William A. Saflarski was a soldier in Company C, 103rd Enginee Combat Battalion, of the 28th Infantry Division. The division was activated in February 1941 at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. It trained in five southern states before being sent to England, arriving in October 1943. The division landed in Normandy July 22, 1944, seven weeks after the D-Day landings. Saflarski died July 31, 1944 at St. Lo, France during Operation Cobra, the offensive that secured an Allied victory in the Normandy campaign.