Peter J. Calzonetti
Sergeant Peter J. Calzonetti, Serial: 32078302, 703rd Bomber Squadron, 445th Bomber Group, U.S. Army Air Forces. He lived at 716 South 5th Street, Camden NJ. Buried at Calvary Cemetery, Cherry Hill, NJ.
Sergeant Peter J. Calzonetti was born July 4, 1921, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dominic Calzonetti, of 716 South 5th Street in Camden NJ. The October 7, 1936 Courier-Post reported that he had been treated at Cooper Hospital for a broken arm. Peter Calzonetti was a 1938 graduate of Camden Catholic High School, where he appeared in the 1938 school play, Countess Maritza. He was a 1942 graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia.
In the March 21, 1944 evening edition of the Camden Courier-Post, it was reported that he had completed the course in flexible gunnery at the aerial gunnery school at Laredo TX, and that he had been awarded his wings. He had also completed a course in radio operations. Peter J. Calzonetti had married prior to going overseas.
Sergeant Calzonetti was the radio operator on a B-24 bomber, and was killed in action on August 16, 1944 over Dessau, Germany. His body was recovered after the war, and he was buried in Calvary Cemetery in what was then Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill) NJ on December 4, 1948. Peter J. Calzonetti was survived by his wife, Laura E. Calzonetti, of 1152 Kenwood Avenue in Camden NJ, and his father, of the South 5th Street address.
Last Rites Tomorrow For Sgt. Calzonetti
Camden Courier-Post —
Solemn requiem Mass for Sgt. Peter J. Calzonetti will be celebrated tomorrow at 9.30 a.m. in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel R.C. Church. Relatives and friends will meet at 8.30 a.m. in the residence of his widow, Mrs. Laura E. Calzonetti, of 1152 Kenwood avenue, where the body will call tonight. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
Sergeant Calzonetti was killed in action in Dessau, Germany, Aug. 16, 1944, at the age of 24. He was a radio man on a B-24 bomber.
Born in Camden, he was a graduate Camden Catholic High school, class of 1938, and of Temple university, class of 1942. He went into the army after graduation from Temple.
Also surviving is his father, Dominic, of 716 South Fifth street, where Sergeant Calzonetti lived when he entered the service. The funeral will be under the direction of Robert J. Blake.
Calvary Cemetery, Cherry Hill, NJ
Grave of Sergeant Peter J. Calzonetti at Calvary Cemetery, State Highway 70 and Hampton Road, Cherry Hill, NJ.