John Henry Moses
Second Lieutenant John Henry Moses, 428th Bomber Squadron, 310th Bombardment Group, Medium, U.S. Army Air Forces. Serial: O-706629.
Second Lieutenant John Henry Moses was born John Henry Majkszak to Henry and Apolonia Majkszak on March 1, 1918. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden in June of 1937. While at Wilson he was President of Student Government, and was on the football, baseball, and track teams. One of his closest friends while growing up in Camden was John R. White, whose grandparents lived a few doors away, on Chestnut Street near Louis Street.
John Moses graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1942. After college he worked for the Russ Company in Camden. He married Elizabeth Ryzinski, and they made their home at 1549 Mount Ephraim Avenue in Camden.
John Henry Moses was an active member of St. Joseph Church at 10th & Liberty Street in Camden, where he also participated in the Holy Name Society.
Both John Moses and his friend John White entered the Army on February 8, 1943. Both qualified for flight school; White was trained as a fighter pilot, while John Moses was trained as a bombardier-navigator. After training at San Antonio TX, Maxwell Field AL, and Greenville SC, John Moses and his crew joined the 428th Bomber Squadron, going overseas on June 22, 1944. Flying out of a base on the island of Corsica, he was killed in action over Italy on September 18, 1944.
John Henry Moses was survived by his wife Elizabeth, a son James John, his parents, a brother Marion, and a sister, Mrs. Stella Fus. His death was reported in the July 16, 1945 edition of the Camden Courier-Post. His widow, Elizabeth Moses, taught at Camden High School for 37 years before retiring.
Woodrow Wilson High School, Class of 1937
John Henry Moses in the 1937 Woodrow Wilson High School yearbook.
Camden City Flier Now Listed Killed
Camden Courier-Post —
Lt. John H. Moses Was Reported Missing; Woodlynne Sergeant also Dead
Widow Receives News
Moses was reported as missing in action on Sept. 18, 1944, and confirmation of his death has now been received by his widow, Elizabeth Ryzinski Moses. A son, James J., four months old, a brother, Marion, and sister, Mrs. Stella Fus, also of Camden, survive.
Moses was a bombardier with a leader squadron, and was lost over Rimini, Italy. He had received the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters. He entered the Air Force Feb. 8, 1943, and was trained at fields in Texas and Florida. He went overseas June 22, 1944, and was stationed at an airfield in Corsica.
Lieutenant Moses was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High school where he was prominent in football, baseball and track events. He was president of the student government in the school. He was graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1942, and was employed by the Russ Company in Camden.
He was a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Joseph’s Polish R. C. church, where a memorial solemn requiem Mass will be sung at 8 a. m. Wednesday.
Died in Prison Camp
Sergeant Dyl died of wounds Feb. 5 in the prison camp, his wife, Mrs. Dorothy E. Dyl, was told. The War Department said the sergeant was ordered as a leader of a four-man patrol to make a reconnaissance of forward enemy positions, and when the men approached the enemy lines they were pinned down by concentrated mortar fire. “Two of the men were killed instantly and only one managed to make it back to the American lines.
The lone survivor, suffering from frozen feet after 36 hours away from his lines, reported Dyl was among those captured by the Germans.”
Dyl’s widow is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Etter, of 302 Linden avenue, Woodlynne. The soldier leaves two children, Benjamin, 3, and Thomas Dyl. [sic] 2, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dyl, owner of a tobacco store on Mt. Ephraim avenue.
Dyl entered the Army on April 1, 1944, and went overseas the following Sept. 15. He was a former employed [sic] of a Palmyra hosiery mill.
St. Joseph Parish of South Camden NJ WWII Memorial
This bench, bearing the name of John Moses, is located at the St. Joseph Parish of South Camden NJ WWII Memorial, at Cooper River Park, Route 130 North and Park Drive, in Pennsauken, NJ.