Mr. Almerino served as an aircraft instrument mechanic in a 9th Air Force ground crew (attached to the 358th Fighter Group) in the European Theater during World War II.

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Mr. Beardsley served as a US Coast Guard signalman and quartermaster at watch stations in the Pacific Northwest and onboard the USS Aquarius in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He later served onboard the USS Leyte (CV-32) during the Korean War.

Born into a family of supermarket industry pioneers, Mr. Bildner grew up watching his parents, Joseph and Rebecca, grow the Kings Super Market chain across Northern NJ. He attended Dartmouth College during World War II and earned a commission in the US Navy through the V-12 Program. After his service, he graduated from Dartmouth and the Tuck School of Business and joined the family business. Mr. Bildner become president of Kings in 1958, led Kings toward a high-end food market model in the 1970s and oversaw the chain's sale to British retailer Marks & Spencer in 1988. He also became nationally-known in the food industry's professional associations, particularly as Chairman of the Board of the Food Marketing Institute.

Professor Blum served in a gun crew onboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) during the Second World War.

Mrs. Borbely was a high school student and undergraduate at the New Jersey College for Women during World War II. Married to a US Marine Corps officer, she spent part of the war as a member of the military dependants' community.

Mr. Bosenberg served as a deck officer onboard an LST in the Pacific, where he was involved in the invasions of the Ellice Islands, Guam and Morotai, among others. He subsequently commanded a chemical and biological weapons testing area in Pascagoula, MS.

Mr. Brandow served as a machine-gunner in the 78th Infantry Division in the ETO.

Dr. de Percin, a New Brunswick, NJ, native, was visiting his father in Martinique when WWII broke out in Europe and barely escaped being trapped in the French colony. After graduating from Rutgers College, he entered the US Army Air Forces, where he became a metrological officer, serving at weather stations in the US, Caribbean and South Pacific. He spent most of his postwar career as a US Army civilian research scientist specializing in extreme climates, except for his service with the National Science Foundation from 1961 to 1963.

Colonel Ervin served as a platoon and company commander in a chemical mortar battalion during the campaigns in Sicily, Italy, Southern France, the Ardennes and into Germany during World War II. He served in the US Army until the early 1970s in many positions within the Artillery Branch.

Mr. George served in the Korean Theater from June 1952 to July 1953, first as an infantryman and squad leader, then, as a military policeman.

Mr. Hausmann served as a B-24 Liberator pilot in the North Atlantic Division of the Air Transport Command during World War II. In his postwar career, he owned and operated the Charles F. Hausmann & Son Funeral Home in Irvington, NJ. Active in Republican politics in both Essex County and later Brielle, NJ, he held a number of public offices, including Director of the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders (1968-1969).

Mr. Hilberg served as an infantryman in the European Theater of Operations. He participated in the D-Day Landings in Normandy.

Raised in Kentucky and Indiana, Dr. Hopkins graduated from Purdue University before entering the Rutgers Graduate School of New Brunswick. He earned his master's and doctorate in electrical engineering there while working at RCA Laboratories. He holds six engineering patents and, over the course of his career, worked in high-level management at RCA, the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and the Sony Pictures High Definition Center. He is noted for his contributions to the development of digital video and HDTV standards, and to the use of high-definition technology with film, the last two yielding Emmy Awards for his organizations.

Dr. Horlick, having studied languages as both an undergraduate and graduate student at Rutgers College, served in US Army Military Intelligence as a language specialist in the European Theater during WWII. After the war, he served on the faculty at St. Lawrence University, then entered the public service field with the Central Intelligence Agency, the US Department of State, the US Department of Labor and the Social Security Administration. For over thirty years, he has made a name for himself as an international pension benefits expert with the International Benefits Information Service and as an author on the subject.

Mr. Irons worked on radar for the US Navy at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, as a civilian electrical engineer after graduating from Rutgers. As World War II progressed, Mr. Irons and his colleagues were inducted into the US Navy, but continued to serve in the same capacity. After the war, Mr. Irons spent much of his career as an engineer with the Naval Surface Weapons Center. His achievements there include co-inventing a magnetometer used to map the Earth's electromagnetic fields (now part of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's collection) and designing circuits for the IMP and Explorer VI and XII satellites.

Lt. Gen. Kelley served as a jet fighter pilot (flying F-100s and F-104s) in Germany during the Cold War in the late 1950s and 1960s, including service during the Berlin Crisis. He served in Vietnam, first, as a F-4E pilot, completing 119 missions with the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing, then, as the Executive Officer of the 7th Air Force Tactical Air Control Center. Lt. Gen. Kelley later served as the ninth Superintendent of the US Air Force Academy from 1981 to 1983 (having previously served on its faculty in the mid-1960s). He also developed the US Air Force's Fighter Force Modernization Strategy for the 1980s and served as commander of the USAF Tactical Fighter Weapons Center (1979-81) and Vice Commander of Tactical Air Command (1983-86).

Commander Kinaszczuk served as a US Navy Air Corps patrol bomber pilot in the North Atlantic, Caribbean and the Azores during World War II. On April 27, 1943, he led his crew in sinking U-174, for which he was awarded the Navy Cross.

Senator Lautenberg, a Paterson, New Jersey, native, served in the US Army Signal Corps in Europe during World War II. After earning a degree in economics at Columbia University on the GI Bill, he went on to co-found the Automatic Data Processing payroll services company, where he served as chairman and CEO. Senator Lautenberg served the State of New Jersey in the US Senate from 1982 to 2001. In 2003, he returned to office in the US Senate and continues to serve the Garden State there as of 2011.

Mr. Mann served as a aviation electronics technician and radar countermeasures specialist in a US Navy air group stationed onboard the USS Hancock in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

Mr. Phillips served as a medic in the 51st Armored Infantry Battalion, 4th Armored Division, in the European Theater of Operations.

Colonel Plechner served with the NJ National Guard as an undergraduate at Rutgers while also earning his commission in the Army ROTC program. He later went on active duty in the late 1950s and served with the US Army Reserve until his retirement in 1985. He spent his civilian career practicing law and served as a NJ Superior Court justice.

Mr. Pressman attended Rutgers College during the Vietnam War. Following graduation, he served as a combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam, III Corps area, in 1969-70. After returning to civilian life, he headed his family's business, the Rahway Lumber Company.

Dr. Roth served as an officer onboard the destroyer USS Wadsworth (DD-516) in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He later became a noted cardiologist and physician in New Jersey.

Mrs. Salerno was a high school student in Stirling, New Jersey, on the home front during World War II. After graduating in 1944, she went to work for the Veterans Administration at the Lyons Hospital facility in New Jersey, where she continued to work into the 1980s.

Mr. Salerno served as a rifleman in the 106th Infantry Division in the European Theater during WWII. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and was imprisoned for the remainder of the war in Stalag IV-B and at a worksite near Gleina, Germany. During the Korean War, he served as a public affairs officer for the US Army Transportation Corps in Korea and Japan. In his postwar career, he worked as a Veterans Administration administrator.

Mr. Sive served as an infantryman in the ETO during World War II. He earned his law degree at Columbia on the GI Bill and later worked on landmark environmental cases, including Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission 354 F.2d 608 (2d Cir. 1965), which led to federal environmental protection acts. He founded the Sive, Paget, and Riesel law firm and became known as "the Founding Father of Environmental Law." Working with local and national environmental organizations, such as the Sierra Club, Mr. Sive also helped shape legislation that preserved the Adirondacks and Catskills in New York State.

Mr. Skiba served as an infantryman in the 102nd Infantry Division in the European Theater during WWII.

Dr. Struck served in the US Army as an Army Specialized Training Program cadet (Princeton & West Virginia University), infantryman and a Signal Corps instructor. After graduating from Rutgers, he worked as a researcher, manager and executive in numerous firms in the biochemistry, microbiology and biomedical engineering industries. Over the course of his career, he developed many products and processes and earned several patents.

Mr. Symanski served as a member of a US Marine Corps tank crew in Korea from October 1952 to October 1953 during the Korean War.

Col. Tracy served in the Marine Corps as a transport quartermaster on the staff of Gen. Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith during World War II, during which time he participated in the amphibious assaults of the Central Pacific Campaign. A graduate of Cornell, Col. Tracy enjoyed a career at Standard Oil Company, engaged in local politics and stayed in the Marine Corps Reserve until 1971.