Wallace Walter Bednarz

Military
media-54830.jpeg UPL 54830 Wallace Walter Bednarz
Gunner
340th BG - 489th BS - 12th AF
Earned his medical degree in 1952 and worked in radiology.

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Object Number - UPL 54830 - Wallace Walter Bednarz Gunner 340th BG - 489th BS - 12th AF Earned his medical degree in 1952 and worked in radiology.

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Units served with

A B-25 Mitchell (7C) of the 340th Bomb Group, 12th Air Force takes off.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Ninth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Boston, MA 13 March 1923

Enlisted

Boston, MA 22 May 1942

Other

Combat Mission

Centeno, Italy 9 June 1944 15th combat mission. He was awarded a 2nd OLC to his Air Medal

Other

Combat Mission

Ferarra, Italy 24 July 1944 20th combat mission. He was awarded a 3rd OLC to his Air Medal.
Stoughton, Massachussets 30 June 1945 40 Stoddard Street

Died

Williamsport, Pennsylvania 1 June 2003 Dr. Wallace W. Bednarz Dr. Wallace W. Bednarz, of Harding Ave., Williamsport, died in Manorcare Nursing Home in Williamsport, June 1, 2003. He was born and raised in Stoughton, Mass. He was the son of Antoni and Bronya Julevich (some family members spelled their names Jurgilewicz). During the great depression, his father, Antoni, owned and operated a company that manufactured sporting outerwear and supplied them to many local teams. He eventually sold the company but continued to work for the new owners. His father had been an auxiliary policeman with over 50 years of service. He is survived by his wife, the former Priscilla Pine. Also surviving is a son, Stephen (Kathleen) Bednarz; grandchildren, Derek, Kevin and Andrew, all of Wilkes-Barre; a daughter, Elizabeth (Lawrence) Laychur; grandson, Nicholas and granddaughter, Amanda, all of Oviedo, Fla.; and a daughter, Kathryn Bednarz of San Fransico, Calif. In addition, he leaves a sister, Antonia (Tes) Swanson of Avon, Mass.; a niece, Mary Jane (Richard) Hedden in Orlando, Fla. and niece, Roberta (Richard) Hook; and a nephew, Peter Swanson, both of Avon, Mass. After graduation from high school in 1940, he served in WW II, in the Army Air Corp as a master sergeant and gunner with 64 missions in the African and European Theatres of War. He was a graduate of Boston College High School in 1940 and in 1948, he graduated from Boston University and from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1952. He interned at Maine Medical Center, in Portland, Maine, where he resided at his wife’s family’s summer home. Dr. Bednarz did his radiology internship at Mass. Memorial Hospital in Boston. After graduation from medical school he joined the Air Force and served at Chanute Air Force base as a captain and Wiesbaden, Germany, as a major when the Berlin Wall was built. Upon retirement from the Air Force, he joined the radiology group at the Williamsport Hospital in 1962, where he worked until his retirement in the 1980s. He was an avid golfer, fisherman and hunter. He went on safaris to Africa, Asia, Canada and Alaska, with one polar bear hunt above the Artic Circle, where they hunted with dog sleds out on the ice. He went on several fishing trips in Canada for muskie, and fishing trips to Central and South America as well as the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. His only disappointment was not to have visited Anarctica.

Buried

Saco, Maine 5 June 2003 Laurel Hill Cemetery Saco, Maine, USA

Other

Graduated Medical School

Boston, Massachussets Boston University

Revisions

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Sources

General Orders No. 220 - HQ 12th Air Force - 1 November 1944

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