Radioman First Class Kenneth Saville Campbell was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Edward Hall Campbell of 26 Cambridge Road, Westmont NJ, and was a 1941 graduate of Collingswood (NJ) High School. He enjoyed skating, camping and drawing. Nicknamed "Shark", he enlisted in the Navy in September of 1941, after working for a brief time for the R. M. Hollingshead Corporation in Camden NJ.
His first active duty was in the Aleutian Islands aboard a District Patrol Vessel, which was sunk. He returned to the U.S. mainland, and volunteered for submarine duty. He was assigned to the submarine USS Escolar, along with Seaman First Class Benjamin W. Bonk of Camden NJ.
Kenneth S. Campbell was lost at sea when the submarine USS Escolar failed to return from a patrol in the Yellow Sea in late October-November of 1944. He was the holder of seven battle stars, the Submarine Combat bar, and a citation for meritorious service.

Published in the "Camden Courier Post" in 1948:

Pfc. B. H. Galbraith Rites Tomorrow
Pfc. Bernard H. Galbraith, 22, of Good Intent road, near Blenheim road, will be buried tomorrow at 1.30 p. m. with full military honors, in the U. S. National cemetery, Beverly.
Wounded on Saipan in June, 1944, Private Galbraith later was killed in action on Iwo Jima Feb. 19, 1945, while serving with the Fourth Marine Division.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Galbraith and a brother William, and his grandmother, Mrs. Emma Galbraith, of Blackwood.
Private Galbraith was a graduate of Haddonfield High school, and was employed by the R. M. Hollingshead Corp. before entering the service.

Samuel D. Harrell, Jr., 20, of Camden NJ, worked for the R. M. Hollingshead Corporation in Camden NJ prior to entering the Army. He had married before the war, and had given an address in rural Janvier NJ, a few miles south-east of Glassboro. After going overseas, his wife Anna came up to Camden to stay with his parents.
Volunteering for paratroop duty, he was assigned to the 11th Airborne Division, and took part in the invasion of the Philippines. He was killed fighting the Japanese on Leyte, on December 7, 1944 according to the January 4, 1945 edition of the Camden Courier-Post.
Samuel Harrell Jr. was brought home to New Jersey after the war. He was buried at Cedar Green Cemetery in Clayton NJ in May of 1949.

Published in the "Camden Courier Post" on 03 May 1949:

Sgt. S. D. Harrell Jr.
Clayton, May 4. - Services for Sgt. Samuel D. Harrell Jr. will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. in the funeral home at Broad and Maple streets. Burial will be in Cedar Green cemetery. Military rites will be conducted by Homer L. Ewan post, American Legion, and other veteran organizations.
He was killed in action Dec. 7, 1944, at Leyte Philippine Islands, at the age of 20. Sergeant Harrell, a paratrooper in Company B, 188th Infantry, 11th Airborne Division, entered the service March 5, 1943, and went overseas May 5, 1944.
He was a student at the Clayton High school. When he entered the Army he was employed by the R. M. Hollingshead Corp., Camden.His parents Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Harrell Sr., survive.

Private First Class Gordon Henderson was born in New Jersey in 1924. After attending the Harry C. Sharp School at 32nd Street and Hayes Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, he went on to graduate from Woodrow Wilson High School, on Federal Street, where he was a star basketball player. After graduation he found work with the R. M. Hollingshead Corporation in Camden. He lived at 3758 King Avenue in Pennsauken NJ, before his marriage to his wife Anna Mae. The young couple made their home at 506 Beideman Avenue, in the then new Westfield Acres public housing project at Westfield and Rosedale Avenues in Camden.
Drafted on February 8, 1943, he was assigned to the 80th Infantry Division, training at Camp Phillips KS, Desert Training Center No. 4 in California, and Fort Dix NJ, before going overseas from New York on July 1, 1944. The 80th Infantry Division landed on Utah Beach, August 3, 1944, assembled near St. Jores by August 7, and on August 8 was ordered to stop the German attack at Avranches. Arriving too late to take part in smashing the German drive, it turned east to seize Evron and Ste. Suzanne, August 10. The Division then attacked Argentan, taking it, August 20, and creating the Falaise Pocket. After mopping up in the area, the 80th took part in the Third Army dash across France, cutting through St. Mihiel, Chalons, and Commercy in pursuit of the retreating Germans until stopped by the lack of gasoline and other supplies at the Seille River. From 25 September to 7 November, the Division maintained an aggressive defense o£ positions west of the Seille, and prepared for the Third Army sweep into the industrially vital Saar Basin. It was during fighting along the Seille River that Gordon Henderson was killed in action, on October 7, 1944. He was 20 years old at the time of his death.

Sergeant Richard H. Lightowler, "Dick" to his friends, was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden NJ, where he took a college preparatory course of studies. Born and raised in Pottsville PA, the Lightowler family moved to Camden in time for his senior year. He had been junior class president and on the swim team of Pottsville High School.
After High School he worked for a short time for the R. M. Hollingshead Corporation in Camden, whose factory was located not far from his home at 649 Randolph Street. He entered the Army on August 5, 1943 and was sent to Syracuse University in Syracuse NY, as part of the Army Specialized Training Program. When the ASTP program was ended in early 1944, he was assigned to an infantry unit as a machine gunner. He went overseas on October 24, 1944.
His unit took part in the fighting at the Battle of the Bulge. On February 28th, the 87th Division went on the offensive as the northernmost division of General George Patton's Third Army, the objective, to breach the German border fortifications known as the West Wall. Sergeant Richard H. Lightowler was killed in action on February 3, 1945 during the above-mentioned offensive.

Published in the "Camden Courier Post":

Slain in Germany
Camden Man Killed in War; One is Missing
12 from South Jersey Reported by Army as Wounded by Foe
A South Jersey soldier yesterday was reported killed in action, another is missing and 12 are listed as wounded.
In all cases, next of kin have been kept informed by the War Department of any change in status.
Killed:
Sgt. Richard H. Lightowler, Jr., 19, of 649 Ranolph street.

Killed in Germany
Sergeant Lightowler was killed in Germany Feb. 3, according to a War Department telegram received recently by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Lightowler of the Randolph street address.
Sergeant Lightowler graduated from Camden High school in 1943. He entered the service Aug. 5 the same year and took an Army course at Syracuse University. He was sent overseas Oct. 24, last year as a machinegunner in an infantry unit.
His parents received a letter dated Jan. 29 in which he told them he recently was elevated to sergeant and was in a rest camp in Belgium after having been in the Belgium Bulge fighting. He was returned to action shortly after that, his family said, and the notice of his death was received Feb. 22.
The Lightowler family came to Camden three years ago from Pottstown, Pa., where Sergeant Lightowler was born and reared. He attended public schools there and was president of the Junior class in Pottstown High school. During his high school days he was active in athletics, being a member of the Pottstown High swimming team and a member of the school band.
In addition to his parents he is survived by a sister, Carolyn, of the Randolph street address.

Staff Sergeant Robert C. Redding was born in New Jersey on March 16, 1921 to Charles and Evelyn Redding. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all served in the armed forces of the United States. By 1930 his mother had re-married, to Albert J. Cooper, who worked as a lather in building construction. The family lived on the Good Intent-Woodbury Road in Deptford Township NJ. Robert Redding graduated from Pitman High School in neighboring Pitman NJ. His mother remarried again at some point after the 1930 census, and in the early 1940s lived at 416 Taylor Avenue in Camden prior to entering the service. Robert Redding had worked for the R. M. Hollingshead Corporation in Camden NJ before his induction into the Army.
After entering the United States Army in September of 1942, Robert Redding qualified for flight training, and received schooling at Miami Beach FL and Walla Walla WA before going overseas. After completing 25 missions, his plane was reported as missing in action on October 8, 1943 on a mission against Bremen. His body was not recovered until after the war had ended. He was awarded the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster in absentia in January of 1944. The medal was awarded to his mother at New Castle Army Air Force Base at Wilmington DE.
Robert Redding was brought home after the war, and he was buried at Beverly National Cemetery on July 19, 1950. He was survived by his mother Mrs. Evelyn A. MacDonald, of 416 Taylor Avenue, Camden NJ, half brother William, and three half-sisters, Caroline, Evelyn, and Betty Jane. His death was reported in the October 30, 1943 edition of the Camden Courier-Post.

Published in the "Camden Courier Post":

MEDAL IS AWARDED TO MISSING AITMAN
Honors for Sgt. Redding, of Camden, Received by His Mother
Staff Sergeant Robert C. Redding, 22, son of Mrs. Evelyn A. MacDonald, of 416 Taylor avenue, was awarded the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, in absentia, this week. Sergeant Redding was reported missing in action last October while on a mission over Europe.
The ceremony was held at the New Castle Army Air Base, Wilmington, Del.
The presentation was made to Mrs. MacDonald by Lieut. Col. Ronald C. McLaughlin, commanding officer of the Second Ferrying Group.
A citation accompanying the award crediting Sergeant Redding with "exceptionally meritorious achievement while participating in five seperate bomber combat missions over enemy-occupied continental Europe."
"The courage, collness and skill displayed by Sergeant Redding upon these occasions," it added "reflect great credit upon himself and the armed forces of the United States."
Sergeant Redding was a bombardier and was based in England. He entered the service in September 1942 and trained at Miami Beach, Fla., and Walla Walla, Wash. He was a former student at Pitman High school.

Published in the "Camden Courier Post" on 18 July 1950:

Robert C. Redding Rites Wednesday
Services for S/Sgt. Robert C. Redding will be held Wednesday at 1 p. m. in the funeral home of B. C. Schroeder & Sons, 715 Cooper street, where friends may call Tuesday night. Burial, with military rites, will be in the National cemetery, Beverly.
Members of the Lawrence E. Jones post 1274, VFW, of Westville Grove, for which Sergeant Redding blew the bugle when he was a boy, will attend the funearl.
Sergeant Redding, a member of the crew of a B-17 bomber of the Eighth Air Force, was shot down over Bremen, Germany, Oct. 8, 1943, at the age of 22. Sergeant Redding formerly lived near Hurffville and was employed by the R. M. Hollingswood Corp. He was graduated of the Pitman High School.
He had made his twenty-fifth mission and had been awarded a medal for that feat, and also was awarded the Silver Star and four oak leaf clusters and the Purple Heart posthumously.
His father, Charles, of Elmer; his grandfather and his great-grandfather all served in the armed forces of the nation.
Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. Evelyn MacDonald, of 226 North Seventh street; a half brother, William Cooper, now serving with the army in Korea, and three half sisters, Caroline, Evelyn and Betty Jane Cooper, all of Camden county.

Private Charles R. Stewart, Jr., of 319 Linden Street, Camden NJ was killed in action on May 3rd, 1944. He had worked for the R. M. Hollingshead Corporation in Camden before enlisting in the Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
After receiving training in Hawaii and Australia, Private Stewart, a member of the 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, took part in the landing at Tanahmerah Bay, Dutch New Guinea in what is present day Indonesia on April 22, 1944. The objective of this operation was to seize and hold the Japanese airbases at Hollandia.
Charles Stewart's name was one of 1,511 reported as killed in action on the War Department report of June 13, 1944, according to the Camden Courier-Post newspaper of that date.

Private John J. Sullivan Jr. was born in 1918 in New Jersey to John J. and Margaret Killeen Sullivan. He had ties to Camden County NJ. A high school graduate, he was unmarried and working as a mechanic or machinist, and was living in Woodbridge, Middlesex County with his parents and brother when the Census was taken in 1940. He was drafted, entering service at Trenton NJ on January 28, 1941. He had previously worked as a metallurgist.
Private Sullivan was serving with the Antitank Company of the 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division when he died of causes not related to combat in Germany on March 8, 1945.
In 1947 his body was brought home and he was buried in Woodbridge, New Jersey.

Tech Sergeant William C. Tait was born in Scotland on August 27, 1919 to Joseph and Elizabeth Tait. His father had come to America in 1923, and young William and his mother came over the following year. By 1930 a brother, Joseph had been born, the family was renting a home on the corner of Evergreen and Magnolia Avenues in Somerdale NJ, and the elder Tait was working as a timekeeper in a department store.
William Tait had graduated from Haddon Heights High School. He had run track, and participated in the Penn Relays in Philadelphia PA.
William C. Tait graduated from of Haddon Heights High School in 1937. One of his classmates was Carlton R. Rouh. While serving with the United States Marine Corps First Lieutenant Rouh was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry in risking his life to save the lives of two fellow Marines on Peleliu Island on September 15, 1944. First Lieutenant Rouh threw his body between his fellow Marines and an exploding hand grenade. Other members of the Class of 1937 were not so fortunate. William C. Tait along with classmates Oliver F. Starr Jr., Warren Stafford Jr., Edgar Crouthamel, C. Oscar Kline, and William Raws all died while in the service of their country during the war.
After high school William C. Tait worked for a time at the R. M. Hollingshead Corporation plant in Camden NJ. He may have been present in the disastrous explsion and fire that destroyed the Hollingshead plant in July of 1940. He was inducted into the United States Army on March 19, 1941 at Trenton, New Jersey. By 1944 Technical Sergeant Tait was assigned to 6th Ordnance Bomb Disposal Squad (Separate), Ninth Air Force.
Technical Sergeant Tait was killed in the Normandy town of Cretteville, France on July 9, 1944. He was reportedly killed when a mine he had been attempting to defuse exploded, setting off other nearby ordinance. Technical Sergeant Tait had been taken inventory of the squad’s collection of unexploded ordnance that included ammunition, mines, and grenades that had been placed in a slit trench awaiting demolition at the time of the explosion.
The Raws-Tait VFW Post # 7334, Kennedy Boulevard and Somerdale Road, is named in part for William C. Tait.