Kin recall ex_POW from Wilmette: Readers followed Marine in historic Wake Island battle
- Publication
- Wilmette Life, 20 Sep 2007, p. 7, 20
Description
- Creator
- Irv Leavitt
- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Item Types
- Articles
- Photographs
- Notes
- Private First Class LeRoy Schneider of Wilmette was one of about 450 U.S. Marines who led a small force of Americans defending Wake Island, beset hours after the Dec. 7 attack on Pearl Harbor. He survived the attack but endured almost four years as a prisoner of war. Schneider died August 18 in his Barrington Home at the age of 86, never having fully recovered from some of hte illnesses andinjuries sustained in captivity.
Photographs LeRoy Schneider who died last month. Additional photograph of Cece and LeRoy Schneider on p.20 - Date of Publication
- 20 Sep 2007
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Schneider, LeRoy
- Local identifier
- Wilmette.News.291736
- Language of Item
- English
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