Bergen Evening Record
June 22, 1944

2 AIRMEN DEAD
ON TODAYS LIST

Ramsey And Hackensack
Officers Killed

          A Hackensack airman was reported killed in action today and two other Bergen men previously reported missing in action, have been listed, one as dead and the other a German prisoner of war.

Dead
TOWNE, Second Lieutenant Henry S. son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Towne
of 193 East Main Street, Ramsey—(Austria)
          SACHTLEBEN, First Lieutenant Raymond J. son of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Sachtleben, of 64 Davis Avenue Hackensack.
(European Area)

Missing
          Gagliardi, Sergeant John E. son of Mr. and Mrs. Nettle M. Gagliardi of
241 Lafayette Avenue, Lyndhurst (European area)
          LEWIS, Second Lieutenant Thomas J. Jr. son of
Mrs. Louise
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REPORTED AMONG CASUALTIES

(PHOTO)                                 (PHOTO)
 OF                                         OF
Henry L. Danning Jr.                 LT. Raymond J. Sachtleben

Two Bergen Airmen Killed
in European War Theater
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A. Lewis of 11-00 West Amsterdam Avenue, Fair Lawn.  (European Area)
            (Micro film unreadable)-Staff Sergeant Joseph V. son of
(Micro film unreadable) of (#?) Hudson Street Hackensack (Mediterranean Area).

Prisoner
            DUNNING Sergeant Henry J. Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Dunning, of 126 Johnson Avenue, Teaneck. (Germany)
            Lieutenant Towne, Co Pilot on a B-24 Liberator was killed in a day-light bombing mission over Wiener-Neustadt, Austria, May 10. His parents of
193 East Main Street, Ramsey, received a telegram saying: “Report now received from the German Government through the International Red Cross states your son, Second Lieutenant Henry T. Towne who was previously reported missing in action, was killed in action on May 10 in South Austrian area, Letter follows”
            Earlier Lieutenant Towne’s plane was reported to have been attacked and severely damaged by enemy fighters before reaching its target in the
May 10th American Air Force daylight bombing of industrial installations of Wiener-Neustadt.  Several parachutes were observed leaving the damaged craft and it was believed at first that the Ramsey flier might have been taken prisoner.
            Lieutenant Towne 24, was a 1941 graduate of Ramsey High School and entered the Army in January 1943. He left for overseas duty in January 1944.
            Lieutenant Sachtleben, of Hackensack, who was a pilot in civilian life as well as a pilot of a B-24 Liberator in the Army Air Force, was killed in action
June 4, somewhere in the European Theater of War. The son of
Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Sachtleben, he was born in Hackensack Oct. 5, 1917. He is a graduate of Hackensack High School, the Newark College of Engineering and enlisted in the Air Force in May 1943. He left for overseas duty in April of this year, and until his death was stationed in England with the Eighth Army.
            Before entering the Army, Lieutenant Sachtleben, was employed by the International Projector Corporation in New York in the Time Study Department.  He was a member of the Hackensack Y-for-all and instructor of the Rifle team there. He was also a member of basketball and rifle teams at college.
            Sergeant Gagliardi, son of Mrs. Netalo Gagliardi of Lyndhurst, has been missing since May 21 when he failed to return from a mission over Germany.  Gagliardi was a gunner on the Flying Fortress Morning Star, was on his
21st mission. He is the recipient of the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters.
            He entered the service in December, 1942, and went overseas in November 1943. In the last letter to his mother May 10 Sergeant Gagliardi said that he had visited London and expressed his delight and amazement of
London subways. He is a graduate of Brooklyn Boys School where he was a member of the track team and before entering the service was employed by Merkins Paint shop in Lyndhurst.

In Europe 5 Weeks
            Lieutenant Lewis 20, a bombardier on a Flying Fortress, had been in the European area five weeks. He has been in the Army two years and four months.

A former resident of East Paterson and Wallington.  Lieutenant Lewis attended Wallington schools and East Rutherford High School.

Failed To Return
From 2nd Mission
            Sergeant Henry Dunning Jr. 19 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Dunning Sr. of Teaneck who is now listed as a
German prisoner of war, had been missing since April 29 when he did not return from his second mission over Germany. He has been overseas since
the middle of April of this year.
           
A graduate of the Teaneck High School class of 1942,
Sergeant Dunning entered the Army Air Force in March 1942, while employed by the Bendix Aviation Corporation in Teterboro. While in Teaneck High School, he was a member of the school’s championship football team in 1941.
            He received basic training at Miami Beach Fla. And was then sent to the Army Air Force Mechanical School, at Gulfport Mass. From there he was sent to Lorado, Texas, for aerial gunnery training and then to Dalhart, Texas, for
combat crew training. After that he left for overseas duty. 
            The parents of Sergeant Rifinsky could not be reached.