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John F. Schuhart

Pvt. John F. Schuhart in training stateside, #373331100, 2005th Ordnance Maintenance Company,  28th Air Depot Group. Later Sgt. Schuhart was stationed at locations such as APO 492 (Barrackpore, India), and at least some of the photos were sent from there to his mother, Mrs. Anna Schuhart, in Selden, Kansas (for 9 cents).

Pvt. John F. Schuhart in training stateside, #373331100, 2005th Ordnance Maintenance Company (2005th Ord. M. Co.-A.F.),  28th Air Depot Group.

John Schuhart In the CBI during WWII.
John Schuhart in the CBI during WWII.

Later Sgt. Schuhart was stationed at locations such as APO 492 (Barrackpore, India), and at least some of the photos were sent from there to his mother, Mrs. Anna Schuhart, in Selden, Kansas (for 9 cents).

During training before deployment, Schuhart spent time in Lansing, Michigan, and Jackson, Mississippi (actually, at the Ordnance Unit Training Center at nearby Flora, Mississippi).

2005th Ordnance Maintenance Company arrived Calcutta, India, on November 8, 1943, with the 28th Air Depot Group. Various units were in locations such as Karachi, India, Myitkyina, Burma, Barrackpore, India, etc. See more background here.

Schuhart returned to the US via the troopship MS Torrens, departing Karachi, India, and arriving US at New York harbor via the Suez, sometime between September 1, 1945, and December 20, 1945.

Schuhart's parents were both immigrants from Germany. He was born August 24, 1915, in Sheridan County, Kansas, and passed away December 6, 2008, Oberlin, Kansas.

2005th Ordnance Men in Training Stateside.
2005th Ordnance men in training stateside.
A convoy of American troops has finally arrived at the docks Karachi to see the troopship that would take them home, MS Torrens, in late 1945. This how Schuhart saw it before embarking for return to the US via the Suez and finally to New York harbor.
A convoy of American troops has finally arrived at the docks Karachi to see the troopship that would take them home, MS Torrens, in late 1945. This is how Schuhart saw it from his convoy truck before embarking for return to the US via the Suez and finally to New York harbor.

 

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