I went to Ridgefield Park High School and obtained copies of Robert A. Lewis yearbook pictures 1937, and Tom Della Torre 1935.  In 1935, the team football photo shows Robert A. Lewis {10th grade} and
Tom Della Torre {12th grade captain} in picture. There is a picture of Robert Lewis as manager of
the Basketball team in 1937 his senior year.   

The pictures of Carl Padovano and Neil Fulton 1939, who played football at Hackensack as 10th graders in 1937 against Robert A. Lewis, a 12th grade student at Ridgefield Park, and William H. Morrow 1942 from Hackensack, will give you a better understanding of the great struggle going on in the Pacific Theatre at the time.  

William H. Morrow flew over 30 missions, his last on 4/23/45 over Okinawa which was fought after
Iwo Jima, which Carl Padovano, Joe Peccoralo, and Mike Kraykowski all fought on and were wounded during the month long battle.  Donald Kuper, after fighting on Marshal Islands Tinian and Saipan, was wounded on Iwo Jima, and he fought on the Volcano Islands after that, but Armand Allesandrini after fighting on the Marshal Islands, Tinian, and Saipan, was killed in action on March 8, 1945 on the volcanic sands of Iwo Jima. 

These were the sacrifices in all the cities and towns were making all across the country to end this war.
William H. Morrow flew one mission over Tokyo as early as 2/16/45, three months before Hiroshima. 

Neil Fulton was a squadron leader of a B29 Superfort Group, which means he was in charge of 12 or more planes, all the maintenance men, all supplies, and administrative people involved with the squadron.  When you read of the Superfort bombing runs over mainland Japan leading up to the dropping of the Atomic Bomb in the articles which follow, Neil Fulton and his squadron were on some of those bombing runs.