Son and Father Edward I. Sul

8th Air Force 95th Bomb GP 334 SQ

gave his life for his country in Germany

on January 7, 1945

PARENTS: John Sul and Cecelia Pndzich Sul

CARTERET - The funeral and reburial of Edward Sul, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Sul, 103 Lincoln Avenue and husband of the former Emily Poremba, of Roselle, will take place at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning from the Synowiecki Funeral Home, 46 Atlantic Street. A high mass of requiem will be offered in the Holy Family Church at 9:30 o'clock by Rev. M. A. Konopka. Reburial will be in St. James Cemetery, Woodbridge.

At 7:30 o'clock tonight, Carteret Post, American Legion will conduct its ritual and at 8 o'clock, Father Konopka will recite the rosary. At 8:30, the Carteret High School Class of '38 will pay its respects. Last night, Star Landing Post, Veterans of Foreign War; and the combined posts of the Catholic War Veterans conducts their rituals.

Surviving, besides his parents, widow and daughter, are three sisters, Mrs. William Hagan and Mrs. Charles Bohanek, of this borough and Mrs. George Link, of Rahway.

Lt. Sul was inducted into the service on December 6, 1942 and receiving his training in Texas air force fields. He was killed January 7, 1945 on a bombing mission over Germany.

Obituary can be found in Carteret Press, July 22, 1949, page 1

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CARTERET - Second Lt. Edward I. Sul, 23-year-old navigator of a B-17 Flying Fortress of the Eighth Air force, was killed January 7, 1945, on a bombing mission over Germany, the War Department has informed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sul, of 103 Lincoln Avenue. His wife, the former Miss Emily Poremba, lives at 414 East Jersey Street, Elizabeth. Lieutenant Sul had been listed as missing in action.

Lieutenant Sal's wife and parents had made several fruitless attempts to trace the missing flier. They communicated with the families of the other members of the crew, but none had received additional information. No trace of the plane was found.

The lieutenant held the Air Medal with two clusters. He was cited for "meritorious achievement" while participating in bombing attacks on vital German industrial targets, Nazi airfields, supply dumps and gun emplacements in support of advances by Allied ground forces.

He was a member of the Fortress group which led the first American bombing attack on targets in Berlin and which was cited by President Roosevelt for its outstanding bombing assault on railroad marshalling yards at Munster, Germany in October, 1943. His group also shared a Presidential citation for its part in the historic England Africa shuttle bombing of an important Messerschmitt tighter plane plant at Regensburg, Germany in August 1943.

Obituary can be found in Carteret Press, March 29, 1946, page 1

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U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #O-703663

Edward I. Sul is listed as Killed In Action in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Middlesex County, New Jersey.

U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947 lists his residence as 103 Lincoln Avenue, Carteret, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Contact person listed as Mrs. Cecilia Sul of same address. Middle initial listed as S.. Place of birth listed as Carteret, New Jersey on 07/31/1921. Employed by Foster Wheeler Engineering Corporation, Carteret, New Jersey as of 02/14/1942 registration date.

U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 lists enlistment date of 12/07/1942 for Edward I. Sul with Service No. 12093140

New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Index, 1901-2016 lists marriage date in 1944 in New Jersey for Edward I. Sul to Emily Poremba. Information gleaned from ancestry.com on her record lists his middle name as Ignatius.

Information below gleaned from: https://95thbgdb.com/person/6541

Edward I. Sul was assigned as a Navigator to B-17G Flying Fortress #43-38551 (Pilot O. B. Klein) that was lost on a mission to Cologne, Germany on 01/07/1945. This was his 20th mission. Missing Air Crew Report 11569. Description: At 1122 and 5037'N with 96BG #338968 and possibly another B-17, when in poor visibility, one group crossed in front of another group, crashed Erfelfront. Crew listed as follows...

Oscar B. Klein (Pilot)

Jess P. Wisner (Co-pilot)

Edward I. Sul (Navigator)

William H. Yullie (Bombardier)

Richard L. Wright (Radio Operator)

Joseph T. Pistek (Top Turret/Engineer)

Milton F. Bull (Ball Turret Gunner)

Frank J. Grec (Waist Gunner)

Carl L. Carlson (Tail Gunner)

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