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SERGEANT 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.
His brother, Warren Belknap
Corwin, was killed in a plane crash while serving with the Army Air
Force in November of that year.
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