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SERGEANT
EDWIN F. ALLEN, JR., was born on November 9, 1922. The elder Allen had
been a star basketball player in the 1920s with local teams, and later
refereed and coached girls teams, and his mother was also athletically
inclined. He was a Physical Education major at the Teachers College of
temple University in Philadelphia PA when he enlisted into the Army in
October 1942.
Edwin Allen was assigned to active duty at Camp Swift TX in February of
1943. As a result of his educational background, he qualified for the
Advanced Specialized Training Program (ASTP), and was sent to Wake
Forest College in April of 1943 to study engineering. He remained there
until the ASTP program was ended, due to the needs of the Army for
infantry personnel. In July of 1944 he reported to Camp White OR, and
was sent overseas on July 29th.
Sergeant Edwin F. Allen Jr., of 178 Princeton Road, Audubon NJ was
killed in action on October 26th, 1944 in the Philippines, where he had
led a rifle squad, during the Battle for Tatnauan, on Leyte. After the
war his body was returned to the United States, and he was buried at
Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly NJ on September 1, 1948.
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