By Matthew Butcher
May 2012 |
Walter Danchak, born in 1922 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was the youngest of eight siblings. He graduated from high school and started working as a manual laborer until he enlisted on October 10th, 1942, to fight overseas. He served in the Mediteranian theater where he earned a Silver Star, and then participated in the D-Day landings, where he was killed.
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