Nutley History Series Begins With Nutley Sons Honor Roll - August 5

Nutley History Series Begins

Tuesday, August 5 at 10:30 a.m.
Free Weekly Program for Students and Adults

NUTLEY, N.J. -- The first session of a new historical program "Celebrating America, Celebrating Nutley" begins Tuesday, Aug. 5, at 10:30 a.m. in the Public Affairs Building, Chestnut Street, Nutley, N.J.

Anthony Buccino of the Nutley Historical Society will present the opening session. His topic will be an introduction to Nutley Sons Honor Roll, remembering the men who paid for our freedom, based on his research and book of the same name.

 Sponsored by Commissioner Steven Rogers, the history series will continue Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout the month of August. Nutley students as well as adults are invited to attend and participate in the series which ends on Aug. 28.

There is no cost for the program.

"If you plan to attend, please call us at 973-284-4976," Commissioner Rogers asks. There is no cost for the program and refreshments will be served.

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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