Camden City Flier Now Listed Killed

Camden City Flier Now Listed Killed — Camden Courier-Post, July 16, 1945
Camden Courier-Post, July 16, 1945
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CAMDEN CITY FLIER NOW LISTED KILLED Lt. John H. Moses Was Reported Missing; Woodlynne Sergeant also Dead Died in Prison Camp Sergeant Dyl died of wounds Feb. 5 in the prison camp, his wife, Mrs. Dorothy E. Dyl, was told. The War Department said the sergeant was ordered as a leader of a four-man patrol to make a reconnaissance of forward enemy positions, and when the men approached the enemy lines they were pinned down by concentrated mortar fire. Two of the men were killed instantly and only one managed to make it back to the American lines. The lone survivor, suffering from frozen feet after 36 hours away from his lines, reported Dyl was among those captured by the Germans. Dyl's widow is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Etter, of 302 Linden avenue, Woodlynne. The soldier leaves two children, Benjamin, 3, and Thomas Dyl, 2, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dyl, owner of a tobacco store on Mt. Ephraim avenue. Dyl entered the Army on April 1, 1944, and went overseas the following Sept. 15. He was a former employee of a Palmyra hosiery mill.

Lt. John H. Moses Was Reported Missing; Woodlynne Sergeant also Dead

Died in Prison Camp

Sergeant Dyl died of wounds Feb. 5 in the prison camp, his wife, Mrs. Dorothy E. Dyl, was told. The War Department said the sergeant was ordered as a leader of a four-man patrol to make a reconnaissance of forward enemy positions, and when the men approached the enemy lines they were pinned down by concentrated mortar fire. Two of the men were killed instantly and only one managed to make it back to the American lines.

The lone survivor, suffering from frozen feet after 36 hours away from his lines, reported Dyl was among those captured by the Germans.

Dyl’s widow is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Etter, of 302 Linden avenue, Woodlynne. The soldier leaves two children, Benjamin, 3, and Thomas Dyl, 2, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dyl, owner of a tobacco store on Mt. Ephraim avenue.

Dyl entered the Army on April 1, 1944, and went overseas the following Sept. 15. He was a former employee of a Palmyra hosiery mill.

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