In our research we came upon news accounts of these young men from Belleville who were listed as missing in action or prisoners of war.

We do not know all who came home or all who did not.

POW - MIA

John J. Kant Jr. - MIA, recovered OK (7.30.42)

Pvt. Lawrence Ruzzo- POW, Italy, escaped (BT 3.18.43)

1st Lt. Edward T. Berlinski - POW, Italy (5.13.43)

Cpl. Raymond Squitieri, POW, Sicily (9.16.43)

Sgt. George Prezioso, MIA, Survived, (10.7.43)

 Cpl. Anthony Bocchino - POW - Germany (11.11.43;2.22.45)

Pvt. Joseph Ferraro Jr. - POW Germany (11.11.43)

Capt. John Rogers - MIA before February 1944.

Pvt. Joseph Bocchino - MIA/POW Sicily (4.6.44)

Sgt. Robert P. Leonard - MIA/POW, Germany (4.27;;6,29.44)

Lt. H. Clifford Schmutz - MIA Italy (5.11.44)

F/O John W. Barrett - MIA - Jugoslavia (5.11.44)

S/Sgt. Michael R. Ciano - MIA - Germany (5.11.44)

Pvt. Felix P. Mozeika - MIA - Italy (5.11.44)

Ronald McCormack - MIA - Normandy, June 9, 1944.

Lt. Wilbur M. Brean - MIA - France  (6.8.44)

Al Culkin - POW - Germany 6.22;7.13.44)

Frederick Mason - MIA/POW - Germany (8.31;10.12.44)

Glenn C. Nelson -  missing in a hurricane Sept. 12, 1944.

Pvt. John C. Keller - MIA - Italy (11.2.44)

Joseph J. Cifrodella lost at sea on Nov. 4, 1944.

Pvt. Joseph Zecca - MIA/KIA (11.21.44)

Arthur Leithauser - MIA/KIA (11.30.44)

Sgt. Harry Ward Jr. - MIA in the Philippines on Dec. 12, 1944.

Sgt. Henry R. Candura - MIA (1.18.45)

Pfc. Edmond D. Kelly - MIA (1.18; 4.18.45)

Pvt. William J. Davis - MIA (1.18.45)

Michael Sbarra - MIA - (2.15.45)

Lt. Edward Stumpe - MIA, April 25, 1945 (BT 5.17.45)

Pfc. Vincent Cassidy - POW - Home - May 24, 1945

Cpl. Michael Tortoriello - POW - Japan, Oct. 4, 1945 (4.15.43)

Joseph Bocchino - POW (2.22.45)

Pfc. Arthur Schultz - POW - Released (4.18.45)

Pfc. Edmond Kelly - POW - Released (4.18.45)

Pvt. Joseph Gamarro - POW Released (4.18.45)

Pfc. Domenick Alberti - POW Released (4.18.45)

Pfc. James Wilkinson - POW Released (4.18.45)

Leonard R. Willette - MIA over Germany Sept. 22, 1945

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