Louis enlisted in the Army at Pittsburgh, PA
on 14 October 1940 with an expressed desire to serve in a cavalry unit and
was assigned to Troop G, 3rd Cavalry, Fort Meyers, VA.
He later volunteered for parachutist duty
and following completion of jump school, Pvt Visnesky was transferred from
the :Parachute School to Company F, 508th PIR on 6 August 1943.
The regiment at that time was in the midst
of advanced training at Camp Mackall and his current state of readiness may
not have been sufficient. Pvt Visnesky was transferred to Replacement
Station 970 on 20 August 1943.
He was apparently was then to another
PIR, perhaps the 509th but records are incomplete.
Sgt Visnesky was mentioned in a news article reporting
that he was MIA
[The Oil City Derrick, Oil City, PA, Monday, April 17, 1944, Page 12]
A 21-year-old Kittanning paratrooper, Louis Visnesky, is
missing in action in Italy, according to word from the ar department
received in Kittanning
Remarkably, no follow-up articles have been found stating that he had been
killed in action or covering his funeral when the remains were repatriated
after the end of hostilities.
This brief record of his burial in Saint Mary's Cemetery, Kittanning
(Armstrong county), PA. is the sole reference found to date of his
burial. It is the same cemetery that his parents were buried in as
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