World War II Honoree

John Joseph Dowling, Jr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

South Amboy, New Jersey

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943 in Newark, New Jersey and was sent to radio school in Wisconsin. He was then sent to radar school in Boca Raton, Florida and became a radar mechanic. Assigned to the Twenty-Second Anti-Submarine Patrol and flew combat missions out of Wilmington, North Carolina looking for submarines. He was sent to southern England to fly anti-submarine patrols. His outfit was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services at Alconbury and became involved in working with the French Resistance and supplied them with equipment, bombs, ammunition, guns and other supplies.