June 18, 2014
Members of the French Army request autographs and photographs from Henry Stawicki at Sainte-Mère-Église.
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Burke Veteran Revisits Normandy
Revisiting historic places, memories during ten-day trip to Europe alongside family.
While the visual of infantry servicemen during the Normandy Invasion is an iconic World War II visual, lesser known is that of the combat engineers who made the infantry’s progress through enemy territory possible. Veteran Henry Stawicki of Burke recently revisited Europe on the seventieth anniversary of D-Day to commemorate his former role in the 341st Engineer Regiment.
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