New Jersey Statutes Appendix - Former Title 3A Administration of Estates Decedents and Others 3A § 3-21

When the only living subscribing witness or witnesses, to the will of a resident of this state, is not or are not available in this state to prove such will, because of absence from the state while in the armed forces of the United States or of any ally of the United States, or while in the merchant marine, in time of war or national emergency, such will shall be admitted to probate upon proof of the signatures of the subscribing witnesses to the will, provided the will would then have been admitted to probate if the witnesses were dead.