Joseph A Cella

Personal Information

Birthplace: Bisaccia, Campania, Italy

Hometown: Hamilton, Ohio

Service Information

Branch of Service: Army Air Corps

Unit: 733d AAF Base Unit

Theater of Operation: European

Battle: North France

Enlisted / Commissioned: 11/25/1942

Discharged: 01/23/1946

Highest Rank: Corporal

Military Honors: American Theater Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon w/1 Bronze Star, World War II Victory Medal

Biography

Joe emigrated to America in 1921 at five months of age with his parents. Enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942. Married in 1943 to June Fosdick. In the following years he and June had four sons. Joe became a newspaper reporter for the Hamilton Journal-News in the late 1940s. In 1957 he joined Crosley Broadcasting, WLWT, in Cincinnati as Publicity and Promotion Director. Later Joe returned to print journalism, his passion, winning an Associated Press Award in 1968 for his reporting on a local soldier who was killed in Vietnam.