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Donald Hartley Missing a
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Hartley was a U.S. Naval armed guard aboard the Panama-class tanker J. H. Senior. The Armed Guard was created by the Navy
during World War I, and it was reactivated during World War II. Its members
served on more than 6,000 merchant ships, and nearly 2,000 members were
killed. The Navy reported few survivors from either ship. Ships involved in the North Atlantic incident: J. H. Senior Tanker (Panama) Collision/fire Damaged, Crew J. Pinckney Henderson, Liberty, Collision/fire Total loss, Theodore Dwight Weld, Liberty, Collision Hartley, who was graduated from Belleville high school in 1941, enlisted in the Navy in November 1942. He received his Boot training at Sampson, N.Y.; his radio and signaling training at Bedford, Pa., and his Special Signals Corps training at Noroton, Conn. Seaman Hartley was reported missing in action to his family in September 1943.
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Parents: Mr. & Mrs. Alonzo Albert Hartley, Mertz Avenue, Belleville.
Sources: American Battle Monuments Commission Belleville Times, Sept. 9, 1943; Oct. 12, 1944
The Philadelphia Enquirer U.S. Merchant Marine Navy Armed Guard Casualties U.S. Merchant Marine Casualties during World War II
World War II Honor List of
Dead and Missing,
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