Frank M. Bachek

Staff Sergeant Bachek was inducted into the Army in 1942. He was connected with the 605th T.S.S. of the Air Force at Sioux Falls, SD. In 1943 he was in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaigns as a tail gunner and a radio operator on a Liberator with the 7th Air Force. He also flew missions over Truk, Wake, and the Carolines. Frank was awarded the Air Medal, four Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross and Clusters. In 1945 he was selected to serve at the UN Conference at San Francisco. He was honorably discharged in August, 1945.