Lt. Catalano at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1943
Gift of Betty Schoeneck Howell
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Photograph. U.S. military officer Catalano standing in uniform for picture outdoors. Personal Caption: "Lt. [Lieutenant] Catalano." Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma. Circa 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.
Geography:
Lawton
Latitude:
34.600
Longitude:
-98.383
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Portrait photographs--Oklahoma
Military officers--American--Oklahoma
Military uniforms--American--Oklahoma