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Walter R. Nall, right, acting Deputy Commissioner of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, presents the New Jersey Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and the New Jersey POW-MIA Medal to Karol Krychkowski in honor of her uncle, Jersey City resident U.S. Army Pvt. Stephen C. Mason during a Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Service at the Brigadier General William C. Doyle Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown, N.J., Oct. 2, 2021. The ceremony was held by the American Legion Auxiliary, Department of New Jersey. Mason was assigned to Headquarters Company, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Infantry Division, which had served in Operation Market Garden – the invasion of the German-occupied Netherlands – and saw continued action in the Netherlands until mid-November. He was reported missing in action while on a mission to the enemy lines near Beek, Netherlands Nov. 3, 1944. His body was not recovered. Mason was posthumously awarded the Silver Star for his actions. To identify Mason’s remains, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency scientists used dental and anthropological analysis as well as circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System's-Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used mitochondrial DNA analysis to identify Mason this year. (New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs photo by Mark C. Olsen)
| Date Taken: | 10.02.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 10.26.2021 16:21 |
| Photo ID: | 6906782 |
| VIRIN: | 211002-Z-AL508-1047 |
| Resolution: | 4459x2973 |
| Size: | 2.98 MB |
| Location: | WRIGHTSTOWN, NEW JERSEY, US |
| Web Views: | 54 |
| Downloads: | 6 |
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Uncle Steve returns home from World War II
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