Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom

The latest edition includes additional information on Belleville in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WWI, WW II, Korea, Vietnam and peacetime casualties. 

In the last century, Belleville lost 160 sons while in service to our country. This collection, gathered from newspaper clippings and other sources collects what we know about these young men in an effort that their sacrifice not be forgotten.

The first edition of this book resulted in several town streets being named for our local heroes and the names of the fallen being etched into the war memorial on Union Avenue. 

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As you may know, our Belleville Sons Honor Roll web page was hacked in 2022, and all the pages are gone. 

Belleville Street Sign Memorials

Belleville Street Sign Memorials

Belleville Sons honored by memorial signs on the streets where they lived.

In June 2016, Belleville Township Council passed a resolution to dedicate certain streets in town to servicemen who hailed from the municipality. The goal is to honor 160 Belleville sons who died while in service within the next year. 

Died on the 4th of July

Died on the Fourth of July

Remembering the Men Who Gave Their Lives in Vietnam on America's Birthday

by John F. Schlatter

This is a book about sacrifice, love and remembrance -- the sacrifice of Americans who died in Vietnam on the Fourth of July, the love of their friends and family, and the remembrances that honor these heroes after all these years. 

As our Nation marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam conflict, it's fitting to look beyond the debate over that controversial war and honor the men who bravely did what their country asked of them. The stories told here are as much about the fabric of 1960s America as they are about the men who served and died. 

Every year on the Fourth of July, while most Americans are grilling hotdogs, watching baseball and enjoying fireworks, relatives and friends of 167 American heroes pause to remember a loved one who died serving our country in Vietnam on our Nation’s birthday.

Belleville son Carl Mickens is included in this volume.

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December Casualties

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Pfc. Joseph Klimchock was killed in Italy on Dec. 2, 1943.
Sgt. Harry Ward Jr. was MIA in the Philippines on Dec. 12, 1944.

Sgt. Patrick J. Hoey was killed in Germany on Dec. 14, 1944.

Sgt. John J. Miller, Jr. was KIA on Saipan in 1944.

Sgt. William H. Deighan was KIA over the English Channel Dec. 30, 1944.
Edgar H. Mc Ginty was KIA in Manila on Dec. 15, 1945

Thomas Lamb was KIA in the Pacific in 1945.

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November Casualties

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Private George S. Smith was killed in action in France on Nov. 1, 1918.

Sgt. John Del Grosso died in San Diego, Calif. on Nov. 8, 1943.

Pvt. Arthur Leithauser was KIA in France on Nov. 2, 1944.

Joseph J. Cifrodella, 22, was lost at sea on Nov. 4, 1944.

William Hourigan was killed in the Philippines about Nov. 5, 1944.
Lt. Ernest H. Alden was declared MIA/KIA in Europe on November 1945.

Lance Cpl. Jerry Richard Donatiello, Nov. 20, 1967.

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October Casualties

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Private George Eyre was killed in action in France on Oct. 19, 1918.

Private George Kalvio, 23, on Oct. 24, 1918

Private William T. Smith was killed in action in France on Oct. 23, 1918.

Sgt. Louis Wagner died after an accident in Georgia, on Oct. 2, 1942.

William Gaydos was killed in the Atlantic on Oct. 9, 1943.

Seaman Vincent F. Nucci was KIA Oct. 21, 1943.
2nd Lt. George Skeen died of wounds on Oct. 19, 1944.

Pvt. Giavanni Bocchino was killed in the South Pacific on Oct. 25, 1944.

Pvt. Joseph A. Masi was KIA in France on Oct. 25, 1944.

Pvt. Joseph Zecca was killed in Italy Oct. 29, 1944.

Capt. Louis Jannarone died in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 31, 1944.

Lt. (jg) Edward Joseph Zuczek was lost-at-sea in October 1958.

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September Casualties

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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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August Casualties

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Capt. Henry Benson died August 11, 1862, of wound received in battle on July 1 at Malvern Hill, Va.
Private Edward Crowell Jr. died of wounds in Brest, August 4, 1919.
Donald Hartley, 20, was killed in the North Atlantic on Aug. 18, 1943.
Fred R. Wyckoff was killed in action in Tunisia on August 1943.
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.
Robert C. Taylor was killed near Bermuda on Aug. 20, 1944.

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

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July Casualties

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Cpl. Gerald Fuselle, 24, died in North Africa on July 10, 1943.

Pfc. Steveno Mosco, 20, was KIA in Normandy July 27, 1944.
2nd Lt. Victor R. Bruegman was killed over Hungary on July 2, 1944.
Lt. John J. Daly was KIA in Normandy on July 4, 1944.
Pfc. Angelo Guarino, 25, was KIA in France on July 18, 1944.

John Marshall was killed in Italy on July 8, 1945.

Carmelo Sarno drowned on July 21, 1918.

Lt. Kenneth Chewey died in Manila, the Philippines, on July 23, 1945.
Sgt. Clatie Cunningham was killed in the South Pacific on July 23, 1945.

Private Hyland KIA while fighting the enemy along the Kum River, South Korea on July 20, 1950.

(July 31, 1958) Staff Sgt. Charles A. Marsh, 45, died of injuries suffered two days earlier in a highway accident in Burlington, Vt.

Pfc. Carl Lawrence Mickens, 26, was killed in action on July 4, 1970, in Vietnam.

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June Casualties

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Thomas Stevens was killed June 27, 1862.

Fireman, 1/c Charles R. Braun was killed June 5, 1943.

Sgt. Michael G. Froehlich was killed over Europe on June 11, 1943.
Cpl. Hector Mc Neill was killed at Anzio, Italy, on June 1, 1944.

Sgt. Patrick J. Barbone was killed over Europe on June 2, 1944.

Merchant Marine Joseph Razes died in the South Pacific on June 2, 1944.

2nd Lt. Herman M. Doell was KIA in Europe on June 6, 1944.

Albert Lariviero was KIA at Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Carmen Olivo was killed during the invasion of France on June 6, 1944.

Lee White was killed during the invasion of France on June 8, 1944.

Arthur Burke was killed during the Normandy invasion on June 9, 1944.

Edward R. Henris was killed in Europe on June 9, 1944.

Seaman Ronald McCormack was MIA after in Normandy, June 9, 1944.

Harry Nyegaard was killed in Saipan on June 19, 1944.

Emil Ostrowski was killed in France in June 1944.
Sgt. Edward DiCarlo was KIA on Guam on June 26, 1945.

Cpl. Rene J. Flory was killed in the Korean War on June 9, 1951.

Henry Svehla, 19, was killed in action in Korea on June 12, 1952

Captain William Branch, 28, was killed in Vietnam on June 6, 1970.

Raymond DeLuca, 20, was killed in action in Vietnam on June 27, 1968.

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May Casualties

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Stanley Reynolds died in Nutley while home on leave May 3, 1941.
Mario Morano was killed in Tunisia in May 1943.

Morris Catalano was KIA at Anzio, Italy, on May 14, 1944.

1st Lt. William B. Jones was killed over Europe on May 27, 1944.

Sgt. Ralph Ledogar was KIA over Germany on May 30, 1944.
Cpl. John Brown was killed in Manchusen, Austria, on May 28, 1945.

Joseph Bengivengo was KIA about May 1945.

Stanley Guzik was KIA in the Philippines before May 31, 1945

Col. Alfred Barnes KIA May 12, 1969.
Cpl. Paul Nelson KIA May 31, 1969.

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April Casualties

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John Rogers died of his wounds on April 8, 1865.

Joseph Taibi was killed in Tunisia in April 1943.

Salvatore Sena was KIA in Italy on April 8, 1944.

William Hamilton was KIA in Germany on April 2, 1945.

Pvt. Alvin C. Brown was killed in Italy on April 6, 1945.

Sgt. George Malizia was killed in Germany on April 7, 1945.

William Thetford Jr. was KIA in Germany on April 20, 1945.

Cpl. Walter A. Nusbaum was killed in Germany on April 25, 1945.

1st Lt. Wilfred Potis was killed in England on April 26, 1945.

Lt. (jg) Richard T. Hayes was killed in the Pacific on April 27, 1945

 Gilmer Adams was killed in the Pacific before April 28, 1945.

2nd Lt. Anthony Noto was killed in Italy on April 28, 1945.

Donald S. Murray, 37, was killed in a mid-air helicopter crash April 14, 1996.

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March Casualties

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John Volinski died in the Panama Canal Zone on March 28, 1942.

Joseph Burlazzi was killed in Tunisia in March 1943.

Pfc. Emil M. Liloia was KIA on Iwo Jima on March 1, 1945.

Sgt. Frank Rankin was killed over France on March 6, 1945.

Corporal Warren C. Jordan was killed in the Pacific March 7, 1945.

Angelo Patrizio was killed in action on March 16, 1945.

Theodore Sanok was killed in an accident at Ft. Blanding, Fla. in March 1945.

Sgt. Joseph Curran, was declared KIA over Europe on March 1, 1946.

Donald Saunders KIA March 4, 1968.
Frank Cancelliere KIA March 15, 1969.

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