PVT Casimer Adam Wasilewski

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PVT Casimer Adam Wasilewski was born in Yonkers, New York on 24 Feb 1911. He was the oldest of the 5 children born to Peter and Sophie Josephine (Jacewicz) Wasilewski. Both parents were natives of Poland. His father worked as a laborer in a sugar refinery, a carpet mill and as a maintenance superintendent of an apartment building. Younger sister Dorothy died before she was 10-years old. Brother Frank died in 1940. Casimer did not attend high school but eventually worked for Chevrolet in the North Tarrytown, New York manufacturing plant and moved to an apartment at 10 Radford Street in Yonkers.

Casimer was drafted in August 1943. After completing his military training he was sent to England. PVT Wasilewski was transferred from the replacement depot to Cannon Company 116th Infantry on 19 Jun 1944 as a gun crewman. He was transferred to A Company 116th Infantry on 16 Aug 1944 as the regiment began its attack towards Brest. PVT Wasilewski was wounded on 27 Aug 1944 and evacuated to a field hospital where he died of his wound(s) on 30 Aug 1944.

PVT Wasilewski rests forever in the Brittany American Cemetery. He is also memorialized on his parent's headstone in Saint Mary's Cemetery in Yonkers, New York.