About
World War II (1939-1945)
Harry Joseph Silverschatz was born in Poland, on April 17, 1893. He immigrated to the United States as a child and spent his early years in Nashville, Tennessee. It's unclear why he was in the city of Schenectady at the time of his enlistment. He was an electrical engineer, and he might have worked for General Electric or the American Locomotive Company. He also reduced his surname from Silverschatz to Silvers or Silver.
Harry enlisted in the United States Army. He was a major serving with the Northwest Service Command in Alaska. On December 9, 1942, while a passenger aboard AT-6A Texan #41-15988, he was killed when the aircraft veered off course in bad weather and crashed into a mountainside 15 miles south of Dixie, Idaho. The plane was attempting to land at Gowen Field, which is located near Boise, Idaho. He is buried in the Temple Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.
Sources: Find A Grave, Ancestry