Artillery training with Howitzers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1943

Gift of Betty Schoeneck Howell
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Photograph. U.S. soldier George W. Schoeneck standing for picture outdoors in military uniform. Personal Caption: "'Acting Jack'. Just before guard mount." Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma. 1943

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1943
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Items from the service of George W. Schoeneck, who was born on July 22, 1923 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He enlisted in the Army on 21 October 1942 and served with the 463rd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion as an observation pilot. Schoeneck arrived in Palermo, Sicily in January of 1944 and served in Europe until he was Killed in Action on 16 January 1945. Schoeneck was interred in an American cemetery in Hamm, Luxembourg. Collection includes over seventy photographs and a few documents related to Schoeneck's service.
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Lawton
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34.600
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-98.383
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Portrait photographs--Oklahoma
Soldiers--American--Oklahoma
Military uniforms--American--Oklahoma
Artillery (Troops)--American--Oklahoma