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2ND LT. ELMER R. STULL

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.

 

 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.

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