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The documented story
An archival photograph shows Service Battery C, 158th Field Artillery, and its band at Perry’s WPA-built armory. The image is evidence of the depicted occasion or group, not proof of a founding date or continuous operation.
People and leadership
The reviewed evidence for 158th Field Artillery Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.
Community and organization
158th Field Artillery Band is treated as a military or veterans ensemble under the unit, post, ship, or veterans affiliation stated in its name and evidence. The packet does not infer a different command relationship or uninterrupted unit lineage.
Reading the evidence
The evidence for 158th Field Artillery Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats 1937 documented as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.
Questions for further research
For 158th Field Artillery Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.
Dated evidence in this record
- 1937-02-21
An OHS/Gateway catalog record identifies the 158th Field Artillery and its band in the Perry armory on February 21, 1937.