Knauer Lost on Mission
Mrs. Harold T. Kane, 1243 Lincoln street, Thursday received a telegram from the war department that her father, Maj. George W. Knauer, formerly of Waterloo, has been missing in action in the northern African theater since Sept. 19.
Major Knauer was on a special mission from his Rome headquarters, where he is general supervisor of communications on a military government staff, at the time he was reported missing. No further details were given in the message.
Major Knauer, whose wife and two sons reside at Fargo, N. D., was formerly district plant manager for the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. here in 1928.
He has two other sons, Maj. George R. Knauer, commander of a port battalion in France, and Pvt. Bruce Knauer, somewhere on the west coast awaiting overseas duty. His son-in-law, Sgt. Harold Kane, is attached to an army engineer’s construction group on New Caledonia.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Thursday, October, 26, 1944, Section Two, Page 21
Maj. George Knauer Dies on Misson
Maj. George W. Knauer, formerly district plant manager for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co., here and father of Mrs. Harold T. Kane, 1243 Lincoln street, was listed Monday by the war department was killed Sept. 19 while traveling by plane from Rome, Italy, to north Africa on a special mission.
The major, general supervisor of communications for the military government staff in Italy, was earlier reported mission.
No further details of his death were revealed in the war department’s message to Mrs. Kane here.
Major Knauer, who left Waterloo in 1926 for Fargo, N. D., is survived by the daughter here; his wife and two sons at Fargo and two sons in service, Maj. G. R. Knauer, commanding a port battalion in France, and Private Bruce, last reported awaiting an overseas assignment.
Source: Waterloo Daily Courier, Waterloo, Iowa, Monday, November, 06, 1944, Page 5
