83rd Infantry Division Documents

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Name	Charles H Schaube
Rank	Private First Class
Army Serial #	33378065
State	Maryland
Date of death	1945-04-16
Plot, Row, Grave	I, 19, 3
Cemetery	Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands, Google Maps
Unit	323rd Field Artillery Battalion, 83rd Infantry Division
Awards
Remarks	Erwin Derhaag provided me with several newspaper articles about Private First Class Schaube that can be seen below. Private First Class Schaube was a baseball player and he is listed at the website www.baseballsgreatestsacrifice.com. Quoted from that site: Charles H. Schaube was born in Denton, Maryland in 1917. An outstanding young first baseman, Schaube had a tryout with the Dover Orioles of the Eastern Shore League in 1937 but was beaten out of the first base job by Paul Swoboda. He went on to play semi-pro baseball in the Mar-Del (Maryland-Delaware) League with Goldsboro, Greensboro and Denton. Over three seasons with the Denton club – 1940 to 1942 – his batting average was around .300. Schaube was working at Goldsborough Farms near Goldsboro, Delaware, when he entered service with the Army on October 15, 1942. The 25-year-old trained at Camp Lee in Virginia, Camp Atterbury in Indiana and Camp Breckenridge in Kentucky.
Documents	- Newspaper article Denton Journal, May 11, 1945, page 1 - Newspaper article Denton Journal, May 18, 1945, page 1 - Newspaper article The Star-Democrat (Easton, Maryland), Nov 11, 1986, page 8

Grave	Soldier