World War II Honor Roll - Minooka and South Scranton

Honor Roll for Minooka and South Scranton

World War II

Killed in Action and those who died from their wounds

Bielski, Leo P. - 3rd Class United States Navy - 3210 Oak Street - Buried January 8, 1944

Buckley, John F. – Army – Cedar Avenue

Parents: Peter and Alice Buckley

Buckley, William – Private - Army

Burke, Leo – Staff Sergeant – Army – Battle of Bulge, Ardennes, Germany

Parents: Michael and Catherine Burke

Burke, William – Army Air Corps – North Africa and Italy

Carroll, Charles - Grandson of John Jings

Ceresko, Edward - "Navy dead: Marine PFC Edward F. Ceresko 3720 Laurel Avenue, Greenwood" - April 24, 1945  Scranton Tribune

Connolly, Gerald – Private - Sicily 

Parents: James Connolly and Esther Shea (raised by sister Esther Connolly Thomas)

Coyne, Thomas “Tommy” and "Tip" – Staff Sergeant – Army – Brittany

Parents: Martin and Bridget Coyne

Faherty, Patrick – Seaman – Navy – Ship sunk by German U-boat off Georgia Coast (12/16/43)

Parents: Patrick Faherty and Mary Golden

Haggerty, Francis J. "Joe" and "Rabbit"  – Marines – Okinawa - "Navy dead: Marine Pvt. Francis J. Haggerty, 229 Ash Street." - May 27, 1945 - Scrantonian

Jennings, Thomas P. – PFC – Army – Battle of Bulge (1/12/45) – Buried at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Belgium

Joyce, Gerard- Private – Army

Keegan, Joseph J. – 2^nd Lt. U.S. Army Air Corps – 499^th Bomber Squadron (11/13/44)

Memorialized at Manila American Cemetery, Fort Bonifacio, Philippines

Parents: Joe and Beatrice Keegan

King, William, - PFC – Army – Died of wounds

Kobeski, Frank - Memorial Mass on June 17, 1945 - Son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kobeski, Greenwood Avenue

Kosokosky, Frank J. (29) - Tech. 5th Grade - 3201 Birney Avenue - Death announced May 14, 1945

Maxwell, Hubert T. – Private – Army - Killed in action in North Africa on July 11, 1943. - Parents: Timothy and Mary Maxwell - "Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Maxwell, 3200 Cedar Avenue, Minooka, were notified in a telegraph received from the War Dept. that their son, Pvt. Hubert Maxwell, was killed in action in Sicily, July 11. Several weeks go the parents were advised that their son was MIA. Pvt. Maxwell was the first Minooka young man recorded as having made the supreme sacrifice in WWII. He was inducted Aug. 29, 1941, and trained at Camp Lee, Va.; Camp Wolters and Camp Barkeley, Tx; Camp Devens, Mass.; Pine Camp, N.Y., and Camp Pickett, Va. Prior to his induction, he was employed by the Bethlehem Steel Company, Lackawanna, N.Y. - Sept. 1, 1942 - Tribune

O’Malley, James Joseph – Able Bodied Merchant Seaman (10/15/44)

O’Malley, James R. – Seaman, 2^nd Class – Navy – (9/12/44) - Memorialized at Sicily Rome American Cemetery, Nettuno, Italy

Polakanis, Frank

Polakanis, John

Pompey, Andrew – Parachutist and Italian Translator – Army – Anzio

Pompey, Durando – PFC - Army – Italy

Poplowski, Barth P.

Rosar, Joseph - 2^nd Lt. – Army Air Corps – Grenoble, France

Parents: Adolph Rosar and Honora (Anna) Lydon

Ryan, Robert P. – Private – Army - "Pvt. Robert Ryan, eighteen, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, 2819 Pittston avenue, Minooka, was killed in Luxembourg on Feb. 1--less than three weeks after his arrival overseas. Three brothers are in the army. He graduated from St. John's H.S., and was inducted into the army on August 13. He received basic training at Camp Wheeler, Ga., and went overseas the second week in January from Fort Meade, Md. with his infantry unit. He was a member of St. Joseph's Church, Minooka. Besides his mother, Private Ryan is survived by a sister Mary, at home, three brothers: Corporal Joseph, Spokane, Wash., Corporal Patrick, 109th Infantry in France, and Corporal John, attached to a tank destroyer battalion in Hawaii." February 17, 1945, Times Tribune

Salvin, Henry

Shanoski, Matthew

Stewart, Charles J. – Marines – South Pacific (buried at St. Joseph’s)

Parents: Thomas and Delia Stewart

John Francis Shea - Tech Sergeant Shea was wounded on January 16, 1945 at the Battle of the Bulge. He died three months later on April 7, 1945 in a hospital in Belgium. His remains were returned to Scranton in May 1949. John was the son of Daniel Shea, born in Ireland, and Mary Corbett, born in Wales. He grew up in Minooka before the family moved to Scranton.

Toole, John R. – 2^nd Lt. Army – Killed at Battle of Bulge - Mother Catherine Toole - 3607 Birney Avenue, Moosic

Vernal, Richard J. – Corporal – Technician 5^th Class – Army Air Corps – 15^th Cavalry Recon  Squadron – Holland (3/31/1945) – Buried at Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands - "Cpl Richard Vernal, Jr., thirty, husband of the former Miss Ruth Rowan, 2826 Cear Avenue, Minooka, was killed in action in Germany on March 31, 1945." - April 22, 1945 - Scranton Times-Tribune 

Walsh, Francis J. “Buster – TEC5 – Army Killed by sniper - "Cpl. Francis J. Walsh, 2524 Birney Avenue, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Walsh, was killed in action in France July 3, 1944, a War Dept. telegram disclosed. He graduated from Technical H.S. and prior to his induction in Dec. 1942, was employed at the Scranton enginehouse of the Lackawanna R.R. He received basic training at Camp Barkeley, Texas. August 7, 1944 - Scranton Times-Tribune - Parents: Hannah and Michael Walsh

Walsh, John Francis "Tree" – Battle of the Bulge – 11^th Armored Division – Died of wounds after the war Parents: Michael Walsh and Sarah Connolly (Pittston Avenue)