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Benjamin W. Dyl, Collingswood High School yearbook photo
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Benjamin W. Dyl

Technical Sergeant Benjamin William Dyl of Woodlynne, New Jersey, who grew up at 1524 Mount Ephraim Avenue in Camden's Polish community, served with the 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. Wounded and captured while leading a patrol in January 1945, he died in a German prisoner of war camp on February 5, 1945, after only ten months in the service.

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Pvt. Henry G. C. Yip
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Pvt. Henry G. C. Yip

Pvt. Henry G. C. Yip, 18, of 5 South Thirty-sixth Street, is stationed at Camp Wheeler, Georgia. Of Chinese ancestry, he enlisted a year before being called to service in February 1944. His father is a well-known Camden restaurateur.

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