Samuel A. Nalbone Sr., 97, of Moorestown, a decorated World War II Army veteran and later an RCA supervisor for 27 years, died Wednesday, Oct. 28, of metastatic lung cancer at his companion’s home in Mount Laurel.

Mr. Nalbone was run over by a truck at age 6, leaving one arm deformed. Doctors wanted to amputate, but his mother took him to a second physician who saved the arm. The recovery required a six-month hospitalization. But he endured and later went on to graduate from Trenton High School and then tried to enlist in the Army and Navy. Both rejected his application.