Peter J. Calzonetti

SERGEANT PETER J. CALZONETTI was born July 4, 1921, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Calzonetti, of 716 South 5th Street in Camden NJ. The October 7, 1936 Courier-Post reported that he had been treated at Cooper Hospital for a broken arm. Peter Calzonetti was a 1938 graduate of Camden Catholic High School, where he appeared in the 1938 school play, Countess Maritza. He was a 1942 graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia. 

In the March 21, 1944 evening edition of the Camden Courier-Post, it was reported that he had completed the course in flexible gunnery at the aerial gunnery school at Laredo TX, and that he had been awarded his wings. He had also completed a course in radio operations. Peter J. Calzonetti had married prior to going overseas. 

Sergeant Calzonetti was the radio operator on a B-24 bomber, and was killed in action on August 16, 1944 over Dessau, Germany. His body was recovered after the war, and he was brought home to New Jersey in December of 1944. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in what was then Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill) NJ on December 4, 1948. Peter J. Calzonetti was survived by his wife, Laura E. Calzonetti, of 1152 Kenwood Avenue in Camden NJ, and his father, of the South 5th Street address.

December 1948