December Casualties

December 2, 1941 - William Donohue
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
December 2, 1950 - Joseph Dinardo
December 11, 1968 - Alfred Critelli

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November Casualties

November 5, 1918 - Ralph Zellars

November 28, 1918 - Pasquale De Francesco

November 13, 1942 - Hebert Washburne

November 10, 1943 - John Del Grosso

November 2, 1944 - Arthur Leithauser

November 5, 1944 - Joseph Des Jardins Jr.

November 10, 1944 - Thurston Woodford

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 2, 1945 - Anthony Impellizeri

November 30, 1945 - Thomas E. Smith

November 4, 1966 - Robert Brinckmann

November 10, 1968 - Richard Greenspan

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October Casualties

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

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September Casualties

September 14, 1862 - Byron Lawton
September 27, 1918 - Claude Daw
September 10, 1944 - Anthony Di Petta
September 15, 1944 - Robert Dickert
September 16, 1944 - C. Lowell Liebau
September 27, 1944 - Robert Clendinning Jr.
September 18, 1945 - John Windheim Jr.
September 6, 1950 - Nicholas Pucci
September 1958 - Charles Tillou
September 17, 1966 - Richard Bates

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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

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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

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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

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May Casualties

May 17, 1862 - John Donaldson
May 3, 1863 - James Cunningham 
May 23, 1918 - Albert Trazewski
May 14, 1944 - Daniel Antonacci
May 27, 1946 - Werner Holzhauer Jr.
May 18, 1951 - John Gorman
May 7, 1958 - Thomas Tuttle

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April Casualties

April 14, 1942 - Samuel Cobb

April 1, 1943 - George Stanford
April 6, 1943 - C. Hayden Malmstrom
April 22, 1943 - Thomas Ashton
April 26, 1943 - Dominick Cassera

April 2, 1944 - John Canis
April 3, 1944 - Gordon Tasney

April 22, 1944 - Charles Coburn
April 25, 1944 - Richard Teeple

April 7, 1945 - Frank Garruto
April 11, 1945 - Russell Wester
April 17, 1945 - Gilbert Davies
April 17, 1945 - Walter Kotwica
April 19, 1945 - Robert Gray

April 24, 1951 - William Nolze

April 10, 1963 - Pervis Robison Jr.

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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

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February Casualties

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

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January Casualties

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
January 1943 - Souren Avedisian

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Charles Katt

(April 7, 1944) -- Sgt. Charles W. Katt, U. S. Army, died Nov. 27, 1943.

The War department notified Mrs. Aileen Katt of Conover avenue that her husband had gone down on an Allied troop ship -- likely HMT Rohna --  sunk as the direct result of enemy action.

The soldier, who was graduated from Nutley High School, married Eileen Rulison on July 10, 1941, his 20th birthday and they have a year old son, Charles Richard.
He is also survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Katt, and three sisters, the Eleanor, Dorothea and Joan.

Read more about Charles W. Katt and Frederick Comer. 

His son Charles Richard Katt Guttilla was killed in action in Vietnam on Feb. 20, 1967.

Frederick Comer

(January 7, 1944) - Frederick Comer, 38, a private in the 31st Signal Construction Battalion was reported missing in action since Nov. 26.

Pvt. Comer is married to the former Miss Gertrude Miller, daughter of John Miller of 27 Princeton Street. They have a 17-month old son, David.

Pfc. Frederic W. Comer was in the 31st Signal Construction Battalion. He is listed on the Tablets of the Missing, at North Africa American Cemetery, Carthage, Tunisia.

From The Nutley Sun
January 7, 1944
In Different Divisions, Both
Are Casualties On Same Day

See also Charles Katt. 

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John Del Grosso

(Nov. 12, 1943) -- Marine Master Tech. Sgt. John Del Grosso, of Cleveland Street, U.S.M.S.R., died Nov. 8 in the Naval hospital at Corona, Calif. 

He had been under treatment for pernicious anemia - a blood disease, and in spite of several blood transfusions, succumbed suddenly after a short illness.

With him in California, were his wife, the former Blanche Orlando of Race Street, Nutley, and his sons Jack, 11, and Bob, 9. He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Minnie Del Grosso of Newark.

A Marine for four years before the war, and honorably discharged, Del Grosso re-enlisted shortly after Pearl Harbor.

He had learned to fly in Nutley, and hoped for overseas service.

He was stationed, however, at the Naval Air Base at Santiago, Calif., as a technical instructor where he was joined by his family about a year ago.
There was plenty of action even in California, for Sgt. Del Grosso was on flight duty, making repairs and testing planes.

Nutley residents remember John as the Scoutmaster of Troop 7 and a member of the Franklin Reformed church. He was a watchmaker by trade, and for several years had his own business here.

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Stanley Hand

2^nd Lt. Stanley S. Hand, U. S. Army Air Forces, 96th Fighter Squadron, 82^nd Fighter Group, was killed in action on August 13, 1945.

Lt. Hand was awarded the Air Medal, Purple Heart Medal, WWII Service Lapel Button, WWII Victory Medal.

According to the 82nd Fighter Group history, 2nd Lt. Hand was reported missing in action on Oct. 4, 1943.

He entered the service from New Jersey. His service number is 0-792830.

Lt. Hand is listed as Missing in Action or Buried at Sea on the Tablets of the Missing at North Africa American Cemetery, Carthage, Tunisia.

Richard Van Divort

(Dec. 21, 1945) -- Posthumous awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with one silver cluster and one bronze oak leaf cluster, was made yesterday to Capt. Richard Van Divort, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.E. Van Divort, of Oak Ridge Avenue, who was killed on a routine flight over Forestell, Mo., in October 1943.

The captain was a graduate of Nutley High school and Dartmouth college where he was president of his fraternity, Gamma Delta Phi.

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Charles Braun

Charles Braun Was gunner on Bomber Flying from Barksdale Field 

(Sept. 3, 1943) - Mrs. Willis C. Breyfolgle of 134 Rutgers Place, Nutley, was notified yesterday by the War Department her son, Sgt. Charles A. Braun, 19, had died as result of an Army bomber crash Wednesday near Belcher, La.

Sgt. Brawn was stationed at Barksdale Field, Shreveport, La. The Nutley youth enlisted in the Army Air Forced in March 1942. He was born in Newark and had lived in East Orange and Arlington before his family moved to Nutley three years ago.

At Nutley High he played football. Sgt. Braun leaves also a brother William; a sister Marilyn, both of the Nutley address; his step-father, Willis C. Breyfogle, and a half-brother, Cpl. Millard Breyfogle, an Army Air Forces instructor at Orlando, Fla.

His father, William Braun, veteran of World War I, died nine years ago.

Newark News, Sept. 3, 1943
Blue Star Mothers clippings, Nutley Historical Society.

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James Murren

(Jan. 14, 1944) - Sgt. James P. Murren Jr., 19, son of James P. Murren of Woodland Avenue, was killed on Aug. 31 in an aerial collision over the Straights of Dover.

Murren was aboard B-17 named Snooks when it was returning from a mission at Romilly Sur Siene, France, and collided with another B-17.
Sgt. Murren served in the 8th Air Force, 323rd Bomber Squadron, 91st Bomber Group, Heavy. 

 He attended St. Mary's Parochial school. Surviving besides his parents are sisters, Patricia and Carol.

From The Nutley Sun, Jan. 14, 1944

MASS OF REQUIEM
FOR TAIL GUNNER

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Allen Duke

(September 10, 1943) -- Flying Officer Allen T. Duke, Jr., a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, was killed in action overseas on August 17.

He was buried in an Air Force Cemetery in Oxford, England, on Aug. 21.

Duke was born in London, March 3, 1929, and came to this country as a youth and later lived in Nutley.

From The Nutley Sun
September 10, 1943
MEMORIAL FOR ALLEN DUKE JR.
Killed In Action Overseas,
Rites Sunday For Former Resident

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