Military History of Belleville and Nutley, New Jersey

By Anthony Buccino

WW2 Letters Home From The South Pacific

The Nutley Sons and Belleville Sons honor roll projects are serious writing about a serious subject. With his daughter Andrea, two paperbacks were published based on the research about the men from Nutley, N.J., and Belleville, N.J., who died in service to their country. In 2011, he published Belleville and Nutley in the Civil War, a Brief History.

In May 2005, a new memorial to nine men who died in peacetime was dedicated in Nutley - based on the research in Nutley Sons Honor Roll.

In November 2005, more than 150 names were added to the Belleville memorial on Union Avenue, after having the blank slate for 50 years awaiting the list of names which was based on the research in Belleville Sons Honor Roll.

In 2006, six street names in a new residential development City Homes at Essex Park in Belleville, N.J., were renamed to honor veterans and four Belleville heroes who died while in service.

Buccino honor roll projects earned him the UNICO National 2005 Grand Order Filippo Mazzei William Paca Americanism Award.