Lieutenant  L Polette
Rites Thursday

Body of Officer Killed in Action Is En Route Here

   The body of Lieutenant Lloyd Polette 35 of 3541 Del Rio street who died of wounds received in Belgium on Jan 21 1945 will arrive in Shreveport at 6:35 a m. Wednesday over the Cotton Belt Railway and will be taken to Rose-Neath funeral chapel. A rosary will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p m at the chapel.
   Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 10 a m at St Theresa Catholic Church by the Rev Martin Walsh pastor Interment will be in Greenwood cemetery. The body will remain at the chapel until hour for services.
   Pallbearers will be Hugh Leach John Fetzer Ralph Miller Dr Michael Monsour Raymond Wickard and Oscar Stephens.
   Lieutenant Polette is survived by two daughters Barbara Ann and Rebecca Polette his parents Mr. and Mrs. L L Polette Sr., one sister Mrs. Howard Porterfield all of Shreveport.

   A brother of Lieutenant Polette Lieut. Charles Polette was killed in action on Okinawa on May 30 1945.   Lieutenant Polette was a member of the famous 82nd airborne division and commanding officer of company "E” of the 508th parachute infantry that captured the fort at St Vith “with the stove.” The story was carried in many papers and magazine.
   Lieutenant Polette was the second Shreveporter to win the Distinguished Service Cross which he was awarded for the part he took in the September airborne invasion of Holland.
   Other than the DSC he had been awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation, Silver Star with two clusters in lieu of two additional awards of the medal, the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart with one cluster in lieu of another Purple Heart.
   Before entering the service Lieutenant Polette was a fireman with the Shreveport fire department He left for overseas duty in January 1943
   Members of the Shreveport fire department will be honorary pallbearers at the funeral.

[The Shreveport Journal, Shreveport, LA, 18 Nov 1947, Tue, Page 5]

Grave marker for 1st Lt. Lloyd L. Polette, Jr. in the Saint Joseph Cemetery, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.

Lt. Polette was seriously wounded in action on January 21, 1945 and died of his wounds the following day.

  His military awards include the Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star with one Oak Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart..