Date of birth:

October 22nd, 1913 (Camden/New Jersey, United States)

Date of death:

1990 (Tuckerton/New Jersey, United States)

Nationality:

American

Servicenumber 33 328 584.

Joseph A. Murphy graduated in 1930 from the West Catholic High School, Phyladelphia and attended the Temple University.
He then started working with the Philadelphia Inquirer.
He entered service with the 111th Infantry Regiment of the Pennsylvania National Guard in October 1940.

On August 16th, 1942, Joseph A. Murphy entered service in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. He was placed with the Medical Detachment, 1272nd SCU. He left for New Foundland on October 27th, 1943, to arrive there on November 1st. On December 21st he was transported to Europe, where he arrived on January 8th, 1944. Murphy was operational with the 1st and 5th Infantry Division in Northern Africa, Normandy (second wave), Northern France, Luxembourg and Germany. He was wounded in the head near St. Lo in July 1944. After recovering of his wound and re-entering active service, he again was wounded by two machine-gun bullits in the abdomen near Saarbrücken, Germany on September 14th.
He returned to the United States on December 1st, 1944, where he arrived on December 17th.
Joseph A. Murphy was honorably discharged at the Separation Centre Fort Dix, New Jersey on August 17th, 1945.

Joseph Murphy after the war became a succesfull real estate broker in Tuckerton, New Jersey, where he passed away in 1990.

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• Photo 1: Tom Murphy
• - Enlisted Record and Report of Seperation Honorable Discharge
  - Press release Public Relations Office, Thomas M. England General Hospital, Atlantic City, New Jersey