Charles Bronson (Charles Buchinski) (1921-2003). His father was partially Lipka Tatar from Druskieniki (now Lithuania) who was a coal miner and his mother Maria Walińska was a daughter of a Polish immigrants.
Both parents are buried on Saint Mary’s Catholic cemetery in New Germany, PA.
He serwed in U.S. Army Air Force 1943-45 in WW II. He enlisted and served as an aircraft gunner in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and in 1945 as a Superfortress crewman with the 39th Bombardment Group based on Guam. He was assigned to a B-29 bomber. He flew on 25 missions & was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds received during his service. Most remembered for his roles in The Dirty Dozen and Death Wish.
Charles Bronson in The Great Escape, a 1963 American film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II. The film is based on the book of the same name by Paul Brickhill, a non-fiction account of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in the province of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany.
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