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September Casualties

Belleville Sons Honor Roll 

Private Charles Mc Ginty was killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Private First Class Thomas J. Mooney was killed in action on Sept. 27, 1918.
Sgt. Arthur H. Lundgren, of Smith Street, died at Fort Dix, in September 1942.
Quartermaster 3/c William Russell White, 30, was KIA aboard the USS Rowan in Salerno, Italy, on Sept. 11, 1943.
Seaman 2/c Thomas A. Peacock, 20, was killed in action and buried at sea in the area of Malta, in the invasion of Sicily on Sept. 11, 1943.
William J. Salmon, 21, was killed in action Sept. 23, 1944, on Peleleiu on Palau Islands in the South Pacific.
Tuskeegee Airman Flight Officer Leonard R. Willette, 22, was declared killed in action Sept. 22, 1944.
Sgt. William J. Mears, of Jefferson Street, was killed in action in Peleliu on Palau Islands in the South Pacific on Sept. 15, 1944.
Glenn C. Nelson, 21, missing since his ship-destroyer Warrington went down off the Virginia coast Sept. 12 in what was to be known as the Great Atlantic Hurricane of Sept. 14, 1944.
Sgt. Frank H. Metzler, 21, was presumed dead. Sgt. Metzler, a tail gunner on a Flying Fortress, had been overseas five weeks before being reported missing in Germany since March 8, 1944.
Ordnanceman 3/c John F. Kirwin was killed in the South Pacific when his patrol plane crashed at sea on Sept. 5, 1944.
Sgt. John F. Verian, 22, of Washington Avenue, was killed in action Sept. 18, 1944.
Cpl. Benjamin Lucas, 23, was killed in a plane crash in China on Sept. 28, 1945.
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