Delhagen, Frederick Eugene

Matthew Hyman

Cathy Moran Hajo

1922-03-19

Califon, NJ

1944-03-27

Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Cambriddgeshire, England.

Student

Sargent

1942

1944-03-27

Purple Heart

Frederick E. Delhagen was a member of the U.S. Army Air Force. He trained in advanced gunnery at Clovis and Alamagordo, MN before being shipped to England on February 18, 1944. He was a tailgunner on the B-24 Liberator "Stardust," which collided with another bomber during take-off in poor weather. The planes both crashed near Deerdens, in England on March 27, 1944.

Frederick Delhagen was born in Califon, NJ, and moved to Mahwah when he was young. He attended Mahwah Grammar school and in 1940 graduated from Ramsey High School. He was working on a degree in aeronautical engineering at Casey Jones School of Aerounatics in Newark when he was drafted.

He was the only child of Henry and Clara Delhagen.

Aerial Gunner, Califon Native, Dies in Action, Bridgewater Courier-News, April 21, 1944, p. 2.

Mahwah Sergeant Dies in Action, Ridgewood Herald News, April 20, 1944, p. 4.

Frederick Delhagen, 1940 United States Federal Census

1) Mahwah Veterans Project, Mahwah Museum
2) Bridgewater Courier-News, April 21, 1944, p. 2.
3) Draft card, National Archives