Joseph Silverman
Rank: Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps
Serial: 318233
Unit: 4th Marine Division
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Burial: Crescent Burial Park, Route 130 and Union Avenue, Pennsauken, NJ
Awards: Purple Heart, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, Presidential Unit Citation
Private First Class Joseph Silverman.
Introduction
Private First Class Joseph Silverman was born in Camden, NJ, to Herman and Ethel Silverman. He had lived at 279 White Horse Pike in Berlin, NJ.
In 1930 Joseph Silverman graduated with honors from Camden County Vocational School on Browning Road in Pennsauken, NJ. The 1930 Class was the first to graduate from this school.
Joseph Silverman enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in Philadelphia on September 2, 1941. After training in this country, he served for two years at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was home for a 30-day furlough before leaving for the Pacific late in 1943. Private Silverman saw action in the Marshall Islands Campaign and on Saipan, Marianas Islands, where he was killed in action on July 4, 1944, and interred in the U.S. Cemetery there. His company received the Presidential Citation, and he was entitled to wear the American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and was awarded posthumously the Purple Heart Medal.
He was survived by his parents, Herman and Ethel Silverman, of 279 White Horse Pike, Berlin, NJ; brothers Frank and Harry; and four sisters, Florence, May, Helen, and Gertrude. After the war, his body was returned home, and he was buried at Crescent Burial Park in Pennsauken, NJ, on January 2, 1949.
Ten days after Joseph Silverman was killed, a member of his high school graduating class, Army Air Force First Lieutenant John A. Lofland, was lost while flying a transport plane over the Himalayas.
Funeral Sunday For War Hero
Camden Courier-Post —
Services for Marine Pfc. Joseph Silverman will be held Sunday at 11 a. m. in the Berschler funeral home, 1401 Princess avenue. Burial will be in Crescent burial park.
Private Silverman was killed in action on Saipan in the South Pacific July 4, 1944, at the age of 31. He was a member of the Fourth Marine division, which earned the presidential unit citation. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Victory Medal War II and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal.
He enlisted in the Marine Corps in September, 1941, and was sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he spent two years before going to the Pacific. He served in the battle of the Marshall islands.
Born in Camden, he graduated with the first class at the Camden County Vocational School.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Silverman, 279 White Horse pike, Berlin; two brothers, Frank, Philadelphia, and Harry, Berlin; four sisters, Mrs. Florence Springel, Laurel Springs; Mrs. Mae Dworkin, West Collingswood; Mrs. Helen Lichman, Berlin Gardens, and Gertrude, at home.