Grave marker for Pfc Frank H. Burak in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Bloomfield (Essex county), New Jersey.

Frank enlisted in the Army in Passaic, NJ on 16 September 1940.   Pvt Burak volunteered for parachutist duty and was transferred to Company E, 508th PIR just as the regiment was being activate4d at Camp Blanding, FL.

It is not known what role Pfc Burak played in the Normandy and Holland campaigns but he fought in the battle of the Bulge where he was killed in action on 2 February 1945 during the attack on St. Vith.

Pfc Burak was initially interred in the Henri Chappell American Cemetery #1 in Plot 31, Row 6, Grave 107 until his remains were repatriated and laid to final rest in New Jersey.