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Platoon Sergeant Frank Aloysius Duffy (d. 1944) of 225 North 10th Street, Camden, served with the 4th Marine Division, U.S. Marine Corps. He landed on Roi Island in the Marshall Islands and was killed in action on July 2, 1944, earning the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. He is memorialized at the Honolulu Memorial in Hawaii.
City directory records and newspaper accounts for 10th Street, one of Camden’s longest thoroughfares, running from State Street in North Camden through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park to Morgan Village, 1870s–1970s.
In a February 1944 letter to Camden County registrar Victor J. Scharte, Corp. Frank A. Duffy of Marine intelligence described the invasion of Roi Island in the Kwajalein Atoll and enclosed captured Japanese money as souvenirs. Camden Courier-Post, February 21, 1944.