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Corwin Nuel Dinsmore

Name:
Nuel Dinsmore Corwin
Rank:
Sergeant
Serial Number:
32489462
Unit:
861st Bomber Squadron, 493rd Bomb Group
Date of Death:
1944-06-14
State:
New Jersey
Cemetery:
Saint James the Less Episcopal Church Cemetery, New York
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Nuel Dinsmore Corwin was born in Chester Hills, PA, on January 27, 1924. He was the second son of Raymond W. and Ruth Belknap Corwin. In 1930 the family was living at 289 Merion Avenue in Haddonfield, NJ, and Raymond Corwin was working as an engineer in the illumination industry.

Nuel Corwin graduated from Haddonfield Memorial High School, Haddonfield, NJ, in 1941 and entered Rutgers University in September 1942. The Armed Forces called him on February 2, 1943. He was assigned to the Air Corps and trained as a ball turret gunner with the rank of Staff Sergeant, flying in a B-24 Liberator bomber, and participated in the D-Day invasion of France. He was killed in action near England on June 14, 1944.

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