Jacques Hartley Allen

LIEUTENANT JACQUES HARTLEY ALLEN was born in 1922 in Camden NJ to C. Richard Allen and his wife Minerva S. Allen. The second of two children, he came a year after his brother Carlos. In 1930 the family lived at 1530 South Collings Road in Camden NJ. The family later moved to Barrington NJ, where they had a house at Chews Landing Road and Hutchinson Avenue. His father, a prominent local attorney, was a veteran of World War I and was very active in American Legion affairs, once the Department (state) Commander, and his mother was a a past county president of the American Legion Auxiliary.

Lieutenant Allen graduated from Haddon Heights High School in 1940 and entered the University of Virginia. A year later he went to the Drexel Institute of Technology. In 1942 he entered the Marine Corps. He graduated from an aviation training school at Pensacola FL on October 29, 1943. After receiving his wings and commission as an air pilot he and Miss Justis were married the same day.

He had been overseas a year when he was injured. Lieutenant Allen received a severe nose injury when his plane was smashed and he “bailed out” over one of the islands in the South Pacific. He was sent home for an operation to his nose. He contracted yellow jaundice and complications when he reached California and his parents went to the hospital in Oceanside. Mr. and Mrs. Allen and the young bride of Lieutenant Allen, Emily Justis Allen, were with him when he died. 

He was also survived by his brother Carlos, of Haddonfield, and his grandmother, Mrs., Horace B. Allen.

COURIER POST
Camden, N.J. February 10, 1945

CRASH INJURIES KILL LEGION AIDE’S SON
Lt. Jacques Allen Dies; Newfield Officer Slain in Conflict

         1st Lt. Jacques Hartley Allen, 22, son of C. Richard Allen, Camden attorney and past department commander of the American Legion, died Thursday in Camp Pendleton hospital, Oceanside CA, of a disease superinduced from injuries received in an airplane crash during a battle in the South Pacific. His mother is a past county president of the Legion Auxiliary.

Parents at Deathbed

         Mr. and Mrs. Allen and the young bride of Lieutenant Allen, Emily Justis Allen, were with him when he died. Lieutenant Allen received a severe nose injury when his plane was smashed and he “bailed out” over one of the islands in the South Pacific.

         He had been overseas a year when he was injured and was sent home for an operation to his nose. He contracted yellow jaundice and complications when he reached California and his parents went to the hospital in Oceanside.

         Lieutenant Allen graduated from Haddon Heights High School in 1940 and entered the University of Virginia. A year later he went to the Drexel Institute of Technology. In 1942 he entered the Marine Corps. He graduated from an aviation training school at Pensacola FL on October 29, 1943. After receiving his wings and commission as an air pilot he and Miss Justis were married the same day. Also surviving is a brother Carlos, of Haddonfield, and his grandmother, Mrs., Horace B. Allen. His parents reside at Chews Landing Road and Hutchinson Avenue in Haddonfield. The body is being sent East for military rites and burial.        

Company K
398th Infantry Regiment
100th Infantry Division