Soldiers take cover on the beaches of Normandy

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.