PRIVATE SEBASTIAN MANNELLA lived at 1038 Haddon Avenue, Camden NJ. Born Sebastian Mannello to Corrado and Alfia Mannello, when inducted into the Army he went by the name of Sebastian Mannella. Sebastian Mannella attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden NJ, and had worked as a machinist at the RCA plant there before answering the call to arms, in May of 1942. Private Sebastian Mannella was killed in action on December 5, 1944 in Luxembourg. He was was brought home aboard the USAT Joseph V. Connolly, arriving October 27, 1947., Sebastian Manella was buried at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly NJ. He is also memorialized at the family plot at New St. Mary's Cemetery in Bellmawr NJ. |