U.S. pilots in training, standing on airfield in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1942
Gift of Betty Schoeneck Howell
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Photograph. U.S. Army pilots in training, standing on airfield; one serviceman (center) wearing seat parachute. Personal Caption: "L[eft] to R[ight] First Row: Mullins, Carrera, Brown, Holton, Klee, Mayer, Reunda(?), ?, Ware, Youre, Hennessy. Second Row: ? , Kramer, Selan, Chitton, Pinckney, Ricks, JA. Third Row: Blazak, Hayes, Webster, Gutowski, Wills, Ricks CL. I [George W. Schoeneck] am directly under flag. To my left is Ware. First fellow to my right in back with cap is Foster. Just in front of him is Rawlins. Fellow in front bending back is Gelvin. Taken at Meforland Flying School, Pittsburg, Kansas. Army contract school used by 2nd Army Air Force Liaison Training Detachment." Pittsburg, Kansas. 1942
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1942
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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:
Military air pilots--American--Kansas
Military training--Kansas
Parachutes--American--Kansas
Military uniforms--American--Kansas