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PRIVATE CHARLES R. STEWART
JR, of 319 Linden Street, Camden NJ was killed in action on May 3rd,
1944. He had worked for the R.M. Hollingshead Corporation in Camden
before enlisting in the Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
on December 7, 1941.
After receiving training in Hawaii and Australia, Private
Stewart, a member of the 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division,
took part in the landing at Tanahmerah Bay, Dutch New Guinea in what is
present day Indonesia on April 22, 1944. The objective of this operation
was to seize and hold the Japanese airbases at Hollandia.
Charles Stewart's name was one of 1511 reported as killed in action on
the War Department report of June 13, 1944, according to the Camden
Courier-Post newspaper of that date. |
