Mr. Archibald served as a US Navy fighter pilot and instructor in the American Theater in World War II.

Yes

Mr. Arthur was a child during the Second World War. In the mid-1950s, he served in the occupation forces in Korea with the US Army Rangers.

BG Baumer served as a US Army officer at Fort Benning and in the G-1 Section of the Pentagon during World War II. During the war, he served under General Omar Bradley, developed a device that revolutionized the military's records-keeping system and served as military consultant on a Frank Capra war film. He also had a distinguished career in the US Army Reserves during the Cold War.

Yes

Mr. Beaumont trained with several antiaircraft artillery units in the United States before being sent to the ETO, where he served as a combat infantryman in Belgium and Germany.

Yes

Bertha Bell

Mrs. Bell worked in a USO in Indianapolis during WWII.

Mr. Bergbower served with the 28th Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, V Bomber Command, in the US Army Air Corps until the surrender of the Philippines. He endured years of subjugation as a prisoner of war and slave laborer in the following camps: Malaybalay, Davao Penal Colony, Toyihomo, Shinjuku in Japan. 

Theodore H. Blum

Yes

Mr. Bodner served as a US Army Signal Corps officer in the 24th Signal Company of the 24th Infantry Division in the Philippines and, later, with the Army of Occupation in Japan, during World War II.

No

Dr. Brown, a member of the US Army Dental Corps, 24th Pursuit Group, V Interceptor Command, fought in the Philippines. until the surrender of Bataan. He survived the Bataan Death March and spent the remainder of the war as a POW in the following camps: Hakodate, Babai, Machi, Hokkaido Island.

Mr. Bultman served as an engineer in the US Navy Air Corps specializing in assembly and repair. He was stationed at NAS Pearl Harbor during the 12/7/41 surprise attack. He later served at NAS Pensacola, on the staff for the Marshall-Gilbert Islands Command and in the lighter-than-air forces at NAS Lakehurst.

Mr. Calderone fought with the 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines until the surrender of Corregidor. He was held as a Prisoner of War until the end of the war at the following camps: O'Donnell, Cabanatuan, Clark Field, Bilibid and Nagoya #6, Nomach, Japan. He survived a "hell ship" voyage on the Nota Maru and endured years of subjugation as slave labor.

Judge Campbell served as a gunner on ships that engaged in antisubmarine and convoy operations in the North Atlantic during World War II.

Yes

Mr. Campeau served in a US Army Air Forces weather forecasting unit during the New Guinea campaign. He then volunteered to join a group of commandoes which was inserted into Mindanao in the Philippines, well in advance of the Allied invasion of the island, to establish a weather station on the island.

Mr. Carlaw served as a platoon leader in the 13th Airborne Division in the European Theater during World War II. After V-E Day, he was transferred to the 82nd Airborne Division and later served as an administration and C&A officer. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War and served as operations officer at a replacement depot in Pusan, Korea.

Yes

Michael A. Catera

Mr. Catera served as the communications chief of a combat engineers battalion in the PTO. Prior to reassignment overseas, he served in the headquarters company of the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment of the Second Armored Division.

Mr. Christ served as a US Navy officer at the submarine tracking station at the Naval Station Argentia in Newfoundland, Canada, in the late 1960s.

David Engebretson

Mr. Engebretson was a high school student during WWII. He served in the Navy in the United States and Europe during the Korean War.

Yes

Mr. Farrell served as a B-17 and B-24 pilot in the 486th Bomb Group, based in England. After completing his combat tour, he helped to deploy new planes overseas in the ATC's Ferrying Command.

Yes

Rev. Field was an undergraduate at NJC during World War II.

Professor Fisher and his family emigrated from Germany in the late 1930s to escape the Nazi regime's persecution of Jews. He was among the refugees aboard the St. Louis in 1939 when the ship was turned away from the United States and Cuba. He later settled in New Jersey, attended Rutgers College of Agriculture and became a professor and administrator at the University.

Mr. Freedman served as a US Army Signal Corps supply officer in Vietnam at An Khe and Chu Lai. He discusses the formation of the Americal Division, the beginning of the Tet Offensive and his post-war involvement with and attitude towards the anti-war movement.

No

Mrs. Giantonio served as a nurse in the US Army Nurse Corps in the 101st General Hospital in the ETO.

Mr. Gordon commanded a prisoner of war camp in Korea during the Korean War.

LTC Gordon served as an officer in various Ordnance, Engineer, Field Artillery, Quartermaster, Logistical and R&D (Petroleum Reserves) units during his active and reserve career in the US Army.

Mr. Greenberg served as an infantry officer in the 86th Infantry Division in the ETO and PTO.

Yes

Dr. Harmon served as a rifleman and a 57-mm anti-tank gunner in the 80th Infantry Division from the Normandy Campaign through V-E Day. He served as a clerk in the Army of Occupation.

Yes

Mrs. Higgins did volunteer work in hospitals on the home front during World War II and relocated to several military bases during the war as a military dependant.

John A. Holdorf

Mr. Holdorf served in the US Naval Reserve while a student at Thomas Jefferson High School in Elizabeth, NJ; his unit operated an LST. At the end of World War II, he was drafted into the US Army and served at Fort Dix as a clerk, primarily discharging soldiers. After attending Rutgers College and earning a US Army commission through the ROTC, Mr. Holdorf served as an infantry company commander and mortar unit commander in the 7th Infantry Division in Korea during the last year of the war.

Yes

Mr. Hozore served as a navigator on a C-47 in the 27th Troop Carrier Squadron in China and other parts of the CBI Theater.

William H. Huber

Judge Huber served as an infantry officer in the 86th Infantry Division in the ETO. During the Korean War, he served in the Judge Advocate Department at Fort Benning, GA.

Yes

Mr. Inglesby served as a paratrooper in the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion. He participated in the first US airborne operation of World War II during Operation:TORCH, the invasion of North Africa.

Yes

Herbert W. Irwin

Judge Irwin served as a Marine Corps officer in a signal unit on Iwo Jima.

Yes

Flora Campbell Jespersen

Mrs. Jespersen was a student at the New Jersey College for Women during World War II. She participated in several volunteer organizations, such as the USO and Red Cross, and was a war worker at Camp Kilmer (Piscataway, NJ) and Johnson & Johnson.

Mr. Jespersen served as a photographic intelligence technician in the US Army's Military Intelligence branch in the ETO.

Yes

Dr. Johannessen served as an officer in the US Army Medical Administration Corps at various hospitals in the US & South Atlantic Theaters in World War II, including Belem and Natal in Brazil and Lovell General Hospital at Fort Devens, MA.

Yes

Mr. Kahane was born in the Ukraine shortly before his parents, both Holocaust survivors, decided to emigrate to the United States. During the Vietnam War, he served as a Signal Corps officer in the US Army Photographic Agency in the Pentagon and as a Signal supply officer at Long Binh, Vietnam.

Mr. Karpoff worked for the US Department of Agriculture/War Food Administration during World War II as an agricultural economist.

No

Mr. Katz trained and served in several military and civilian hospitals in the United States and the 410th General Hospital on Saipan.

Yes

Joseph R. Knazik

Mr. Knazik served in the separation center at Fort Dix, NJ, during and following the Second World War.

Yes

Mr. Knipling served in the US Navy as a naval gun crew member. During World War II, he served aboard the USS Massachusetts during the North African invasion and several campaigns in the Pacific Theater. During the Korean War, he served aboard the USS Leyte, an aircraft carrier, in the Korean Theater.

In the late 1940s, Dr. Lapides served as a switchboard operator at the Army Security Agency's Two Rock Ranch Station facility in California. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War and served as a clerk in 8th Army Headquarters, including a stint at the peace talks site.

Yes

Dr. Lofstrom trained as a US Navy radio/radar technician in Chicago and Corpus Christi before being assigned as an aviation electronics technician at NAS Quonset Point, where he outfitted carrier-based aircraft with radar and other systems.

Yes

Mr. Long served in the US Navy during the Second World War and trained and served at USNTC Bainbridge in Maryland.

Yes

Mr. Martinelli served as a radar operator in a signal air warning battalion in the South Pacific and the Philippines.

No

Mr. Morgan served as a mortarman and infantryman in the Marine Corps in the PTO during WWII. During the Korean War, he served as an officer in a rifle company in Korea. Among his many Cold War postings, he aided in the training of Chinese troops and the evacuation of Americans during the Chinese Civil War.

Mr. Morrison served as an infantry officer in the US Army's 89th Infantry Division in Europe during World War II.

Yes

Mr. Mueller served in the US Navy as a radio operator with an air-sea rescue unit in Great Britain during World War II.

Yes

Mrs. Null was an undergraduate at NJC during World War II.

No

Mr. Perlmutter served in the US Army Air Forces' Air Transport Command in the South Atlantic Theater on Ascension Island, Brazil, during World War II.

Yes

Rev. Phillips served with the 28th Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, V Bomber Command, in the US Army Air Corps until the surrender of the Philippines. He endured years of subjugation as a prisoner of war and slave laborer in the following camps: Malaybalay, Bilibid, Mitsui, Tokyo Army Hosp, Shinagawa & Hitachi. 

Mr. Gordon served as a navigator on a B-17 for nine missions over Europe before being shot down and captured. He spent 16 months as a prisoner in Stalag Luft I.

Yes

Mr. Reamer served in the US Army in the 60th Coast Artillery Regiment, F Battery, an antiaircraft unit tied into the harbor defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, until the surrender of Corregidor.  Held as a prisoner of war, he spent a long period of time in solitary confinement in Osaka Sakai Prison.

Mr. Reisert served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force Ferrying Command, Air Transport Auxiliary, from 1941 to 1943. After his discharge from the RAF, he worked as a test pilot at the Eastern Aircraft factory in Linden, NJ.

Yes

CDR Retz served as a US Navy helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War.

Mr. Rockoff served as a Signal Corps cryptographer in India in the CBI Theater.

No

Mr. Rocky worked as a production engineer and manager at the Breeze Corporation during the Second World War, where he helped to design and produce aircraft engine ignition systems.

Mr. Ruffo served in medical facilities in England, France and Germany during World War II.

Judge Satter served as an antiaircraft and bomb disposal officer on the USS Santa Fe (CL-60) and the USS California (BB-44) during the invasions of Leyte, Guam, Tinian, Saipan, Attu and Kiska. He also participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Yes

Colonel Schnitzer served as a US Army Medical Administrative Corps officer in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and the Northern European Campaigns.

No

Dr. Senkowski served onboard the USS Bogue (CVE-9) in the PTO. Prior to enlisting in the US Navy, he had worked in a defense plant that made parts for B-29s.

Yes

Mr. Senna served in the Army Corps of Engineers and was captured by the Japanese on Bataan in early 1942. During his three-and-a-half years as a POW, he survived the Bataan Death March, imprisonment in Camp O'Donnell and Cabanatuan in the Philippines, the Haro Maru Hell Ship and enslavement in Japan.

Mr. Shak was an undergraduate at Rutgers College during World War II.

No

Mrs. Sheehan served in the WAVES as a recruiter and public relations officer, primarily in the Atlanta, Georgia, area.

Mr. Small served as a pilot and instructor in the US Navy Air Corps at NAS Beaufort in WWII.

Colonel Spaulding flew F-84 jet fighters in combat during the Korean War.

Mr. Spielberg served as a radio mechanic with a B-25 bomb group in the China-Burma-India Theater. He volunteered for and participated in several air missions in support of the Allied defenders of Imphal.

Yes

Dr. Strimple served as a US Navy SeaBee officer in a stevedore unit in Pearl Harbor during World War II. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War and served as chief metallurgist at the US Naval Research & Evaluation Laboratory in Port Hueneme, CA.

Mr. Vater served in the US Army Corps of Engineers, 803rd Engineer Battalion (Aviation), Company A, until the surrender of Corregidor.  He was held as a prisoner of war until the end of the war in the following camps: Billibid, Cabanatuan Number 3 and Hoten. He survived a "hell ship" voyage on the Tottori Maru from the Philippines. to Formosa, Pusan, Korea, and, finally, ending in Mukden, Manchuria. Throughout, he endured years of subjugation as slave labor.

Mr. Waltman served as a navigator on a B-24 in the 459th Bomb Group, stationed in Italy.

Mr. Wenzel served as a combat medic in the 36th Infantry Division in North Africa, Italy, including the Salerno invasion, France, including the Southern France landing, and Germany. Later, as an employee of Esso (now Exxon) he worked in South Vietnam during the early 1960s.

Yes

Dr. Zukaukas was a student at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied medicine while in the US Army during World War II, then served in the US Army Medical Administration Corps in the postwar period.

Yes