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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.