U.S. servicemen posing with wrecked Grasshopper aircraft in Southern France in August of 1944
Gift of Betty Schoeneck Howell
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Photograph. U.S. servicemen posing for picture with wrecked Grasshopper observation aircraft; faces of men are unseen. Personal Captions: "8-24-44. My [George W. Schoeneck] Wreck. I am the one on the left. The legs are not a corpse, but my mechanic. My observer is on the right"; "George [George W. Schoeneck] said that flying back in afternoon, sun in his eyes... he clipped a chimney and... that was his second plane... went through 3."Southern France. 24 August 1944
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08/24/1944
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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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France
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46.000
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2.000
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Group portraits--France
Military air pilots--American--France
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