Sources

• {#1} Letter about Wojciech Wilk’s children (MR01989)  JAN 2005 Stanley Wilk
• {#2} Michael Wilk’s FindAGrave Memorial in USA (MR05356). Find A Grave, Jim Tipton 1995-2021; bibliographic description of the cited fragment: Find A Grave Memorial #22029965, Hope (Find A Grave Member #46790939), Oct 08, 2007; where: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22029965
  
  Michael J. Wilk
  Birth: Jan. 30, 1923
  Death: Jun. 8, 1944
  Burial:
  Arlington National Cemetery
  Arlington
  Arlington County
  Virginia, USA
  Plot: Memorial Section F Site 50-I
  citation: 17 MAR 2010
• {#3} Find A Grave, Jim Tipton 1995-2021; bibliographic description of the cited fragment: Find A Grave Photo #8869906, Cheryl R. (Find A Grave Member #46952765), 1/02/2008; where: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=10277132&PIpi=8869906
  citation: 17 MAR 2010
• {#4} Navy Log of U.S. Navy Memorial; bibliographic description of the cited fragment: Meredith (DD-726) Ship Tribute; where: http://www.navylog.org/Default.aspx?&gv428__gvac=1&gv428__gvpi=1&tabid=77&tribdetail__gvff0=NSB94406082
  
  Meredith (DD-726)
  6/8/1944
  Struck by Mine off French Coast On June 6, Meredith gave gunfire support to the landing forces on Utah Beach and early in the morning of the following day, while patrolling the offshore waters as a screening vessel, she struck an enemy mine. Severely damaged, with a loss of seven killed and over 50 wounded and missing, Meredith was towed to an anchorage in the Bay of the Seine to be salvaged. However, on the morning of June 9, her seams were further opened by an enemy bombing raid and shortly after she broke in two without warning and sank.
  Lost At Sea Log
  Name - Branch
  F 1c Michael J. Wilk
  citation (MR05359): 17 MAR 2010
• {#5} Muster Roll of the Crew, 6/8/44. The U.S.S. Meredith (DD-726) in World War II: Documents and Photographs (MR05362), E.Andrew Wilde, Jr., Needham, Massachusetts, Privately published by the editor, First Edition 2002, http://www.destroyerhistory.org/sumner-gearingclass/ussmeredith/research726.html; where: file 5 (http://www.destroyerhistory.org/sumner-gearingclass/ussmeredith/726meredith_wilde05.pdf), PDF page 15
  
  Muster Roll of the Crew, 6/8/44
  ** WILK, Michael Joseph     809-60-50     F1c
  ** Killed when the ship was mined off the Normandy beachhead on 6/8/44 according to a machine-generated casualty report prepared by the Bureau of Naval Personnel after the war.
  citation: 17 MAR 2010
• {#6} Crew Members Missing After the Ship Was Mined on 8 June 1944. The U.S.S. Meredith (DD-726) in World War II: Documents and Photographs (MR05362), E.Andrew Wilde, Jr., Needham, Massachusetts, Privately published by the editor, First Edition 2002, http://www.destroyerhistory.org/sumner-gearingclass/ussmeredith/research726.html; where: file 5 (http://www.destroyerhistory.org/sumner-gearingclass/ussmeredith/726meredith_wilde05.pdf), PDF page 19
  
  Crew Members Missing After the Ship Was Mined on 8 June 1944
  Memorialized at the Normandy American Cemetery, St. Laurent-sur-Mer, France (Total: 27)
  Name: WILK, Michael Joseph
  Service Number: 809-60-50
  Rate/Ratina: F1c
  Branch: USNR
  citation: 17 MAR 2010
• {#7} Buried Michael Wilk (MR05361). U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs Database; where: http://www.interment.net/data/us/va/arlington/arlington/arlington_wiwy.htm
  
  Arlington National Cemetery
  Wilk, Michael J, b. 01/30/1923, d. 06/08/1944, US Navy, F1, Res: Sea Girt, NJ, Plot: MF 0 50-I, bur. 06/08/1944 (sic!), [VA]
  citation: 17 MAR 2010
• {#8} Michael Joseph Wilk (Jan 30 1923 - June 8 1944) (MR06927), {private} (2010), http://tjwmisc.blogspot.com/2011/01/michael-joseph-wilk-jan-30-1923-june-8.html
• {#9} Ancestry LLC, www.ancestry.com

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