Glenn Charles Nelson

(Nov. 30, 1944) -- Ship's cook 3/c 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.

Nelson enlisted in the Navy in August 1941.

His wife Anna lives on Washington Avenue.

Nelson, Glenn Charles
Ship's Cook 3c, USN
Wife: Mrs. Anna Louise Nelson, Washington Avenue, Belleville

Glenn C. Nelson
Ship's Clerk, Third Class, U.S. Navy
03005450
United States Navy
Entered the Service from: Illinois
Died: September 13, 1944

Missing in Action or Buried at Sea
Tablets of the Missing at East Coast Memorial
New York City, USA

Sources:

American Battle Monuments Commission

Belleville Times, Nov. 30, 1944

World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing,
State of New Jersey, War Dept. June 1946

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