To Post Everlasting: Eugene P. Shatlock, Remembering America’s Heroes
Otis Willie
(EXCERPT) Former U.S. Steel manager and Navy veteran Thu Dec 26, 7:36
AM ET
Steve Levin, Post-Gazette Staff Writer
Eugene P. Shatlock of Whitehall, a third-generation employee of U.S.
Steel Corp. who spent more than four decades with the organization,
died Monday of congestive heart failure at Allegheny General Hospital.
He was 81.
Mr. Shatlock was old school: He often walked to high school, helped
pay his way through college, spent his career with one company and
doted on his children and grandchildren.
From the time his grandfather, Martin Shatlock, arrived in Homestead
in 1880 from Berlin, Germany, to take a job with Carnegie Steel, it
was a foregone conclusion that future Shatlocks also would work there.
When it was Mr. Shatlock's turn, he was 18, just graduated from
Central Catholic High School. He worked for two years, saving what he
could before joining the Navy in 1942.
As a machinist's mate on a Landing Craft Infantry (L)-332 troop
carrier, Mr. Shatlock participated in some of the Pacific's most
brutal fighting, including that at Guadacanal.
Full story at Pittsburgh Post Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/obituaries/20021226shatlockobit3p3.asp
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Otis Willie
Associate Librarian
The American War Library
http://www.americanwarlibrary.com