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Staff Sergeant Roman Drapinski of 1468 South 10th Street, Camden, served with the 53rd Armored Engineer Battalion, 12th Armored Division, U.S. Army. Born in the United States in 1918 and raised and educated in Poland, he returned to Camden in 1938 and was killed on July 18, 1943 by a premature dynamite explosion while instructing soldiers at Camp Campbell.
A 1944 Camden Courier-Post feature by Frank Sheridan on St. Joseph's Church (the Polish parish at Tenth and Mechanic Streets), whose 1,154 mothers gave sons and daughters to the war — four killed, two missing, one a prisoner — among them Joseph Piotrowski, lost when the cruiser Helena was sunk at Kula Gulf.
The Camden Courier-Post reports the death of Staff Sgt. Roman Drapinski, 1468 South Tenth Street, killed by a premature dynamite explosion while giving instructions in its handling at Camp Campbell.