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Lt. Elmer Stull
Lt. Elmer R.
Stull. 29-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Stull, of 140 Elm street, was
killed in action in France on June 6, D-Day, according to word
from the War Department received by his wife, Mrs. Jane Lloyd Stull, of
Tallahassee Fla.
The family
has had only a brief message from the War Department and is awaiting
details.
Lieutenant
Stull was graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, attended Union
Junior College in Roselle and was employed by the Elizabethtown
Consolidated Gas Company when he entered the service on January 8, 1941.
After
training at Fort Bragg, Lieutenant Stull entered the Infantry School at
Fort Benning, and received his commission as Second Lieutenant in
September 1942. He served as instructor of judo and swimming with the
Amphibious Training Command. Lieutenant Stull was determined to have an
active part in the war on one of the fighting fronts. During a
training assignment at Camp Mackall he became acquainted with the work of
the paratroops, and became convinced that this branch of the service was
to play a vital part in the storming of the European fortress He
asked for a transfer to the paratroop branch of the Airborne Command. At
first he was refused a transfer from his post as instructor, but finally
his application was approved in the fall of 1943, and he was
ordered to jump school at Fort Benning. He qualified as a paratroop
officer in December 1943.
He was
married to the former Jane C. Lloyd on December 4, 1943, at Tallahassee
Fla., and went overseas in January 1944.
Besides his widow and parents, he is survived by a
sister Mrs. William Ricker of Elizabeth, and a brother, Arthur, of
Roselle.
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Obituary for Lt. Elmer R. Stull
appeared in a local newspaper on July 29, 1944, more than a month
after his death.
Despite the fact that the article
reported his death on D-Day, Lt. Stull was killed in action on
June 23, 1944 and was awarded the Purple Heart. |