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About Bill Shanholtz
William F. Shanholtz, an ordinary soldier from 1941 to 1946
My dad, William F. Shanholtz (Bill) was one of the millions of ordinary soldiers of World War II. It was the end of the Depression and he'd finally gotten himself a good job, at least for a young man from a small town in Nebraska, at the War Department in Washington, D. C. When the draft began, he and friends talked about enlisting and decided they'd just wait and see what happened.
Dad had been a clerk typist at the War Department, where he worked on records. After being drafted and entering the U.S. Army at Ft. Leavenworth in June 1941, he continued to keep his own records. An amateur photographer, he also shot photos of the mean he served with, the receiving company at Ft. Leavenworth, the barracks and the chow line at Camp Grant, at Ft. Leonard Wood, in Washington, D.C., in Panama and the Philippines.