capt. John Carver Adams was killed in the Marne Salient in France on July 25, 1918.

Lt. Stuart Emmet Edgar, of the Lafayette Escadrille, was killed in a starting mishap in France on Aug. 17, 1918.

Private Claude Henry Daw was killed in action in France on Sept. 27, 1918, while serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces.

Private Joseph Lamb died of pneumonia in Paris on Oct. 10, 1918.

Private John K. Beaumont was killed in action in France on Oct. 12, 1918.

Private Bertram Townsend died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918, at Fort Sill, Okla.

Sgt. Winan Klesick died of pneumonia in France on Oct. 15, 1918.

Private George Kalvio died of pneumonia in France on Oct 24, 1918.

Private RayBlum was killed in action at Grand Pre, France, on October 22, 1918.

Private Ralph Zellars of High Street, died from wounds on Nov. 5, 1918, in France.

Pasquale (Joseph) De Francesco died while in service on Nov. 28, 1918.

William Harrison of the Stevedore Regiment, died of pneumonia in November 1918, at Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va.

Second Lt. Thomas W. Tuttle, Jr., 25, an Air National Guard pilot, was killed in a plane crash in May 1958.

Lt. Frank Paul Jannarone Jr., 25, of High Street, was killed June 12, 1958, when the B-47 bomber he was co-piloting crashed in Vermont.

Staff Sgt. Charles A. Marsh, 45, died July 23, 1958, following a highway accident near Ethan Allen Air Force Base in Burlington, Vt.,

1st Lt. Charles Tillou, 24, of Rutgers Place, was killed in an air crash near Paris in September 1958.

Lt. (j.g.) Edward J. Zuczek (j.g.), 22, was lost when the Navy photo reconnaissance plane on which he was serving as navigator went down in a storm at sea off Guam on October 18, 1958.

Private First Class Michael Patrick Halpin of Brookdale Street was killed in action in Vietnam on Jan. 19, 1967.

Lance Corporal Matthew Dwyer Jr., was killed in Vietnam when his helicopter was shot down Feb. 28, 1968.

Marine Private First Class Richard Greenspan, 21, of Povershon Road, was killed in action in Vietnam on Nov. 10, 1968.

Pfc. Alfred J. Critelli, 24, was killed in action in Vietnam on Dec. 11, 1968.

Let us in Nutley forget none of the 92 who died in WWII, the 17 who died in WWI, the 9 who died in Korea, the 9 who died in Vietnam, or those who died in service during peace time.

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.

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