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Source context
Visible Gateway description identifies Adam P. Shpakowsky / Fort Sill 97th Army Band and the role band leader; army-band director. Creation information: Killian, Thomas F.; January 11, 1950. Source: "New Leader For Fort Sill'S Band", Oklahoma Times, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, January 16, 1950. Collection: Oklahoma Publishing Company Photography Collection.
Oklahoma connection
Gateway caption identifies Adam P. Shpakowsky as band leader for an Army band and as the new Fort Sill 97th Army Band director.
People, groups, or instruments recorded
band leader; army-band director
Reading this source
This is a narrow band-leader or band-wording capture, not a full biography or identity resolution. Vocal-only or role-only evidence is retained as supporting rather than promoted as instrument-playing evidence. Exact Oklahoma origin, duplicate relationships, and republication rights require separate review. Per-page local hashes are recorded in the Markdown record.