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    • Frederick Altizer
    • John Allen
    • Clinton Gosnell
    • W.W. (Buck) Fluharty
    • Chaplain Maurice Powers
    • Lt. Joseph Borkowski
    • Clair Becker
    • Joseph Patrick McDonnell
    • Landsberg report
    • Henry Dressler
    • Lt. Ezra Mann

  • OFLAG-VIIA

    • 70th anniversary commemoration
    • Names of prisoners at OFLAG-VII A-B
    • List of prisoners--C
    • List of prisoners D-E
    • List of Oflag prisoners F-G
    • Names of prisoners H-M
    • Names of prisoners N-Z
    • Members of Troop B, 116th Squadron
    • Comparative ranks
    • Seweryn Majcherkiewicz
    • Zdislaw Dionizy Mrozik
    • Attempted escapes

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    • Headquarters/101st
    • Troop A/116th
    • Troop B/116th
    • Troop C/116th
    • Troops E, F/116th
    • Officers
    • Squadron and troop unknown
    • Burials in France

  • Medals

    • 2nd Lt. William C. Andrew
    • Cpt. Louis V. Bossert
    • Sgt. William K. Claxton
    • Cpl. Louis Peele
    • Theodore J. Price
    • Tech. 5 Alvin Romero
    • Sgt. Douglas E. Cupp
    • Pvt. William J. Harding
    • S/Sgt. Vincent A. Kelly
    • Lt. Joseph Borkowski, BSM
    • Lt. Col. Hubert C. Leonard
    • Lt. Ezra Mann
    • Major Abraham Friedman

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    1st Lt. Joseph Borkowski, Troop B, 116th Squadron

    Bronze Star

     

    On 20 February 1945, in Germany, in the face of continuous fire and increased danger from enemy mine fields and booby traps, 1st Lt. Borkowski unhesitatingly and voluntarily led a patrol through the mine field to evacuate seriously wounded personnel. He entered military service from Grand Rapids, Michigan.