Memorial Day

This Memorial Day, let us not forget these Belleville sons, uncles, brothers and fathers who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.



Private Edward J. Crowell died of wounds in Brest, France, on August 4, 1919.

Private Michael Flynn was killed in while serving in France on 1919.

Corp. Frank A. Cancelliere was killed in action in Vietnam on March 15, 1969

Lt. Col. Alfred Barnes was killed in action in Vietnam on May 12, 1969.

Corp. Paul Nelson was killed in action in Vietnam on May 31, 1969.

Let the people of Belleville forget none of the 112 who died in WWII, the 20 who died in WWI, the 4 who died in Korea, two who died in the Civil War, the 11 who died in Vietnam, or those Belleville Sons who died in service during peace time.

We thank all those veterans who proudly served our nation.



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

Second Edition, in print or download

The 174-page second edition updates information from the 106-page original printing, including more information on Belleville actions in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and peacetime casualties.


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Walter Kidde plant supports armed forces

"It's a well known fact among older generation folks here in town that it was Walter Kidde who helped Belleville win the Second World War. While thousands of our own fighting men engaged our enemies around the globe, from Tokyo to Berlin and many unpleasant places in between and beyond, our highly skilled work force toiled without tiring in our factories producing copious quantities of war materials that would not fail at the moment when our town's sons most needed them to work right. There was no slip-shod work going on here. You didn't know whose son might need the equipment you were producing in a perilous moment. So, every piece was made as though someone you knew might need it in battle..."

Continue reading this fascinating tale of Belleville in World War II compiled by Norman Price at Village of Second River.

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December Casualties

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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Second Edition available in print or download

Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our Freedom, the second edition is now available in print or as a download.

The 174-page second edition updates information from the 106-page original printing, including more information on Belleville actions in the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and peacetime casualties.

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November Casualties

Private George S. Smith was killed in action in France on Nov. 1, 1918. He is buried at Plot E, Row 39, Grave 34, at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France.

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 KIA in Europe on November 1945.

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

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October Casualties

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

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.

Cpl. Benjamin Lucas, 23, was killed in a plane crash in China on Sept. 28, 1945.

Marine Corp. 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. He had been listed as missing in action since Sept. 22, 1944.

Sgt. John F. Verian, 22, of Washington Avenue, was killed in action in the midst of the Siegried Line in Germany.

Marine 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.

Quartermaster 3/c William Russell White, 30, was presumed to be dead by the Navy. White had not been heard from since his destroyer the USS Rowan was blown up off the beaches of 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.

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.

Sgt. Arthur H. Lundgren, of Smith Street, died at Fort Dix, in September 1942.

Ordnanceman 3/c John F. Kirwin was killed in the South Pacific when his patrol plane crashed at sea on Sept. 5, 1944.

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August Casualties

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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July 4th Ceremony, 10:30 a.m.

Ceremony honoring sixty-six Belleville veterans of the American Revolution buried in the churchyard at the Belleville Dutch Reformed Church
July 4, 10:30 a.m.
corner of Rutger and Main Street.

For information or to help, please call (973) 759-9009.

See event photos. and related links.

July Casualties

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.

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 was a member of the 11th Field Artillery Battalion, 24th Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy along the Kum River, South Korea on July 20, 1950.

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

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

Captain Henry Benson died in 1862 at Malvern Hill, Va.

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JUNE - BELLEVILLE SONS

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.

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.

Paver at Nutley Vietnam War Memorial

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Remember the fallen on Memorial Day

This Memorial Day, let us not forget these Belleville sons, brothers and fathers who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.

Private Thomas J. Mooney was killed in action in France on Sept. 27, 1918.

Private Charles Mc Ginty was killed in action in France on Sept. 29, 1918.

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

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

Private George Kalvio, 23, died from pneumonia in France on Oct. 24, 1918.

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

Staff Sgt. Charles A. Marsh, 45, died July 23, 1958, following a highway accident near Ethan Allen Air Force Base in Burlington, Vt.,

Lt. (j.g.) Edward J. Zuczek (j.g.), 22, of Gless Avenue, was lost when the Navy photo reconnaissance plane on which he was serving as navigator went down in a storm at sea off Guam on October 18, 1958.

Roger Crowell, 20, of Tiona Avenue, was killed in action in Vietnam on Jan. 31, 1968.

Donald Saunders, 20, of High Street, was killed in action in Vietnam on March 4, 1968.

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

Let the people of Belleville forget none of the 112 who died in WWII, the 20 who died in WWI, the 4 who died in Korea, the 11 who died in Vietnam, the 3 who died int he Civil War or those Belleville Sons who died in service during peace time.