August Casualties - Belleville Sons

Private Edward Crowell Jr. died of wounds in Brest, August 4, 1919.

Seaman 2/ John Johnson died in the South Pacific on Aug. 4, 1945.

Wallace Reed was KIA in France on Aug. 6, 1944.

Pfc. Albert E. Pole was killed in Guam Aug. 7, 1944

Seaman 2/c Gerald Strigari died in Brooklyn on Aug. 10, 1944.

Robert Stecker was KIA in France in August 15, 1944.

James T. White was KIA in Italy in Aug. 16, 1944.

Donald Hartley, 20, was killed in the North Atlantic on Aug. 18, 1943.

Robert C. Taylor was killed near Bermuda on Aug. 20, 1944.

Fred R. Wyckoff was killed in action in Tunisia on August 1943.



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Belleville Sons Honor Roll

Lt. Chewey Dies At Philippines Army Base

(Aug. 16, 1945) -- Lt. Kenneth Chewey died in the Philippines after a few days of illness on July 23.

Lt. Chewey received two battle stars for action in the Leyte and Luzon campaigns.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Chewey of Malone Avenue.

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Clatie Cunningham Jr. Killed In Low Bomber Run

S. Sgt. Clatie R. Cunningham, Jr. was killed on a mission over the Mekong River in Vietnam, on July 23, 1945, when the B-24 in which he was the flight engineer crashed after a bombing run scored a direct hit on an enemy barge.

The explosion of the barge was so bad that the B-24 was damaged. The pilot then headed to a point assigned to a life-guard submarine.

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First Lt. Wilfred Dallas Potis

In Memoriam

POTIS

First Lt. Wilfred Dallas Potis of Belleville, who was born July 18, 1917, died April 26, 1945, while serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.

He was a pilot of a B24 stationed in England. This would have been his 90th birthday.

It has been 62 years since he passed away, but he will never be forgotten.

Happy Birthday in Heaven, my love.

DOTTIE

Published in The Star Ledger on 07/18/2007

Jack Daley, Lee White, Angelo Guarino Killed

(Aug. 10, 1944) -- Lt. John J. Daly Jr., was killed in action in Normandy on July 4.
Lt. Daly commanded a paratroop company.

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Belleville Boy Dies In War

(July 16-21, 1970) -- Pfc. Carl Lawrence Mickens, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Mickens of Wilbur Street, was killed in action on July 4 in Vietnam.

Private Mickens, lost his life in a booby trap explosion while he was on a military mission, according to a telegram received by his parents.

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HENRY BENSON - CIVIL WAR CASUALTY

Captain Henry Benson of Belleville, N.J., died in 1862 at Malvern Hill, Va.

July 1, 1862, was the sixth and last of the Seven Days’ Battles. On that day, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched a series of disjointed assaults on the nearly impregnable Union position on Malvern Hill.

Capt. Benson is buried in the Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery, Belleville.

Sources: American Civil War.com; Belleville: 150th-Anniversary Historical Highlights 1839-1989 by Robert B. Burnett and the Belleville 150th-Anniversary Committee Belleville, New Jersey. 1991

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