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Dobinski, Frank W.
(July 19, 1923 - Feb. 26, 1943)
Military M.I.A. (Missing in Action)

Frank Walter Dobinski was born in a small colony in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, the third oldest child of Frank Dobinski, a railroad watchman, and Mary Dobinski. Most of the people in the settlement, about 128 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, worked in a tannery, and 272 of the 6,827 persons in Sandy Township in 1920 were from Poland.

Frank enlisted in the U.S. Army on November 19, 1941, and was assigned to the Eighth U.S. Air Force. During the Second World War, the Air Force started out with 12,297 aircraft on Dec. 31, 1941, and reached its peak of 79,908 in July 1944. Dobinski was one of 23,405 enlisted men that the U.S. sent overseas to serve in the air forces. He was lost when his aircraft did not return from a mission to bomb a German airfield at Brest.

From: Edward Pinkowski (2009)

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