2LT Stanley Harvey Schwartz

2LT Stanley Harvey Schwartz was born 2 Jun 1918 in New York, New York. He was the oldest of the 2 sons born to William and Florence (Levy) Schwartz. His father, a native of Austria, worked in a hat factory but later became a salesman for the wholesale of women's dresses. William reported a 1939 income of $2000. Stanley had likewise gotten into the garment industry and was working as buyer of ladies ready-to-wear earning a reported $900 in 1939. The family was living in an apartment at 1080 Anderson Avenue in the Bronx.

Stanley may have volunteered for service in 1941. We think that he may have completed some duty overseas before being returned to the U.S. for Officers Candidate School. After commissioning and further training he was sent to England. 2LT Schwartz was assigned to C Company 116th Infantry on 2 Jun 1944 just before the unit embarked on the Javelin Empire for the invasion.

Awarded the Silver Star for his actions in leading a platoon on D-Day.

...PVT Ingram Lambert jumped a wall and crossed a road to place a bangalore torpedo at a wire entanglement. He was killed, 2LT Stanley Schwartz, the platoon leader, jumped the wall and managed to blow the entanglement. The first man through the gap was shot but C Company managed to move up the bluff and off  the beach.
About three hundred yards beyond Vierville-sur-mer the company was fired on by two machine guns. The first platoon and an attached mortar squad deployed to the left to outflank them. The third platoon came forward to give covering fire. They did not see a target, however, so did not fire a shot. This was according to the training which the men had previously been given. The first platoon felt that covering fire, regardless of the accuracy, would have been of real assistance.
When the first platoon came within thirty yards of the gun without seeing it, the machine gun opened up. 2LT Schwartz, SSG Ted F. Moubray, and PFC Leo King were killed and PFC James Page was wounded. 

2LT Schwartz was repatriated and re-interred in the Temple Israel Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.  

Stanley's younger brother, Howard H. Schwartz, also served in the U.S. Army during the war.