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000000622 037__ $$aGENERAL
000000622 245__ $$aNicholas Louis Bellitt, Jr.
000000622 260__ $$c1940's
000000622 269__ $$a1940$$b1949
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000000622 500__ $$aColor postcard
Photograph taken in front of the Phillipino jail
Nicholas with other soldiers
Medals earned
Portrait
Head shot
Group shot at Great Lakes Training Center, Nicholas 3rd row from the bottom, 3rd from the right)

Gift of Leah Daughtery Schmidt.


Nicholas Louis Bellitt was born on March 20, 1926 in Trumbull County to Nicholas Louis Bellitt, Sr., an Italian immigrant, and Marie Francis Bernard of Italian descent, who was born in Butte, Montana.  He attended Niles High School, but quit school at age 18 to enlist in the Navy.  He was later granted his high school diploma from Niles.  In 1946 he married his first wife, Catherine Irwin, and they had two sons, David Lawrence (1948) and Gary Lee Bellitt (1954).  Nicholas and Catherine divorced in 1969.   He married his second wife, Erma Jean Johnson Daugherty in September, 1991, making him stepfather to Frank Robert Daughtery (1954) Leah Daughtery Schmidt (1958) and Karen Daughtery Knapp (1963).  Following the war, Nicholas was employed at Niles Republic Steel for forty years as a steelworker and as the union president, and was acting president when the union hall was destroyed by the tornado of 1985.  He belonged to the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Caramel and the Cortland Christian Church.

Nicholas was a Mailman Third Class Petty Officer in the United States Navy from March, 1944 - June, 1946).  He trained at the Great Lakes Training Center and was stationed in New Guinea and the Phillipines, and was present on September 2, 1945 to witness the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
000000622 533__ $$cGift of Leah Daughtery Schmidt.
000000622 541__ $$fGift of Leah Daughtery Schmidt.
000000622 650__ $$aBellitt, Nicholas Louis , Jr. (1926-)
000000622 651__ $$aWarren (Ohio)
000000622 655__ $$aPhotographs
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000000622 980__ $$aTrumbull County Veterans of World War II