Vincent S. Coles was only 17 when he was sent to Vietnam to fight and had just turned 18 when he was killed in action. A native of Newark, Coles grew up on West Kinney Street and attended West Kinney Junior High School as well as Newark Vocational School. He left school to join the U.S. Marines Corps and began…
Month: November 2019
Remembering WWI on Armistice Day
Louis F. Vogel was a native of Newark who served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He was born on Dec. 2, 1888. He was the youngest of three sons and the third oldest of four children born to Henry and Johanna Vogel, each of whom was born in Germany. Henry Vogel was a carpenter, and the family…
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