Walter Poniedzialek
Walter Poniedzialek
Army
WALTER
PONIEDZIALEK
Mar 30, 1943 - Sep 12, 1967
BIRTHPLACE: Detroit, Michigan
SOLDIER DETAILS
DIVISION:
Army
, 540th Engineer Combat Regiment
THEATER OF OPERATION:
European
SERVED: Mar 19, 1943 -
Nov 17, 1945
HONORED BY: Daughter Marion J. Chard
BIOGRAPHY
My father served with the 540th Engineer Combat Regiment, H&S Co in the motor pool. He took part in the Italian Campaign Naples/Salerno/Anzio and was injured by a mortar shell during the breakout to Rome on May 24, 1944. He returned to service and took part in the invasion of Southern France and fought through the Rhone Valley, the Alsace/Ardennes Campaign, crossed the Rhine into Germany, and remained in occupied Germany until November 1945. I created a website in his honor-www.6thcorpscombatengineers.com