Nuel D. Corwin
Rank: Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Force
Serial: 32489462
Entered service from: New Jersey
Died:
Awards: Purple Heart
Biography
Sergeant Nuel Dinsmore Corwin was born in Chester Hills, Pennsylvania 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, and Raymond Corwin was working as an engineer in the illumination industry. Nuel Corwin graduated from Haddonfield Memorial High School 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, flying in a B-24 Liberator bomber. He participated in the D-Day invasion of France and 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.
Rutgers University Memorial
Rutgers University — 1947
Nuel D. Corwin ’46. Pemberton, New Jersey. Entered service February 2, 1943. Served in European Theater; Staff Sergeant, Army Air Force. Killed in action over England, June 14, 1944.