Montague, Massachusetts resident Frank R. Dahowski, Jr., was born in 1910, the son of Frank and Sophie Dahowski, who emigrated from Warsaw, Poland, in 1898. During World War II, Frank was a sergeant, but received a life-threatening war-time injury and was discharged from the service on October 20, 1945, as a disabled veteran, unable to work when he returned home. Sergeant Dahowski sent this picture of himself (left) and his best friend, Sergeant Edward Burakiewicz, of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, to Frank’s brother John Dahowski of Deerfield, Massachusetts. It appeared, along with an article about Frank and John, in the February 1945 Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper. The article indicates that “the two sergeants entered the service in April, 1942, and trained with the engineers at Camp Claiborne, LA., and Ft. Dix, N.J. They arrived in France on time for the first invasion and have been moving steadily ahead with the advancing allied armies.”
Greenfield Recorder-Gazette. “Deerfield Men Feed London Pigeons.” February 1, 1945. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l05-152/. Accessed on January 2, 2025.
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